Speaker: Vincent Ayel, teacher-researcher at ISAE-ENSMA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et d'Aérotechnique, Poitiers) and Institut PPRIME (Institut Polytechnique de Poitiers: Recherche et Ingénierie en Matériaux, Mécanique et Énergét

Where does the energy that sustains our climate come from? This lecture invites you to discover how solar radiation shapes climatic phenomena on our planet: we'll see how the Earth's atmosphere and surface absorb and reflect this energy, and how scientists use the notion of radiative forcing to measure the impact of human activities on climate, according to the work of the IPCC.