Earth System Science and Modeling

The new web portal provides data on a number of indicators that track the status and trends of seven major marine ecosystems across the United States as well as a national synthesis.

This new research investment will examine why some of the latest models seem to be more sensitive to greenhouse gas forcing.

A study funded by the Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program, published in Nature Scientific Reports, is one of the first to focus on the cumulative effect of small-scale vortices on large-scale transport and distribution of heat, nutrients, and dissolved gases in the ocean.

Researchers funded by CPO’s Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program have developed a new statistical approach that simplifies detecting and describing differences in climate model outputs.

Research funded by the Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) program (i) reveals the physical processes that contribute to tropical cyclones’ larger average size in the western North Pacific vs. the North Atlantic and (ii) simulates Hurricane Irene to study the ocean surface boundary layer underneath the storm.