What are the risks of climate change?
What can we learn from past experience to help estimate the dangers of global warming? These are types of questions that Carolyn Snyder investigates as a Ph.D. candidate in Stanfords Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (IPER), with her two lead advisors: Professors Christopher Field and Stephen . The goal of her research is to better characterize important uncertainties in our understanding and predictions of climate change. Her research earned her a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, as well as a Gabilan Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Carolyns research has taken her across the globe to a variety of internationally renowned institutes. In 2003, she was chosen as one of forty Marshall Scholars, funded by the British Parliament to study at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge for two years. In 2006, she was selected to participate in a program on Complex Systems in Beijing, co-sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and the Chinese Academy of S
this multiple model technique has been improved and extended over the last few years to provide information that can be used in risk assessment for the UK. Particular improvements include: projections that include the time variations in emissions and climate; the way that observations are used to decide how well a model represents reality, and how its results should be used; the use of results from other modelling centres to inform the statistical analysis; fine-scale regional models with a 25 km grid to give more detailed results for the UK. (this compares with the global model grid of 300 km.) The final results, which will include all of the improvements, will be published in November 2008 as the UK 21st Century Climate Change Scenarios for the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP08). UKCIP08 will provide information on climate change, based on Met Office Hadley Centre projections, combined with the results from other models, to help organisations plan to adapt to inevitable climate c
