Impacts

Investigation of the Magnitudes and Probabilities of Abrupt Climate Transitions

Duration:09/2008 - 08/2013
Award Amount:$75,000

Participants
Purdue University, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Agronomy: Qianlai Zhuang
In collabration with: Bill RIley, Mac Post, and Margaret Torn

Project Objectives
Abrupt climate change is a potential menace that hasn't received much attention. That's about to change. Through its Climate Change Prediction Program, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research (OBER) recently launched IMPACTS-Investigation of the Magnitudes and Probabilities of Abrupt Climate Transitions-a program led by William Collins of Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division (ESD) that brings together six national laboratories to attack the problem of abrupt climate change. The research team also includes Purdue University