Joyce E. Penner

Joyce Elaine Penner
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
ThesisPhotochemistry and transport processes for terrestrial atmospheric H2 and Venus exospheric H (1977)

Joyce Penner is an atmospheric scientist known for her research on climate change, especially on the impact of aerosols and clouds.

Education and career

Penner has a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California Santa Barbara (1970), and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University (1972 and 1977, respectively).[1][2] Penner moved to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1977 and remained there until 1996, serving as a group leader from 1987 until her departure for University of Michigan in 1996.[1] At the University of Michigan, Penner was named the Ralph J. Cicerone Distinguished University Professor of Atmospheric Science in 2007.[1]

Penner has contributed[3] to multiple reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for its series of assessment reports.[4] Penner was the coordinating lead author for chapter 5 on "Aerosols, their Direct and Indirect Effects" within the 2001 Assessment Report 3, Working Group 1 (AR3 WG1), and one of 18 lead authors for the technical summary of that same report.[5] In 2007, she was one of 7 lead authors for chapter 9 on "Understanding and attributing climate change" (IPCC AR4 WG1 Ch9 2007).[6] In 2013, she served as a review editor for chapter 7 (Clouds and aerosols, IPCC AR5 WG1 Ch7 2013) and for the technical summary (IPCC AR5 WG1 Technical Summary 2013).[7] She was also one of the contributing authors for the 1995 IPCC report.[8]

Penner was the president of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union from 2017 to 2018.[9] Since 2019 she has been the president of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences.[10]

Research

Penner's research interests focus on climate modeling, specifically the representation of aerosols in global climate models. Through her research, Penner has shown that the composition of aerosols impacts whether particles will increase or decrease global temperatures.[11] For example, her investigation into how biomass burning produces aerosols[12] concluded that smoke from burning tropical forests may cause cooling by an indirect effect because of the formation of droplets that reflect sunlight away from Earth's surface.[13] Within her climate models, Penner has examined the role of nitrogen compounds[14][15] and her research revealed that the nitric acid produced by supersonic aircraft (e.g., the Concorde) can lead to decreases in atmospheric ozone concentrations.[16][17] She has also defined the uncertainties associated with modeling indirect aerosol forcing,[18] including a consideration of differences across a suite of models.[19] This indirect aerosol effect impacts the amount of radiation received at Earth's surface[20] which is a function of how aerosol particles are formed.[21]

Selected publications

  • Penner, J. E.; Dickinson, R. E.; O'Neill, C. A. (1992-06-05). "Effects of Aerosol from Biomass Burning on the Global Radiation Budget". Science. 256 (5062): 1432–1434. Bibcode:1992Sci...256.1432P. doi:10.1126/science.256.5062.1432. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17791612. S2CID 44613556.
  • Taylor, K. E.; Penner, J. E. (June 1994). "Response of the climate system to atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gases". Nature. 369 (6483): 734–737. Bibcode:1994Natur.369..734T. doi:10.1038/369734a0. S2CID 4262188.
  • Tegen, Ina; Hollrig, Peter; Chin, Mian; Fung, Inez; Jacob, Daniel; Penner, Joyce (1997). "Contribution of different aerosol species to the global aerosol extinction optical thickness: Estimates from model results". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 102 (D20): 23895–23915. Bibcode:1997JGR...10223895T. doi:10.1029/97JD01864.
  • Penner, J.E.; Andreae, M.O.; Annegarn, H.; Barrie, L.; Feichter, J.; Hegg, D.; Jayaraman, A.; Leaitch, R.; Murphy, D.; Nganga, J.; Pitari, G. (2001). "Aerosols, their Direct and Indirect Effects". Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: 289–348. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0014-921E-5.

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ a b c "Joyce E. Penner CV" (PDF).
  2. ^ Penner, Joyce E. (1977). Photochemistry and transport processes for terrestial [sic] atmospheric H₂ and Venus exospheric H (Ph.D.). Harvard University.
  3. ^ "IPCC Authors (beta)". archive.ipcc.ch.
  4. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2007". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2021-06-28. the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades
  5. ^ "Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" (PDF).
  7. ^ "IPCC AR5 WG1 final report" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Climate Change 1995 The Science of Climate Change" (PDF).
  9. ^ "About - Atmospheric Sciences". connect.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  10. ^ "Current IAMAS Officers | IAMAS". Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  11. ^ Tegen, Ina; Hollrig, Peter; Chin, Mian; Fung, Inez; Jacob, Daniel; Penner, Joyce (1997). "Contribution of different aerosol species to the global aerosol extinction optical thickness: Estimates from model results". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 102 (D20): 23895–23915. Bibcode:1997JGR...10223895T. doi:10.1029/97JD01864.
  12. ^ Penner, J. E.; Dickinson, R. E.; O'Neill, C. A. (1992-06-05). "Effects of Aerosol from Biomass Burning on the Global Radiation Budget". Science. 256 (5062): 1432–1434. Bibcode:1992Sci...256.1432P. doi:10.1126/science.256.5062.1432. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17791612. S2CID 44613556.
  13. ^ Monastersky, R. (1992). "A Smoke Screen for Greenhouse Warming?". Science News. 141 (21): 343. doi:10.2307/3976234. ISSN 0036-8423. JSTOR 3976234.
  14. ^ Penner, J. E.; Atherton, C. S.; Dignon, J.; Ghan, S. J.; Walton, J. J.; Hameed, S. (1991). "Tropospheric nitrogen: A three-dimensional study of sources, distributions, and deposition". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 96 (D1): 959–990. Bibcode:1991JGR....96..959P. doi:10.1029/90JD02228.
  15. ^ Feng, Yan; Penner, Joyce E. (2007). "Global modeling of nitrate and ammonium: Interaction of aerosols and tropospheric chemistry". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 112 (D1). Bibcode:2007JGRD..112.1304F. doi:10.1029/2005JD006404. hdl:2027.42/95603.
  16. ^ McElroy, Michael B.; Wofsy, Steven C.; Penner, Joyce E.; McConnell, John C. (1974-01-01). "Atmospheric Ozone: Possible Impact of Stratospheric Aviation". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 31 (1): 287–304. Bibcode:1974JAtS...31..287M. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1974)031<0287:AOPIOS>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-4928.
  17. ^ "Earth Sciences". Science News. 105 (10): 160. 1974. doi:10.2307/3959105. ISSN 0036-8423. JSTOR 3959105.
  18. ^ Chen, Y.; Penner, J. E. (4 November 2005). "Uncertainty analysis for estimates of the first indirect aerosol effect". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 5 (11): 2935–2948. Bibcode:2005ACP.....5.2935C. doi:10.5194/acp-5-2935-2005. S2CID 14255545.
  19. ^ Penner, J. E.; Quaas, J.; Storelvmo, T.; Takemura, T.; Boucher, O.; Guo, H.; Kirkevåg, A.; Kristjánsson, J. E.; Seland, Ø (21 August 2006). "Model intercomparison of indirect aerosol effects". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 6 (11): 3391–3405. Bibcode:2006ACP.....6.3391P. doi:10.5194/acp-6-3391-2006. hdl:11858/00-001M-0000-0011-FD52-4. S2CID 5666209.
  20. ^ Penner, Joyce E.; Dong, Xiquan; Chen, Yang (January 2004). "Observational evidence of a change in radiative forcing due to the indirect aerosol effect". Nature. 427 (6971): 231–234. Bibcode:2004Natur.427..231P. doi:10.1038/nature02234. hdl:2027.42/62920. PMID 14724634. S2CID 4432108.
  21. ^ Wang, M.; Penner, J. E. (14 January 2009). "Aerosol indirect forcing in a global model with particle nucleation". Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 9 (1): 239–260. Bibcode:2009ACP.....9..239W. doi:10.5194/acp-9-239-2009.
  22. ^ "Penner". American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  23. ^ "Historic Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  24. ^ "Haagen-Smit Award Recipients | California Air Resources Board". ww2.arb.ca.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-26.