Michael Schlesinger

Dr. Michael Earl Schlesinger is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and director of the Climate Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. (meteorology) in 1976 from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Michael Schlesinger is an expert in the modeling, simulation and analysis of climate and climate change, with interests in simulating and understanding the climates of the geologic past and possible future climates resulting from increased concentrations of greenhouse gases and human-made aerosols.

He has been instrumental in developing a range of simple and complex climate models, which have been used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Energy Modeling Forum. His research currently focuses on: (1) simulating and understanding the effects on climate of a human-induced melting of the Greenland ice sheet; (2) simulating and understanding the coupled climate-chemistry system, including the influences of the Sun - both irradiance and energetic electron precipitation - and volcanoes; (3) understanding and reducing the uncertainty in the estimation of climate sensitivity and climate feedbacks; and (4) performing integrative assessment of climate change, including further development of the robust adaptive decision strategy for mitigating and adapting to human-induced climate change.

He is known for his work on oscillations in the global climate system,^[1] on estimating the climate sensitivity,^[2] and on seasonal climate change.^[3]

He has edited four books, most recently Human-induced climate change: An interdisciplinary assessment (Cambridge University Press). He regularly appears in the media.^[4][5][6]

References

1. ^ ME Schlesinger and N Ramankutty (1994), Nature 367: 723-726
2. ^ NG Andronova and ME Schlesinger (2001), Journal of Geophysical Research 106 (D19): 22605-22612
3. ^ ME Schlesinger and ZC Zhao (1988) Journal of Climate 2 (5): 459-495
4. ^ Washington Post, Jun 21, 1989
5. ^ Los Angelos Times, Nov 16, 1995
6. ^ New York Times, Mar 2, 2008

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