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Markku Rummukainen. Photo.

Markku Rummukainen

Professor

Markku Rummukainen. Photo.

Climate models go green

Author

  • Markku Rummukainen
  • Erik Swietlicki

Editor

  • Sara Naurin

Summary, in English

The use of coal, oil and gas, and land use change, has caused emissions of carbon dioxide which equals to about 550 billion tons of carbon. Half of these have accumulated in the atmosphere, which warms our climate with profound effects on natural and human systems. The other half has been absorbed by the oceans and the biosphere. Climate change affects the strength of these ‘ carbon sinks’. Knowledge about their future capacity is important for informed action on climate stabilisation. MERGE’s research on a new generation of climate models aims for a greater understanding of vegetation, climate and climate change

Department/s

  • Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • Nuclear physics

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

31-46

Publication/Series

Today’s Great Explorers : New frontiers in Strategy Research at Lund University

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Centrum för miljö- och klimatforskning, Lunds universitet

Topic

  • Climate Science
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Physical Geography

Status

Published