The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore. Scores of scientists and support staff 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.
Behind the scenes, a key component of the effort was the development of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM). The CCSM, run on some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, simulates the many interconnected events that drive Earth’s climate. Below is a list of NCAR and UCAR 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 |
| Coordinating lead authors |
Lead authors |
Contributing authors |
Reviewers |
Administrative support (UCAR) |
Guy Brasseur
Gerald Meehl
Kevin Tremberth
|
William Collins
Elisabeth Holland
Reto Knutti
Linda Mearns
Bette Otto-Bliesner |
Caspar Ammann
Julie Arblaster
David Baker
Gordon Bonan
Esther Brady
Lawrence Buja
Aiguo Dai
Clara Deser
John Fasullo
Peter Gent
Alex Guenther
Marika Holland
Aixue Hu
James Hurrell
Richard Katz
David Lawrence
Julia Lee-Taylor
Dennis Shea
Claudia Tebaldi
Haiyan Teng
Tom Wigley |
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
Tahl Kestin
Scott Longmore
Martin Manning
Melinda Marquis
Michael Shibao
Kyle Terran
Melinda Tignor |
IPCC 2007 Working Group II |
| Coordinating lead authors |
Lead authors |
Contributing authors |
Reviewers |
|
Patricia Romero Lankao |
Linda Mearns
Kathleen Miller |
Susanne Moser
Claudia Tebaldi |
Michael Glantz
David Schimel
Kevin Trenberth |
IPCC 2001 Working Group I |
| Coordinating lead authors |
Lead authors |
Contributing authors |
Reviewers |
|
Linda Mearns
Gerald Meehl |
Kevin Trenberth |
Gordon Bonan
Lawrence Buja
Peter Gent
Alex Guenther
Aiguo Dai
Marika Holland
Larry Horowitz
James Hurrell
Richard Katz
Jeffrey Kiehl
Timothy Kittel
Dorothy Koch
William Large
Sasha Madronich
Keith Lindsay
Philip Rasch
Xuexi Tie
Tom Wigley
David Williamson |
Elliot Atlas
Aiguo Dai
Scott Doney
Richard Katz
Jeffrey Kiehl
Dorothy Koch
Sue Schauffler
Kevin Trenberth
Warren Washington
David Williamson |
IPCC 2001 Working Group II |
| Coordinating lead authors |
Lead authors |
Contributing authors |
Reviewers |
|
|
Kathleen Miller |
Linda Mearns
David Schimel
|
Richard Katz
Tom Wigley |
Michael Glantz
Kevin Trenberth |
IPCC 1995 Working Group I |
| Convening lead authors |
Lead authors |
Contributors |
Reviewers |
|
David Schimel
Kevin Trenberth |
Filippo Giorgi
Gerald Meehl
Tom Wigley (UCAR) |
James Hack
Jeffrey Kiehl
Richard Katz
Timothy Kittel
Elizabeth Sulzman
Linda Mearns
Philip Rasch
Warren Washington
David Williamson |
Richard Katz
Jeffrey Kiehl
Roland Madden
Gerald Meehl
Brian Ridley
Kevin Trenberth
Warren Washington |
IPCC 1995 Working Group II |
| Lead authors |
Contributors |
|
| Elisabeth Holland |
Michael Glantz |
IPCC 1990 Working Group I |
IPCC 1990 Working Group I |
| Contributing authors |
Reviewers |
Contributing authors |
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 |
Michael Glantz |
