104B Oceanography

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

NY

10964-8000

US

Phone: 

(845) 365-8669

kushnir@ldeo.columbia.edu

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Using observations and climate model output, I study the physics, impact, and predictability of climate variability on interannual to decadal time scales. This includes research on phenomena such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the interannual variability of tropical Atlantic climate (TAV), and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and of their impacts on variations of temperature, raifall, and storminess around the world.

Currently, I also act as the Director of the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR, see http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/cicar). The institute administers most of the NOAA funded research at Columbia University, in particular, the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. CICAR seek to “evaluates, understands, and predicts climate variability and change through the collection and analysis of modern and paleoclimate data and the use of Earth System models. We provide climate information to society through education and the development of applications and tools for assessing climate-related risks.”