Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2000/01035
The role of ozone in determining the response of the coupled ocean-atmosphere climate system to solar forcing.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor LJ Gray, STFC - Laboratories, RAL Space
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr WA Norton, University of Reading, Meteorology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor JD Haigh, Imperial College London, Grantham Institute for Climate Change
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor MR Allen, University of Oxford, Geography - SoGE
- Grant held at:
- STFC - Laboratories, RAL Space
- Science Area:
- None
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Tropospheric Processes
- Stratospheric Processes
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- Current troposphere-resolving climate models appear to underestimate the climate response to solar forcing by a factor of order three. Feedbacks involving UV and ozone, not represented in these models, may account for the discrepancy, but have only been studied with models using prescribed sea surface temperatures. These models may mis-represent the true effect of solar forcing by artificially limiting the surface response. Similarly, no current coupled models adequately represent the stratosphere. We propose to study the climate response to solar forcing using a coupled ocean-atmosphere stratosphere-resolving GCM developed under the UTLS programme, including the role of lower stratospheric ozone changes and interactions between dynamics and chemistry.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/T/S/2000/01035
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Upper Troposphere Lower Strato
This grant award has a total value of £37,107
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £1,402 | £24,351 | £152 | £11,201 |
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