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New Study Revisits Tropical Wave Circulation Associated with Asymmetric Convection

2 December 2025

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A recent study led by Peishan Chen, during her PhD internship in the ADP group, reveals that mixed Rossby-gravity and inertia-gravity waves play a key role in cross-equatorial circulation associated with convection over the subtropical western North Pacific in boreal summer — an aspect not captured by the traditional Gill model. Their findings call for caution when applying the Gill solution to interpret circulation responses to asymmetric heating in weather and climate models.

The research, funded by the China Scholarship Council and DFG, is published open-access in Weather and Climate Dynamics.
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