Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction:

El Niño/Southern Oscillation


Selected links to abstracts and paper downloads.

Ji, X., J. D. Neelin and C. R. Mechoso, 2015: Sea Level Pressure Anomalies in the Western Pacific during El Niño: Why are they there? J. Climate, 28,8860-8872.

Langenbrunner, B. and J. D. Neelin, 2013: Analyzing ENSO teleconnections in CMIP models as a measure of model fidelity in simulating precipitation. J. Climate, 26, 4431-4446, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00542.1.

Neelin, J. D., B. Langenbrunner, J. E. Meyerson, A. Hall, and N. Berg, 2013: California winter precipitation change under global warming in theCoupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 ensemble. J. Climate, 26, 6238-6256, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00514.1.

Lintner, B.R. and J.C.H. Chiang, 2007: Adjustment of the remote tropical climate to El Niño conditions. J. Clim., 20, 2544-2557, doi:10.1175/JCLI4138.1.

Munnich, M., and J. D. Neelin, 2004: Where is ENSO stress balanced? Atmos. Sci. Lett., 5 (2004), 13-22.

Neelin, J. D., C. Chou, and H. Su, 2003: Tropical drought regions in global warming and El Niño teleconnections. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(24), 2275, doi:10.1029/2003GLO018625. Mechoso, C. R., J. D. Neelin, and J.-Y. Yu, 2003: Testing simple models of ENSO. J. Atmos. Sci. 60, 305-318.

Su, H., and J. D. Neelin, 2002: Teleconnection mechanisms for tropical Pacific descent anomalies during El Niño. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 2694-2712.

Su, H., J. D. Neelin, and C. Chou, 2001: Tropical teleconnection and local response to SST anomalies during the 1997-1998 El Niño. J. Geophys. Res., 106(D17), 20,025-20,043.

Neelin, J. D., F-F. Jin, and H-H. Syu, 2000: Variations in ENSO phase locking. J. Climate , 13, 2570-2590.

Neelin, J. D., and M. Latif, 1998: El Niño Dynamics. Physics Today, 51, 32-36.

Neelin, J. D., D. S. Battisti, A. C. Hirst, F.-F. Jin, Y. Wakata, T. Yamagata, S. Zebiak, 1998: ENSO Theory. J. Geophys. Res.103(C7), 14261-14290.

Yu, J.-Y., C. Chou, and J. D. Neelin, 1998: Estimating the gross moiststability of the tropical atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 1354-1372.

Jin, F.-F., J. D. Neelin and M. Ghil, 1996: El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the annual cycle: subharmonic frequency locking and aperiodicity. Physica D, 98, 442-465.

Jiang, N., J. D. Neelin and M. Ghil, 1995: Quasi-quadrennial and quasi-biennial variability in the equatorial Pacific. Climate Dynamics, 12, 101-112.

Syu,J.-H., J. D. Neelin, and D. Gutzler, 1995: Seasonal and interannual variability in a hybrid coupled GCM. J. Climate, 8, 2121-2143.

Neelin, J. D., M. Latif and F.-F. Jin, 1994: Dynamics of coupled ocean-atmosphere models: the tropical problem. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 26, 617-659.

Neelin, J. D. and Jin, F.-F., 1993: Modes of interannual tropical ocean-atmosphere interaction ---a unified view. Part II: Analytical results in the weak coupling limit. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3504-3522.

Jin, F.-F., and Neelin, J. D., 1993: Modes of interannual tropical ocean-atmosphere interaction ---a unified view. Part I: Numerical results. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3477-3503.

Neelin, J. D., M. Latif, M. A. F. Allaart, M. A. Cane, U. Cubasch, W. L. Gates, P. R. Gent, M. Ghil, C. Gordon, N. C. Lau, C. R. Mechoso, G. A. Meehl, J. M. Oberhuber, S. G. H. Philander, P. S. Schopf, K. R. Sperber, A. Sterl, T. Tokioka, J. Tribbia and S. E. Zebiak, 1992: Tropical air-sea interaction in general circulation models. Climate Dynamics, 7, 73-104.

Neelin, J. D., 1991: The slow sea surface temperature mode and the fast-wave limit: Analytic theory for tropical interannual oscillations and experiments in a hybrid coupled model. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 584-606.

Neelin, J. D., 1990: A hybrid coupled general circulation model for El Niño studies. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 674-693.