Climate and Global Change Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Other Geophysial Fluids The Paleogeographic Atlas Project High Pressure Geophysics Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Paleontology and Evolution Other Departments and Related Institutions Affiliated Centers

The physics of climate of the Earth and other planets offers a wide variety of deeply intriguing and challenging problems. The aim of the Center is to provide a congenial home for investigators thinking about such puzzles. We are interested in the full panopy of climate problems, from global warming to Neo-proterozoic glaciation to Martian paleoclimate. Because of the complex, nonlinear and interacting nature of the climate system, models play an important role in the subject. In our view, the term "model" includes everything from chalkboard explorations to full atmosphere- ocean general circulation models, with a variety of simplified models in between. Most explorations are computer-assisted in one way or another, and there is a need for a climate system modeling framework which makes it easier to construct models for testing novel hypotheses about climate phenomena.

Website: http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~rtp1/itr/