Inez Fung

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Inez Fung (2013)

Inez Y. Fung (born April 11, 1949 ) is an American climatologist and atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Berkeley .

Life

Fung earned a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971 and received his PhD in meteorology in 1977.

In 2004 Fung received the Roger Revelle Medal from the American Geophysical Union . In 2001 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2014 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Act

Fung is one of the authors of the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the IPCC . In 2014 she was jointly responsible for the report Climate Change: Evidence and Causes with Eric Wolff .

Referring to forest fires in the western United States and floods in India, Fung expressed concern about the climate crisis in 2018 : “We are not prepared for it. Thirty years ago we predicted it in the models and now I feel it. I experience it. [...] I have to say that all the predictions made 30 years ago are still valid. The only thing we didn't expect [...] is that the CO 2 will rise much faster than we ever expected. "

According to the Scopus database , Fung (as of October 2019) has an h-index of 70.

Publications (selection)

  • Yanjun Cai , Inez Fung, R. Lawrence Edwards, Zhisheng An, Hai Cheng, Jung-Eun Lee, Liangcheng Tan, Chuan-Chou Shen, Xianfeng Wang, Jesse A. Day, Weijian Zhou, Megan J. Kelly, and John CH Chiang (2015). Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 (10), 2954-2959. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1424035112
  • Inez Fung, J. John, J. Lerner, E. Matthews, M. Prather, LP Steele and PJ Fraser (1991). Three-dimensional model synthesis of the global methane cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 96 (D7), 13033-13065. https://doi.org/10.1029/91JD01247
  • Pieter Tans , Inez Fung and Taro Takahashi (1990). Observational contrains on the global atmospheric CO2 budget. Science, 247 (4949), 1431-1438. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.247.4949.1431

Web links

Commons : Inez Fung  - collection of images, videos and audio files

credentials

  1. ↑ Inez FUNG | Our Environment at Berkeley. In: ourenvironment.berkeley.edu. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Inez Fung. In: agu.org. American Geophysical Union , accessed October 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Inez Fung. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed October 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter F. (PDF; 815 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Sarah Yang: Inez Fung leads US team in joint report on climate change | Berkeley News. In: news.berkeley.edu. February 27, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2019 (American English).
  6. ↑ Craig Miller: Outlook Grim But Not Hopeless as Climate Summit Convenes in San Francisco. In: kqed.org. KQED Science, September 10, 2018, accessed September 30, 2019 (American English).
  7. ^ Fung, Inez Y. In: scopus.com. Scopus , accessed October 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fung, Inez
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fung, Inez Y.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American climatologist and atmospheric scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1949