Clara Deser is an American climate scientist. She is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research where she leads the Climate Analysis Section. Deser was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Clara Deser | |
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Doctoral advisor | John Michael Wallace[1] |
Early and personal life
editClara Deser was born to Polish-American theoretical physicist Stanley Deser and Swedish artist Elsbeth Deser.[2] As a child, she loved mathematics and map making. She earned a B.S. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from MIT in 1982, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington in 1989 under the supervision of John Michael Wallace, with her dissertation entitled "Meteorological Characteristics of the El Nino--Southern Oscillation Phenomenon".[3] She was a postdoctoral fellow with Maurice Blackmon at the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, and joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1997.[3]
Research
editIn 2016 Clara Deser had partnered with Benjamin Sanderson and used two existing sets of model simulations to investigate what future summers might look like. By using those models they predicted that the summers from 2061 to 2080 will be the hottest on record if the carbon emissions will continue to rise.[4]
In 2018 she praised James Hansen's prediction on global temperature forecast calling it "incredible" and "astounding".[5]
Honors
edit- 2017: Bjerknes Lecture, American Geophysical Union
- 2021: Member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Clara Deser: Observing the Natural World". Retrieved December 22, 2018.
- ^ "Elsbeth Deser". Mount Sinai Obituaries and Services. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ a b "CURRICULUM VITAE: DR. CLARA DESER" (PDF). NCAR. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ National Science Foundation (June 13, 2016). "Future summers could be hotter than any on record". Phys.org. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
- ^ "30 years later, former NASA scientist wishes he hadn't been right about climate change". CBC News. Associated Press. June 18, 2018. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
- ^ "News from the National Academy of Sciences". April 26, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
Newly elected members and their affiliations at the time of election are: ... Deser, Clara; senior scientist and section head, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.
External links
edit- Clara Deser publications indexed by Google Scholar
- UCAR Homepage