The Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) is a center of excellence performing interdisciplinary research in ocean-atmosphere-land-ice interactions to increase our understanding of the physical, social, and economic consequences of climate variability. COAPS scientists and students come from a wide range of disciplines, including meteorology, physical oceanography, statistics, and the computer and information sciences.
News:
Climate Scenarios: A Florida-Centric View
COAPS assistant professor Vasu Misra is the principal author on this new white paper discussing climate scenarios for Florida. Mark Powell, a NOAA scientist stationed at COAPS, is a contributing author.
COAPS Student Honors
Congratulations to (from left): Daniel Gilford for his American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowship; Paul Hughes for his Jim and Sheila O'Brien Graduate Fellowship; Nick Lopez for his NOAA Hollings Scholarship; Rochelle Worsnop for her National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship; and Olmo Zavala-Romero for his Excellence Award in Information Management at FSU DigiTech 2012!
Evidence: The State of the Climate
This report from the UK Met Office's Hadley Centre shows that the evidence of global warming has continued to grow in the three years since the last IPCC report - and during 2010 in particular.
Other News
- COAPS director Dr. Eric Chassignet receives FSU Distinguished Research Professor Award
FSU's Distinguished Research Professor Award is the third highest faculty award at Florida State. Dr. Chassignet received the award at the Faculty Awards Ceremony April 9. - Assistant professor Dr. Zhaohua Wu receives funding for climate research
Dr. Wu has been awarded $396,805 from the National Science Foundation to lead a 3-year project titled "Temporal-spatial evolutions of low-frequency climate variability and warming trend." Dr. Wu is also receiving $266,028 as part of a 3-year NASA project titled "Integration of the NASA CAMVis and Multiscale Analysis Package (CAMVis-MAP) for tropical cyclone climate study," which is being conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Maryland and NASA. - Experts at FSU have been conducting research on the BP oil spill's impact (Tallahassee Democrat)
- Spring 2012 COAPS newsletter
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