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Predicting future climate change is a complex process of integrating the results of research on climate processes and historical climate into a large modeling framework. Creating global and regional climate models requires the collaboration of a large group of researchers with a combined knowledge of a wide variety of physical and biological processes. ESI members are developing and using these models to help predict climate scenarios for Texas and the world.

Image: Map showing the temperature (Reds are warmer and blues are cooler) change for the months of June, July and August as predicted by the NCAR climate model. See research of Dr. Liang Yang for more information

 

 

Modeling Research

Charles Jackson
Research Associate
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/charles/index.htm

Research Interests: Dr. Jackson's research interests have the goal of distilling lessons from the history of climate for the purpose of advancing our understanding of the physics of the atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere and their coupling.

Robert B. Scott
Research Associate
http://www.ig.utexas.edu/people/staff/rscott/index.htm

Research Interests: Dr. Scott uses theory, observations, and analytical and numerical models to pursue research in large scale ocean dynamics and climate dynamics. He is interested in theory insofar as it makes predictions that can be observed. Some questions he is interested in are: what aspects of two-dimensional turbulence are present in the real ocean; what drives interannual and longer timescale climate variability;and what data analysis tools are best used to reveal mechanisms of variability.

Liang Yang
Assistant Professor
http://www.geo.utexas.edu/climate

Research Interests: Dr. Yang's current research interests include: Global Change; Climate Modeling; Land-Surface Modeling; Snow Hydrology; Runoff; North American Monsoon; Tropical Deforestation; Interaction of Terrestrial and Atmospheric Hydrological Processes; Flood and Drought; Remote Sensing.