Climate change dynamics researches the physical processes that determine our climate as well as providing insight into how and why the climate changes. This is an enormous topic and covers spatial scales from cloud particles, with radii of microns, to large-scale atmospheric waves, with length scales of thousands of kilometers. Topics studied in the department include the physics of convection, climate variability, feedback physics, climate sensitivity, climate extremes, and regional modeling.
Faculty
Kenneth Bowman
- David Bullock Harris Professor of Geosciences
- Research Professor
- Office: Eller O&M 1014A
- Phone: (979) 862-4060
- Email: k-bowman@tamu.edu
Andrew Dessler
- Director, Texas Center for Climate Studies
- Professor
- Office: Eller O&M 1210B
- Phone: 979-862-1427
- Email: adessler@tamu.edu
R. Saravanan
- Department Head
- Professor
- Office: Eller O&M 1204GA
- Phone: (979) 845-0175
- Email: sarava@tamu.edu
Yangyang Xu
- Associate Professor
- Office: Eller O&M 1210H
- Phone: (979) 845-8076
- Email: yangyang.xu@tamu.edu
John Nielsen-Gammon
- Texas State Climatologist; Director, Southern Regional Climate Center
- Regents Professor
- Office: Eller O&M 1205C
- Phone: (979) 862-2248
- Email: n-g@tamu.edu
Gerald R. North
- University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
- W. J. Haynes Chair (Inaugural holder)
- Office: Eller O&M 1205B
- Phone: (979) 845-8077
- Email: g-north@tamu.edu
Ping Chang
- Professor
- Louis & Elizabeth Scherck Chair in Oceanography
- Office: Eller O&M 624
- Phone: (979) 845-8196
- Email: ping@tamu.edu
