2023/2024

Heterogeneous Climate Forcing

Linking Regional Perturbations to Climate Implications Across Multiple Scales (HETCLIF)

Natural Sciences
HETCLIF. Smog over Delhi. Photo: Bjørn H. Samset.

Principal investigators

Marianne Tronstad
Lund

Senior Researcher
Centre for International Climate Research (CICERO)
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research /
Geosciences /
Natural Sciences

Bjørn Hallvard
Samset

Senior Researcher
Centre for International Climate Research (CICERO)
Year at CAS

Abstract

How the climate responds to regional forcing is poorly known. Progress is hampered, in part, by limited observations, incomplete process understanding and poor model performance at regional scales, but even more by a lack of opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations. To address these issues, HETCLIF will co-locate and draw on the expertise and ongoing activities of world-leading researchers in aerosol forcing and regional feedback processes, advanced modeling, and atmosphere and ocean dynamics. Our key goal is to quantify the country-to-global scale implications of regional forcing through applications of dynamical theory, high and intermediate complexity modelling, and statistical pattern analysis. We will build on ongoing efforts to understand emerging and expected patterns of change in response to future heterogeneous forcing and develop a timely community approach for an emerging scientific discipline.

Fellows

Robert J.
Allen

Associate Professor
University of California Riverside
Year at CAS
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Annica
Ekman

Professor
Stockholm University
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research /
Natural Sciences

Manoj
Joshi

Professor
University of East Anglia
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research

Fei Fei
Luo

Researcher
Chengdu University of Information Technology
Year at CAS

Geeta
Persad

Assistant Professor
University of Texas
Year at CAS
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Catherine
Toolan

PhD Candidate
University of Reading
Year at CAS

Daniel
Westervelt

Associate Professor
Columbia University
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research

Kayla
White

PhD Candidate
University of Texas
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research

Laura
Wilcox

Associate Professor
University of Reading
Year at CAS
Research Area
Climate research

Affiliated researchers

Terje K.
Berntsen

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)

Carley
Iles

Senior Researcher
Centre for International Climate Research (CICERO)

Srinath
Krishnan

Senior Researcher
Centre for International Climate Research (CICERO)

Camilla Weum
Stjern

Senior Researcher
Centre for International Climate Research (CICERO)

Trude
Storelvmo

Professor
University of Oslo (UiO)

News

08 June 2022
We are proud to announce that we for the first time have project leaders from BI and CICERO. Moreover, as part of a new strategy, the CAS board of directors has for the first time decided to extend invitations to four groups.

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