Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Projects
The Climate and Carbon Sciences Program of the Earth Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory encompasses both atmospheric and ecosystem processes, seeking to improve understanding of climate forcing, ecosystem-climate feedbacks, and ecosystem goods and services like biofueld production, carbon sequestration, and climate change adaptation. The Program is focused around a set of interrelated goals and integrates a wide range of expertise and tools to conduct fundamental science and to improve predictive climate models (see projects grouped by Research Area). The Climate and Carbon Sciences Program is a central component of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Carbon Cycle 2.0 initiative. CC2 harnesses the Lab's diverse research activities toward delivering creative solutions for a carbon-neutral energy future.
- An Annual Grassland Mesocosm Exploration of Scaling from Genomes to Ecosystem Function
- Carbon Flux Explorer Development
- Carbon-Climate Interactions Group
- Characterizing Organic Carbon Flux from Litter Sources to Mineral-Soil Sinks
- Climate Eco-System Feedbacks: Observational Needs and Opportunities
- Climate Forcing: Carbon Cycle Measurements and Analysis for ARM Climate Forcing Research
- Exploring and Quantifying predictive Skill for Climate and Its Extremes on Decadal and Regional Scales
- Improving the Characterization of Clouds, Aerosols and the Cryosphere in Climate Models
- Improving the Representations of Human-Earth System Interactions in ESM/IAM at the Global and Regional Scales
- Investigation of the Magnitudes and Probabilities of Abrupt Climate ImpactS (IMPACTS)
- LBNL/ARM Carbon Project
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
- Quantifying the Importance of Below Ground Plant Allocation for Sequestration of Carbon in Soils
- Ultra High Resolution Global Climate Simulation to Explore and Quantify Predictive Skill for Climate Means, Variability and Extremes