Research interests
The research areas below include links
to sample papers in each area.
Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
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El Niño/Southern oscillation
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Midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interaction
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Climate variations on interannual and longer time scales
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Monsoon theory as a problem in ocean-atmosphere-land interaction
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Thermohaline circulation-atmosphere interaction
Sea-ice-ocean interaction
Land-surface climate interaction
Tropical atmospheric dynamics for tropical climate problems
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Interaction between moist convection and large-scale motions
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Convective margins
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Moist teleconnections
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Tropical precipitation change under global warming
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Intraseasonal oscillations
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Stochastic moist convection
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Hurricanes & mesoscale convective systems
Hierarchical ocean-atmosphere-land modeling
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Hybrid coupled models
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Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Models (QTCMs)
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Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction:
Midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interaction
Selected links to abstracts and paper downloads.
Weng, W., and J. D. Neelin, 1998:
On the role of ocean-atmosphere
interaction in midlatitude interdecadal variability.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 167-170.
Weng, W., and J. D. Neelin, 1999:
Analytical prototypes for
ocean-atmosphere ineraction at midlatitudes. Part I:
Coupled feedbacks as multiplicative noise stochastic forcing.
J Climate, 12, 697-721.
Weng, W., and J. D. Neelin, 1999:
Analytical prototypes for
ocean-atmosphere ineraction at midlatitudes. Part II:
Mechanisms for coupled gyre modes.
J Climate, 12, 2757-2774.
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