Renewable energy

  • High-resolution modelling
  • Wind and solar power

Synoptic meteorology and climatology

  • Synoptic weather systems: Atmospheric river, Blocking highs, Extratropical cyclones
  • Weather and climate extremes: Changma, Heavy rainfall events

Large-scale atmospheric and climate dynamics

  • Large-scale atmospheric dynamics: Atmospheric general circulation, Arctic-midlatitude and tropical-midlatitude teleconnections, Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)
  • Stratosphere-troposphere dynamical coupling: Stratospheric ozone, Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO), Stratospheric Sudden Warming (SSW)

Long-term climate change and variability

  • Global warming
  • Near-term climate forcers (NTCFs) and their climate impacts
  • Stratospheric ozone depletion/recovery and their climate impacts

Atmospheric and climate predictability

  • Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction
  • Near-term climate prediction