北京大学百年物理论坛 Lecture 4: The Hydrological Cycle and Global Warming
北京大学百年物理讲坛
Centennial Physics Lectures at Peking University
Lecture 4: The Hydrological Cycle and Global Warming
By Prof. Isaac M. Held
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
NOAA and Princeton University
Time: Wednesday, 03:00 pm, November 2, 2011Location: Sunny Hall, Yingjie Exchange CenterContact: 胡永云 (YongyunHu)，62754291，yyhu@pku.edu.cnAbstract：Many of the most important effects of global warming are
expected to involve the Earth’s hydrological cycle. This talk will outline
some global aspects of how the patterns of rainfall are expected to respond
to warming. Topic covered will include the factors that control the global
mean rate of precipitation, the idea that the “wet will get wetter and the
dry drier”, and why we expect the tropical rain belts to move towards the
hemisphere that warms the fastest.CV of Prof. Isaac M. HeldProf. Isaac Held is one of the leading
scientists in global climate change over the world. He is best known by his
outstanding theoretical work on the Hadley circulation. He was elected to
the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2003. Prof. Isaac M. Held
received his B.S. degree from University of Minnesota, M.A. degree from
State University of New York at Stony Brook and Ph.D. degree from Princeton
University. He was a research fellow in Climate at Harvard University from
1976 to 1978. After that he joined the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory, NOAA. He is currently head of Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics
Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA, Princeton University.