Marysa Lague

Marysa Laguë is a climate scientist who studies how the land surface modifies the rest of the coupled Earth system. She studies how changes in the land can drive changes in the both the local atmosphere and the large-scale climate, by modulating fluxes of water and energy between the land and the atmosphere. She develops and uses numerical models of varied complexity to test how individual land-surface properties alter surface fluxes in different regions, and how those changes in turn impact atmospheric dynamics and climate, both locally and in regions far away from the initial land change.