Member Since 1997
Kevin E. Trenberth
Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/trenbert/
Professional Experience
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Distinguished Scholar
2020 - Present
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctorate
1972
MIT
Doctorate
1971
Honors & Awards
Publications
Probabilistic Evaluation of Drought in CMIP6 Simulations
As droughts have widespread social and ecological impacts, it is critical to develop long‐term adaptation and mitigation strategies to reduce...
October 11, 2021
High-Frequency Intermittency in Observed and Model-Simulated...
November 26, 2018
Designing the Climate Observing System of the Future
January 23, 2018
Global, Regional, and Megacity Trends in the Highest Tempera...
January 22, 2018
AGU Abstracts
Understanding climate change through Earth’s energy flows
GENERAL SESSION: ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, RADIATION, CLOUDS, AND AEROSOLS I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 15 december 2021
Kevin E. Trenberth
Climate models have improved enormously, but even with the biggest supercomputers models cannot resolve scales needed to depict many important phenome...
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Toward closing the regional energy budget over ocean when integrating satellite derived energy data products
THE FLOWS OF ENERGY THROUGH THE CLIMATE SYSTEM II ORAL
global environmental change | 14 december 2021
Seiji Kato, Fred G. Rose, Fu-Lung Chang, David Pai...
When energy data products are integrated to understand the energy budget and energy flow within the climate system, issues that are not considered in ...
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Improved estimates of changes in upper ocean salinity and the water cycle
THE GLOBAL WATER CYCLE: COUPLING AND EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE OCEAN, LAND, AND ATMOSPHERE I
global environmental change | 14 december 2020
Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, Nicolas Gruber, ...
Ocean salinity records the hydrological cycle and its changes, but data scarcity and the large changes in sampling make the reconstructions of long-te...
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Volunteer History
2018 - 2019
Member
Climate Communication Prize Committee
2017 - 2017
Member
Climate Communication Prize Committee
2015 - 2016
Member
Climate Communication Prize Committee
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