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Professor David Keith
Dr. David Keith

An Environmental Case For Solar Geoengineering

Dr. David Keith
Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics And Professor of Public Policy (HKS)



Professor Eric Wood
Dr. Eric Wood

Towards a Global Drought Monitoring, Forecasting and Projection Capability

Dr. Eric Wood
Susan Dod Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering



Professor Kerry Emanuel
Dr. Kerry Emanuel

Hurricanes and Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate

Dr. Kerry Emanuel
Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology



Dr. Joyce Penner
Dr. Joyce Penner

Aircraft Soot Effects on Clouds and Climate

Dr. Joyce Penner
Associate Chair for Atmospheric Science and Ralph J. Cicerone Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric Science University of Michigan



Dr. Thanos Nenes
Dr. Thanos Nenes

Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: The Elusive Component of Climate Change

Dr. Thanos Nenes
Professor & Georgia Power Faculty Scholar, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA



Professor Soroosh Sorooshian
Dr. Soroosh Sorooshian

Challenges and Limitations of Hydroclimatological Forecasting for Water Resources Management and Future Prospects

Dr. Soroosh Sorooshian
Distinguished Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth System Science Director, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine


Dr. Antonio Busalacchi
Dr. Antonio Busalacchi

Impact of Climate Change on Global Viticulture

Dr. Antonio J. Busalacchi
Director, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science University of Maryland




Dr. Cynthia Twohy
Dr. Cynthia Twohy

Saharan Dust and Tropical Convection

Dr. Cynthia Twohy
Professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR



Dr. Spyros Pandis
Dr. Spyros Pandis

Atmospheric Nanoparticles, Air Quality and Climate Change

Dr. Spyros Pandis
Professor, Chemical Engineering Department University of Patras, Greece
Professor, Chemical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA



Dr. Kevin Trenberth
Dr. Kevin Trenberth

Seasonal Aspects of the Hiatus in Global Warming

Dr. Kevin Trenberth
Distinguished Senior Scientist Climate Analysis Section National Center for Atmospheric Research



Dr. Chris Field
Dr. Chris Field

Climate Change: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters

Dr. Chris Field
Director, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science



Dr. Anthony S. Wexler
Dr. Anthony S. Wexler

Statistical Mechanics of Solutions and Surfaces

Dr. Anthony S. Wexler
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis



Dr. V. (Ram) Ramanathan
Dr. V. (Ram) Ramanathan

Short-lived Climate Pollutants

Dr. V. (Ram) Ramanathan
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego



Dr. Chris Bretherton
Dr. Chris Bretherton

Boundary Layer Cloud, Aerosol, Entrainment, and Climate

Dr. Chris Bretherton
Professor, Atmospheric Sciences & Boeing Endowed Professor in Applied Mathematics


Dr. Graeme L. Stephens
Dr. Graeme L. Stephens

Clouds, Aerosol, Radiation and Rain — Insights Gained from Global Satellite Observations

Dr. Graeme L. Stephens
Center for Climate Sciences
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology



Benjamin Santer
Dr. Benjamin Santer

A Life in Climate Science: From Identification of a "Discernible Human Influence" on Climate to Identification of the "Top Ten" Climate Models.

Dr. Benjamin Santer
Chief Science Officer and Principal Investigator
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory



David Schimel
David Schimel

Continental-Scale Analysis of Terrestrial Carbon Exchange: Combining Models and Observations

David Schimel
Chief Science Officer and Principal Investigator
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.)
Boulder, Colorado



David Randall
David Randall

"What can super-parameterization teach us about the tropical climate system?"

David Randall
Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
Director of the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes




"Synoptic Classification and Related Cloud Structures: A New Approach to Atmospheric Analysis and Climate Model Evaluation"

Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington



The Frozen Ocean of Snowball Earth

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The Role of Solar Absorption in Climate and Climate Change

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Policy-Relevant Science to Help Solve the Carbon-Climate Problem

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