All members of the university community are invited to the following seminar:
Title: Optical Properties and Radiative Forcing of Cirrus Clouds in the Central Amazon Forest
Speaker: Dr. Henrique Barbosa, Researcher at the Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo.
Location: Conference Room, Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA)
Date and Time: Friday, October 18, 2018, at 13:00
Abstract: Cirrus clouds cover a large fraction of tropical latitudes and play an important role in Earth’s radiation budget. Despite their importance, studies reporting cirrus properties over tropical rainforests are scarce. In this talk, I will discuss 1 year of ground-based lidar observations of Cirrus clouds in the central Amazon forest, Brazil. From this comprehensive statistics of optical and geometrical properties, we calculated the cirrus radiative forcing (CRF) and heating rates profiles computed using a radiative transfer model. I will compare these results with those in tropical and subtropical regions and discuss future perspectives.