Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

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Scientists & Volunteers To Assess Water Quality Throughout Rocky Mountain National Park >>>	Power Plants Help Scientists Track Urban Pollution From Space >>>	Future Of Western Water Supply Threatened By Climate Change >>>

Cryospheric and polar processes Arctic climate Ice sheets and glaciers Snow cover & snow hydrology Permafrost	Weather and climate dynamics Atmosphere—ocean interactions Tropical convection Connecting climate & weather El Niño
Environmental chemistry Climate forcing Air quality Stratospheric ozone	Ecosystem science Water quality Regional & global disturbances Land-atmosphere exchanges
Environmental observations, modeling, & forecasting Remote sensing, Global climate modeling Carbon/greenhouse gas measurements Geophysical data stewardship	Solid earth sciences Geochemistry of mountains Crustal deformation & mantle dynamics Landscape evolution & climate Gravity from space