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SUMMARY:Topical Seminar: "From Antarctica to the Earth-Moon-Mars infrastru
 cture: An Innovative Gauge Theory Approach for Earth's Observation and the
  Future of Climate"
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DESCRIPTION:State-of-the-art climate models suffer from major limitations\
 , as clouds remain the dominant source of uncertainty. This uncertainty pr
 opagates nonlinearly into predictions of global temperature\, climate sens
 itivity\, and extreme events\, reducing confidence in long-term projection
 s.\n\nTo enhance model performance\, both remote and in situ measurements\
 , whether spectrally resolved or not\, are strictly necessary. By applying
  appropriate inversion techniques to these observations\, we can derive ac
 curate statistics for optical and microphysical cloud parameters\, providi
 ng vital data to refine currently over-approximated parameterizations.\n\n
 The accuracy of these statistics strongly depends on our ability to estima
 te the distribution of ice crystal shapes\, which dictate the cloud's radi
 ative effect. To date\, these ice crystal habits cannot be predicted solel
 y from thermodynamic variables like temperature and vapor pressure.\n\nIn 
 this seminar\, we will explore how decades of synergistic measurements\, s
 panning extreme sites like Antarctica and the Atacama Desert to stratosphe
 ric balloons and future lunar infrastructure\, combined with a novel theor
 etical approach based on gauge theories\, offer a path to profoundly enhan
 ce the predictive capabilities of current climate models.\n\nhttps://indic
 o.ific.uv.es/event/8524/
LOCATION:Universe 1001-Primera-1-1-1 - Paterna. Seminario
URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/8524/
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