Gavin Schmidt

Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist and climate modeller at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). He works on the variability of the ocean circulation and climate and how changes related to varying forcings relate to variations due to intrinsic (unforced) climate variability, using general circulation models (GCM). He has also worked on ways to reconcile paleo-data with models. He has helped develop the GISS ocean and coupled GCMs to improve the representation of the present day climate while investigating their response to external forcing. [ [http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2007/Hansen_etal_1.html Hansen, J., et al, 2007: Dangerous human-made interference with climate: A GISS modelE study. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 2287-2312.] ] [ [http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2006/Koch_etal.html Koch, D., G.A. Schmidt, and C.V. Field, 2006: Sulfur, sea salt and radionuclide aerosols in GISS ModelE. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D06206, doi:10.1029/2004JD005550] ] [ [http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2006/Schmidt_etal_1.html Schmidt, G.A., et al, 2006: Present day atmospheric simulations using GISS ModelE: Comparison to in-situ, satellite and reanalysis data. J. Climate, 19, 153-192, doi:10.1175/JCLI3612.1.] ] The latest GISS GCM is called ModelE.

In November 2004 he was named as one of Scientific American's "Top 50 Research Leaders" for the year.

He is a founding member and one of the contributors to RealClimate.

On March 14, 2007 Gavin Schmidt, Brenda Ekwurzel, and Richard Somerville debated [ [http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/adventures-on-the-east-side/ "Adventures on the East Side", RealClimate web site, accessed March 20, 2008] ] against the statement that "Global Warming is not a crisis." Their opponents were Michael Crichton, Richard Lindzen and Philip Stott who spoke for the statement. After the pre-debate vote showed 57% to 30% of the audience against the motion that global warming was not a crisis the US studio audience decided 46% to 42% in favor of the motion that global warming is not a crisis at the conclusion of the debate. [ [http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/Event.aspx?Event=12 IntelligenceSquared web site, event page, accessed March 20, 2008] ]

He was educated at Corsham Comprehensive School, earned a BA (Hons) in Mathematics at Oxford University, and was granted a PhD in Applied Mathematics at University College London. [ [http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=46 Contributor's Biography page, RealClimate web site, accessed March 20, 2008] ] Schmidt has published over 60 refereed articles in journals as notable as "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", "Science", and "Nature". [ [http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/authors/gschmidt.html GISS Publications, Gavin A.Schmidt web page, accessed April 11, 2008] ]

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External links

* [http://www.giss.nasa.gov/~gavin/ Gavin Schmidt homepage, Goddard]

* [http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20041109 Schmidt Named in Scientific American Top 50 Scientists]

* [http://www.realclimate.org RealClimate website] on which Schmidt and other climatologists answer questions about climate change.

* [http://cirs-tm.org/researchers/researchers.php?id=718 CIRS] biographical note and publication list