Atmospheric Oscillations

Dr. Bin Guan is a Researcher (Full Professor equivalent) at the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with a background in atmospheric and oceanic science. His research focuses on high-impact weather and climate events and their interdisciplinary implications. He has served on the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Committee on Climate Variability and Change, its membership subcommittee, and the drafting committee for updating the AMS Statement on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. He received the 2018 Climate Science Service Award from the California Department of Water Resources and was named Outstanding Reviewer of 2019 by the American Geophysical Union. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 34. He earned his BS degree from Nanjing University, MPhil from the City University of Hong Kong, and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology before joining UCLA.

Section I: Introduction 1. Oscillations as a central theme in atmospheric variability: weaving together oscillations, cycles, instability, wave propagation and circulation regimes Section II: Tropics 2. Madden–Julian Oscillation 3. Boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation 4. Quasi-biweekly mode of the South Asian monsoon 5. Convectively coupled equatorial waves Section III: Extratropics 6. North Pacific Oscillation 7. Pacific–North American pattern 8. Pacific–South American pattern 9. East Atlantic and Scandinavian patterns 10. Northern Annular Mode 11. Southern Annular Mode 12. Global Wind Oscillation Section IV: Stratosphere 13. Quasi-Biennial Oscillation 14. Stratospheric polar vortex variability Section V: Interactions 15. Stratosphere–troposphere interactions: the influence of Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on Madden–Julian Oscillation 16. Tropics–extratropics interactions: the influence of Madden–Julian Oscillation on annular modes 17. Ocean–atmosphere interactions: Madden–Julian Oscillation and El Niño–Southern Oscillation Section VI: Beyond Earth 18. Equatorial stratospheric oscillations in planetary atmospheres 19. Oscillations in terrestrial planetary atmospheres Section VII: Conclusion 20. Concluding remarks and future perspectives