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.
Barry Eakins
- Scientific and legal analysis of the outer limits of continental shelves
- Development and evaluation of high-resolution, integrated bathymetric–topographic digital elevation models (DEMs)
- Impact of DEM gridding techniques and elevation uncertainty on tsunami inundation modeling results
- Evolution of oceanic volcanic islands, particularly their growth and collapse through submarine landslides
- Structure and formation of oceanic rifted margins, and evolution of accreting plate-boundaries
Xinzhao Chu
My research goal is to explore unknowns in the atmosphere, space, and beyond. My group works to explore advanced spectroscopy principles and develop new lidar technologies to push detection limits and make new discoveries. By making measurements with unprecedented accuracy, resolution, and coverage, we study the fundamental physical and chemical processes that govern the structures and dynamics of the whole atmosphere, and advance the understanding of the universal processes in the Earth’s space-atmosphere interaction region and how they shape the atmospheres of Earth-like planets.
Stephen Montzka
I am currently a Research Chemist at NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory in Boulder Colorado.
