Earth System Science and Modeling Division

CPO's Earth System Science and Modeling (ESSM) Division supports research to advance understanding of the Earth system.

To understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts--so people can protect themselves and their property--we need to understand global patterns and climate variability and change. And to help manage and conserve coastal resources and marine ecosystems, we need to understand and monitor our oceans and coasts.

The ESSM Division is actively building the global and regional scale understanding needed to improve predictions. The program coordinates an array of researchers from federal agencies, national labs, and universities, focusing them on the most pressing climate research necessary to advance NOAA's prediction and other services and applications.

The ESSM Division comprises five programs: Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP), Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP), Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, & Climate (AC4), Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM), and Earth's Radiation Budget (ERB).

ESSM News

Quantifying Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Understanding Air Quality Impacts from Fire Activity 24 March 2023

Quantifying Sulfur Dioxide Emissions and Understanding Air Quality Impacts from Fire Activity

A team of researchers use observations from FIREX-AQ to quantify sulfur dioxide emissions from wildfires and agricultural burns across the western US to understand how regional and long-range air quality can be affected, in a new research study supported by AC4.

24 March 2023

Comparisons of Atmospheric Measurement Instruments to Enable Urban Methane Research

AC4-supported research team provides an essential evaluation of laser-based analyzing instruments needed to investigate sources and impacts of atmospheric methane emissions in cities affected by COVID-19 shutdowns.

Deepening Our Understanding of Pacific Decadal-Scale Climate Variability 24 March 2023

Deepening Our Understanding of Pacific Decadal-Scale Climate Variability

A CVP-supported scientist contributes to a new review synthesizing decadal-scale climate variability in the tropical Pacific and offering a new perspective of how modes interact and how air-sea interactions drive variability.

A New Long-Term Dataset Combines Ocean and Weather Data on the Oregon Coast 24 March 2023

A New Long-Term Dataset Combines Ocean and Weather Data on the Oregon Coast

More than two decades of oceanographic and meteorological data shedding light on upwelling processes off the coast of Oregon is compiled and made public for the first time by an Oregon State University team of scientists supported by a COM-MAPP-CSI collaboration

Important Ocean-Climate Connections from Argo Float Observations and Modeling Study 10 March 2023

Important Ocean-Climate Connections from Argo Float Observations and Modeling Study

A new research study supported by COM, CVP, and GOMO, uses Argo data along with a coupled model to investigate the understudied wintertime formation process of water in the Southern Ocean.

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Contacts


Division Chief

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Clara Deck
Communications Specialist
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Virginia Selz
Program Manager, Climate Observations and Monitoring Program
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)

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Dr. Sandy Lucas
CVP Program Manager
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Jose Algarin
CVP Program Specialist
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Victoria Breeze
Program Manager
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Dr. Greg Frost
Acting Program Manager
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Dr. Daniel Barrie
Acting MAPP Program Director
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David Benson
MAPP Program Analyst
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Courtney Byrd
MAPP Program Specialist
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Dr. Daniel Barrie
MAPP Program Manager
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Virginia Selz
Federal Liason, CPO
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