Seminar on New Directions in Climate Science

Dr. Lawrence Buja director for the National Center for Atmospheric Research will discuss exciting breakthroughs in climate research and new modeling capabilities aimed at providing improved information to decision makers. You are invited to join the seminar that takes place on June 4th here on Risø DTU at 1 p.m.
 
Climate change science for the IPCC AR5 has an increased focus on quantifying the effects of change on coupled human and natural systems to identify and evaluate strategies for managing change and its impacts.

This new research emphasis is designed to directly support policy and decision makers struggling to manage finite food, water and energy resources in the context of rising global population and GNP coupled with climate change and other environmental stresses.

Climate change scientists are developing new classes of climate models, scenarios and data distribution systems relevant for a much larger, more diverse community to enable the next round of IPCC assessments to tackle these societal questions.

Included in the discussion on the seminar will be:
• an overview of the new scenarios
• some preliminary results of the current IPCC AR5 climate simulations
• the enhancements made to the newest version of the U.S. Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
• development of a new Nested Regional Climate Model
• continuing improvements in the Earth System Grid (ESG),a global virtual data center designed to ensure open sharing of climate data among the global research community

Facts: 
Everybody is welcome

Place: Niels Bohr Auditorium, Risø DTU, 4000 Roskilde
Time: June 4th 1-2 p.m.

Read more about the fifth Assessment Report from IPCC (IPCC AR5)

NCAR climate change activities are sponsored by the National Science Foundation and other U.S. federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
 
Read more about NCAR here 

Subtitle: IPCC AR5 and U.S. NCAR Climate Modeling Activities
Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Buja, Director for Climate Science and Applications Program on the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Boulder, Colorado, USA

Page updated  by   06.10.2011


Andrea N. Hahmann
Senior Scientist
Wind Energy (VEA)
Dir tel+45 46775471