Petr Chylek
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Petr Chylek is a researcher for Space and Remote Sensing Sciences at
Los Alamos National Laboratory
. Prior to becoming a government researcher in 2001, Chylek was Professor of Physics and Atmospheric Science in the graduate program at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada where he continues as an Adjunct Professor.
Chylek has published over 100 scientific papers in remote sensing, atmospheric radiation, climate change, cloud and aerosol physics, applied laser physics and ice core analysis. His work has been cited more than 3000 times. Chylek is best known for his work in remote sensing, water vapor, aerosols and their relation to climate change.
In 2006, Chylek served as Chairman, Scientific Program Committee for The Second International Conference on Global Warming and the Next Ice Age held at Los Alamos National Laboratory
in Santa Fe, NM. Speakers included Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, Chris Folland, Gerald North
, Roger A. Pielke
, William M. Gray
and Jan Veizer
. The conference included a two-day workshop on climate prediction uncertainties. The papers presented at the 2006 Conference will be published in a special section of the Journal of Geophysical Research
- Atmospheres in 2007 or early 2008. The Conference is held each 5th year. The next one will be in 2011.
In 2007, Chylek and co-authors published a peer-reviewed paper estimating climate sensitivity to doubled atmospheric CO2 to be significantly less than the IPCC estimate.
Chylek received his diploma in theoretical physics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. in physics from UC Riverside in 1970.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...
. Prior to becoming a government researcher in 2001, Chylek was Professor of Physics and Atmospheric Science in the graduate program at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada where he continues as an Adjunct Professor.
Chylek has published over 100 scientific papers in remote sensing, atmospheric radiation, climate change, cloud and aerosol physics, applied laser physics and ice core analysis. His work has been cited more than 3000 times. Chylek is best known for his work in remote sensing, water vapor, aerosols and their relation to climate change.
In 2006, Chylek served as Chairman, Scientific Program Committee for The Second International Conference on Global Warming and the Next Ice Age held at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...
in Santa Fe, NM. Speakers included Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, Chris Folland, Gerald North
Gerald North
Gerald R. North is Distinguished Professor and Holder of the Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences at Texas A&M University, and previous Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences. His interests include climate change using simplified climate models.North was born in Sweetwater,...
, Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke, Sr. is an American meteorologist with interests in climate variability and climate change, environmental vulnerability, numerical modeling, atmospheric dynamics, land/ocean - atmosphere interactions, and large eddy/turbulent boundary layer modeling...
, William M. Gray
William M. Gray
William M. "Bill" Gray is Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University , and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project at CSU's Department of Atmospheric Sciences. He is a pioneer in the science of forecasting hurricanes and one of the world's leading experts on tropical...
and Jan Veizer
Jan Veizer
Ján Veizer is the Distinguished University Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa and Institute for Geology, Mineralogy und Geophysis, of Bochum Ruhr University, he held the NSERC/Noranda/CIFAR Industrial Chair in Earth System Isotope and Environmental Geochemistry until 2004...
. The conference included a two-day workshop on climate prediction uncertainties. The papers presented at the 2006 Conference will be published in a special section of the Journal of Geophysical Research
Journal of Geophysical Research
The Journal of Geophysical Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Geophysical Union 80 times per year. It contains original research on the physical, chemical, and biological processes that contribute to the understanding of the Earth, Sun, and solar system...
- Atmospheres in 2007 or early 2008. The Conference is held each 5th year. The next one will be in 2011.
In 2007, Chylek and co-authors published a peer-reviewed paper estimating climate sensitivity to doubled atmospheric CO2 to be significantly less than the IPCC estimate.
Chylek received his diploma in theoretical physics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He received his Ph.D. in physics from UC Riverside in 1970.
Honors
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America (elected 1989)
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (elected in 2006)
- Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (named in 2006).
2009 Open Letter to the Climate Research Community
In late 2009, in reaction to the controversy over the contents of emails from the Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, Petr Chylek authored an email titled "Open Letter to the Climate Research Community" and sent it to 100 of his Climate Research peers. In the email, he writes that the climate science community has "substituted the search for truth with an attempt at proving one point of view" and suggests "Let us drastically modify or temporarily discontinue the IPCC." He also appeals for climate scientists to stop making what he calls "unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them."External links
- Petr Chylek’s CV
- Resolving the Aerosol-Water-Climate Puzzle: Predictive Science for Global Security
- Second International Conference on Global Warming
- The Second International Conference on Global warming and the Next Ice Age Conference Proceedings by Charlie Zender, Chris Folland, Manvendra Dubey, and Petr Chylek
- Adjunct Professor page