Research Interest

Dynamics of Indo-Pacific region	Quantitative study of the oceanography in the tropical region (ocean currents, wind-driven buoyancy forced ocean circulation, ocean mixing, sea-air fluxes, sea surface temperature and sea level variability, upwelling and the environmental basis for productivity) and its impact to larger scale climate system, including regional aspects of global environmental change.
Indonesian Throughflow measurements	Deploy moorings to quantify the volume transport and its associated heat/freshwater fluxes at various inflow and outflow passages on Indonesian throughflow
Challenging Questions	How do the equatorial Kelvin and Rossby waves play roles in these climate phenomena?  What is the nature and causes of tropical sea surface temperature and sea level variability on annual to decadal variability?  What are the roles of intraseasonal oscillation and westerly wind burst in the ENSO development?  These waves and intraseasonal variability may be the drivers for plankton production and surface ecological structure in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean.