Petr Chylek

Petr Chylek

Petr Chylek is a researcher for Space and Remote Sensing Sciences at
Los Alamos National Laboratory. Prior to becoming a government researcher in 2001, Chylek was Professor of Physics and Atmospheric Science in the graduate program at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada where he continues as an Adjunct Professor.

Chylek has published over 100 scientific papers in remote sensing, atmospheric radiation, climate change, cloud and aerosol physics, applied laser physics and ice core analysis. His work has been cited more than 3000 times. Chylek is best known for his work in remote sensing, water vapor, aerosols and their relation to climate change.

In 2006, Chylek served as Chairman, Scientific Program Committee for The Second International Conference on Global Warming and the Next Ice Age held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Santa Fe, NM. Speakers included Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, Chris Folland, Gerald North, Roger A. Pielke, William M. Gray and Jan Veizer. The conference included a two-day workshop on climate prediction uncertainties. The papers presented at the 2006 Conference will be published in a special section of the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere in 2007 or early 2008. The Conference is held each 5th year. The next one will be in 2011.

In 2007, Chylek and co-authors published a peer-reviewed paper estimating climate sensitivity to doubled atmospheric CO2 to be significantly less than the IPCC estimate. [ [http://www.agu.org/cgi-bin/SFgate/SFgate?&listenv=table&multiple=1&range=1&directget=1&application=fm07&database=%2Fdata%2Fepubs%2Fwais%2Findexes%2Ffm07%2Ffm07&maxhits=200&=%22A21H-04%22 Aerosol Optical Depth, Climate Sensitivity and Global Warming] ]

Chylek received his diploma in theoretical physics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. in physics from UC Riverside in 1970.

Honors

* Fellow of the Optical Society of America (elected 1989)
* Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (elected in 2006)
* Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (named in 2006).

External links

* [http://aerosols.lanl.gov/Members/chylek/Chylek_CV.pdf Petr Chylek’s CV]
* [http://aerosols.lanl.gov/Members/chylek/index.html Resolving the Aerosol-Water-Climate Puzzle: Predictive Science for Global Security]
* [http://aerosols.lanl.gov/conf2006/index.html Second International Conference on Global Warming]
* [http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/ppr_ZFD07.pdf The Second International Conference on Global warming and the Next Ice Age] Conference Proceedings by Charlie Zender, Chris Folland, Manvendra Dubey, and Petr Chylek
* [http://fizz.phys.dal.ca/people/PChylek/PChylek.html Adjunct Professor page]
* [http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/46875.html Los Alamos scientist a dissenter on global warming]


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