Flashcards: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors

Kevin Edward Trenberth (born November 8, 1944) is part of the Climate Analysis Section at the USA National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Richard A. Betts is Head of the Climate Impacts strategic area at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, United Kingdom.

Richard Blane Alley (born 1957) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University.

Richard "Rich" Gayle Richels directs global climate change research at the Electric Power Research Institute.

Thomas Stocker (born 1959) is a Swiss climate scientist.

John P. Weyant (born July 23, 1947) is a research professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University.

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (born 20 August 1940) was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G.

Dr. Michael Earl Schlesinger (born February 23, 1943) is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and director of the Climate Research Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Myles R. Allen is head of the Climate Dynamics group at the University of Oxford's Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department.

Penelope Whetton (born 5 January 1958) is a climatologist and an expert in regional climate change projections due to global warming and in the impacts of those changes.

Timothy J. Osborn is a climatologist and Professor of Climate Science at the University of East Anglia.

Peter William Thorne is a climatologist and professor of physical geography in the Department of Geography, Maynooth University.

Joel B. Smith is an expert on climate change policy.

John Raymond Christy is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) whose chief interests are satellite remote sensing of global climate and global climate change.

John Francis Brake Mitchell OBE FRS (born 7 October 1948) is a British climatologist and climate modeller.

Jonathan M. Gregory is a climate modeller working on mechanisms of global and large-scale change in climate and sea level on multidecadal and longer timescales.

Gerald Allen "Jerry" Meehl is a climate scientist who has been a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research since 2001.

John A. Church (born 1951) is an expert on sea level and its changes.

Gary Wynn Yohe is the Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.

Keith Raphael Briffa (born 1952) is a climatologist employed since 1977 by the University of East Anglia, where he is now emeritus professor and deputy director of the Climatic Research Unit.

Shine was educated at Halesowen Grammar School and Imperial College London where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1978.

Robert Earl Dickinson (born 26 March 1940, Millersburg, Ohio) is an American meteorologist and geoscientist.

Corinne Le Quéré FRS (born July 1966) is a Franco-Canadian scientist.

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Hoesung Lee (born December 31, 1945) is a South Korean economist and current chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

David Stuart Wratt QSO is the Chief Scientist (Climate) at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and is responsible for NIWA's National Climate Centre.

Ismail Abdel Rahim El Gizouli is a Sudanese civil servant specializing in energy and environment and a member of the bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Pier Vellinga (April 17, 1950) is one of the Netherlands experts on the impacts of climate change.

Daniel Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley and a climate advisor to the Obama administration.

Sir John Theodore Houghton CBE FRS FLSW (born 30 December 1931) is a Welsh scientist who was the co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group.

Eystein Jansen (born 28 February 1953, Bergen) is a Norwegian professor in marine geology / paleoceanography at the University of Bergen and researcher and adviser at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR).

Peter A. Stott is a climate scientist who leads the Climate Monitoring and Attribution team of the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research at the Met Office in Exeter, UK.

Piers Forster is Professor of Physical Climate Change and Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds.

Stefan Rahmstorf (born 22 February 1960) is a German oceanographer and climatologist.

Anny Cazenave (French pronunciation: [ani kaznav] ) is a French space geodesist and one of the pioneers in satellite altimetry.

Benjamin David Santer (born June 3, 1955 in Washington, DC, United States) is a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and former researcher at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.

Richard C. J. Somerville (born 30 May 1941) is a climate scientist who is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA, where he has been a professor since 1979.

Richard S. J. Tol (born 2 December 1969, Hoorn, the Netherlands) is a professor of economics at the University of Sussex.

Konrad "Koni" Steffen (born 1952) is a glaciologist and the former director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, a position he held from 2005 until he took office as the director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research on July 1, 2012.

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David Vaughan is a climate scientist at the British Antarctic Survey.

Ian Enting (born 25 September 1948) is a mathematical physicist and the AMSI/MASCOS Professorial Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS) based at The University of Melbourne.

Michael Jim Salinger is an Auckland-based climate change scientist who formerly worked for the Crown Research Institute National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).

Joanna Dorothy Haigh, CBE, FRS, FRMetS (born 7 May 1954) is a British physicist and academic.

Hans Joachim "John" Schellnhuber (born 7 June 1950) is a German theoretical physicist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).