VIMS professor to serve U.N. climate-modeling group  Dr.
Marjorie Friedrichs of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science,
College of William and Mary, will join experts from 20 other
countries to provide guidance to the United Nations concerning
the computer models that are used to project the magnitude and
rate of future climate change.  Marjorie FriedrichsFriedrichs
and 60 other model-comparison and climate-modeling experts will
meet in late January in Boulder, Colorado as part of an effort
by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The
IPCC was established in 1989 by the U.N. and the World
Meteorological Organization to provide policymakers with
periodic updates on climate-change science.  The goal of the
modeling-experts group is to create benchmarks for testing
climate-model accuracy, and to draw up methods for combining the
many different climate models and projections that have been
developed at climate centers around the world.  The group's work
is an important step in the publication of