About the photo: 2003 Summer Solstice. Provided by NOAA through the Earth Science Picture of the Day web site.
Robert Jacob
My research primarily involves the Earth's climate: how it functions and how it changes. I have a particular interest in what role the ocean has in controlling variability in the Earth's climate. This has led me to work on ocean and coupled climate models and conduct research into the computational, mathematical and theoretical issues involved in their construction.Currently I'm working on
- Parallel Analysis Tools and New Visualization Techniques for Ultra-Large Climate Data Sets I'm leading a multi-lab project to build new climate analysis tools that can handle terabyte and larger datasets coming from climate models.
- The Model Coupling Toolkit. I'm the co-developer with Jay Larson of the Fortran90 toolkit for constructing coupled models. MCT is the basis of the coupler for the Community Climate System Model/Community Earth System Model.
- In the Climate Science for a Sustainable Energy Future project I'm developing the next generation of MCT.
- The Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model. I'm the lead developer of this fully coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model.
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