Max Planck Institute for Meteorology(MPI-M), Germany

 

9:30 April 11, 2023/ 12th Floor, IAP Building 3

 

Bio:

Bjorn Stevens is a renowned atmospheric scientist and the current managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, Germany. He has made significant contributions to our understanding of the Earth's climate system, particularly in the areas of cloud physics, atmospheric dynamics, and climate modelling. In addition to his role as managing director of the MPI-M, he also holds a professorship at the University of Hamburg and is a member of numerous scientific organizations, including the American Geophysical Union, and the Royal Meteorological Society. He is jointly lead coordinator of the Grant Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity from the World Climate Research Programme. 

 

Abstract:

Climate change is crossing thresholds, but not the ones most of us think about.  Socially, evidence abounds that climate change is unfolding, and is bringing with it the need to inform decision making on local levels, globally, with the best possible science. Technologically, advances in high-performance computing are opening new frontiers in simulation science and machine learning.  km-scale Earth system models provide both a more physical representation of the climate system, and increased bandwidth with observations and with impact communities.  AI assisted workflows create the possibility to interact with these systems in ways that can scale across a growing user base. Together these are creating a new, and necessary, foundation for climate science to assist society in its efforts to adapt to and mitigate against climate change. The global nature of these problems, and the scale of the challenge, call for renewed national and international commitments to reconstitute climate science at the frontiers of technology at a time of incredible need.