Work at LSCE focuses on three research areas: the study of the mechanisms of natural variability of the climate on different time scales, and the interactions between human activity, the environment and the climate; the study of the processes at work in the cycles of key compounds such as carbon, greenhouse gases and aerosols, which interact with the climate; and geochronology and analysis of geomarkers, based on a range of techniques applied to the study of the past and present geosphere and its relationships with the climate.
LSCE is a laboratory belonging to the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace.