A vertically-integrated approach to climate science : from measurements and machine learning to models and policy

Thesis: Ph. D. in Climate Physics and Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2016.

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Main Author: Garimella, Sarvesh
Other Authors: Daniel J. Cziczo.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107087
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spelling mit-1721.1/1070872019-04-12T21:03:53Z A vertically-integrated approach to climate science : from measurements and machine learning to models and policy Garimella, Sarvesh Daniel J. Cziczo. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Thesis: Ph. D. in Climate Physics and Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-136). The role anthropogenic aerosol particles play in the formation and persistence of ice clouds remains one of the most uncertain aspects of understanding past, present, and future climate. Studying how these particles influence ice cloud formation requires careful measurement of their ice nucleating ability as well as robust uncertainty quantification of experimental results. These measurements and their corresponding uncertainties form the basis for parameterizations used in climate models to probe how anthropogenic particle emissions affect climate through ice cloud formation. This type of investigation can help to inform policy decisions about controls on anthropogenic particle emissions. This study aims to clarify the human role in the climate system by 1) developing instrumentation to perform ice nucleation measurements, 2) quantifying the uncertainty associated with these measurements using machine learning algorithms, 3) incorporating measurements and uncertainty quantification in climate model simulations, and 4) using the modeled climate response to help inform policy decisions for anthropogenic particle emissions. by Sarvesh Garimella. Ph. D. in Climate Physics and Chemistry 2017-02-22T19:02:58Z 2017-02-22T19:02:58Z 2016 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107087 971248952 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 136 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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A vertically-integrated approach to climate science : from measurements and machine learning to models and policy
title A vertically-integrated approach to climate science : from measurements and machine learning to models and policy
title_full A vertically-integrated approach to climate science : from measurements and machine learning to models and policy
title_fullStr A vertically-integrated approach to climate science : from measurements and machine learning to models and policy
title_full_unstemmed A vertically-integrated approach to climate science : from measurements and machine learning to models and policy
title_short A vertically-integrated approach to climate science : from measurements and machine learning to models and policy
title_sort vertically integrated approach to climate science from measurements and machine learning to models and policy
topic Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107087
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