Charles is a member of the Jackson School's program in Climate Systems Science. For more information about this program visit the CSS website.

Charles is interested in the dynamics of a changing climate and how we can gain confidence in model predictions of change given the inherit uncertainites in observational and proxy data and the numerical models of the climate system. 

Specifically, Charles is working on testing hypotheses concerning the origin of abrupt climate change during the last ice age and quantifying the likelihood that Greenland melt could trigger a similar event in the future. Charles is also working with geophysicists and statisticians to develop tools of stochastic inversion for quantifying uncertainties in inferences from data and/or numerical models. These tools are being applied to quantify sources of uncertainty in general circulation model predictions of global warming. Charles is also engaged in work related to evaluating large-scale processes affecting uncertaintines in regional predictions of change.

Charles's research program has been highlighted at the UT Texas Advanced Computing Center.

For a description of the Institute for Geophysics Climate Program see UTIG Climate Projects.

For a list of other opportunities see this link.

For more information on Jackson's interests:

• Abrupt Climate Change

• Uncertainties in Model Predictions of Future Climate

• Bayesian Stochastic Inversion

The climate program at UTIG is supported, in part, by the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Current Research Projects
Collaborative Research: Collaborative Research: An Inverse Model Study of Abrupt Climate Change

Collaborative Research: Stochastic Represetation of Parameter Uncertainties Within Model Predictions of Future Climate

Uncertainty in the Climate Modeling Process and Its Implications for Predictions of Global Warming and Water Resources

Student Involvement

Recent Publications

Jackson, C. S. 2009: Use of Bayesian Inference and Data to Improve Simulations of Multi-physics Climate Phenomena. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 180 doi:10.1088/1742-6596/180/1/012029 [pdf]

Villagran, A., G. Huerta, C. S. Jackson, M. K. Sen (2008) Parameter Uncertainty Estimation in Climate Models. Bayesian Analysis 3(4), 823-850. DOI:10.1214/08-BA331 [pdf]

Jackson, C. S., M. K. Sen, G. Huerta, Y. Deng, and K. P. Bowman (2008) Error Reduction and Convergence in Climate Prediction. Journal of Climate, 21(24), 6698-6709. DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2112.1 [pdf]

Marchal O., Jackson C., Nilsson J., Paul A., and Stocker T. F., Buoyancy-driven flow and nature of vertical mixing in a zonally averaged model, in "Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts ", A. Schmittner, J. C.H. Chiang, and S. R. Hemming (editors), American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, Geophysical Monograph 173, 33-52, 2007. [pdf]

Gulden, L.E., E. Rosero, Z.-L. Yang, M. Rodell, C.S. Jackson, G.-Y. Niu, P. J.-F. Yeh, and J. Famiglietti, (2007), Improving land-surface model hydrology: Is an explicit aquifer model better than a deeper soil profile? Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L09402, doi:10.1029/2007GL029804. [pdf]

Deng, Y., K. P. Bowman, and C. Jackson (2007), Differences in rain rate intensities between TRMM observations and community atmosphere model simulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L01808, doi:10.1029/2006GL027246. [pdf]

Jackson, C. S., M. K. Sen, P. L. Stoffa, and G. Huerta. "Data Directed Importance Sampling for Climate Model Parameter Uncertainty Estimation". Chapter in "Advanced Computational Infrastructures for Parallel and Distributed Adaptive Applications", John Wiley and Sons, in press. [pdf]

Jackson, C.S. Quaternary Environments (2006), In: S. A. Elias (ed) Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (4 volumes, 3376 pp). Elsevier, Amsterdam. [pdf]

Jackson, C., Y. Liu, and O. Marchal (2006) Can Models of Abrupt Climate Change be tested from Sea Level Reconstructions? PAGES NEWS, 14(2). [pdf]

Hall, A., A. Clement, D. Thompson, A. Broccoli, C. Jackson (2005) Atmospheric dynamics govern northern hemisphere wintertime climate variations forced by changes in earth’s orbit, Journal of Climate 18: 1315-1325 [pdf]

Mu, Q., C. S. Jackson, P. L. Stoffa (2004) A multivariate empirical-orthogonal-function-based measure of climate model performance,  J. Geophys. Res., 109, D15101, doi:10.1029/2004JD004584. [pdf]

Jackson, C., M. Sen, and P. Stoffa (2004) An Efficient Stochastic Bayesian Approach to Optimal Parameter and Uncertainty Estimation for Climate Model Predictions, Journal of Climate, 17(14), 2828-2841. [pdf]

Xia, Y., M. K. Sen, C. Jackson, and P. L. Stoffa (2004) Multi-dataset study of optimal parameter and uncertainty estimation of a land surface model with Bayesian Stochastic Inversion and multicriteria method, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 43 (10): 1477-1497.

Xia, Y., Z. L. Yang, C. Jackson, P. L. Stoffa, and M. K. Sen (2004) Impacts of data length on optimal parameter and uncertainty estimation of a land surface model, Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, D07101,doi:10.1029/2003JD004419. [pdf]

Xia, Y., P. L. Stoffa, C. Jackson, and M. Sen (2004) Effect of forcing data errors on calibration and uncertainty estimates of CHASM model: a multi-dataset study. Observations, Theory, and Modeling of Atmospheric and Oceanic Variability, World Scientific Series on Meterology of East Asia, Vol. 4, World Scientific Publishing Corporation, Singapore.

Jackson, C., Y. Xia, M. Sen, and P. Stoffa (2003) Optimal parameter and uncertainty estimation of a land surface model: A case example using data from Cabauw, Netherlands, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108 (D18), 4583 10.1029/2002JD002991. [pdf]

Jackson, C., and A. J. Broccoli (2003) Orbital Forcing of Arctic Climate: Mechanisms of climate response and implications for continental glaciation, Climate Dynamics, 21, 539-557, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-003-0351-3. [pdf

Jackson, C., and A.J. Broccoli (2000) The influence of orbital configuration on Arctic glaciation, Proceedings of the third Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) Workshop, WCRP-111, 177-178.

Jackson, C. (2000) Sensitivity of stationary wave amplitude to regional changes in Laurentide ice sheet topography in single-layer models of the atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 105 (D19), 24443-24454. [pdf]

Jackson, C. (1999) Sensitivity of stationary wave amplitude to regional changes in Laurentide ice sheet topography, Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Time Scales, AGU Geophysical Monograph Vol. 112, Eds. P. Clark, R. Webb and L. Keigwin, 329-337.

Jackson, C. (1997) Sensitivity of a two-layer model atmosphere to changes in ice-sheet topography, Annals of Glaciology, 25, 246-249.

Roelofs, L.D, and C. Jackson (1993) Critical and finite-size behavior of the Heisenberg model with face-centered-cubic anisotropy. Phys. Rev. B 47, 197-201. [pdf]

Charles's UTIG Contributions (Publications)