Linda Mearns | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Climatology and geography |
Linda Opal Mearns is a geographer and climate scientist specializing in climate change assessment science. [1] Mearns is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). [1] [2] Mearns is the director of NCAR's Weather and Climate Impacts Assessment Science Program (WCIASP) and head of the Regional Integrated Sciences Collective (RISC). [1] [2] Mearns is a lead principal investigator for the North American Regional Climate Change Program (NARCCAP). [1] [2] [3]
Mearns received a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [1] [2]
Mearns is an author on the Second (1995), Third (2001), Fourth (2007), Fifth (2013) and Sixth (2021) Assessment Reports of the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Mearns is a lead principal investigator for the North American Regional Climate Change Program (NARCCAP) which uses data that Mearns was involved in generating to produce data-based climate simulations to predict future climate scenarios. [1] [3]
Linda Mearns | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Climatology and geography |
Linda Opal Mearns is a geographer and climate scientist specializing in climate change assessment science. [1] Mearns is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). [1] [2] Mearns is the director of NCAR's Weather and Climate Impacts Assessment Science Program (WCIASP) and head of the Regional Integrated Sciences Collective (RISC). [1] [2] Mearns is a lead principal investigator for the North American Regional Climate Change Program (NARCCAP). [1] [2] [3]
Mearns received a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [1] [2]
Mearns is an author on the Second (1995), Third (2001), Fourth (2007), Fifth (2013) and Sixth (2021) Assessment Reports of the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Mearns is a lead principal investigator for the North American Regional Climate Change Program (NARCCAP) which uses data that Mearns was involved in generating to produce data-based climate simulations to predict future climate scenarios. [1] [3]