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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Ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropical climatology
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Monsoon theory as a problem in ocean-atmosphere-land interaction
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Thermohaline circulation-atmosphere 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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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
Hierarchical ocean-atmosphere-land modeling
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Hybrid coupled models
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Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Models (QTCMs)
Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics:
Interaction between moist convection and large-scale motions
Selected links to abstracts and paper downloads.
Neelin, J. D., and I. M. Held, 1987:
Modelling tropical convergence based on
the moist static energy budget.
Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 3-12.
Neelin, J. D., 1988:
A simple model for surface stress and
low-level flow in the tropical atmosphere driven by prescribed heating.
Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc.,
114, 747-770.
Neelin, J. D., 1989:
On the interpretation of the Gill model.
J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 2466-2468.
Neelin, J. D., and J.-Y. Yu, 1994:
Modes of tropical variability under convective adjustment and
the Madden-Julian oscillation. Part I: Analytical results.
J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 1876-1894.
Emanuel, K. A., J. D. Neelin and C. S. Bretherton, 1994:
On large-scale circulations
in convecting atmospheres.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.,
120, 1111-1143.
Neelin, J. D., 1997:
Implications of convective quasi-equilibria for the large-scale flow.
In
The physics and parameterization of moist atmosphyeric convection.
R. K. Smith, ed., pp. 413-446, Elsevier.
Yu, J.-Y., C. Chou, and J. D. Neelin, 1998:
Estimating the gross moist
stability of the tropical atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci.,
55, 1354-1372.
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.
Neelin, J. D., and N. Zeng, 2000:
A quasi-equilibrium tropical
circulation model---formulation.
J. Atmos. Sci. , 57, 1741-1766.
Zeng, N., J. D. Neelin, and C. Chou, 2000:
A quasi-equilibrium tropical circulation model---implementation and simulation.
J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1767-1796.
Su, H. and J. D. Neelin, 2003:
The Scatter in Tropical Average Precipitation Anomalies.
J. Climate, 16, 3966-3977.