News at ESRLJan 10, 2017: CSD's Anne Perring Receives Presidential Honor Dec 18, 2016: GSD gives NWS's MADIS a significant upgrade Dec 12, 2016: Researchers contribute to special supplement on 'Explaining Extreme Events of 2015 from a Climate Perspective' Dec 7, 2016: 'Micro-Satellites' will use GPS signals to study hurricanes: Launch Dec 12th |
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
Welcome to the Earth System Research Laboratory. ESRL was formed to pursue a broad and comprehensive understanding of the Earth system. This system comprises many physical, chemical and biological processes that need to be dynamically integrated to better predict their behavior over scales from local to global and periods of minutes to millennia.
At ESRL we are working toward a greater stewardship of the Earth through a number of themes aimed at understanding the Earth system processes and changes.
Understanding atmospheric mechanisms that drive the Earth's climate.
- Aerosols: Climate
- Carbon Cycle Science
- Radiative Forcing of Climate by Non-CO2 Atmospheric Gases
- Surface and Planetary Boundary Layer Processes
Assuring the continuing health and restoration of atmospheric resources.
Improving predictions through expanded climate and weather products.
- The Weather-Climate Connection
- Climate and Water Systems
- Regional and Local-scale Assimilation and Modeling
- Global Weather Assimilation and Modeling
- Hydrometeorological Testbed (HMT)