Welcome
I am a Doherty Research Scientist at
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.
I
am generally interested in why and how climate changes. Why our
Earth can be a "hothouse" and a "snowball" and
how we human beings change our Earth's climate in a way that may
affect our daily lives.
I pioneered research on “global
dimming” (view
animation), which is the analysis of surface solar irradiance
and I work on the implications of these changes on the climate
system such as the water and carbon cycle, for example. Aerosols,
aerosol - cloud interactions and greenhouse gas emissions are key
factors in these studies. See Realclimate blog stories on “Global
dimming and Climate models” and “Global
Dimming”
Data
analyses and mathematical models are my primary tools but my life
as a scientist wouldn't be complete without field measurements.
Going up on a hot-air balloon, or walking the streets of Manhattan
to measure air pollution, weather, and radiation are some of these
activities. See New Yorker - Talk of the Town story
"Up,
up and away" by Nick Paumgarten.
Contact
Info:
Dr. Beate Liepert
Lamont-Doherty
Earth Observatory
New Core Lab Rm. 201
P.O. Box 1000
61
Rte. 9W
Palisades, NY 10964
USA
1-845-365 8870
1-845-365 8154
(fax)
liepert@NOSPAMldeo.columbia.edu
© 2006 Dr. Beate Liepert