El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pan-Tropical Climate Interactions: Dynamics, Predictability, Modeling and Projections
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ENSO; climate variability; climate change
2. Atmospheric & Oceanic Disaster Research Institute, Dalim Apt. 209ho, Namgang-chogyo 2gil 44, Gangneung 25563, Gangwondo, Republic of Korea
Interests: numerical modeling of air pollution; air pollutant measurement and assessment; coastal and oceanic atmospheric boundary layer modeling; physical oceanographic modeling (waves and typhoons); statistical modeling (artificial neuron network modeling, multiple regression modeling)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most consequential climate signal on the planet, affecting weather, ecosystems, and societies globally. Climate modes of variability that occur on a broad range of timescales both within and outside the tropical Pacific can interact with ENSO and provide sources of climate predictability in the tropics and across the globe. Correctly modeling and understanding the dynamics, predictability, and impacts of ENSO and tropical cross-basin interactions, as well as anticipating their future changes, are thus of vital importance. Despite the great progress made so far, many aspects of the underpinning dynamics, teleconnections, and impacts remain elusive. Such gaps in knowledge ultimately limit the accuracy of seasonal forecasts as well as near-term and long-term climate projections at both regional and global scales.
This Special Issue welcomes submissions regarding numerous aspects of ENSO and tropical basin interactions, based on observations and climate models, including the following: dynamics and impacts of ENSO on climate, society, and ecosystems; tropical basin interactions; multi-scale interactions; decadal and paleo variability; theoretical approaches; numerical modeling; ENSO complexity; seasonal forecasting; past changes and future projections of tropical mean states and modes of climate variability. Studies aimed at understanding nonlinear ENSO dynamics and improving model simulations of ENSO, the tropical mean state, and tropical basin interactions are especially welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Air–sea coupled dynamics;
- Nonlinear physics;
- Seasonal prediction;
- Low-frequency variation;
- Global teleconnection;
- Future projection;
- Theoretical modeling;
- Climate model evaluation.
Dr. Tao Geng
Prof. Dr. Hyo Choi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ENSO
- climate variability and change
- tropical dynamics
- air-sea interactions
- inter-basin interactions
- greenhouse warming
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