Preface

1. Advancing Climate Dynamics Toward Reliable Regional Climate Projections

Tropical Indo-Pacific ocean response to greenhouse gas increase

1. Recent Changes of Northern Indian Ocean Summer Rainfall Based on CMIP5 Multi-Model
2. Indian Ocean Dipole Response to Global Warming: A Multi-Member Study with CCSM4

North Pacific subtropical gyre and its response to radiative forcing

1. Fast and Slow Responses of the North Pacific Mode Water and Subtropical Countercurrent to Global Warming
2. Response of Mode Water and Subtropical Countercurrent to Greenhouse Gas and Aerosol Forcing in the North Pacific
3. The Impact of Meso-Scale Eddies on the Subtropical Mode Water in the Western North Pacific

Ocean-atmosphere interaction and climate modes

1. Relationships of Interannual Variability Between the Equatorial Pacific and Tropical Indian Ocean in 17 CMIP5 Models
2. The Role of Barrier Layer in Southeastern Arabian Sea During the Development of Positive Indian Ocean Dipole Events
3. The Distribution and Variability of Simulated Chlorophyll Concentration over the Tropical Indian Ocean from Five CMIP5 Models
4. Subtropical Air-Sea Interaction and Development of Central Pacific El Niño
5. Asymmetric Response of the South China Sea SST to El Niño and La Niña
6. Influence of Summer Monsoon on Asymmetric Bimodal Pattern of Tropical Cyclogenesis Frequency over the Bay of Bengal
7. Southern Ocean SST Variability and Its Relationship with ENSO on Inter-Decadal Time Scales

Climate variation and change in East Asia and China Seas

1. Impact of Sea Surface Temperature Front on Stratus-Sea Fog over the Yellow and East China Seas–A Case Study with Implications for Climatology
2. Formation Mechanism for the Anomalous Anticyclonic Circulation over Northeast Asia and the Japan Sea in Boreal Winter 1997/98 and the Spring of 1998