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	Home Upcoming Events Institutions & Organizations People Bays & Estuaries Reefs, Banks & Islands Environmental Issues General Facts about the Gulf Exploration History Other Online Resources Electronic Books Mexican Coral Reef Species Checklist InfoHub Site Search:		Dr. Rainer Bleck Photo provided by Dr. Bleck Dr. Bleck, a synoptic meteorologist by training, spent the early part of his career developing weather prediction models that use potential temperature (entropy) as vertical coordinate. More recently, Dr. Bleck has extended the isentropic coordinate idea to ocean circulation models. His principal achievement in this area is HYCOM (hybrid coordinate ocean model). He is presently using HYCOM, coupled to the NASA/GISS atmospheric general circulation model, to assess the impact of greenhouse gas accumulation on global climate. Dr. Bleck is also participating at NOAA/ESRL in the development of FIM, an atmospheric model discretized horizontally on a global icosahedral grid and vertically on a hybrid-isentropic coordinate. Institution(s) / Organization(s): NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory Education: M.S. Metereology, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany, 1964 Ph.D. Metereology, Pennsylvania State Univeristy, State College, PA, USA, 1968 Area of Expertise / Interest: Numerical Modeling of Oceans and Atmospheres; Climate Dynamics; Physical Oceanography Telephone: +1 212-678-6031 Fax: +1 212-678-5622 E-mail: bleck@giss.nasa.gov Home Page URL:   http://www.giss.nasa.gov/~rbleck Links to Projects or Publications: Weather prediction using FIM Keywords:   Meteorology, Synoptic, Entropy, Isentropic, Cyclogenesis, Thermocline, Numerical modeling, Ocean, Atmosphere
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