climate modeling

Climate Model Data Documentation Project

PI(s):

Naomi Henderson

PI(s):

Richard Seager

In the Climate Group we rely extensively on the data produced from general circulation models (GCMs) to answer fundamental science questions.

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Climate Model Data Documentation Project

Climate Modeling and Diagnostic Group Data Catalog

PI(s):

Naomi Henderson

The collection of climate modeling and diagnostic group datasets.

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Climate Modeling and Diagnostic Group Data Catalog

Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR)

PI(s):

Yochanan Kushnir

CICAR, the Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research was established in November 2003 as a research p

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CICAR

Name	Title	Fields of interest
Daehyun Kim	Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Jason E. Smerdon	Lamont Associate Research Professor	Late-Holocene Paleoclimatology, Climate Modeling, Statistical Climatology, Climate Variability and Change
Benjamin Cook	Adjunct Associate Research Scientist	Drought, Climate-Ecosystem Interactions, Statistical Climatology, Climate Modeling
Naomi Henderson	Research Scientist	Ocean Modeling, Model Data Management

Forest Razing by Ancient Maya Worsened Droughts, Says Study

August 21, 2012

For six centuries, the ancient Maya flourished, with more than a hundred city-states scattered across what is now southern Mexico and northern Central America. Then, in A.D. 695, the collapse of several cities in present day Guatemala marked the start of the Classic Maya’s slow decline. Prolonged drought is thought to have played a role, but a study published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters adds a new twist: The Maya may have made the droughts worse by clearing away forests for cities and crops, making a naturally drying climate drier.
Atmospheric Scientist Wins Early Career Award

July 19, 2012

Daehyun Kim, a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, has been recognized for early-career achievement in the atmospheric sciences by the American Geophysical Union, the world’s largest earth-sciences organization. Kim, 32, came to Lamont as a postdoctoral researcher in 2010, where he has focused on investigating the Madden-Julian Oscillation, a little-understood weather pattern that typically forms in the Indian Ocean and brings heavy rains and hurricanes to many parts of the globe.
Experiments May Understate Plant Responses to Climate

May 01, 2012

In an effort to understand how plants around the world will act in a warming climate, researchers have relied increasingly on experiments that measure how they respond to artificial warming. But a new study says that such experiments are underestimating potential advances in the timing of flowering and leafing four to eightfold, when compared with natural observations. As a result, species could change far more quickly than the experiments suggest, with major implications for water supplies, pollination of crops and ecosystems. The comparison, done by an interdisciplinary team from some 20 institutions in North America and Europe, appears this week in the leading journal Nature.


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