Weather and Climate Dynamics Division
Connecting climate and weather research
Traditionally, the atmospheric sciences have treated weather and climate separately. At CIRES, we're moving toward a more unified study of these processes. We want to know how climate variations influence weather events and how weather patterns affect climate. We've already observed that weather events can shift the path of the jet stream and that changes in sea-surface temperatures influence hurricane intensity. By further studying these connections across time scales, our researchers hope to improve long-term weather-climate forecasting abilities, especially for extreme events like droughts, floods, wildfires, and hurricanes.
