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Three Georgia Tech professors share in the Nobel laureate recognition with the awarding of the Peace Prize to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Marilyn A. Brown, in the School of Public Policy, and Robert Dickinson and Rong Fu, in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, were among the scientists and educators who participated in the IPCC assessment report.
"This award is not just for those who worked so hard to complete the fourth assessment report but also for those who contributed to earlier IPCC reports," said a letter from the IPCC. "This work has provided the foundation for the current recognition of IPCC as an authoritative voice on the climate system, the impacts of climate change and ways to avoid it."
Brown, who came to Tech in 2006 from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was part of Working Group III of the IPCC, which produced special reports on aviation, emission scenarios, technology transfer, ozone and climate, CO2 Capture and Storage, as well as the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports.
Dickinson is an eminent scholar in the Georgia Research Alliance and has a research focus on improving the land surface component of climate models and related issues such as global warming. A contributing author, his work included contributing research on climate change for Working Group I (the physical basis).
Fu contributed results and discussion to the IPCC Working Group I relating to projected rainfall change over the Amazon for the 21st century and the reliability of current climate models.
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