The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
was awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and to
former United States Vice President Al Gore, “for their efforts to build
up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay
the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
The news release on the selection can be found at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/press.html.
Quite a number of people both here in Greenbelt and at the Goddard Space Flight
Center’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, contributed
to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). We would like to recognize those
contributions. With last year’s selection of Dr. John Mather as a Nobel
Laureate for Physics, Goddard has now been involved with two Nobel Prizes in
the last two years, an accomplishment of which we can all be proud.
Goddard - GISS Contributions to the IPCC Report
Anthony Del Genio [GISS] was one of many people who made formal review comments on one of the earlier drafts of Working Group II’s Report to AR4 (WG II Report) entitled Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.
Vivian Gornitz [Columbia University] was a Contributing Author to Chapter 1 of the WG II ReportAssessment of observed changes and responses in natural and managed systems.
Ronald Miller [GISS] was a reviewer for the Working Group I’s Report (WG I Report) to AR4 entitled The Physical Science Basis. He also did a Coupled Model Evaluation Project on Annular Modes that compared the behavior of current coupled models to observations. The CMEP projects were designed to summarize model performance for the benefit of the various WG I Report chapters. This was done in collaboration with Gavin Schmidt and Drew Shindell, and received some funding from Don Anderson at NASA Headquarters.
David Rind [GISS]
was a Lead Author for Chapter 6 Paleoclimate of the WG II Report and a contributing
author to Chapter 2, Radiative Forcing, and Chapter 9, Attribution, of the WG
II Report. In addition he was a member of the U.S. Government Review panel for
IPCC. Rind also contributed to the WG I Report.
Anastasia Romanou
and George Tselioudis [Both at Columbia University] together with co-workers
from GISS and elsewhere studied the effect of global dimmingi.e., the changes
in the shortwave radiation that reaches the ground over the 20th Century due
to aerosol emissionsand how it affects global warmingi.e. the increase
of the global temperatures due to greenhouse gases. They also studied the effect
using satellite observations from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology
Project and global climate models from IPCC. In addition, Romanou was part of
the climate model evaluation team at GISS studying the fidelity of the ocean
model simulations within the GISS climate model.
Cynthia Rosenzweig [GISS] was a Coordinating Lead Author for AR4. She led a team of 30 Lead and Contributing Authors in writing Chapter 1 of the WG II Report Assessment of Observed Changes in Natural and Managed Systems. Rosenzweig is also a member of the Core Writing Team for the AR4 Synthesis Report, which will be presented for government approval in November 2007.
Gavin Schmidt [GISS] was an expert reviewer for the WG I Report and a Contributing Author for Chapter 10 of the WG I ReportGlobal Climate Projections.
Drew Shindell [GISS]
provided GISS model results that were used extensively in Chapter 7 of the WG
II ReportAtmospheric Chemistry. He was also an expert reviewer of AR4.
Goddard – Greenbelt Contributions to the IPCC Report
Albert Arking [Code 613.2] was a Contributing Author of Chapter 8 of Climate Change 20001: The Scientific Basis (Climate Change 2001 Report)Model Evaluation.
Waleed Abdalati [Code
614.1] reviewed the Summary for Policy Makers of the WG II Report; Chapter 1
of the WG II Report; and Chapter 15 of the WG II ReportPolar regions (Arctic
and Antarctic).
Robert Adler [Code 613.1] was a Contributing Author of Chapter 3 of the WG I
ReportObservations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change. Adler’s
contribution focused on the variations of precipitation and the quality of precipitation
data sets.
Lahouari Bounoua [Code 614.4] was a Contributing Author of the WG II Report, and also an expert reviewer of the Synthesis Report of AR4.
Robert Cahalan [Code 613.2] participated in IPCC coordination at the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), during his tenure as chair of the CCSP's Observations Working Group.
Mian Chin [Code 613.3]1 was a Contributing Author for Chapter 5 of of the WG I reportAerosols, Their Direct and Indirect Effects. Chin also reviewed the chapters related to aerosols in the draft report, provided model results to IPCC TAR and to AR4, and was an Expert Reviewer of these reports. She also was a Contributing Author for Chapter 5 of the Climate Change 2001 ReportAerosols: Their Distribution and Indirect Effects2.
Josefino Comiso [Code 614.1] was a Contributing Author to Chapter 4 of the WG I ReportObservations: Change in Snow, Ice and Frozen Groundand an Expert Reviewer of Chapter 15 of WG II Report.
Anne Douglass [Code
613.3] was an Expert Reviewer of Chapter 8 of the WG I report.
Santiago Gasso [Code 613.2]1 reviewed the aerosol chapters in the draft
report and encouraged the participation of the larger AEROCENTER community in
the review process.
Peter Hildebrand [Code 614] served on the U.S. Expert Review Team for
the IPCC report.
Charles Ichoku
[Code 613.2]1 reviewed of the aerosol-related chapters of the draft WG I Report.
Charles Jackman [Code 613.3] was a Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter
4 of the Special report of IPCC working Groups I and III on Aviation and the
Global Atmosphere 1999Modeling and Chemical Composition of the Future Atmosphere.
Jackman also served as Contributing Author for Chapter 4 of the Climate Change
2001 ReportAtmospheric Chemistry and Greenhouse Gases. He also reviewed
the IPCC Working Group 1 Second Assessment Report, Climate Change 1995.
Menglin Jin [Code 613] reviewed the WG I Report and contributed three
papers referenced in the WG I Report.
Robert Levy [Code 613.2]1 reviewed of the aerosol-related chapters of the draft
WG I Report.
Nancy Maynard [Code 614.1] served on the U.S. Sub-Panel to Review the
WG II Contribution to AR4 and reviewed four of the chapters: Chapter 5, Agriculture;
Chapter 7, Industry, Settlements, and Society; Chapter 8, Human Health; and
Chapter 14, North America. She also contributed to the Summary for Policy Makers
and Technical Summary of the WG II Report.
Raimund Muscheler
[Code 613.2] served as a Contributing Author and Expert Reviewer of Chapter
6 of the WG I report.
Paul Newman [Code 613.3] was a Contributing Author of Chapter 1, Part
A of the IPCC/TEAP Report Special Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and
the Global Climate System Issues Related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons
2005Ozone Depletion and the Climate System3.
Claire Parkinson [Code 614.1] was an Expert Reviewer for Chapter 1 of
the 2007 WG II Fourth Assessment Report (Observed Changes and Responses), Chapter
15 of the 2007 WG II Fourth Assessment Report (Polar Regions), and the 2007
Synthesis Report. She was also a Contributing Author of Chapters 2 and 7 of
the 2001 WG 1 Third Assessment Report.
Ken Pickering [Code
613.3] served as Contributing Author for Chapter 4 of the Climate Change 2001
ReportAtmospheric Chemistry and Greenhouse Gases.
Yogish Sud [Code 613.2] reviewed the IPCC Working Group 1 Second Assessment
Report, Climate Change 1995
Robert H. Thomas [Code 614.1Wallops Flight Facility] was a Lead
Author for Chapter 4 of the WG I Report, Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice
and Frozen Ground.
Anne Thompson [Formerly Code 613.3Now at Penn State University]
served as Contributing Author for Chapter 4 of the Climate Change 2001 ReportAtmospheric
Chemistry and Greenhouse Gases.
Ellsworth Welton [Code 613.1]1 was an Expert Reviewer for Chapters 2
and 3 of WG I. Welton also reviewed the aerosol chapters in the draft report.
Hongbin Yu [Code 613.2]1 reviewed and commented the first and second
drafts of the WG I report, including reviewing the aerosol-related chapters.
Yu was also Lead Author on a paper published in 2006 in Atmospheric Chemistry
& Physics that highlighted in the CCSP's Our Changing Planet for Fiscal
Year 2007, served as one of major resources for measurement-based aerosol direct
forcing in the preparation of the report.
There are also a few other
Goddard employees who responded to Branch surveys but are not listed in the
IPCC AR-4 report as authors, editors or reviewers whose contribution should
be noted:
· Charles Gatebe [Code 613.2] participated in reviewing the IPCC
Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report Second Order Draft. Gatebe also participated
in the IPCC Aviation and the Global Atmosphere report under Annex A. Authors,
Contributors, and Expert Reviewers. Visit: www.grida.no/climate/ipcc/aviation/index.htm
and find gatebe. He was very active in the IPCC process in the 1990’s while
at the University of Nairobi in Kenya.
· Susan Strahan
[Code 613.3] and Jose Rodriguez [Code 613.3] are involved in the Global
Modeling Initiative (GMI) and contributed to the IPCC-AR4 by submitting three
versions of the GMI model to the ACCENT model photochemistry intercomparison.
The photochemistry simulations compared present day and future tropospheric
emissions scenarios. The model intercomparison analyses were relevant to these
sections of AR4: Chapter 7.3Global Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Change
and Chapter 7.4Air Quality and Climate Change. Rodriguez and Strahan are
co-authors on a number of the ACCENT intercomparison analysis papers.
Also as a point of interest, several former members of the Laboratory for Atmospheres
are also listed in AR4.
· Marvin Geller [State University of New York]
· Marshall Shepherd [University of Georgia]
· David Randall [Colorado State University]
NOTES:
1 These individuals organized a group post-review discussion session for participants,
which was very fruitful in providing objective input from the wealth of aerosol
experts within the Goddard-based AEROCENTER Forum.
2 The late Yoram Kaufman [Code 613.2] also reviewed this chapter.
3 Other expert reviewers of this report from Goddard included Anne Douglass,
Charles Jackman, Jose Rodriquez, and Richard Stolarski [Code613.3].