Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate

摘要ATM-9405024 Ramanathan，V. Scripps海洋学研究所，UCSD标题：云，化学和气候中心（C4） 美国国家科学基金会的云、化学和气候科学技术中心（C4）的建立是为了建立理论、观测和建模基础，以了解和预测受云、辐射和大气化学及其相互作用影响的地球气候变化，无论这些是自然原因和/或人类活动的结果。 虽然云被认为在调节地球的辐射加热和控制痕量气体传输方面发挥着核心作用，但人们对云的了解甚少。 云的这种不确定的作用是我们无法准确预测全球变暖的主要原因。 该中心汇集了美国和德国在温室效应、大气化学、气候和全球变化领域做出重要贡献的研究小组。 组成C4的大学联合体（加州大学圣地亚哥分校、芝加哥大学、马里兰州大学、俄勒冈州州立大学）和研究实验室（MPI、美因茨大学、Juelich研究中心、NCAR、博尔德大学）将进行联合机载和船基测量、全球模型研究和卫星数据分析，以便记录和解释与气候和气候变化有关的过程。 通过其研究方案以及数据和科学家的交流，该中心将与参与全球变化研究的使命机构和国家实验室建立联系。 该中心将帮助培养能够解决全球变化中的根本问题的新一代科学家。 该中心还与SIO的斯蒂芬·伯奇水族馆博物馆合作，建立了一个多学科的教师培训计划。 该中心位于SIO-UCSD校园内，V. Ramanathan教授担任主任。 美因茨马克斯-普朗克化学研究所所长Paul Crutzen教授负责协调欧洲与该中心的合作活动。 戴安娜巴克斯特博士，教育馆长在水族馆博物馆监督K-12全球变化教育计划。 助理主任Hung Nguyen先生负责协调外联和教育活动。

Abstract ATM-9405024 Ramanathan, V. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Title: Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4) NSF's Science and Technology Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate (C4) was established to develop theoretical, observational and modeling bases required to understand and predict Earth's changing climate as affected by clouds, radiation and atmospheric chemistry and their interactions, be these a result of natural causes and/or human activities. Although clouds are believed to play a central role in regulating radiative heating of the planet and in governing trace gase transport, they are poorly understood. This uncertain role of clouds is a primary reason for our inability to make accurate predictions of global warming. The Center brings together research groups in the United States and Germany that have made fundamental contributions in the areas of the greenhouse effect, atmospheric chemistry, climate, and global change. The consortium of universities (UCSD, University of Chicago, University of Maryland, Oregon State University) and research laboratories (MPI, Mainz, Forschungszentrum Juelich, NCAR, Boulder) that constitute C4 will conduct on joint airborne and shipbased measurements, global model studies, and analyses of satellite data in order to document and interpret processes related to climate and climate change. Through its research programs, and the exchange of data and scientists, the Center will reach out to mission agencies and national laboratories involved in global change research. The Center will help nurture a new generation of scientists capable of addressing fundamental problems in global change. The Center also collaborates with SIO's Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum to establish a multi-disciplinary teacher training program. The Center is located on the SIO-UCSD campus with Professor V. Ramanathan as Director. Professor Paul Crutzen, Director of the Max-Planck Institut fur Chemie, Mainz, coordinat es European collaborative activities with the Center. Dr. Diana Baxter, Education Curator at the Aquarium-Museum oversees the K-12 global change education program. Mr. Hung Nguyen, Assistant Director, coordinates outreach and education activities.