Research Content:

1) Multi-scale tropical ocean-atmosphere interaction: observation and analysis, dynamic diagnosis and model prediction of multi-scale atmospheric and ocean variability, including typhoons, seasonal oscillations, El Niño, Indian Ocean dipoles, and so forth;

2) Marine data assimilation and predictability: development of data assimilation methods, parametric estimation of ocean and sea-air coupling models, coupled mode ocean forecasting initialization, and predictability assessment of marine environment and short-term climate change;

3) The West Boundary Current in the North Pacific Ocean: the variations of Kuroshio and Ryukyu Currents and their effects on the dynamic environment of the Yellow Sea, the East and South China Seas.