Researcher Information
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Research Interests
Education
Committee Memberships
- Apr. 2026 - Present
Climate Dynamics Panel, Working Group on Tropical Basin Interaction, CLIVAR - Jan. 2026 - Present
Editor, Journal of Climate, American Meteorological Society - May 2024 - Present
Pacific Region Panel Working Group on “Pacific atmospheric teleconnections in a warming climate” (PATAC), CLIVAR - 2021 - Present
CLIVAR in Japan, WCRP, CLIVAR - Aug. 2023 - Dec. 2025
Associate Editor, American Meteorological Society - Mar. 2020 - Dec. 2025
Co-Chair, Researh Focus on Tropical Basin Interaction (RF TBI), WCRP, CLIVAR - Mar. 2020 - Dec. 2024
Atlantic Region Panel, WCRP, CLIVAR
Research activity information
Papers
- Shenglong Li; Jun-Chao Yang; Ingo Richter; Yi Liu; Yu Zhang; Ziguang Li; Xiaopei Lin
Extreme Marine Heat Waves in the Tropical Atlantic during Boreal Early Spring 2024: Major Role of Shortwave Radiation and Mixed Layer Depth
Journal of Climate, 01 Apr. 2026
39, 7, 1643, 1655
[Reviewed] - Justin Lien; Hiroyasu Ando; Ingo Richter; Shoichiro Kido
Noise persistence in a cyclostationary linear inverse model framework and its impact on ENSO evolution and prediction skills
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 29 Jan. 2026
[Reviewed] - Davide Sabatani; Silvio Gualdi; Swadhin Behera; Yushi Morioka; Ingo Richter
Impacts of the atmospheric mean state on austral early-winter Indian Ocean teleconnections with Chile in CMIP5/CMIP6 models
Atmospheric Research, Jan. 2026
330, 108509, 108509
[Reviewed] - Arthur Prigent; Ingo Richter; Andrea Storto; Riccardo Farneti; Rodrigue Anicet Imbol Koungue; Yuko M. Okumura; Ping Chang
Interannual variability of upper ocean temperature in the tropical Atlantic: an ocean reanalysis intercomparison
Climate Dynamics, 28 Aug. 2025
63, 9
[Reviewed] - Aixue Hu; Ingo Richter; Yuko Okumura; Natalie Burls; Noel Keenlyside; Rhys Parfitt; Katinka Bellomo; Alessio Bellucci; Riccardo Farneti; Alexey V. Fedorov; Brady S. Ferster; Chengfei He; Qian Li; Daniela Matei
Unraveling the Complexity of Global Climate Dynamics: Interactions among El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and Tropical Basins Across Different Timescales
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, Jul. 2025
4
[Reviewed] - Ingo Richter; Ping Chang; Gokhan Danabasoglu; Dietmar Dommenget; Guillaume Gastineau; Aixue Hu; Takahito Kataoka; Noel Keenlyside; Fred Kucharski; Yuko Okumura; Wonsun Park; Malte Stuecker; Andrea Taschetto; Chunzai Wang; Stephen Yeager; Sang-Wook Yeh
The Tropical Basin Interaction Model Intercomparison Project (TBIMIP)
Geoscientific Model Development, 12 May 2025
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Shoichiro Kido; Tomoki Tozuka; Yu Kosaka; Hiroki Tokinaga; Ping Chang
Revisiting the Inconsistent Influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on the Equatorial Atlantic
Journal of Climate, 15 Jan. 2025
38, 2, 481, 496
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Noel Keenlyside; Tomoki Tozuka; Yuko Okumura; Chunzai Wang; Ping Chang; Shoichiro Kido; Hiroki Tokinaga
Comment on “Resolving the Tropical Pacific/Atlantic Interaction Conundrum” by Feng Jiang et al. (2023)
Geophysical Research Letters, 02 Dec. 2024
51, 23
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Jayanthi V. Ratnam; Patrick Martineau; Pascal Oettli; Takeshi Doi; Tomomichi Ogata; Takahito Kataoka; François Counillon
A Simple Statistical Postprocessing Scheme for Enhancing the Skill of Seasonal SST Predictions in the Tropics
Monthly Weather Review, Apr. 2024
152, 4, 1039, 1056
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Shoichiro Kido; Ingo Richter; Tomoki Tozuka; Ping Chang
Understanding the interplay between ENSO and related tropical SST variability using linear inverse models
Climate Dynamics, Aug. 2023
[Reviewed] - Ingo Richter; Yu Kosaka; Shoichiro Kido; Hiroki Tokinaga
The tropical Atlantic as a negative feedback on ENSO
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Nov. 2022
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Lander R. Crespo; Arthur Prigent; Noel Keenlyside; Shunya Koseki; Lea Svendsen; Ingo Richter; Emilia Sánchez-Gómez
Weakening of the Atlantic Niño variability under global warming
Nature Climate Change, 01 Sep. 2022
[Reviewed] - Jun‐Chao Yang; Zhen Lv; Ingo Richter; Yu Zhang; Xiaopei Lin
Inter‐Model Spread of North Tropical Atlantic Trans‐Basin Effect Substantially Biases Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Multiyear Prediction
Geophysical Research Letters, 16 Aug. 2022
49, 15
[Reviewed] - J. V. Ratnam; Takeshi Doi; Ingo Richter; Pascal Oettli; Masami Nonaka; Swadhin K. Behera
Using Selected Members of a Large Ensemble to Improve Prediction of Surface Air Temperature Anomalies Over Japan in the Winter Months From Mid-Autumn
Frontiers in Climate, 16 Jun. 2022
4 - Pascal Oettli; Masami Nonaka; Ingo Richter; Hiroyuki Koshiba; Yosuke Tokiya; Itsumi Hoshino; Swadhin K. Behera
Combining Dynamical and Statistical Modeling to Improve the Prediction of Surface Air Temperatures 2 Months in Advance: A Hybrid Approach
Frontiers in Climate, 30 Mar. 2022
4
[Reviewed] - Ingo Richter; Hiroki Tokinaga; Yuko M. Okumura
The Extraordinary Equatorial Atlantic Warming in Late 2019
Geophysical Research Letters, 28 Feb. 2022
49, 4
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Peter Good; Niklas Boers; Chris A. Boulton; Jason A. Lowe; Ingo Richter
How might a collapse in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation affect rainfall over tropical South America?
Climate Resilience and Sustainability, Feb. 2022
1, 1
[Reviewed]
Last - Hyacinth C. Nnamchi; Mojib Latif; Noel S. Keenlyside; Joakim Kjellsson; Ingo Richter
Diabatic heating governs the seasonality of the Atlantic Niño
Nature Communications, Dec. 2021
12, 1
[Reviewed] - Hao Liu; Zexun Wei; Ingo Richter; Xunwei Nie; Chuanshun Li
Influence of Salinity and Temperature Gradients on the Variability of the North Brazil Undercurrent
Frontiers in Marine Science, 20 Sep. 2021
8 - Ingo Richter; Hiroki Tokinaga; Yu Kosaka; Taekshi Doi; Takahito Kataoka
Revisiting the tropical Atlantic influence on El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Journal of Climate, 03 Aug. 2021
34, 21, 1, 46
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Jose Santos; Ingo Richter; Noel Keenlyside (edit
Special Issue: WCRP-CLIVAR Workshop on Climate Interactions among the Tropical Basins
CLIVAR Exchanges, 29 Jul. 2021
80 - Jun-Chao Yang; Yu Zhang; Ingo Richter; Xiaopei Lin
Interannual Variability of Tropical Atlantic-to-Pacific Moisture Transport Linked to ENSO, Atlantic Niño, and Freshwater Budget in the Northwestern Tropical Atlantic
Journal of Climate, 08 Mar. 2021
1, 61
[Reviewed] - Ingo Richter; Hiroki Tokinaga
The Atlantic zonal mode: Dynamics, thermodynamics, and teleconnections
Tropical and Extratropical Air-Sea Interactions, 2021
171, 206
[Reviewed]
Lead - Pascal Oettli; Chaoxia Yuan; Ingo Richter
The other coastal Niño/Niña—the Benguela, California, and Dakar Niños/Niñas
Tropical and Extratropical Air-Sea Interactions, 2021
237, 266
[Reviewed]
Last - Ingo Richter; Ping Chang; Xue Liu
Impact of Systematic GCM Errors on Prediction Skill as Estimated by Linear Inverse Modeling
Journal of Climate, 01 Dec. 2020
33, 23, 10073, 10095
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Hiroki Tokinaga
An overview of the performance of CMIP6 models in the tropical Atlantic: mean state, variability, and remote impacts
Climate Dynamics, 01 Nov. 2020
55, 9-10, 2579, 2601
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Richter, Ingo; Doi, Takeshi
Estimating the Role of SST in Atmospheric Surface Wind Variability over the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, Jul. 2019
32, 13, 3899, 3915
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - L{\"u}bbecke, J.F.; Brandt, P.; Dengler, M.; Kopte, R.; L{\"u}dke, J.; Richter, I.; Sena Martins, M.; Tchipalanga, P.C.
Causes and evolution of the southeastern tropical Atlantic warm event in early 2016
Climate Dynamics, Jul. 2019
53, 1-2, 261, 274
[Reviewed] - Tokinaga Hiroki; Richter Ingo; Kosaka Yu
ENSO Influence on the Atlantic Nino, Revisited: Multi-Year versus Single-Year ENSO Events
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, Jul. 2019
32, 14, 4585, 4600
[Reviewed] - Folt?, G.R.; Brandt, P.; Richter, I.; Rodriguez-fonseca, B.; Hernandez, F.; Dengler, M.; Rodrigues, R.R.; Schmidt, J.O.; Yu, L.; Lefevre, N.; Da Cunha, L.C.; McPhaden, M.J.; Araujo Filho, M.C.; Karstensen, J.; Hahn, J.; Mart{\'i}n-Rey, M.; Patricola, C.M.; Poli, P.; Zuidema, P.; Hummels, R.; Perez, R.C.; Hatje, V.; Luebbecke, J.; Polo, I.; Lumpkin, R.; Bourl{\`e}s, B.; Asuquo, F.E.; Lehodey, P.; Conchon, A.; Chang, P.; Dandin, P.; Schmid, C.; Sutton, A.J.; Giordani, H.; Xue, Y.; Illig, S.; Losada, T.; Grodsky, S.; Gasparin, F.; Lee, T.; Mohino, E.; Nobre, P.; Wanninkhof, R.; Keenlyside, N.S.; Garcon, V.; Sanchez-Gomez, E.; Nnamchi, H.C.; Drevillon, M.; Storto, A.; Remy, E.; Lazar, A.; Speich, S.; Goes, M.P.; Dorrington, T.; Johns, W.E.; Moum, J.N.; Robinson, C.; Perruche, C.; Souza, R.B.; Gaye, A.; Lopez-Parages, J.; Monerie, P.-A.; Castellanos, P.; Benson, N.U.; Hounkonnou, M.N.; Duha, J.T.
The tropical atlantic observing system
Frontiers in Marine Science, 10 May 2019
6, APR
[Reviewed] - Joke F. Lübbecke; Belen Rodríguez-Fonseca; Ingo Richter; Marta Martín-Rey; Teresa Losada; Irene Polo; Noel S. Keenlyside
Equatorial Atlantic variability—Modes, mechanisms, and global teleconnections
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 01 Jul. 2018
9, 4
[Reviewed] - Richter, Ingo; Doi, Takeshi; Behera, Swadhin K.; Keenlyside, Noel
On the link between mean state biases and prediction skill in the tropics: an atmospheric perspective
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, May 2018
50, 9-10, 3355, 3374
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Douglas Maraun; Theodore G. Shepherd; Martin Widmann; Giuseppe Zappa; Daniel Walton; Jose M. Gutierrez; Stefan Hagemann; Ingo Richter; Pedro M. M. Soares; Alex Hall; Linda O. Mearns
Towards process-informed bias correction of climate change simulations
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE, Nov. 2017
7, 11, 764, 773
[Reviewed] - Ingo Richter; Shang-Ping Xie; Yushi Morioka; Takeshi Doi; Bunmei Taguchi; Swadhin Behera
Phase locking of equatorial Atlantic variability through the seasonal migration of the ITCZ
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Jun. 2017
48, 11, 3615, 3629
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Paquita Zuidema; Ping Chang; Brian Medeiros; Ben P. Kirtman; Roberto Mechoso; Edwin K. Schneider; Thomas Toniazzo; Ingo Richter; R. Justin Small; Katinka Bellomo; Peter Brandt; Simon de Szoeke; J. Thomas Farrar; Eunsil Jung; Seiji Kato; Mingkui Li; Christina Patricola; Zaiyu Wang; Robert Wood; Zhao Xu
CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR REDUCING COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL SST BIASES IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS The US CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis Working Group
BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, Dec. 2016
97, 12, 2305, +
[Reviewed] - Ingo Richter; Takeshi Doi; Ping Chang; Zhao Xu; Takahito Kataoka; Tomoki Tozuka; Motoki Nagura; Pascal Oettli; Simon P. De Szoeke
An overview of coupled gcm biases in the tropics
World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate, 2016
7, 213, 263
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter
Climate model biases in the eastern tropical oceans: causes, impacts and ways forward
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE, May 2015
6, 3, 345, 358
[Reviewed]
Lead, Last, Corresponding - Zhao Xu; Ping Chang; Ingo Richter; Who Kim; Guanglin Tang
Diagnosing southeast tropical Atlantic SST and ocean circulation biases in the CMIP5 ensemble
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Dec. 2014
43, 11, 3123, 3145
[Reviewed] - Ingo Richter; Swadhin K. Behera; Takeshi Doi; Bunmei Taguchi; Yukio Masumoto; Shang-Ping Xie
What controls equatorial Atlantic winds in boreal spring?
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Dec. 2014
43, 11, 3091, 3104
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Shang-Ping Xie; Swadhin K. Behera; Takeshi Doi; Yukio Masumoto
Equatorial Atlantic variability and its relation to mean state biases in CMIP5
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Jan. 2014
42, 1-2, 171, 188
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Swadhin K. Behera; Yukio Masumoto; Bunmei Taguchi; Hideharu Sasaki; Toshio Yamagata
Multiple causes of interannual sea surface temperature variability in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean
NATURE GEOSCIENCE, Jan. 2013
6, 1, 43, 47
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Shang-Ping Xie; Andrew T. Wittenberg; Yukio Masumoto
Tropical Atlantic biases and their relation to surface wind stress and terrestrial precipitation
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Mar. 2012
38, 5-6, 985, 1001
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Swadhin K. Behera; Yukio Masumoto; Bunmei Taguchi; Nobumasa Komori; Toshio Yamagata
On the triggering of Benguela Ninos: Remote equatorial versus local influences
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, Oct. 2010
37
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Shang-Ping Xie
Moisture transport from the Atlantic to the Pacific basin and its response to North Atlantic cooling and global warming
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Aug. 2010
35, 2-3, 551, 566
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Shang-Ping Xie
Muted precipitation increase in global warming simulations: A surface evaporation perspective
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, Dec. 2008
113
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Shang-Ping Xie
On the origin of equatorial Atlantic biases in coupled general circulation models
CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Oct. 2008
31, 5, 587, 598
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Ingo Richter; Carlos R. Mechoso; Andrew W. Robertson
What determines the position and intensity of the south Atlantic anticyclone in austral winter? An AGCM study
JOURNAL OF CLIMATE, Jan. 2008
21, 2, 214, 229
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - I. Richter; C. R. Mechoso
Orographic influences on subtropical stratocumulus
JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, Oct. 2006
63, 10, 2585, 2601
[Reviewed]
Lead, Corresponding - Richter, I; CR Mechoso
Orographic influences on the annual cycle of Namibian stratocumulus clouds
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, Dec. 2004
31, 24
[Reviewed]
Lead - Aixue Hu, Ingo Richter, Yuko Okumura, Natalie Burls, Noel Keenlyside, Rhys Parfitt, Katinka Bellomo, Alessio Bellucci, Riccardo Farneti, Alexey Fedorov, Brady S. Ferster, Chengfei He, Qian Li, Daniela Matei
Unraveling the Complexity of Global Climate Dynamics: Interactions of tropics and extratropics
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research - Arthur Prigent, Ingo Richter, Andrea Storto, Riccardo Farneti, Rodrigue Anicet Imbol Koungue, Yuko Okumura, Ping Chang
Intercomparison of Ocean Reanalyses for Interannual Ocean Temperature Variability in the Tropical Atlantic
Climate Dynamics
Presentations
- I. Richter; Y. Kosaka; H. Tokinaga; S. Kido; P. Chang
Tropical Interbasin Interaction: Open questions and tools to address them
Seminar, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 05 Mar. 2026 - I. Richter; P. Chang; T. Kataoka; N. Keenlyside; S. Kido; Y. Kosaka; Y. Okumura; H. Tokinaga; T. Tozuka; I. Vilela
Strengthening ENSO influence on tropical Atlantic variability in global warming projections
CCRC Seminar Seriers, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 27 Feb. 2026 - I. Richter; Y. Okumura; N. Keenlyside; RF TBI Members
The CLIVAR Research Focus on Tropical Basin Interaction: Achievements and Reflections
AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 26 Feb. 2026 - I. Richter; P. Chang; T. Kataoka; N. Keenlyside; S. Kido; Y. Kosaka; Y. Okumura; H. Tokinaga; T. Tozuka; I. Vilela
Strengthening ENSO influence on equatorial Atlantic variability in global warming projections
03 Dec. 2025 - I. Richter
Introducing TBIMIP: The Tropical Basin Interaction Model Intercomparison Project
Pan-CLIVAR Meeting, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 24 Sep. 2025 - I. Richter
How CMIP6 projections envision future equatorial Atlantic variability and its linkage to ENSO
Department Seminar, IBS Center for Climate Physics, Busan, South Korea, 28 Jul. 2025 - I. Richter
Robustness of Atlantic Niño mechanisms in global warming projections
BACO-2025 Meeting, Busan, South Korea, 23 Jul. 2025 - I. Richter; N. Keenlyside; T. Tozuka; Y. Okumura; C. Wang; P. Chang; S. Kido; H. Tokinaga
Re-evaluating the two-way interaction between the tropical Atlantic and Pacific
APL-ICAR Workshop, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, 10 Jul. 2025 - I. Richter
Factors controlling low-frequency changes in near-surface wind speed
JpGU 2025, 28 May 2025 - I. Richter; Y. Morioka; A. Taschetto
Common Precursors to the Atlantic Zonal Mode and ENSO
JpGU 2025, 28 May 2025 - Ingo Richter
Which way Atlantic Niño? – How CMIP6 projections envision future variability in the equatorial Atlantic. Workshop on Ocean and Atmosphere Simulations
Workshop on Ocean and Atmosphere Simulations, J. F. Obirin University, Fuchinobe, Kanagawa, Japan, 28 Mar. 2025 - Ingo Richter; Noel Keenlyside; Tomoki Tozuka; Yuko Okumura; Chunzai Wang; Ping Chang; Shoichiro Kido; Hiroki Tokinaga
Re-evaluating the two-way interaction between the tropical Atlantic and Pacific
2024 International workshop on interbasin interaction, its impacts on predictability, and related climate phenomena, Fukuoka, Japan, 16 Dec. 2024 - Ingo Richter; Tomoki Tozuka; Yu Kosaka; Shoichiro Kido; Hiroki Tokinaga; Ping Chang
Toward a more complete understanding of tropical Pacific-Atlantic Interaction
JOS Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 18 Sep. 2024 - Ingo Richter; Jayanthi Venkata Ratnam; Patrick Martineau; Pascal Oettli; Takeshi Doi; Tomomichi Ogata; Takahito Kataoka; Francois Counillon
Improving the skill of seasonal predictions in the tropics with a CCA-based post-processing scheme
JOS Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 17 Sep. 2024 - Ingo Richter; Tomoki Tozuka; Yu Kosaka; Shoichiro Kido; Hiroki Tokinaga; Ping Chang
Revisiting ENSO’s inconsistent influence on the equatorial Atlantic
AOGS Meeting, Pyeongchang, South Korea, 24 Jun. 2024 - Ingo Richter; Shoichiro Kido; Takeshi Doi
Emulating GCM pacemaker experiments using LIMs
CLIVAR Workshop on interaction among the tropical basins: observations and simulations, Seoul, South Korea, 22 Jun. 2024 - Ingo Richter, Tomoki Tozuka,Yu Kosaka, Shoichiro Kido, Hiroki Tokinaga
On the complexities of ENSO’s influence on the equatorial Atlantic
JpGU Meeting, 2024, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan, 27 May 2024 - Ingo Richter; Tomoki Tozuka; Yu Kosaka; Shoichiro Kido; Hiroki Tokinaga
Exploring 6-month lead predictability of the Atlantic zonal mode in CMIP6
EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 15 Apr. 2024
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