[2024/12/05] We are launching a special issue in Climate Dynamics.

Special Issue in Climate Dynamics: Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Processes in the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific

1 Scope of this Special Issue The Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific region, bounded by Eurasia and two large oceans, play a pivotal role in shaping the global climate. Intense convective activities and systems are generated and maintained on multiple spatial and temporal scales, exerting far-reaching influences through their modulation of monsoons, Walker/Hadley circulations, and wave-induced teleconnections. In the meantime, ocean processes, such as the Indonesian throughflow (ITF), in this region also play an essential role in inter-ocean heat/salt exchange associated with the global conveyor belt and hence the global climate. However, given it acts as an important source and the bridge in the regional/global climate, our understanding of this region remains shallow due to its complex nature formed by the intricate land-sea distributions and highly coupled land-ocean-atmosphere processes, such as cloud-aerosol and cloud-radiative interactions, land-sea breezes, coupled boundary layer evolution, air-sea fluxes, and atmospheric/oceanic Kelvin and Rossby waves.

This special issue aims to improve our understanding of the complex land-ocean-atmosphere coupling processes within the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific region and their impacts on the regional/ global climate. Such knowledge is also expected to improve the performance of current regional and global models, which are suffering from the persistent, systematic errors and limited simulation and prediction skills. This special issue solicits contributions on physical processes related to convection, air-sea interaction, atmospheric composition, radiation, and ocean processes over the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific region, including but not limited to tropical cyclones activity, MJO/BSISO, monsoons, ITF, and the increasing extreme events under global warming. Contributions could include observations, numerical modeling, data assimilation, reanalysis products, predictability, and theory.

2 Additional info This special issue (SI) is inspired by a session we have proposed in the AGU fall meetings since 2020 (https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Session/239413). We have now collected 31 potential papers contributed by speakers who joined our session or researchers in our community, covering a variety of studies on Typhoons, MJO/BSISO, ITF, IOD/ENSO, extreme phenomena, and future projections.