Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009 4:30 PM
Location: 366 Hollister Hall
There is little doubt atmospheric ozone concentrations will continue to change as climate, population and energy use change. Ozone plays a number of critical roles in the atmosphere, both beneficial and detrimental: it both shields the Earth's surface from harmful ultraviolet radiation and acts as a potent pollutant. Undermining our confidence in future predictions of ozone is the fact that its measured variability is not well understood. In this talk I will discuss the importance of ozone, and then briefly discuss strategies for modeling ozone concentrations on a global scale. I will go on to discuss the causes of ozone variability and their relation to ozone measurements. Finally I will discuss future ozone predictions and the extent to which these predictions merit our confidence.
Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM
