The Physics of Climate and Climate Change

Descripción

The Physics of Climate and Climate Change group (https://igeo.ucm-csic.es/investigacion/departamentos/geologia-sedimentaria-y-cambio-mediambiental/fisica-del-clima-y-cambio-climatico-clima/) is a research group of the CSIC based at IGEO. The mission of the group is to improve the physical understanding of the climate system, its evolution, impacts and the mechanisms responsible for climate variability and change at different temporal and spatial scales, with the vision of advancing the multiple dimensions of climate change and contributing to current societal challenges. The group's activity is summarised in two lines of research based on experimentation and modelling (Figure 1) with the aim of providing an integrated approach to the functioning of the climate system:

- Physics of climate: investigates basic aspects of climate subsystems and their variability (atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, lithosphere, etc.), including internal physical processes and subsystem interactions (ocean-atmosphere, ice-ocean, stratosphere-troposphere, troposphere-lithosphere, etc.) on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, from sub-seasonal to millennial.

- Climate change: studies the evolution of the climate system, including responses to external forcings, to reduce uncertainty and improve the quantification of past, present and future climate changes, their impacts and the explanation of their causes, on scales ranging from paleoclimatic to short- and medium-term future predictions (sub-seasonal to decadal scales) and projections under different climate change scenarios

– Cambio climático: estudia la evolución del sistema climático, incluyendo respuestas a forzamientos externos, para reducir la incertidumbre y mejorar la cuantificación de cambios climáticos en el pasado, presente y futuro, sus impactos y la explicación de sus causas, en escalas que abarcan desde la paloclimática a las predicciones futuras a corto y medio plazo (escalas subestacional a decadal) y las proyecciones en diferentes escenarios de cambio climático.

Currently, the group has 8 permanent researchers with dual affiliation, in addition to a large number of researchers, including postdocs and PhD students, hired through projects and competitive calls. The group collaborates with research groups of the UCM: Stratospheric and Tropospheric REsearch And Modeling (STREAM, https://www.ucm.es/stream/), Paleoclimate Modelling and Analysis (PalMA, https://www.ucm.es/palma), TROPical climate variability and Atmospheric teleconnections (TROPA, http://tropa.fis.ucm.es/) and Micrometeorology and Climate Variability, https://www.ucm.es/grupos/grupo/430)

En la actualidad, el grupo cuenta con 6 investigadores permanentes, además de ~18 investigadores contratados (Tabla 1), que incluyen postdocs y personal en formación, incorporados a través de programas de atracción de talento y recursos propios obtenidos de convocatorias competitivas. El grupo participa y colabora en grupos de investigación de la Universidad complutense de Madrid: Stratospheric and Tropospheric REsearch And Modeling (STREAM), Paleoclimate Modelling and Analysis (PalMA), TROPical climate variability and Atmospheric teleconnections (TROPA) y Micrometeorología y Variabilidad Climática.

Personal investigador

Meabe Yanguas, Nagore n.meabe@igeo.ucm-csic.es

García Maroto, Diego d.garcia@igeo.ucm-csic.es

Arretxea Iriarte, Manuel m.arretxea@igeo.ucm-csic.es

de Maeseneire Martínez, Daniel ddemaese@ucm.es

Coronato, Tanea  tanecoro@ucm.es

Johnson, Juan Emmanuel juanjohn@ucm.es

Suli Silicaro, Solange    s.suli@igeo.ucm-csic.es

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