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Forecasting our future - Climate change and air quality in the 21st century: predictions and responses
For Community, Monash staff and students Format Public lecture Overview Climate is changing in response to human activities, and is expected to change further in the coming decades and centuries. Complex mathematical models have been developed to attribute the observed climate changes and to predict future changes. With the increasing understanding of the causes of climate change, the focus is now shifting towards the solutions needed to mitigate potential changes. At the same time, we will have to adapt to unavoidable changes in a world in which CO2 emissions continue to increase. Our expert speaker will present a review of our current understanding of climate processes and of observed changes including the important role played by chemical reactions in the atmosphere. Predictions of future climate will also be reported. Speaker Guy Brasseur, National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States Guy Brasseur returned to National Center for Atmospheric Research as Associate Director for the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory in January 2006, after being Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. Guy headed NCAR's Atmospheric Chemistry Division from 1990 to 2000 and continued thereafter as an NCAR senior scientist and senior research associate within the Advanced Study Program. A native of Belgium, Guy holds two engineering degrees and a doctorate in aeronomy from the Free University of Brussels, where his PhD dissertation dealt with the effects of nitrogen oxides on stratospheric ozone. He completed his postdoctoral work at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, where he worked on advanced models of photochemistry and chemical transport in the middle atmosphere. Between 1977 and 1981, Guy switched gears, serving as an elected member of the Belgian House of Representatives and as a delegate to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, France and the Western European Union in Paris. To book Bookings are essential. Complete the registration form to reserve your space. |
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