2024 Workshop: CEDAR and Climate Change

The major impacts across the globe along with numerous scientific assessments underscore the urgency of addressing climate change. There is much that can be done with regard to science, mitigation, and adaptation. This recent article (https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-upper-atmosphere-cooling) highlights a number of climate change studies and concerns in the middle and upper atmosphere and across atmospheric regions. The CEDAR and Climate Change workshop will provide a forum to continue discussion about ways that the CEDAR community might contribute to global efforts to address climate change. Such efforts could include whole atmosphere studies of climate change processes; contributions by the CEDAR community to national and international climate assessment processes; strategies to reduce uncertainties in observations to facilitate their use for longer-term comparisons; identification of aeronomy data sets and techniques that can also provide tropospheric information; and steps that our scientific community can take to mitigate climate change, in our conferences and other practices. We welcome participation from the middle and upper atmospheric research community, as well as the tropospheric climate community, to discuss further ways that our communities might collaborate to advance knowledge of climate science. We also welcome discussion relating to climate impacts, equity and justice; as well as strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change, promoting civic engagement, and for communicating climate science in educational settings and to the public.

We plan to hold this session using a hybrid format. For more information and to contribute a presentation, please contact one of the workshop organizers.