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CESR is part
of the Institute for Geophysics
and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCLA. Its members--Profs. Michael Ghil, James McWilliams (Director), and David Neelin together
with their research associates and students in the IGPP, the Department of Atmospheric
and Oceanic Sciences, and the Institute
of the Environment--conduct research in the physics and biogeochemistry
of Earth's atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans. In addition, CESR is a
base for broad, cooperative efforts to model numerically Earth's
climate and oceans--for periods extending
over previous millennia, the present, and the coming centuries of anthropogenically-induced changes.
The projects carried
out in CESR include 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; oceanic ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles;
paleoclimatic variability; sea ice and glaciers; assimilation of observations
into models; and regional coastal oceans.
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