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
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)
Land-Surface Climate Interaction
Selected links to abstracts and paper downloads.
Zeng, N., J. D. Neelin, K.-M. Lau, and C. J. Tucker, 1999:
Enhancement of interdecadal climate
variability in the Sahel by vegetation interaction.
Science, 286, 1537-1540.
Zeng, N., and J. D. Neelin, 2000:
The role of vegetation-climate interaction
and interannual variability in shaping the African Savanna.
J. Climate, 13, 2665-2670.
Zeng, N., K. Hales, and J. D. Neelin, 2002:
Nonlinear dynamics in a Coupled Vegetation-Atmosphere System
and Implications for Desert-Forest Gradient.
J. Climate, 15, 3474-3487.
Hales, K., and J. D. Neelin, 2004:
Sensitivity of Tropical Land Climate to Leaf Area Index:
Role of Surface Conductance versus Albedo.
J. Climate, 17, 1459-1473.
Hales, K. and J. D. Neelin:
Interaction of Vegetation and Atmospheric Dynamical Mechanisms
in the mid-Holocene African Monsoon.
J. Climate, Accepted, Dec., 2005.