SPRING 2004
VOL. IV, NO. 2
Responding to Earth's Changing Climate
In coming decades our planet's slowly warming climate could create major changes in precipitation patterns, storm frequency and sea level that may affect almost all of us in one way or another. Experts in the university's Joint Global Change Research Institute are studying global climate change and the technologies and policies needed to reduce its size and impact.
--Gary Gately
A Model of Success
Meteorology Professor Eugenia Kalnay's years of work improving computer modeling of the weather has resulted in much better long-range forecasts. Now she also is helping scientists better understand how the growth of cities and the spread of agriculture is influencing climate change.
--Nancy Grund
Pieces in a Global Picture
Understanding how the long-term phenomena of global warming may affect regional weather patterns requires first figuring out smaller-scale climate mechanisms and the interacting climate roles of Earth's different components--atmosphere, oceans, land and living things. Studies conducted by scientists in the university's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center are gradually filling in the missing pieces of this complex picture.
--Stephen Berberich
