The research areas below include links
to sample papers in each area.

Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
· El Niño/Southern oscillation
· Midlatitude ocean-atmosphere interaction
· Climate variations on interannual and longer time scales
· 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
· Convective margins
· Moist teleconnections
· Tropical precipitation change under global warming
· Intraseasonal oscillations
· Stochastic moist convection
· Hurricanes & mesoscale convective systems

Hierarchical ocean-atmosphere-land modeling
· Hybrid coupled models
· Quasi-equilibrium Tropical Circulation Models (QTCMs)

Tang, B. H. and J. D. Neelin, 2004: ENSO Influence on Atlantic Hurricanes via Tropospheric Warming. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L24204, doi:10.1029/2004GL021072.

Peters, O. and J. D. Neelin, 2009: Atmospheric convection as a continuous phase transition: further evidence. International J. Modern Physics B, 23, 5453-5465, doi:10.1142/S0217979209063778.

Peters, O., J. D. Neelin, and S. W. Nesbitt, 2009: Mesoscale convective systems and critical clusters. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2913-2924, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2761.1.