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Improving Climate Models to Account for Plant Behavior Yields ‘Goodish’ News

October 29, 2018

Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake in the absence of photosynthesis affects greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. In a…

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Post Climate and Atmosphere Processes Program Domain Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division GC-Climate Carbon Sink

Accurate Calculations of Radiative Forcing by Carbon Dioxide Can Improve Climate Projections

August 31, 2018

This spring, the DOE unveiled a new climate model designed to achieve a number of mission priorities for the agency by not only predicting how climate will change over time–but also determining how those changes might burden the nation’s energy infrastructure. Experts from Berkeley Lab’s Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division co-led efforts to improve the…

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Post Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Sciences Department Discovery Geosciences Program Domain Energy Geosciences Division Environmental and Biological Systems Science Program GC-Climate Carbon Sink GC-Future Water GC-Microbial Engines GC-Resilient Systems GC-Sustainable Earth Geophysics Department Geothermal Systems

Geosciences Measurement Facility Celebrates Its 45th Summer Field Season

August 21, 2018

Within the Department of Energy complex of national laboratories, the Geosciences Measurement Facility (GMF) at Berkeley Lab is distinguished by its ability to build, test, and deploy customized instrumentation and innovative data acquisition and telemetry solutions, which are enabling scientists to address some of the most critical Earth, energy and environmental challenges that we face.…

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Post Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Area Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Modeling Program Climate Sciences Department Energy Geosciences Division GC-Climate Carbon Sink

CESD Expert Writes About the Dangers of Sluggish Tropical Cyclones for Nature Magazine

July 31, 2018

Climate Models

CESD research scientist Christina Patricola weighed in this summer on new research indicating a global slowdown in the rate at which tropical cyclones move over a region. Because the amount of tropical-cyclone-related rainfall that any local area might experience is inversely proportional to this translation speed, these findings could have important implications for regional rainfall…

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Post Announcements Climate and Atmosphere Processes Program Domain Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Modeling Program Climate Sciences Department Earth Systems & Society Program Domain GC-Climate Carbon Sink

New High-Resolution Exascale Earth Modeling System for Energy

April 23, 2018

A new Earth System Model (ESM) unveiled today will have weather scale resolution and use advanced computers to simulate aspects of Earth’s variability and decadal changes expected to impact the U.S. energy sector in coming years. After four years of development, the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) will be released to the broader scientific…

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Post Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Modeling Program GC-Climate Carbon Sink GC-Sustainable Earth

EESA Faculty Scientist Shares Forest Insights Relevant to Wildfires with California State Assembly

April 12, 2018

Jeff Chambers, faculty scientist within the Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division at Berkeley Lab, provided testimony during a recent informational hearing of the California State Assembly focused on the impact of climate change on wildfire risk. Chambers was among a number of subject matter  experts called upon to share knowledge relevant to the lawmakers’ consideration…

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Post Climate Modeling Program Climate Sciences Department Earth Systems & Society Program Domain GC-Climate Carbon Sink Research Highlight

Assessing the Impact of Hurricanes on Puerto Rico’s Forests

April 6, 2018

This map of Puerto Rico shows highest forest damage and tree mortality impact areas in with darker tones of red indicating more intense forest disturbance as tree mortality and crown damage. Grey areas represent non-forested areas or areas with cloud cover.   Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as…

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Post Announcements Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Area Climate and Atmosphere Processes Program Domain Climate Modeling Program Climate Sciences Department GC-Climate Carbon Sink Publication Research Highlight

EESA Scientists Are First to Directly Measure Methane’s Increasing Greenhouse Effect at the Earth’s Surface

April 4, 2018

Scientists have directly measured the increasing greenhouse effect of methane at the Earth’s surface for the first time. A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) tracked a rise in the warming effect of methane — one of the most important greenhouse gases for the Earth’s atmosphere — over a…

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Post Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Sciences Department GC-Climate Carbon Sink

UC Berkeley Undergraduate Student Is Key to Collaborative Project for EESA and NERSC

March 26, 2018

This past December the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union got off to a surprising start.  Amid rare freeze warnings and snowfall for areas in and around New Orleans, hundreds of the nearly 25,000 conference attendees expecting to escape wintry weather elsewhere were met with flight cancellations and delays. Another surprise came after UC…

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Post Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Climate and Atmosphere Processes Program Domain Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division Climate Modeling Program Climate Sciences Department GC-Climate Carbon Sink Research Highlight

Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Remote Sensing Techniques to Assess Hurricane Impact on Trees

March 5, 2018

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico’s forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

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