Dr C Aaron Lai

The Atmospheric and Climate Science Group applies a balanced approach of modeling, analysis, and field experimentation to enhance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics, physics, chemistry and the climate system. My and the Climate Studies Team's researches focus on the global and regional scale ocean, atmospheric and coupled modeling as well as climate data analysis. This is to take full advantage of the world's most powerful massively parallel computers residing at Los Alamos National Lab. We are collaborating with NCAR, NCEP and University of California in various topics including El Nino, North American monsoon, interannual-to-interdecadal climate variations, Antarctic circumpolar waves, etc. We are testing a hypothesis that El Nino is related to Antarctic circumpolar waves. We also investigate, via climate system modeling, the long term global change due to extra-terrestrial and anthropogenic forcings. Los Alamos National Lab is operated by the University of California for the Dept. of Energy.