Linda Mearns

Linda Mearns
Scientific career
FieldsClimatology 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]

Biography

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]

Selected publications

Books

  • Mearns, Linda O. (2003). Issues in the impacts of climate variability and change on agriculture: applications to the southeastern United States. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 9781402016189.

Journal articles

  • Giorgi, F. and Mearns, L. O. Approaches to the simulation of regional climate change: A review. 1991. Reviews of Geophysics 29 (2), 191.
  • Bukovsky, M. S.,Thompson, J. A., Mearns, L. O. Weighting a Regional Climate Model Ensemble: Does It Make a Difference? Can It Make a Difference? 2019. Climate Research 77 (1), 23-43.
  • Mearns, L. O., Katz, R. W., and Schneider, S. H. Extreme High-Temperature Events: Changes in their probabilities with Changes in Mean Temperature. 1984. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 23 (12), 1601-1613.
  • Giorgi, F. and Mearns, L. O. 1999. Introduction to special section: Regional Climate Modeling Revisited. Journal of Geophysical Research 104 (D6), 6335-6352.
  • Easterling, D. R., Meehl, G. A., Parmesan, C., Changnon, S. A., Karl, T. R., and Mearns L. O. 2000. Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts. Science 289 (5487), 2068-2074.
  • Giorgi, F. and Mearns, L. O. Calculation of Average, Uncertainty Range, and Reliability of Regional Climate Changes from AOGCM Simulations via the “Reliability Ensemble Averaging” (REA) Method. 2002. Journal of Climate 15 (10), 1141-1158.
  • Feddema, J. J., Oleson, K. W., Bonan G. B., Mearns L. O., Buja L. E., Meehl G. A., Washington W. M. 2005. The Importance of Land-Cover Change in Simulating Future Climates. Science 310 (5754), 1674-1678.

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors: Linda Mearns". AAG Newsletter. 2015-12-09. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  2. ^ a b c d e f A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling. The National Academies Press. 2012. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-309-25977-4.
  3. ^ a b c d "Linda Mearns". University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  4. ^ "Linda Mearns". Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  5. ^ "IPCC Authors (beta)". archive.ipcc.ch. Retrieved 2021-08-08.
  6. ^ "Stephen Schneider Lecture: Recipients". American Geophysical Union.