“David Neelin, UCLA professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, is leading a new multi-institutional research project that has been awarded a $1.63 million grant by NOAA Research’s MAPP Program to create a one-stop shop of diagnostic tools for scientists to help streamline the process for improving their weather and climate models. “Diagnostics” refers to finding the best way to analyze observations and make sure every step of the physical process is well understood and represented in the scientific models”.