Welcome to CIRA's

Climate Research Group

Mean Total Column Water Vapor 1988-1999 From NASA Water Vapor Project (NVAP)

Global and regional climate research has been undertaken at CIRA since the Institute was formed in 1980. Long-term NOAA Office of Global Programs and NASA Earth Science Enterprise sponsored studies of Earth Radiation Budget, Clouds, Water Vapor, and their variability have led to a much better understanding of the inter-relationships of these quantities.

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Current NOAA-sponsored climate-related research in the Atmospheric Science Department at Colorado State University. CIRA's climate research group works in close cooperation with our colleagues in the Atmospheric Science Department.

Topic	Principal ATS Investigator
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project Sector Processing and Analysis	Vonder Haar, Campbell
The Role of Stratocumulus Clouds In Modifying Pollution Plumes Transported to the North American Contintent	Kreidenweis
CO2 Measurements from Space	Stephens, Denning
Interactions of the Monsoon and Anticyclones in the Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean System	Randall, Ringler
The Response of the North American Monsoon to Boundary and Regional Forcing	Pielke, McKee, Liston
Impact of Interactive Vegetation on Predictions of North American Monsoons	Denning,Lu
Examination of the Linkages Between the Northwest Mexican Monsoon and Great Plains Precipitation	Cotton
Monitoring and Modeling Isotopic Exchange Between the Atmosphere and the Terrestrial Biosphere	Denning
Coupling Between Monsoon Convection and Subtropical Highs in the PACS region	Johnson, Schubert
Parameterizing Subgrid-Scale Snow-Cover Heteorogeneities for Use in Regional and Global Climate Models	Liston, Pielke