Speaker: Dr. Frank Li
Project Scientist
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Thursday, November 1, 2022
4:00-4:50 PM (Period 9)
Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom
University of Florida
Abstract: Using satellite measured clouds and precipitation from NASA CloudSat-CALIPSO estimates, and radiation from Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) radiation data; and long-term station-measured surface air temperature (SAT), we identified an important role of radiative effects from precipitating clouds, that most of global climate models do not consider, on land surface radiative flux, land surface temperature (LST), surface air temperature and land surface properties such as evapotranspiration (ET), gross primary production (GPP), Respiration (R) and Net production (NPP) and total leaf area index (TLAI) in global climate models. We will present the longwave and solar radiative effects of precipitating clouds on SAT, LST, ET, GPP, R, NPP and TLAI in winter and summer seasons in global climate models.
Biography: Dr. Frank Li earned his BS and MS from National Taiwan University and his PhD at University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a JPL senior scientist and Project Scientist at JIFRESSE at UCLA. He is interested in global climate modeling and model physical parameterizations across oceans, land and polar fields with emphasis on boundary layer, clouds, convection and radiation as well as utilizing new and emerging satellite data sets to study climate to advance our model simulation and future climate projection.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information, email Dr. Jane Southworth at jsouthwo@ufl.edu