Department
Climate Analysis Section
Organization
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
Email
trenbert@ucar.edu
Phone
303-497-1318
Address
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder , Colorado 80303United StatesBioDr. Kevin E. Trenberth is a distinguished senior scientist in the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. From New Zealand, he obtained his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been prominent in most of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scientific assessments of Climate Change and has also extensively served the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) in numerous ways, most recently as chair of the WCRP Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) project. He has also served on many U.S. national committees. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Science Specialties

climate change, atmospheric sciences, climate modeling

Current Research

Co-chair of CLIVAR Research Focus Panel: “Consistency between planetary energy balance and ocean heat storage (CONCEPT-HEAT)”,

Websites

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/staff/trenbert/