Climate Variations and Their Impacts 2015

This Chapman Conference will bring together scientists from a wide range of backgrounds to explore and summarize the state of the science and identify future research directions relevant for the problem of tropical widening. A particular emphasis will be on the multidisciplinary nature of the problem with the goal of enabling cross-fertilization among the wide range of climate science subtopics represented by conference participants. To facilitate this, the following four session topics are planned:

1. What determines the width of the tropical belt?
2. How and why has the tropical width changed in the past?
3. How and why might the tropical width change in the future?
4. What are the impacts for the oceans, cryosphere, hydrologic cycle, human society, and ecosystems?

Invited Speakers
Karen Rosenlof,Qiang Fu, Isaac Held, Kerry Cook