UCLA is a world-class centre for weather and climate research. Over the past 40 years, UCLA researchers have made historic contributions to our understanding of the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere and oceans, teleconnections between weather regimes all over the globe, and the development of techniques to simulate weather and climate. This strong tradition of excellence continues today. Whether it be studying the dynamics of a single giant tornado, the coming and going of El Nino, or the changing climate of the modern era and the next century, weather and climate research at UCLA are distinguished by its focus on the theoretical underpinnings and observational tools necessary to understand all aspects of our atmosphere and oceans. UCLA researchers are world leaders in many areas, including theories of climate and weather dynamics, the development and application of numerical models of the atmosphere and oceans, and techniques to convert remotely-sensed data into useful climate and weather information.
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Alex Hall
Professor
Gang Chen
Professor
Janine Ann Baijnath-Rodino
Adjunct Assistant Professor / Director of Meteorology
Marcelo Chamecki
Professor
Jonathan Mitchell
Professor
David Neelin
Professor
Rong Fu
Professor
Yue Dong
Assistant Professor
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Alex Chang
PhD Student
Research Interests: Climate extremes, droughts, tropical cyclones, atmospheric rivers, climate modeling, wildfires
Andrea Nguyen
PhD Student
Research Interests: Effects of climate change on the photochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems
Cameron Petrusevski
MS Student
Research Interests: Science communication, space weather, meteorology, climate change with severe weather events Email: ccp0401@g.ucla.edu
Stephen Cropper
PhD Student
Research Interests: Heat extremes and heat stress, regional climate dynamics and modeling
David Moore
PhD Student
Research Interests: Formation and interaction of tropical cyclones inside and outside Earth-like environments, atmospheric modeling of Titan-like environments
Julia Bigwood
PhD Student
Research Interests: Photosynthetic efficiency, quantifying gross primary production, and the global carbon cycle
Kira Fish
PhD Student
Research Interests: Coral reefs, biomineralization, climate change, paleoceanography
Ling-Yi Celeste (Ling) Tsiang
PhD Student
Research Interests: Air quality research, with an emphasis on instrumentation and environmental justice
Robert Dellinger
PhD Student
Research Interests: Interactive effects of anthropogenic change on marine ecosystems under future climate scenarios, such as ocean acidification and warming Email: rjdellinger@ucla.edu
Surabhi Biyani
PhD Student
Research Interests: Climate change, atmospheric rivers, extreme precipitation
Flor Vanessa Maciel
PhD Student
Research Interests: Aerosol-cloud interactions, specifically on how dust acts as an ice-nucleating particle and influences the formation of mixed-phase and cirrus clouds.
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Chad Thackeray
Assistant Researcher
Dmitri Kondrashov
Research Scientist
Mickael Chekroun
Researcher