Investigating the factors that affect Earth’s climate
Probing the fundamental building blocks of the climate system
Environmental and Climate research at Brookhaven National Lab is focused on aerosol chemistry and microphysics, aerosol related infrastructure, climate and process modeling, cloud processes, data management and software engineering, terrestrial ecosystems, meteorological services, and tracer technologies.
Aerosol Chemistry and Microphysics
Focused on improving process-level understanding of aerosol formation and evolution mechanisms, aerosol absorption, and the direct and indirect influences that aerosols have on clouds, precipitation and climate.
Aerosol Related Infrastructure
Provides measurement capabilities to the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program for long-term measurements of aerosols and their precursors across a global network of ground- and aircraft-based locations.
Climate and Process Modeling
Uses multi-scale process modeling and observational analyses to understand the processes essential to clouds, precipitation, land-atmosphere interactions, and urban impacts.
Cloud Processes
Seeks to improve understanding of microphysical and dynamical processes that impact the lifecycle of clouds to improve their representation in climate models.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Technology
Seeks to improve the representation of ecosystem processes in Earth System Models in order to increase our ability to understand and project global change.
Tracer Technologies
The Tracer Technology Group uses perfluorocarbon tracers as a tool for understanding the processes that transport air, heat, water, and pollutants.
Technology Development and Applications and Meteorological Services
Responsible for the maintenance, calibration, data collection and data archiving for the weather instrumentation network associated with BNL's atmospheric dispersion concerns.
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Upcoming Seminars
- OCT5Thursday
Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar
Advancing the understanding of cloud microphysics using (ultra) high resolution radar
Zeen Zhu, BNL
Thursday, October 5, 2023, 11 a.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
- OCT12Thursday
Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar
Aerosol-cloud interactions in marine warm clouds and implications for Marine Cloud Brightening: On the importance of covarying meteorology and spatiotemporal scales
Jianhao Zhang, NOAA CSL/CIRES, China
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 11 a.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
- OCT19Thursday
Environmental & Climate Sciences Department Seminar
To Be Announced
Alla Zelenyuk-Imre, PNNL
Thursday, October 19, 2023, 11 a.m., Large Conference Room, Bldg. 490
The Environmental and Climate Sciences Department is part of the Laboratory's Environment, Biology, Nuclear Science & Nonproliferation Directorate.
