PCC586

The language of feedback analysis is ubiquitous in the climate sciences. Feedback analysis
provides a formal framework for the quantification of how interdependent interactions affect the
response of the climate system to an external forcing. Yet, much of the discussion of climate
feedbacks in the literature ignores this framework and discusses feedbacks in a qualitative and
haphazard fashion. This student led reading discussion will start with a brief introduction to the
feedback analysis framework and continue by looking at how this framework is applied to the
climate system. We will ask: what are the dominant feedbacks in the climate system? How well
are these feedbacks quantified? Are there possibly unknown/unquantified feedbacks in the
climate system? Weekly readings and discussions will be primarily chosen by and led by the
students.