J. David Neelin neelin@atmos.ucla.edu
	Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA Office: 7961 Math Sciences Building Phone: (310) 206-3734 Fax: (310) 206-5219 Mailing Address: Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of California, Los Angeles 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1565 Group Web Page   Publications (full list, with links to abstracts or download) CV (full, pdf))   CV (short, with 3 pg. selected bib., pdf)   CV (shortest; 2-page)

Professor Neelin heads the Climate Systems Interaction Group and more research details are available on the group website

Research areas The research areas below include links to sample papers in each area. Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction · El Nino/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 Sea-ice-ocean 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) Research description from Departmental Brochure

Research interests Neelin's research involves interactions between different pieces of the climate system, starting with ocean-atmosphere interaction and later spreading to some of the other interactions that must be understood as fully coupled processes. Tropical climate variability has been a major area of endeavor. From work on the El Nino/Southern Oscillation phenomenon, Neelin became fascinated by the Achilles heel of early tropical ocean-atmosphere theory: the complex interaction between the large-scale tropical atmosphere and moist convection. These moist dynamical processes strongly affect and are affected by the ocean surface layer. Several research areas have evolved from this, including moist teleconnections and the tropical precipitation response to global warming. Please see the sidebar for specific research areas and contributions.