Open AccessDiffenbaugh receives 2006 James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award
Author(s) -
Harshvardhan G.,
Diffenbaugh Noah
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2007eo090011
Subject(s) - climate model , radiative forcing , climate change , environmental science , climatology , forcing (mathematics) , precipitation , vegetation (pathology) , meteorology , geography , geology , oceanography , medicine , pathology
Noah Diffenbaugh is a truly interdisciplinary geoscientist who has already made significant contributions to the field of high‐resolution climate modeling. His interests are varied and include climate/carbon dioxide/vegetation interactions, the response of extreme temperatures and precipitation events as well as the response of easternboundary current regions to anthropogenic radiative forcing, mechanisms of Holocene climate variability, and the potential impacts of future climate on human systems. An outcome of his climate studies is the discouraging prognosis for U.S., especially California, viticulture and enology in light of anticipated global warming. Noah is at the forefront of computational high‐resolution climate modeling, which will become an essential tool for policy planners by providing details that cannot be simulated by global models.