Journal
Climate Dynamics
Climate Dynamics is an international journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research on all aspects of the dynamics of the global climate system.
The Maritime Continent (MC) and Indo-Pacific region, bounded by Eurasia and two large oceans, play a pivotal role in shaping the global climate. Intense convective activities and systems are generated and maintained on multiple spatial and temporal scales, exerting far-reaching influences by modulation of monsoons, Walker/Hadley circulations, and wave-induced teleconnections. In the meantime, ocean processes in this region, such as the Indonesian throughflow, also play an essential role in inter-ocean heat/salt exchange associated with the global conveyor belt and hence the global climate. However, given that it acts as an important source and the bridge in the regional/global climate, our understanding of this region remains shallow due to its complex nature formed by the intricate land-sea distributions and highly coupled land-ocean-atmosphere processes, such as cloud-aerosol and cloud-radiative interactions, land-sea breezes, coupled boundary layer evolution, air-sea fluxes, and atmospheric/oceanic Kelvin and Rossby waves.
This collection aims to improve our understanding of the complex land-ocean-atmosphere coupling processes within the MC and Indo-Pacific region and their regional/global climate impacts, which is also expected to enhance the performance of current regional and global models that are suffering from persistent, systematic errors and limited simulation and prediction skills. This collection solicits contributions on physical processes related to convection, air-sea interaction, atmospheric composition, radiation, and ocean processes over the MC and Indo-Pacific region, and contributions could include observations, numerical modeling, data assimilation, reanalysis products, predictability, and theory.
Submit your manuscript to this collection through the participating journal.
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Ning ZHAO
Dr. Ning ZHAO Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan 1. Ning Zhao is a researcher at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan. He is interested in the short-term air-sea interactions and moisture transport, including the processes between extra-tropical cyclones and marginal seas, interactions between the upper ocean and the diurnal cycle within the Maritime Continent, the life cycles and variability of atmospheric rivers, and extreme events such as heavy rainfalls and marine heatwaves. -
Sandro W. LUBIS
Sandro W. LUBIS Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA Sandro is an atmospheric scientist with broad interest in atmospheric dynamics, climate variability and change. The main focus of his work is to advance the fundamental understanding of large-scale atmospheric processes that impact extratropical and tropical weather and climate. Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to, the dynamics of large-scale circulation (such as sudden stratospheric warmings, blockings, annular modes, stationary waves, planetary wave reflection, and wave breaking), tropical meteorology (including moisture modes, MJO etc.) -
Mingting LI
Mingting LI Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong, China Mingting Li is an associate professor at the School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University. Her research is directed at the dynamics of the Indo-Pacific Ocean circulation and its role in the climate system, including spatial and temporal scale patterns of the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF), and the South China Sea circulation; ratio and variation of North Pacific /South Pacific water joining into the ITF; the heat and salinity transport of ITF and effect on global ocean conveyor belt and ENSO evolution. -
Mingyue Tang
Mingyue Tang University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA Mingyue Tang (Student/Early Career Editor) is now a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is interested in atmospheric convection, and her works focus on understanding convective organization and propagation associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), especially the physical mechanisms of cold pool dynamics and gravity waves based on high-resolution numerical models.