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
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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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)
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Hierarchical Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Modeling:
Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Models (QTCMs)
Selected links to abstracts and paper downloads.
QTCM Formulation Publications
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.
Publications using QTCM within the CSI group:
Su, H. and J. D. Neelin, 2003:
The Scatter in Tropical Average Precipitation
Anomalies. J. Climate, 16, 3966-3977.
Chou, C. and J. D. Neelin, 2002:
Mechanisms limiting the northward extent of the northern summer
convection zones.
J. Climate, 16, 406-425.
Su, H., J. D. Neelin, and J. E. Meyerson, 2003:
Sensitivity of tropical tropospheric
temperature to sea surface temperature forcing. J. Climate, 16,
1283-1301.
- Related:
IGPP 2001 Poster Session (PDF 1.6MB).
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.
Su, H., and J. D. Neelin, 2001:
Teleconnection mechanisms for tropical Pacific descent anomalies during
El Niño.
J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 2682-2700.
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, No. D17, 20,025-20,043.
Chou, C. and J. D. Neelin, 2001:
Mechanisms limiting the southward extent of the South American
summer monsoon.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, no.12, 2433-2436.
Chou, C., J. D. Neelin and H. Su, 2001:
Ocean-atmosphere-land feedbacks in an idealized monsoon.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 127, 1869-1891.
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., 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.
Lin, J. W.-B., J. D. Neelin, and N. Zeng, 2000:
Maintenance of tropical variability: Impact of evaporation-wind feedback
and midlatitude storms.
J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 2793-2823.
Zeng, N., J. D. Neelin, C. Chou, J. W.-B. Lin, H. Su, 2000:
Climate and variability in the first quasi-equilibrium tropical
circulation model.
General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present, and Future,
Academic Press, 457--488.
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