Research Interest
 
   a) Global Carbon Cycle and Climate

  • CO2 has to be understood as a Earth's Vital Sign (C. D. Keeling 2008 in Science) as well as ratiative forcing.  
  • Role of different disturbances on Carbon Cycle and Climate (e.g., LandUse change, etc.)
    b) Land/Vegetation/Atmosphere interaction
  • GSWP2 baseline simulations using SLand/VEGAS
  • As an important Climate Feedback
    c) Earth System Modeling
     d) Climate Change/Variability
  • From Intraseasonal oscillation to Interdecadal change
  • Intraseasonal variation of tropical circulation and related hydrological cycle
  • Interannual/Interdecadal variation of atmospheric circulation
  • Its impact on rainfall and strom activity
  • Interdecadal change of Amazon rainfall
    e) Large-Scale Dynamics
    f) Global Monsoon Circulation
  • North American Monsoon circulation
  • Interannual variability
    g) Hydrology/Dynamics of the Torpical disturbances

   h) Ecosystem Prediction
  • Fire potential/risk prediction 
  • Experimental Forecast of CO2 in seasonal and interannual timescale