NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

Climate Change, Anthropocene, & Associated Issues

Date posted: 12/03/10

NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory was formed to pursue a broad and comprehensive understanding of the Earth system. This system comprises many physical, chemical and biological processes that need to be dynamically integrated to better predict their behavior over scales from local to global and periods of minutes to millennia. At ESRL is working toward a greater stewardship of the Earth through a number of themes aimed at understanding the Earth system processes and changes. Understanding atmospheric mechanisms that drive the Earth's climate. •Aerosols: Climate •Carbon Cycle Science •Radiative Forcing of Climate by Non-CO2 Atmospheric Gases, and •Surface and Planetary Boundary Layer Processes