Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, College of Engineering, University of Michigan

Climate, Climate Modeling & Climate Change

Climate research at AOSS is rapidly growing and covers a broad range of topics, including: global and regional climate modeling for present-day and future climate scenarios, the development of new dynamical cores and adaptive grids, the integration of satellite products into climate models, the improvement of physical processes in climate models, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, ice-atmosphere interactions, and chemistry-climate interactions. High performance computing facilities are available to faculty and students to facilitate this research. We have a number of cross-campus projects that integrate climate modeling with other fields, including public health, business, geology, ecology, and public policy.

Faculty

• Natasha Andronova
• Jeremy Bassis
• Mark Flanner
• Xianglei Huang
• Christiane Jablonowski
• Joyce Penner
• Derek Posselt
• Richard (Ricky) Rood
• Allison Steiner

Related Web Sites

• Radiative transfer and climate change (Prof. Huang)
• Regional climate modeling (Prof. Steiner)
• Atmospheric Dynamics Modeling Group (Prof. Jablonowski)
• Engineering Climate Change
• Carbon cycle and inverse modeling (Prof. Michalak’s research group)
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)