The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore. Scores of scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research have served as authors or reviewers for the four assessment reports issued by IPCC since 1990, and several NCAR scientists have played leadership roles. UCAR staff have provided considerable administrative support via the Technical Support Units and other roles.
Behind the scenes, a key component of the effort was the development of the Community Climate System Model. The CCSM, run on some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, simulates the many interconnected events that drive Earth’s climate. Read more about the modeling and supercomputing effort.
Below is a list of NCAR and UCAR scientific staff who contributed to the four major IPCC assessments. There are several levels of authorship. To reduce repetition, each staff member is listed only once, at his or her highest level of authorship for each assessment.
Many additional staff from across the institution have provided technical and administrative support to IPCC efforts, including the four assessments and several special or supplementary reports.
IPCC 2007 Working Group I |
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Coordinating lead authors |
Lead authors |
Contributing authors |
Reviewers |
Administrative support (UCAR/NCAR) |
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| Guy Brasseur Gerald Meehl Kevin Trenberth |
William Collins |
Caspar Ammann |
David Anderson Frank Bryan Michael Coffey William Collins Aiguo Dai Peter Gent Aixue Hu Reto Knutti Jerry Mahlman Natalie Mahowald Steven Massie Bette Otto-Bliesner David Schimel Kevin Trenberth |
Kristen Avery |
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IPCC 2007 Working Group II |
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Patricia Romero Lankao |
Linda Mearns |
Susanne Moser |
Michael Glantz |
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IPCC 2001 Working Group I |
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Linda Mearns |
Kevin Trenberth |
Gordon Bonan |
Elliot Atlas |
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IPCC 2001 Working Group II |
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| Kathleen Miller | Linda Mearns David Schimel |
Richard Katz Tom Wigley |
Michael Glantz Kevin Trenberth |
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IPCC 1995 Working Group I |
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David Schimel |
Filippo Giorgi |
James Hack |
Richard Katz |
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IPCC 1995 Working Group II |
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| Elisabeth Holland | Michael Glantz | |||||||
IPCC 1990 Working Group I |
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Robert Dickinson Roy Jenne Gerald Meehl Stephen Schneider Kevin Trenberth Richard Katz Roland Madden Warren Washington |
John Eddy (UCAR) Robert Dickinson John Firor Jeffrey Kiehl Gerald Meehl Stephen Schneider Kevin Trenberth |
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IPCC 1990 Working Group II |
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| Michael Glantz | ||||||||
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