Dear Colleagues,

The hot spot of the current research encompasses the predictability and sensitivity of global and regional climate; the structure, variability, dynamics and interaction of the atmosphere, the ocean, sea ice, and land; and the ways that the atmosphere, oceans, and land influence, and are influenced by various trace constituents. Scientists at GFD develop and use Earth system models and computer simulations to improve the understanding and prediction of weather and climate. Scientists focus on model-building relevant for society, for hurricane research, weather and ocean prediction, seasonal forecasting, understanding regional and global climate change, and more. GFD plays an important role in numerical weather prediction, mechanism of medium- and long-term weather process, disastrous weather, atmospheric circulation, formation and change of short-term climate and many other aspects of oceanography. It is one of the most active research projects in atmospheric and marine science in the world.

We are interested in inviscid shallow-water theory, friction and viscous flow, homogeneous models of the wind-driven oceanic circulation, quasigeostrophic motion of a stratified fluid on a sphere, instability theory and air-sea coupling dynamics.

Prof. Shuxiu Liang

Section Editor