Recent Advances in Researches of Ocean Climate Variability

Dear Colleagues,

Ocean climate variability is a core component of ocean climate dynamics, which will lead to alterations in climate patterns around the world. Recent advances in ocean climate have improved our understanding of global climate change by introducing some innovative theories and methods in detecting, diagnosing, analyzing, and predicting the ocean climate variability on various time scales ranging from seasonal, interannual, and decadal time scales.

The objective of this special issue is to focus on recent advances in researches of ocean climate variability. We invite all interested researchers to show their original research articles as well as review articles that will stimulate the continuing efforts to understand and predict ocean climate variability on various time scales (years-decades to centuries), such as the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), Southern Annular Mode (SAM) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), etc. Theoretical, observational, modelling as well as machine learning studies focusing on elucidating specific physical processes and their contribution to understanding ocean climate variability are all welcome. Especially welcome are regional and global ocean studies; methods and results concerning ocean thermohaline structure and water masses variability for present and future climates; methods and challenges in understanding ocean circulation variability and its influence in future decades; applications of machine learning/deep learning techniques in ocean climate variability, and any other innovative contributions.

Dr. Jifeng Qi
Dr. Lei Liu
Dr. Yinghao Qin
Dr. Fengxiang Guo
Guest Editors

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