Climate & Carbon Sciences Program Projects by Research Areas
Research in the Climate & Carbon Sciences (CCS) Program within the Berkeley Lab Earth Sciences Division are focused on three broad areas: The Carbon Cycle, Betters models for robust climate projection, and Climate Science for a Sustainable Energy Future. Following are our projects grouped by research area, or see a single listing of projects.
The Carbon Cycle
- 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
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
- Quantifying the Importance of Below Ground Plant Allocation for Sequestration of Carbon in Soils
Better models for robust climate projection
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Climate Forcing: Carbon Cycle Measurements and Analysis for ARM Climate Forcing Research
- Carbon-Climate Interactions Group
- 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)
- Ultra High Resolution Global Climate Simulation to Explore and Quantify Predictive Skill for Climate Means, Variability and Extremes
- Development of Frameworks for Robust Regional Climate Modeling
Climate Science for a Sustainable Energy Future
- Carbon-Climate Interactions Group
- Exploring and Quantifying predictive Skill for Climate and Its Extremes on Decadal and Regional Scales
- 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)
- Ultra High Resolution Global Climate Simulation to Explore and Quantify Predictive Skill for Climate Means, Variability and Extremes