Center for Earth Systems Research (CESR)
CESR is part of the Institute for Geophysics
and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA. Its members--Profs. Michael
Ghil, James McWilliams (Center Head), David Neelin, and Richard Turco,
together with their research associates in the IGPP, the Department of Atmospheric
Sciences and the Institute of the Environment--have primary
research interests 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 a comprehensive
numerical modeling capability 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.
Members of CESR
Faculty:
M. Ghil,
J. McWilliams,
D. Neelin,
R. Turco
Visiting Faculty:
W. B. Cottingame
H. Dijkstra
H. Mukougawa,
P. Yiou
Researchers:
A. Adcroft,
P. Berloff,
C. Chou,
K. Ide,
R. Kinney,
S. Legg,
R. Lin,
R. Lu,
C.-C. Ma,
H. Parish,
A. Robertson,
A. Shchepetkin,
R. Tailleux,
F. Varadi,
M. I. Venkatesan,
W. M. Weibel,
A. Wirth,
N. Zeng,
X.-P. Zhao
Graduate Students:
H. M. Cox,
B. Gallegos,
J. Gao,
S. George,
P. Graves,
N. Jiang,
N. Keyantash,
S. Koo,
J. Lin,
P. J. Paysant,
J. Redemann,
J. Sabutis,
A. Saunders,
H.-H. Syu,
Y.-D. Tian,
W.-J. Weng,
F.-Q. Yu
Phone and Mail Directory
For more information about the Center for Earth Systems Research
contact: James C. McWilliams, Dept. of Atmos. Sciences/IGPP, UCLA, 405
Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1565, (310)206-2829,
jcm@atmos.ucla.edu.