IPSL Labs

The Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales is a new research unit, created on January 1st, 2009, gathering former activities developed by Service d'Aéronomie and by more than half of Centre d'étude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires. LATMOS is part of Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de l'UVSQ.

Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques studies the earth atmosphere (atmospheric pollution and climate), the connexion between astrobiology and planetology and the question of the evolution of organic matter towards complex molecular structures, in various planetary environments.

The Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique mainly studies climate, pollution and the atmosphere of planets using both theoretical approaches, instrumental development for observation and numerical modelisation. It is a leader on the research about dynamical and physical processes to study and forecast the meteorological and climatic phenomena.

Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentation et Approches Numériques studies ocean in a wide range of spatial scales and the role of ocean on climate variability. LOCEAN recently initiated studies on climatic variability and society relationships interacting with other communities (agronomy, economy, health).

Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire pour l'Atmosphère et l'Astrophysique main research field is study of molecular physics and its applications on atmosphere, astrophysics and planetology.

Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement aims to understand climate evolution at all time scales and to predict the changes our planet will have to face in the next decades and centuries because of the fast increase in greenhouse effect gazes.