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:
Thermohaline circulation-atmosphere interaction
Selected links to abstracts and paper downloads.
Dijkstra, H. A., and J. D. Neelin, 1999:
Coupled processes and the tropical
climatology. Part III: Instabilities of the fully coupled climatology.
J. CLimate, 12, 1630-1643.
Dijkstra, H. A., and J. D. Neelin, 2000:
Imperfections of the thermohaline circulation:
Latitudinal asymmetry and preferred northern sinking.
J. Climate, 13, 366-382.
Dijkstra, H. A., W. Weijer, and J. D. Neelin, 2003:
Imperfections of the three-dimensional
thermohaline ocean circulation: Hysteresis and unique-state regimes.
J. Phys. Oceanog., 33, 2796-2814.
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