Using hierarchical modeling frameworks, data-driven methods, and statistical mechanics, our lab focuses on the predictability and future projections of climate extremes from a dynamical system perspective. 

The Polar Climate Research Group aims at studying the fast changing polar climate system. We focus on the causes and consequences of polar amplification using observations, theories, new modeling approaches with different complexity, and innovative data-driven methods. Link

Our lab views the Earth as a coupled system, investigating how energy exchanges between the atmosphere, land, and ocean drive global circulation changes under GHGs, aerosols, and ozone depletion. Integrating physical theory with observational data, IPCC-class modeling, and AI-driven emulators, we decode these large-scale dynamics to sharpen regional projections of shifting rainfall, droughts, and flooding. Link

The Atmospheric Environment Laboratory studies tropical organized convection in the Asian monsoon region, spanning convective organization, synoptic controls, and the regional convection–circulation–energetic coupling that leads to features of convection aggregation. We integrate satellite data analysis and field observation campaigns with a hierarchy of models—from large eddy simulations, superparameterized global model, and global storm-resolving models—to develop physically interpretable, storyline-centered projections for weather and extreme rainfall dominated by organized convection over Taiwan and the surrounding monsoon region. Link

Our group focuses on land-atmosphere interactions, integrating in situ observations, satellite remote sensing, and numerical modeling to investigate how water and energy cycles respond to anthropogenic climate change and how these changes affect climate, extreme events, and ecosystems. Link

Our laboratory centers on TaiwanVVM and employs a unified set of governing physical equations to investigate multiscale convective aggregation processes, while examining the mechanisms and potential of environmental soundings for predicting local weather. We further integrate explainable artificial intelligence to develop the AI-TaiwanVVM framework, enabling physically guided predictions of future weather patterns over Taiwan under climate change scenarios. Link

Our research uses experiments, observations, and modeling to comprehensively investigate the spatiotemporal evolution of atmospheric constituents (including gases and aerosols) and how interactions between these constituents, atmospheric dynamics, and chemical reactions influence the climate. Link

Convection and Precipitation Laboratory is directed by Prof. Ming-Jen Yang. The research topics of this laboratory include severe weather phenomena which produced deep convection and heavy rainfall, including typhoon, squall line, mesoscale convective system, and afternoon thunderstorm. Link

Professor Cheng-Ku Yu leads the Mesoscale and Orographic Precipitation Laboratory. Primary research directions of the laboratory include the mechanisms of orographic precipitation, midlatitude and tropical mesoscale convective systems, local circulations and precipitation, severe weather systems and mesoscale phenomena. Current research topics particularly focus on the investigation of the physical processes of orographic precipitation in the tropical cyclone environment, as well as the formation and development of tropical cyclone rainbands and coastal convection, using Doppler radar and various available observations. Link

Tropical Cyclone –Ocean Interaction in the Changing Climate. Link