Physical-Biological Model for the Gulf of Maine
A few of the specific goals presently pursued are:
(1) To understand the dynamic interactions between different components of the climate system.
(2) To assess the role of large ice sheets in climate change during glacial times.
(3) To quantify the magnitude of climate variability as a function of frequency in order to better understand the feedbacks and forcing functions relevant to climate change across the spectrum of time scales ranging from interannual to millennial.
(4) study how physical and biological processes contribute to the carbon cycle, and how the biological pump transfers carbon into the deep ocean.
Faculty
Fei Chai, Jim Fastook, Terry Hughes, Kirk Maasch, Paul Mayewski
Research
A brief selection of Instititute climate modeling activities follows:
Did the Laurentide Ice Sheet Control Abrupt Climate Change?
Terry Hughes, Jim Fastook
Decadal - Millennial Scale Climate Change
Kirk Maasch, Paul Mayewski
A Coupled Physical-Biological Model for the Gulf of Maine
Huijie Xue, Fei Chai, and Neal Pettigrew
The one-dimensional upper ocean ecosystem model developed for the central and eastern Pacific Ocean
Fei Chai