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Earth System Science and Modeling Division

CPO's Earth System Science and Modeling (ESSM) Division supports research to advance understanding of the Earth system.

To understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coasts--so people can protect themselves and their property--we need to understand global patterns and climate variability and change. And to help manage and conserve coastal resources and marine ecosystems, we need to understand and monitor our oceans and coasts.

The ESSM Division is actively building the global and regional scale understanding needed to improve predictions. The program coordinates an array of researchers from federal agencies, national labs, and universities, focusing them on the most pressing climate research necessary to advance NOAA's prediction and other services and applications.

The ESSM Division comprises five programs: Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP), Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP), Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle, & Climate (AC4), Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM), and Earth's Radiation Budget (ERB).

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ESSM News

Important Ocean-Climate Connections from Argo Float Observations and Modeling Study 10 March 2023

Important Ocean-Climate Connections from Argo Float Observations and Modeling Study

A new research study supported by COM, CVP, and GOMO, uses Argo data along with a coupled model to investigate the understudied wintertime formation process of water in the Southern Ocean.

A New Framework for Accurately Representing Tropical and Subtropical Weather and Climate Variability During Summer Along the Mei-Yu Front 10 March 2023

A New Framework for Accurately Representing Tropical and Subtropical Weather and Climate Variability During Summer Along the Mei-Yu Front

A new CVP-funded study presents a new framework to represent climate variability in East Asia.

Improving Model Representation of Western US Water Resources Using Machine Learning 10 March 2023

Improving Model Representation of Western US Water Resources Using Machine Learning

To improve water management in the mountainous western US, COM-supported research presents a hybrid model approach to improve simulations of western water flow using both traditional and machine learning methods.

Women’s History Month 2023: Interview with ERB Program Manager Victoria Breeze 9 March 2023

Women’s History Month 2023: Interview with ERB Program Manager Victoria Breeze

This interview is one of the first in OAR’s 2023 Women’s History Month Campaign, highlighting accomplished women at NOAA working on climate resilience.

Women’s History Month: A Conversation with Victoria Breeze 7 March 2023

Women’s History Month: A Conversation with Victoria Breeze

This article kicks off a series of interviews with NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) employees and CPO-funded scientists in celebration of Women’s History Month.

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Contacts


Division Chief

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Clara Deck
Communications Specialist
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Virginia Selz
Program Manager, Climate Observations and Monitoring Program
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
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Dr. Sandy Lucas
CVP Program Manager
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Jose Algarin
CVP Program Specialist
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Victoria Breeze
Program Manager
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Dr. Greg Frost
Acting Program Manager
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Modeling, Analysis, Predictions & Projections (MAPP)

Dr. Daniel Barrie
Acting MAPP Program Director
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David Benson
MAPP Program Analyst
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Courtney Byrd
MAPP Program Specialist
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Dr. Daniel Barrie
MAPP Program Manager
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Virginia Selz
Federal Liason, CPO
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