She is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research where she leads the Climate Analysis Section.
[3] She was a postdoctoral fellow with Maurice Blackmon at the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, and joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1997.
[3] In 2016 Clara Deser had partnered with Benjamin Sanderson and used two existing sets of model simulations to investigate what future summers might look like.
By using those models they predicted that the summers from 2061 to 2080 will be the hottest on record if the carbon emissions will continue to rise.
[4] In 2018 she praised James Hansen's prediction on global temperature forecast calling it "incredible" and "astounding".