Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

Dr. Xie is the distinguished professor of climate science and Roger Revelle Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA. He studies ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability and change. Dr. Xie is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society (AMS), and a Highly Cited Researcher (h-index=97) on the Web of Science. He received the AMS Sverdrup Gold Medal for “fundamental contributions to understanding the coupled ocean-atmosphere feedback processes involved in climate variability and climate change.” Scripps is one of the top institutes globally for Oceanography and is a target area for authors/ editors for the Oceanography program. Some of our top performing authors are from Scripps, including Lynne Talley, author of the bestselling Descriptive Physical Oceanography now in its 7th edition.

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Energy balance and transport

3. Tropical convection and planetary-scale circulation

4. The Madden-Julian Oscillation

5. Summer monsoons

6. Subtropical climate: Trade winds and low clouds

7. Equatorial Oceanography

8. Coupled feedbacks and tropical climatology

9. El Niño, the Southern Oscillation, and the global influence

10. Tropical Atlantic Variability

11. Indian Ocean variability

12. Extratropical variability and the influence on the tropics

13. Global warming: Thermodynamic effects

14. Regional climate change

Epilogue