Textbook Xie, S.-P., 2023: Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics: From El Niño to Climate Change. Elsevier, 424 pages. Available in eBook (ISBN: 9780323954914) and paperback (ISBN: 9780323954907) at Elsevier and Amazon. Preface and Contents Errata

UCSD graduate course

• Syllabus
• Homework/Exam problems
• List of suggested reading for student talks

Lecture slides

• 01. Introduction
• 02. Energy transport and zonal-mean circulation
• 03. Tropical convection
• 04. Equatorial waves and tropical circulation
• 05. Asian summer monsoon
• 06. Subtropical climate
• 07. California climate
• 08. Equatorial oceanography
• 09. Tropical mean climate
• 10. El Nino/Southern Oscillation
• 11. Seasonal prediction and global teleconnection
• 12. Atlantic variability and tropical cyclone climate
• 13. Indian Ocean variability
• 14. Extratropical variability
• 15. Extratropical influence on tropics
• 16. Regional change in warming climate
• 17. Review and synthesis

• 04A. Madden-Julian Oscillation
• 05A. East Asian monsoon
• 05B. North American monsoon
• 16A. Introduction to global warming

Animations

• Transient Gill response to an abrupt onset of an isolated diabatic heating on the equator (section 3.5.1)
• Transient thermocline depth response to an abrupt onset of a westerly wind patch (160E-160W) in a bounded tropical ocean (section 7.2.4)