David Archer

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David Archer (born September 15, 1960 ) is an American geologist and professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago . He is the author of over 100 scientific publications.

Professional background

David Archer received his BSc from Indiana University Bloomington in Biochemistry. His Ph.D. he did in 1990 in the field of oceanography at the University of Washington . Since 1994 he has been Adjunct Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and since June 2001 he has been Professor of Geophysics at the University of Chicago.

Act

David Archer's main research area is the carbon cycle and its interactions with the global climate system. He is one of the authors of the scientific blog Realclimate .

Awards

He received the Lamont Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1990 and the Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 1996 . In 2009 he was honored with the Walter Kistler Book Award and in 2010 with the AGU Fellowship .

Selected publications

  • Atmospheric lifetime of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide
  • Lowering of glacial atmospheric CO 2 in response to changes in oceanic circulation and marine biogeochemistry
  • Long term fate of anthropogenic carbon
  • Subsurface ocean argon disequilibrium reveals the equatorial Pacific shadow zone
  • A movable trigger: Fossil fuel CO 2 and the onset of the next glaciation
  • Time-dependent response of the global ocean clathrate reservoir to climatic and anthropogenic forcing
  • Fate of fossil fuel CO 2 in geologic time
  • Model sensitivity in the effect of Antarctic sea ice and stratification on atmospheric p CO 2

Books

  • The Global Carbon Cycle (Princeton Primers in Climate) , Princeton University Press ISBN 978-0-691-14413-9 , 205 pages
  • The Warming Papers: The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast , 2010, edited with Raymond Pierrehumbert, ISBN 978-1-4051-9616-1 , 432 pages
  • The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate , 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-13654-7 , 192 pages
  • The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change , 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-73255-0 , 260 pages
  • Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast , 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-4039-3 , 208 pages

Web links

  • David Archer's website at the University of Chicago: [1]
  • David Archer's website at Realclimate [2]
  • David Archer at Google Scholar (publications, index values ​​and reception): [3]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c David Archer: Curriculum vita: David Archer (PDF; 88 kB) University of Chicago. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Archer, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1960