Jian Lu
NCAR / Climate and Global Dynamics Division
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO, 80307 USA
jianlu AT ucar DOT edu

Now at
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Division of Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change

The ongoing man-made global warming poses a challenging question to climate scientists: what would be the consequential impacts of the increasing greenhouse gas forcing on the Earth's climate we all live in? Much of my research focuses on how the fundamental atmospheric circulations, the major climate variability modes, and the global hydrological cycle---the Hadley circulation, monsoon circulation, ENSO, Annular Modes, ITCZ, to name a few---are going to respond to the global warming. My methodology for tackling these issues is to put the question in a hierarchy of models with decreasing complexity so as to dissect the leading governing principles that control the robust response seen in the fully-blown GCMs.