Climate and Climate Change
Climate and Climate Change encompasses climate science from micro to global scale in the past, present and future. Our research is based on analysis of field measurement, instrumental data including satellite retrievals, and paleoclimate proxy records, in combination with simulation of global/regional/local climate models.
Our research also includes impacts of climate changes on urban environments, ecosystems, biodiversity, water resources, and air quality. Special attention has been paid to high latitude and high elevation regions including the Arctic and Antarctic, and the Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding mountain regions).
Current research activities in Climate and Climate Change
● Paleoclimate reconstruction
● Climate effects on water cycles, ecosystems and biodiversity
● Regional and local climate
● Downscaling of climate change scenarios
● Climate modelling
● Urban climate
● Antarctic sea ice change
Research projects
- Arctic browning
- Calcareous algae as paleoclimate archives: predicting future from past salinity…
- Impacts of extremely high summer temperature and drought on forest over Eurasia…
- Future nutrient limitations across ecosystems - a dual look at nitrogen and pho…
- Multifunctional blue-green infrastructure - optimizing socio-cultural and envir…
- Climate change effects on nutrient cycling and ecosystems
- Climate change effects on nutrient cycling and ecosystems
- Climate-tree interactions in urban environments: tree growth, health and coolin…
- The influence of warm weather and outdoor - environment design on preschoolers …
- UrbTWin – Urban air Temperature and Wind speed variability: Empirical modeling … (External link)
- Heat stress hazard forecasts for endurance events (External link)