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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.