Research Activities of Klaus Keller

Research Interest Areas:

  • Detection and prediction of anthropogenic climate change
  • Climate thresholds and abrupt climate change
  • Economic analysis of climate change strategies
  • Decision-making under uncertainty

Current Research Projects:

PI: How uncertain are current sea-level rise predictions based on the instrumental record and simple models?
Co-PI: Improving decisions in a complex and changing world
Co-PI: What is a ‘better’ prediction system? Combining statistical and economic metrics of prediction quality.
Co-PI: Synthesis of carbon dioxide flux and mixing ratio measurements in support of the North American Carbon Program Midcontinental Region intensive.

Co-PI: Projections of land-use change and the carbon cycle: Atmospheric and policy consequences.

Co-PI: Integrating ethics into graduate training in the environmental sciences.

Co-PI: Probabilistic carbon flux upscaling across a northern forest ecoregion.

Co-PI: Data fusion to determine North American sources and sinks of carbon dioxide at high spatial and temporal resolution from 2004 to 2008.