“We basically have three
choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering.
We are going to do some of each.
The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less
adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”
John
Holdren
Dr. Stenchikov is a Contributing Author for the IPCC AR4 Chapter 2: Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and Radiative Forcing. Below is a link to the paper on testing the
historic volcanic climate impacts simulated in the IPCC runs against observations.
Stenchikov, G., K. Hamilton, R. J. Stouffer, A. Robock, V. Ramaswamy, B. Santer,
and H.-F. Graf, 2006: Arctic Oscillation response to Volcanic Eruptions in the IPCC AR4 Climate Models, J. Geophys. Res., 111,
D07107, doi:10.1029/2005JD006286.
Stenchikov, G., T. Delworth, and A. Wittenberg, Volcanic climate impacts
and ENSO interactions, AGU Joint Assembly, 22-25 May, 2007, Acapulco, Mexico.
Effect of Volcanic Aerosols on Climate
Summer Cooling and Winter Warming: Radiative forcing and climate
effect of volcanic aerosols
Mechanisms of Arctic Oscillation (AO) response to volcanic forcing
Volcanic Impact on Oceans
Deep Convection
ND Storm, CO and Ozone mixing ratios, stream lines, hydrometeor concentration.
Parametrization of deep convection, Radiative-Convective and Single-column Models
Stratosphere-troposphere exchange caused by deep convection
Effect of convective mixing on regional chemical balances
Gravity wave generation by deep convection
Climate Downscaling using Stretched Grid GCM and Nested Regional Models
Stretched grid GCM development
Climate downscaling over US using Regional Atmospheric Modeling
System (RAMS)
Regional Air Pollution Modelling and Simulations of Global Tracer Transport
Publications on environmental consequences of the World Trade center Disaster
Continental-scale transport and strat-trop exchange of smoke from forest fires in Canada
High-resolution simulation of PCBs transport from the lendfill at the Bayonne Peninsula
Effect of aerosols on photolysis rates and ozone pfotochemistry
Global tracer transport using Stretched Grid CTM
Climatic Consequences of Regional Nuclear Conflicts
Toon, O., B. A. Robock, Turco, L. Oman,
C. Bardeen, G. Stenchikov, 2007: Consequences of Regional-Scale Nuclear Conflicts, Science, 315, 1224-1225.
Toon, O., B. A. Robock, R. Turco, L. Oman,
C. Bardeen, and G. Stenchikov, 2006: Consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear
terrorism, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 11745-11816.
Robock, A., L. Oman, G. Stenchikov, O Toon, C. Bardeen, R. Turco,
2006: Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 11817-11843.
Robock, A., Luke Oman, and Georgiy Stenchikov, 2007: Nuclear Winter revisited
with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastriphic consequences, J. Geoph. Res, accepted.
Study of the cross-tropopause transport of smoke from multiple city fires
Prepared by Gera Stenchikov
(gera@envsci.rutgers.edu) -
Last updated on January 31, 2007
