Climate science Department

The Climate Science Department is Earth Sciences Division’s newest Department; started in April of 2007, the department is dedicated to atmospheric and climate science.  With roughly a dozen distinguished scientists, specialists, and technicians, this world-class team will lead the Division towards creating a new kind of climate model integrating cutting-edge climate science, such as the pioneering work on the carbon cycle conducted at Berkeley Lab, and draws on work by scientists at UC Berkeley and other universities and national laboratories. The goal is not to predict climate alone but interactions among climate, water, and energy on a global scale. Wholly interactive, it will be able to incorporate fresh data and generate new scenarios at any point: energy demand and carbon emissions; changes in the composition of the atmosphere and the heat entering and leaving it; impacts on ecosystems and human well-being; and different strategies to mitigate or adapt to change.

The department’s major areas of scientific focus will include climate change forcing, climate change modeling, and climate change mitigation. 

Funding for the Climate Science Department comes from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research and the Berkeley Lab Laboratory-Directed Research and Development Program.

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