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Climate Diagnostics

Research Staff Ngar-Cheung Lau ( Group Head )	Visiting Scientist Baijun Tian
Meteorologist John Lanzante Mary Jo Nath Jeff Ploshay	Physical Scientist Brian J. Soden Francis Tam

To determine and evaluate the physical processes by which the earth's climate and the atmospheric and oceanic general circulations are maintained in the mean, and by which they change from year to year and from decade to decade, using all available observations.
To compare results of observational studies with similar diagnostic studies of model atmospheres and model oceans developed at GFDL and thereby develop a feedback to enhance understanding in both areas.

From the latest annual report

Geophysical Fluid
Dynamics Laboratory