Mathematics Awareness Month - April 2009

Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise

by David Holland New York University

Rainfall in the climate system: changes under global warming and challenges for climate modelers by J. David Neelin, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences And Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

Uncertainty in Climate Predictions by Douglas Nychka, Director of the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe) and Senior Scientist in the Geophysical Statistics Project (GSP), National Center for Atmospheric Research

Tropical climate variability by David Neelin, Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles

What individuals and governments can do to help mitigate climate change.

by Jon Huntsman, Jr., Governor of Utah

Polar Land Ice

by David Holland, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

How satellites monitor the climate by Jay Zwally, Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Global climate models by by Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment, University of California, Berkeley

Mathematics in Energy Production by Margot Gerritsen, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Mechanical and Civil & Environmental Engineering by courtesy, Stanford University

Hurricanes and Climate by Kerry A. Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology