Scripps Oceanography gets share of California Energy Commission contract to simulate climate change
This figure shows projected changes in California’s average hottest day of the year by the end of this century (2070-2100) produced by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
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The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.5 million contract to three University of California campuses, including UC San Diego, that will work in tandem to better simulate climate change scenarios that can be used by utilities and others to anticipate the effects.
The contract, split among UCLA, UC Berkeley and UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, will be used to “provide what are called downscaled climate simulations over the state of California,” said Dan Cayan, a climate scientist at SIO and principal investigator for the project.