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Understanding Climate Change

 

CLIMATE HOME PREDICTING NEAR- AND LONG-TERM CLIMATE UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES STAFF AND STUDENTS CLIMATE NEWS

 

Jud Partin collects cave stalagmites for paleoclimate reconstructions from Snail Shell Cave in Gunung Buda on the island of Borneo. Photo: Alan Cressler

The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) conducts research to advance our understanding of past and present climate change and to improve our ability to accurately model future climate change. We use paleoclimate reconstructions using corals, speleothems (cave deposits), and marine sediment cores to inform us about how climate changed in the past. We calibrate our proxies against the instrumental record, and we employ rigorous statistics to these calibrations and to the reconstructions in order to support our use of the proxies and archives as recorders of past climate. Lastly, our group here at UTIG has a unique mixture of modern climate and paleoclimate specialists who work together to perform powerful climate model-paleodata comparisons. Please browse some of our current project below and feel free to contact us with any questions.

Current Projects

  • Abrupt Climate Change
  • Tropical Hydroclimate Changes
  • Reconstructions of Past ENSO Variability

 

 

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