Perspectives in Tropical Climate Variability and Related Effects
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1
Special Issue Editors
2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Boundary Dynamics and Climate Change, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
3. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Climate Change, Nanjing, China
Interests: climate dynamics; monsoon; air-sea interaction; ENSO; typhoon climatology; arctic and antarctic
2. Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China
Interests: East Asian monsoon; South Asian jet stream wave train and winter precipitation; El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO); East Asian water vapor cycle; extreme weather
2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Boundary Dynamics and Climate Change, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
Interests: tropical-extratropical interactions; changes and mechanisms of the antarctic sea-ice-air system; monsoon meteorology; extreme weather and climate events
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Tropical climate variability, as demonstrated by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) and tropical cyclones, exerts significant socio-economic and environmental impacts on a global scale. Due to global warming, the tropical climate will experience significant changes in feature, interaction with other latitudes and climate impact. The laws of the past may no longer apply. Given these significant impacts, critical questions include how tropical climate variability has changed in recent decades and in the future, and what the underlying process, mechanism and climate impact are.
This Special Issue will cover all topics related to tropical climate variability and related effects and intends to enhance our current understanding and prediction of tropical climate variability in the changing climate. We welcome papers on monitoring the variations in the tropical climate, revealing the mechanism of their formation, interaction with different latitudes and identifying the possible climate impacts. The main topics of interest include (1) ENSO and pantropical climate interactions, (2) major climate oscillations including the MJO and Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO), (3) interactions between tropical and extratropical variability and (4) tropical extreme weather/climate. Contributions discussing related topics that are still of interest in the field of the tropical climate variability are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Zhiping Wen
Prof. Dr. Xiuzhen Li
Dr. Yuanyuan Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tropical climate variability
- intraseasonal oscillations
- interaction between tropical and extratropical variability
- extreme weather/climate
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