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earth science, climate change (popularly called global warming), precipitation (rain, snow, etc.), and how precipitation responds to and affects various aspects of the Earth System

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Climate Variability and change. Global change, Role of tropical ocean circulation in the coupled climate system, climate change, El Nino, La Nina, numerical modeling of climate change. Environmental modeling. Earth remote sensing.

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chemical composition of the atmosphere, atmospheric trace gases through the combined use of photochemical models, satellite, aircraft, and balloon data, and laboratory studies, role of chlorine and bromine species in the polar winter vortex region of the atmosphere where ozone loss occurs

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I work with computer models and observations to elucidate the ocean's role in climate variability and change. Specific problems include tropical climate, ENSO, North Pacific and polar climate variability, anthroprogenic climate change.

Atlantic Ocean currents; the Loop Current

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Air Pollution, Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Quality, Global Biogeochemical Cycles(including their relevance to climate change), Ammonia

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Numerical Weather Forecasting; Atmospheric Predictability and ensemble forecasting; Use of satellite observations; Data assimilation; Seasonal and Interannual prediction; Land-use change impact on climate change;

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In June of 2009 University of Maryland atmospheric scientist Eugenia Kalnay, received the IMO Prize -- the World Meteorological Organization's highest award -- for her leadership "in the field of global numerical weather prediction and analysis, including data assimilation and ensemble forecasting." Kalnay, a "Distinguished University Professor" and the "Eugenia Brin Professor in Data Assimilation" currently focuses her research on predictability and ensemble forecasting, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling and climate change.

Kalnay is a former Director of the National Weather Service's Environmental Modeling Center (part of the National Center for Environmental Prediction). The Environmental Modeling Center generates computer models used by the National Weather Service and commercial weather forecasters to predict the weather. Kalnay directed the NCEP-NCAR 50-year Reanalysis described in a paper (Kalnay et al, 1996), that is the most cited paper in all geosciences. She is author of more 100 peer-reviewed papers including a landmark 2003 paper on the impact of land use on climate change (Kalnay and Cai, Nature, 2003) that was chosen by Discovery Magazine as one of that year's top 100 science news stories. Kalnay's book "Atmopheric modeling, data assimilation and predictability" (Cambridge University Press, 2003), November of 2002 sold out within a year of its first release and is now on its fourth printing. It was officially translated and published in Chinese in 2005. She is architect of the NASA Fourth Order Global model, and co-author of the Breeding method for ensemble weather forecasting and of other widely used ensemble methods. These ensemble methods greatly increased the accuracy of long-term (3-5 day) weather forecasts.

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Eugenia Kalnay Homepage

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Address:
3431 Computer & Space Sciences Bldg
College Park, MD  20742

Degrees:
Ph.D. (1971), Meteorology, MIT
Licenciate (1965), Meteorology, University of Buenos Aires

Publication(s):
Eugenia Kalnay Homepage

Language(s):
Spanish

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Cloud, radiation budget, aerosol, UV radiation, terrestrial environment, forest fire and carbon budget cycle; Rising Air Pollution Worsens Drought, Flooding (Newsdesk Release)

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Development and application of global general circulation models;
Regional climate and environmental modeling

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Effect of human activity on climate change (popularly called global warming), air quality, and the ozone layer.

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History of Shakespeare production; reception of adaptations of Shakespeare's texts; history of 1801 theatre at the Cape Colony; history of South African adaptations of Shakespeare

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Physics and Chemistry of the Earth's Atmosphere,Air Pollution,Global Biogeochemical Cycles,Isotopic Studies of Trace Gases,Patents, Forensic Meteorology,RAMMPP Project,Measurements of Air Pollution Using Light Aircraft,Ammonia, DISCOVER-AQ, Fukushima

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Water Quality Management in Aquaculture Algal Physiology, Ecology and Management Aquaculture and Natural Resource Policy

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numerical models and observations,global or large-scale data sets of conventional and satellite-retrieved data to study the ocean-land-atmosphere climatic system, cryosphere (sea ice and snow cover) and its interaction with atmospheric and hydrospheric processes

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Climate change and variability over seasonal-yearly to glacial-interglacial cycle time frames; Earth system - the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the biosphere; carbon cycle-climate interaction; modeling of atmosphere-land-vegetation-ocean system; technological, policy implications of climate change

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Numerical weather prediction, severe storms, natural disaster reduction, regional climate and air pollution meteorology

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