Carbon and Climate Change - From the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean
Program:
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome & Introduction to BrIAS.
09:15 – 09:35 Carbon and Climate Change: An Introduction
Dr. Maria De La Fuente (ULB)
Atmosphere
09:35 – 9:55 - Rosa Pietroiusti (VUB) – Attribution of extreme weather events in a changing climate
09:55 - 10:15 – Hiro Masunaga (Nagoya University) - Regulation of tropical climate by cirrus clouds: observational assessment of the two iris effects
10.15 – 10.30 Break
10:30 – 10:45 – Marie Cavitte (UCL) - Do we care how much snow falls on Antarctica?
10:45 – 11:05 – Sophie Opfergelt (UCL) - Tracing changes in mineral-organic carbon interactions upon permafrost thaw
Land-Ocean
11:05 – 11:30 – Dr. Peter Landschützer (VLIZ) - The variable ocean carbon sink
11:30 - 11:50 - Prof. Sandra Arndt (ULB) - Assessing potential methane emissions from subsea permafrost thaw on the warming Arctic shelf
11:50 – 12:30 Q&A & Discussion Session