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<\/figure>Ghil is a founder of theoretical climate dynamics, as well as of advanced data assimilation methodology. He has applied systematically dynamical systems theory to planetary-scale flows, atmospheric and oceanic. Ghil has used these methods to proceed from simple flows with high temporal regularity and spatial symmetry to the observed flows, with their complex behavior in space and time. His studies of climate variability on many time scales have used a full hierarchy of models, from the simplest \u2018toy\u2019 models all the way to atmospheric, oceanic and coupled general circulation models. Recently, Ghil has also worked on modeling and data analysis in population dynamics, macroeconomics, and the climate\u2013economy\u2013biosphere system.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Research Interests<\/strong>: Atmosphere & Oceans, Climate, Dynamical & Complex Systems, Economics, Population Dynamics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Summary bibliometrics <\/strong>(18 November 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Web of Science:\u00a0356 indexed publications\u00a0(actual self-count 376),\u00a0h<\/em>-index = 66<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google Scholar: h<\/em>-index = 91 (total) and 44 (since 2020) (Google Scholar profile<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Short CV (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Full Bibliography (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Ghil Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles, USADistinguished Professor (emeritus), Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure, Paris, France Ghil is a founder of theoretical climate dynamics, as well as of advanced data assimilation methodology. He has applied systematically dynamical systems theory to planetary-scale flows, atmospheric and oceanic. Ghil has used these methods to proceed from simple flows…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-landing.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/michael-ghil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/michael-ghil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/michael-ghil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/michael-ghil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/michael-ghil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/michael-ghil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/michael-ghil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atmos.ucla.edu\/michael-ghil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dept.atmos.ucla.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/os_files_small\/public\/researchgate.png?m=1524862579&itok=ALBmMhXx\" "\\"\\"\/")
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