Highlights from the Joint SPARC-IGAC Workshop on Climate-Chemistry Interactions

Abstract

Many agents force Earth’s climate. Changes in these agents or forcings can perturb the climate significantly. Atmospheric chemistry plays a critical role in the perturbation of climate by controlling the magnitudes and distributions of a large number of important climate forcing agents. For example, abundances and distributions of methane and ozone depend critically on the atmospheric chemistry. According to IPCC (2001), these two trace gases are the second and third most important green-house gases (GHGs) that have increased due to anthropogenic activities since the industrial revolution