The Center for Climate Systems Research: Interdisciplinary Climate Applications Studies

摘要

The Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) is an official vehicle for the cooperative relationship between Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. CCSR was established in 1994 for the purpose of enhancing the program of interdisciplinary Earth systems research between Columbia and NASA/GISS. The overriding objective of all projects conducted under the auspices of CCSR is to provide an enhanced understanding of the Earth's climate sensitivity and variability, as well as the forcing and feedback mechanisms that control them. The center is especially concerned with aspects of the climate system that have the potential to impact human populations and environmental stability. The 1995 research included the study of warm climates, both past and future, and their effect on ocean circulation patterns and climate change; the analysis of NASA/GISS atmospheric General Circulation Model (GCM) and the Global Climate/Middle Atmosphere Model (GCMAM) with global microwave satellite data and radiative transfer model; and a preliminary version of a new boundary layer model developed for GISS GCM.