Research interests The research areas below include links to sample papers in each area. Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction · El Niño/Southern oscillation · Midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interaction · Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropical climatology · 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 · Moist teleconnections · Tropical precipitation change under global warming · Intraseasonal oscillations · Stochastic moist convection · Hurricanes Hierarchical ocean-atmosphere-land modeling · Hybrid coupled models · Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Models (QTCMs)

Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics: Hurricanes Selected links to abstracts and paper downloads. Tang, B. H. and J. D. Neelin, 2004: ENSO Influence on Atlantic Hurricanes via Tropospheric Warming. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L24204, doi:10.1029/2004GL021072.