Contributions
Each of the Program's core research areas has begun to yield significant contributions to scientific understanding and to policy development.
Highlights of key findings in each focus area can be viewed by selecting from the list below:
- Integration of Earth System Components, Including Human Systems
- Uncertainty in Earth System Components and the Implications for Risks of Serious Climate Change
- Mitigation Policy Studies, Cost Analysis, and Policy Design
- Technology, Technical Change and Issues of the Scale of the New Energy Systems
- Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change, Adaptation, and Feedbacks on the Climate System
- Links of Conventional Air Pollution to Climate, Environmental Impacts, and Mitigation
- Improved Estimation of Earth System Responses
A brief description of each of these core focus areas, and associated projects and funding, is accessible from the list provided here.
Through our integration of Earth-system components into new, complex Earth system models, we have, for example: investigated the critical role of non-CO2 greenhouse gases, identified the role of aerosols in shifting precipitation patterns, and examined the harmful impact of rising ozone levels on vegetation.