The research areas below include links
to sample papers in each area.

Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
· El Niño/Southern oscillation
· Midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interaction
· Climate variations on interannual and longer time scales
· Monsoon theory as a problem in ocean-atmosphere-land interaction
· Thermohaline circulation-atmosphere interaction

Sea-ice-ocean interaction

Land-surface climate interaction

Tropical atmospheric dynamics for tropical climate problems
· Interaction between moist convection and large-scale motions
· Convective margins
· Moist teleconnections
· Tropical precipitation change under global warming
· Intraseasonal oscillations
· Stochastic moist convection
· Hurricanes & mesoscale convective systems

Hierarchical ocean-atmosphere-land modeling
· Hybrid coupled models
· Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Models (QTCMs)

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.