The overall direction of this research is toward increased understanding of interactive processes in the Earth's physical environment and the development of a more coherent picture of its sensitivities to natural and anthropogenic change. The carbon dioxide greenhouse effect is a continuing source of research problems, and one of the most pressing problems is how to determine the onset of a theoretically predicted warming. Both of these topics receive considerable attention from CIRES researchers.
Allen Jordan
Allen has a B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Metropolitan State University of Denver, graduating summa cum laude in 2008. He started working at NOAA as a high school student in 2002 and continued as a student until being hired full time after college. He has worked for the OZWV and GRAD divisions designing/building/repairing weather balloon and solar radiation instruments and writing scientific software and microcontroller firmware. Allen has been a coauthor of over 20 peer-reviewed publications and first author of a NOAA technical memorandum.
Konstantinos Horaites
I am a space physicist in the NCEI magnetometer group. I work with in-situ measurements made by several current and upcoming satellites. My areas of interest include: kinetic physics, electrons, space weather, spacecraft charging, and planetary magnetosheaths.
