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Oceans and Atmosphere

Oceans and Atmosphere

Section Head: Bruce Cornuelle

The Oceans and Atmosphere Section at Scripps is made up of approximately 70 academics and their staff from four divisions: the Center for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), the Climate Research Division (CRD), Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL), and the Physical Oceanography Research Division (PORD). Research topics involve many aspects of the atmosphere-land-ocean system, from climate timescales down to daily forecasts and analysis, and from global scales to small-scale turbulence. In addition to the physics of the earth system, the section includes researchers who study acoustic communication, marine mammals, ecosystem dynamics, geochemistry, and geology.

Research Topics

  • The physics and chemistry of aerosols and clouds, and their effects on climate models and predictions.
  • Observations of the ocean state, ongoing changes, and the processes that control them, supplemented with theoretical investigations of the simplest representative systems.
  • Global and regional modeling of the ocean, atmosphere, land, and coupled systems to understand the system as it is today and to predict the changes it will undergo.
  • Impacts of physical variations and changes on ecosystems and humans.
  • Instrument and technology development for new observing systems, including remote sensing and satellite missions.

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