Modelling the future of our climate beyond the crystal ball
Professor Christian Jakob
Director ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science
School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment
Monash University Christian Jakob is a Meteorologist at Monash University. He received his MSc from Humboldt University in Berlin in 1992 and completed his PhD in Meteorology in 2001 at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Christian learned to walk the mazes of modelling the weather at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, UK, where he worked in the Research Department from 1993 to 2001. He came to Australia in 2002 to join the Bureau of Meteorology and follow his passion to better understand thunderstorms in the tropics. He started his career in Academia continuing to develop climate models in 2007 by joining Monash University and is currently the Director of the ARC Centre for Climate System Science.
One of the silent scientific revolutions has been the development of models that allow us to predict the future of our climate. Their use underpins major decisions for our long-term future. But aren’t climate predictions highly uncertain because the models are not accurate enough? What is a climate model anyway? Where do its uncertainties come from? Join us for an excursion into the black box that is a climate model!