Gabriele C. Hegerl
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Gabriele C. Hegerl is a research
er at Duke University
's Nicholas School of the Environment and a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report.
She led a team that claims to have:
Hegerl has also led well-known research on the attribution of modern climate change to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission. She is a coordinating lead author on the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
for Working Group I in the chapter on "Understanding and Attributing Climate Change".
Her research is in the natural variability of climate and changes in climate due to natural and anthropogenic changes in radiative forcing (such as greenhouse warming, climate effects of volcanic eruptions and changes in solar radiation).
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
er at Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
's Nicholas School of the Environment and a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...
(IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report.
She led a team that claims to have:
- ... found substantial ups and downs in the Earth's temperature before modern times, countering other studies that confine noticeable temperature increases to the industrialized era. Marked climate change in other centuries resulted from "external forcing," said the Duke findings, citing volcanic eruptions and other influences. "Our reconstruction supports a lot of variability in the past," said research director Gabriele Hegerl of Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.
Hegerl has also led well-known research on the attribution of modern climate change to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission. She is a coordinating lead author on the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for...
for Working Group I in the chapter on "Understanding and Attributing Climate Change".
Her research is in the natural variability of climate and changes in climate due to natural and anthropogenic changes in radiative forcing (such as greenhouse warming, climate effects of volcanic eruptions and changes in solar radiation).
Published works
Recent publications include:- "Annular Modes in the Extratropical Circulation. Part II: Trends", by DWJ Thompson, JM Wallace, GC Hegerl - Journal of Climate, 2000
- "Simulation of the influence of solar radiation variations on the global climate with an ocean-atmosphere general circulation", by U Cubasch, R Voss, GC Hegerl, J Waszkewitz, T. J. Crowley - Climate Dynamics, 1997
- "Multi-fingerprint detection and attribution analysis of greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas-plus-aerosol and solar forced climate change", by G. C. Hegerl, K. Hasselmann, U. Cubasch, J. F. B. Mitchell, E. Roeckner, R. Voss and J. Waszkewitz
- "Detecting Greenhouse-Gas-Induced Climate Change with an Optimal Fingerprint Method", by GC Hegerl, H von Storch, K Hasselmann, BD Santer, Ulrich Cubasch, and Philip D. Jones - Journal of Climate, 1996
- "Detection of climate change and attribution of causes", by JFB Mitchell, DJ Karoly, GC Hegerl, FW Zwiers, MR … - Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, 2001
- "The Effect of Local Sea Surface Temperatures on Atmospheric Circulation over the Tropical Atlantic" … by P Chang, R Saravanan, L Ji, GC Hegerl - Journal of Climate
- "On multi-fingerprint detection and attribution of greenhouse gas- and aerosol forced climate change", by GC HEGERL, K HASSELMANN, U CUBASCH, JFB MITCHELL, ROECKNER, E; VOSS, R; WASZKEWITZ, J - 1996
External links
- Scientists cool outlook on global warming - Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times - April 21, 2006
- IPCC AR4
- Interview of Hegerl by Hans von StorchHans von StorchHans von Storch is a German climate scientist. He is Professor at the Meteorological Institute of the University of Hamburg, and Director of the Institute for Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany...
, March 2011