Kevin Trenberth
Kevin Trenberth is head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He has served on a number of national and international advisory committees and panels including panels with the National Academy of Sciences. He was prominent in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scientific assessments as coordinating lead author for the 1995 and 2007 assessments and lead author for the 2001 assessment. He shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC. He was a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Working Group and on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) where he was an officer from 2003 to 2006. He currently chairs the WCRP Observations and Assimilation Panel.
He was named a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and an Honorary Fellow of the New Zealand Royal Society. In 2000, he received the Jule G. Charney award from the AMS and was also awarded the National Center For Atmospheric Research Distinguished Achievement Award.
Trenberth has published extensively including Climate System Modeling, published in 1992 by Cambridge University Press. Additionally, he has published over 450 scientific articles or papers and given numerous talks and interviews. He completed a first class honor’s degree in mathematics at the University of Canterbury and obtained his Sc.D in meteorology in 1972 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.