Dr. Kevin Trenberth, Senior Scientist, CAS Section Head

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Presentations by Kevin E. Trenberth

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  • Invited talk "Aspects of a climate observing system: energy and water," GEWEX/iLEAPS "Water in a Changing Climate" Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 24-28 August 2009.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • Invited plenary talks “An observational perspective on changes in the global hydrological cycle” 2009 Royal Meteorological Society conference, Reading, U.K. 27 June-2 July 2009. and “Changes in precipitation and runoff in a changing climate” to Gordon Research Conference on Radiation and Climate, New London, NH, 4-9 July 2009.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • Invited presentation to the NCAR Undergraduate Leadership Workshop, 'Climate Change: Updated Scientific Assessment', 15 June 2009, NCAR, Boulder, CO.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • Invited keynote speaker, 'The flow of energy through the Earth's climate system', workshop on "Variability of the Global Atmospheric Circulation During the Past 100 Years", 15-20 June 2008, Monte Verità, Switzerland.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file.
    Access the corresponding movie files (Windows Media player required): delFO_ac_1008_2x.wmv, doedt_rt_ac_1008_2x.wmv, fs_ac_1008_2x.wmv, net_fm1_ac_1008_2x.wmv, tediv_ac_1008_2x.wmv.

  • Keynote address, 'Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events', Catastrophe Modeling Forum, New York, NY., 11-12 June 2008.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file.

  • Invited speaker, 2008 EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) Summer Symposium, 'Global warming affects us all; What must be done',St. Julien Hotel, Boulder, CO, 10 June 2008.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file.

  • Invited keynote speaker in the American Geophysical Union's 2008 spring meeting in the Union session on "Understanding and Predicting Water and Energy Cycle Changes", on "Earth's changing energy and water cycles", 'Anticipated and Observed Trends in the Global Hydrological Cycle', Fort Lauderdale, FL, 28 May 2008.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • Invited NCAR/ESSL Public lecture, 'Global warming: Coming ready or not', NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, 18 October, 2007.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file,Webcast (ram)

  • Invited keynote plenary talk, 'Global warming is unequivocal', Transport--The next 50 years conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 25-27 July, 2007.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • 'Climate and weather forecasting: Issues and prospects for prediction of climate on multiple time scales'. Invited keynote presentation (1 hour) by Kevin E. Trenberth at the 27th Annual International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF), in New York City on 26 June 2007.
    See also http://theclimatebet.com/.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • Invited Public lecture,'Global warming is unequivocal', University of Wisconsin, Madison. 23 April 2007.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • Invited keynote talk,'Progress Toward Integrated Earth System Analysis', 11th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), "Toward an Integrated Earth System Analysis" 14-18 January 2007 at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • 'Global Environmental Change Science and Relation to International Environmental Assessments and Conventions', presented at the ESSP Conference on Global Change Science in Beijing, 8-12 Nov 2006.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • 'Attribution of Recent Increases in Atlantic Hurrican Activity', presented at the 31st Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, Boulder, CO, 23-27 October, 2006, and participation in Forum of Panel of Experts on outstanding attribution questions.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • 'Global climate change and drought in the West', presented as an invited talk at the National Wildlife Federation, Golden CO, Sept. 27, 2006, and previously as invited speaker at Public climate seminar led by ABC TV Channel 7 (Mike Nelson), "Climate change and water in the West", April 12, 2006, Omni, Broomfield CO, and elsewhere.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • 'The Earth's Climate System: Variability and change', presented most recently as an invited talk at the NCAR summer colloquium on Climate and Health,16-21 July 2006, Boulder, CO.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • 'Observations and their Analysis for WCRP/COPES', presented as an invited talk at the WCRP reanalysis conference,ECMWF, Reading, U.K. 19-22 June, 2006.
    Powerpoint presentation, pdf file

  • 'The Need for a Climate Observing System', presented at the 1/14/02 American Meteorological Society Meeting.
    Powerpoint presentation
    Presentation in pdf