Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and El Niño

Ocean-atmosphere interaction plays a critical role in climate events and their changes. Climate System Laboratory (CSL) pursues to understand how ocean and atmosphere interact under various time/spatial scales and background flow, and how the interaction impacts on development, maintainance, and decay of the climate phenomena in tropics, mid-latitudes, and polar regions, with a special interest in their predictability. In particular, we are doing in-depth research on El Niño/Southern Oscillation, which is the most dominant climate phenomenon affecting global climate.