Energy, Global Carbon Cycle, and Climate
The Caldeira lab conducts research to understand ongoing changes to Earth's climate and carbon cycle and to help identify how we might provide needed energy services while preserving our environmental endowment.
- 2012: Greenhouse gases, climate change, and the transition from coal to low-carbon electricity (Myhrvold & Caldeira, ERL)
- 2011: Accounting for carbon dioxide emissions: A matter of time (Caldeira and Davis, PNAS)
- 2011: Dependence of climate forcing and response on the altitude of black carbon aerosols (Ban-Weiss et al., Climate Dynamics)
- 2011: Why is there a shortâterm increase in global precipitation in response to diminished CO2 forcing? (Cao et al., GRL)
- 2010: Future CO2 Emissions and Climate Change from Existing Energy Infrastructure (Davis et al., Science)
- 2010: National Academy report "America's Climate Choices" with section on solar radiation management (Matson et al., America's Climate Choices)
- 2010: Consumption-based accounting of CO2 emissions (Davis and Caldeira, PNAS)
- 2009: Global assessment of high-altitude wind power (Archer and Caldeira, Energies)
- 2009: Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide (Archer et al., Annual Reviews)
- 2008: Ocean iron fertilization - Moving forward in a sea of uncertainty (Buesseler et al., Science)
- 2008: Ocean Storage of CO2 (Adams and Caldeira, Elements)
- 2008: Historical trends in the jet streams (Archer and Caldeira, GRL)
- 2008: Stabilizing climate requires near zero emissions (Matthews and Caldeira, GRL)
- 2007: Harnessing high altitude wind power (Roberts et al., IEEE)
- 2007: Reducing energy related CO2 emissions using accelerated weathering of limestone (Rau et al., Energy)
- 2005: Increase of carbon cycle feedback with climate sensitivity: results from a coupled climate and carbon cycle model (Govindasamy et al., Tellus)
- 2005: Multicentury changes to the global climate and carbon cycle: Results from a coupled climate and carbon cycle model (Bala et al., Journal of Climate)
- 2004: Differing methods of accounting ocean carbon sequestration efficiency (Mueller et al., JGR)
- Caldeira, K., G. Morgan, D. Baldocchi, P. Brewer, C.-T. Arthur Chen, G.-J. Nabuurs, N. Nakicenovic, P. Robertson, A portfolio of carbon management options, in Towards CO2 Stabilization: Issues, Strategies, and Consequences, A SCOPE report (Scientific Committee on Problems in the Environment) C. Field and M. Raupach, editors (pp. 103-129, Island Press, Washington DC) 2004.
- 2003: An issue of permanence: assessing the effectiveness of ocean carbon sequestration (Herzog et al., Climatic Change)
- 2003: Climate sensitivity uncertainty and the need for energy without CO2 emission (Caldeira et al., Science)
- 2003: Carbon isotope constraints on vertical mixing and air-sea CO2 exchange (Fallon et al., GRL)
- 2002: Advanced technology paths to climate stability: Energy for a greenhouse planet (Hoffert et al., Science)
- 2002: Depth, radiocarbon, and the effectiveness of direct CO2 injection as a carbon sequestration strategy (Caldeira et al., GRL)
- 2001: Land use changes and Northern Hemisphere cooling (Govindasamy et al., GRL)
- 2001: Carbon sequestration via direct injection (Herzog et al., Encylopedia of Ocean Sciences)
- 2000: Accelerating carbonate dissolution to sequester carbon dioxide in the ocean: Geochemical implications (Caldeira and Rau, GRL)
- 1999: Enhanced carbonate dissolution: A means of sequestering waste CO2 as ocean bicarbonate (Rau and Caldeira, EC&M)
- 1999: Solar variability and anthropogenic climate change (reply) (Hoffert et al., Nature)
- 1998: Predicted net efflux of radiocarbon from the ocean and increase in atmospheric radiocarbon content (Caldeira et al., GRL)
- 1998: Energy implications of future stabilization of atmospheric CO2 content (Hoffert et al., Nature)
- 1993: Insensitivity of global warming potentials to carbon dioxide emission scenarios (Caldeira and Kasting, Nature)
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