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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 273-280

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From page 273...
... Dr. Bretherton is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, leader of the CGILS international cloud feedbacks model intercomparison project, and a former director of the University of Washington Program on Climate Change.
From page 274...
... Understanding the natural variability of the climate system on decadal scales is critical to our ability to detect climate change, and to understand the processes responsible for observed change from the global to the regional scale.
From page 275...
... Edmonds, Joint Global Change Research Institute Jae Edmonds is a Chief Scientist and Laboratory Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration with the University of Maryland at College Park. His research in the areas of long-term, global, energy, technology, economy, and climate change spans three decades, producing several books, numerous scientific papers, and countless presentations.
From page 276...
... He was one of the principal developers of the climate model that ran on NCCS supercomputers to provide more than one-third of the simulation data jointly contributed by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation to the most recent assessment report of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.
From page 277...
... The goal of his research is to understand the chemical composition of the atmosphere, its perturbation by human activity, and the implications for climate change and life on Earth. His approaches include global modeling of atmospheric chemistry and climate, aircraft measurement campaigns, satellite data retrievals, and analyses of atmospheric observations.
From page 278...
... He is active in ice-sheet model development and in efforts to couple ice sheet and climate models, and also works extensively as a "user" of climate model output to drive scenarios for cryosphere response to climate change. He has served as Director of the Arctic Institute of North America, as Chair of the American Geophysical Union Cryospheric Sciences group, and on the Science Steering Committees of the Canadian Arctic research agency (Polar Continental Shelf Project)
From page 279...
... She has particularly worked extensively with regional climate models. She has been an author in the IPCC Climate Change 1995, 2001, and 2007 Assessments regarding climate variability, impacts of climate change on agriculture, regional projections of climate change, climate scenarios, and uncertainty in future projections of climate change.
From page 280...
... He teaches dynamical meteorology and physical climate. In 2006 he initiated a cross-discipline graduate course on climate change, which addresses critical analysis and complex problem solving.


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