Current Projects Funded by US Agencies

  • Toward reducing climate model biases in the equatorial Atlantic and adjacent continents

    • NOAA/CPO CLIVAR Program

    (July 2008 - June 2011)

    Shang-Ping Xie (PI) and Ingo Richter (Co-I)

  • Orographically induced ocean-atmosphere interaction: Satellite observations and numerical modeling

    • NASA Ocean Vector Wind Science Team Program

    (June 2006 - June 2010)

    Shang-Ping Xie (PI)

  • Ship-board atmospheric sounding over the Kuroshio Extension: A supplement to CLIVAR KESS

    • NSF/ATM

    (April 2005 - March 2007; no-cost extension to March 2009)

    Shang-Ping Xie (PI) and Bo Qiu (Co-I)

    Past Projects

  • Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in Seasonal and Interannual Variations of the Atlantic ITCZ

    • NOAA/OGP CLIVAR Program

    (February 2005 - January 2008)

    Shang-Ping Xie (PI)

  • Development of an integrated data product for Hawaii climate

    • NOAA/NCDC PRIDE Program

    (March 2005 - March 2006)

    Shang-Ping Xie (PI), Yi-Leng Chen and Jan Hafner (co-PIs)

  • An investigation of ocean-atmosphere interaction using SeaWinds and in-situ observations, and numerical modeling

    • NASA Ocean Vector Wind Science Team Program

    (May 2004 - December 2005)

    Shang-Ping Xie (PI)

  • Mechanisms for the Northward Displacement of the Pacific ITCZ

    • NSF Atmospheric Science Division Large-scale Atmosphere Dynamics Program

    (September 2001 - July 2005)

    Shang-Ping Xie (Principal Investigator) and Tim Li (Co-Investigator)

  • Roles of Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Interaction in Shaping Tropical Atlantic Variability

    • NOAA CLIVAR-Atlantic Program

    (July 2001 - June 2004)

    Shang-Ping Xie (Principal Investigator)

  • Effects of the Andes on the Eastern Pacific Climate

    • NOAA CLIVAR Pan American Climate Studies Program

    (July 2001 - June 2004)

    Shang-Ping Xie (Principal Investigator) and Yuqing Wang (Co-Investigator)

  • An Investigation of Monthly Wind Variability in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Using the SeaWinds, In-situ Observations and Numerical Modeling

    • NASA Ocean Vector Winds Science Team Program

    (May 2000 - May 2004)

    Shang-Ping Xie (Principal Investigator)