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CESR is part
of the Institute for Geophysics
and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA. Its members--Profs. Michael Ghil, Nicolas Gruber,
James McWilliams (Center Head), David Neelin, and Richard Turco, together
with their research associates and students in the IGPP, the Department of Atmospheric
Sciences and the Institute
of the Environment --conduct research in the physics and biogeochemistry
of the Earth's atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans. In addition, CESR is a
base for broad, cooperative effort to develop, test, and apply comprehensive
numerical modeling capabilities for the Earth's climate--for periods extending
over previous millennia, the present, and the coming centuries of anthropogenically
induced changes.
Among the projects carried
out in CESR are the following research topics: the atmospheric and oceanic
general circulations; geophysical fluid dynamics; natural variability of
climate on sub-annual, interannual (e.g., El Niño), decadal, and
centennial time scales; climatic effects of volcanic and anthropogenic aerosols;
greenhouse gases and radiation; stratospheric ozone depletion; tropospheric
organic and sulfur chemistry; oceanic ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles;
paleoclimatic variability; sea ice and glaciers; assimilation of observations
into models; and Southern California regional climate and its impacts on
society.
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