Weather and Climate Dynamics

Observational and theoretical research concerned with the interactive boundary layers on both sides of the air-sea interface focuses on boundary-layer turbulence, heat storage in the oceanic mixed layer, the roles of boundary-layer clouds in these phenomena and the response of the two layers to variable forcing. Large-scale atmospheric and oceanic variability associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon represents another challenge for climate forecasting. Other research spans scales from global waves and turbulence in the stratosphere to fine-scale turbulence in the boundary layer.