Jian Lu
NCAR / Climate and Global Dynamics Division
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO, 80307 USA
Phone: 303-497-1356
Fax: 303-497-1333
jianlu AT ucar.edu

The impending global warming poses a challenging question to climate scientists: what would be the consequential impacts of the increasing greenhouse gas forcing on the earth's climate system we all live in. Much of my research focuses on how the fundamental atmospheric circulations, the major climate variability modes, and the global hydrological cycle---the Hadley circulation, monsoon circulation, ENSO and Annular Mode variability, ITCZ, to name a few---are going to respond to the global warming. My methodology for tackling these issues is to put the question in a hierarchy of models with decreasing complexity so as to dissect the essential elements that control the variations observed in the fully-blown GCMs.