Awarded the 4th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, physicist Isaac Held discusses in this interview how climate models allow us to understand large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns and predict climate evolution in a rapidly warming world. Held explains his fundamental contributions to atmospheric dynamics, from the behavior of winds and jet streams to the mechanisms that regulate the distribution of heat and humidity. He also reflects on the challenges of improving climate projections and the importance of integrating theory, observation, and numerical modeling. His insights underscore the value of basic science in anticipating risks and guiding climate change policy.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Climate Change goes in this fourth edition to Isaac Meyer Held, for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to our understa
Awarded the 4th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, physicist Isaac Held discusses in this interview how climate models allow us to understand large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns and predict climate evolution in a rapidly warming world. Held explains his fundamental contributions to atmospheric dynamics, from the behavior of winds and jet streams to the mechanisms that regulate the distribution of heat and humidity. He also reflects on the challenges of improving climate projections and the importance of integrating theory, observation, and numerical modeling. His insights underscore the value of basic science in anticipating risks and guiding climate change policy.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Climate Change goes in this fourth edition to Isaac Meyer Held, for his fundamental and pioneering contributions to our understanding of the structure of atmospheric circulation systems and the role of water vapor – the most important greenhouse gas – in climate change.
00:00 Introduction
00:22 How did you receive the news that you had been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award?
00:40 You have studied the physical causes that distinguish climatic differences around the world. What do we know for certain about the evolution of patterns as a consequence of climate change?
01:36 Your work is distinguished by including the role of water in climate change. What exactly does that imply, and how does it manifest itself?
02:58 Your studies predict a significant climate change in the Mediterranean Sea area. What would this change of magnitude entail?
