Dr Marvin Xiang Ce Seow
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Postdoctoral Fellow
email Marvin.Seow@anu.edu.au

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About

I am a climatologist by training with interest in both physical oceanography and atmospheric sciences. I obtained my BSocSci (Hons) in Geography from National University of Singapore and MSc and PhD from University of Tokyo. During my undergraduate, I worked on hydrological modeling and urban—rural climate variability. Subsequently, as a graduate student, I worked on the local air—sea coupling mechanisms over the South China Sea, as well as the teleconnection patterns explaining the Maritime Continent climate variability.

Affiliations

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Research interests

I work on understanding the Earth's atmospheric and oceanic processes, particularly the air—ocean coupling, in affecting the climate variability over the seasonal to decadal time scales. This includes the large-scale teleconnections involving climate modes operating in various oceans and atmosphere (i.e. internal atmospheric variability). I use coupled model simulations to understand their representation of climatic processes and how different oceanic basins contribute to the observed climate variability, particularly over the Indo-Pacific.

Location

Jaeger 7 Room 211

Publications

  • Seow MXC, Qiu B, and Gan J, “Impacts of Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature versus internal atmospheric variability on the South China Sea summer monsoon”, Geophysical Research Letters, 52(16), e2025GL117215, 2025. doi: 10.1029/2025GL117215

  • Seow MXC, Hassim MEE, Prasanna V, and Tozuka T, “Atmospheric impacts of local sea surface temperatures versus remote drivers during strong South China Sea winter cold tongue events”, Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 149(751), 556–572, 2023. doi: 10.1002/qj.4423 

  • Seow MXC, Morioka Y, and Tozuka T, “Roles of tropical remote forcings on the South China Sea winter atmospheric and cold tongue variabilities”, Journal of Climate, 34(10), 4103–4118, 2021. doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0657.1

  • Seow MXC, and Tozuka T, “Ocean thermodynamics behind the asymmetry of interannual variation of South China Sea winter cold tongue strength”, Climate Dynamics, 52(5–6), 3241–3253, 2019. doi: 10.1007/s00382-018-4320-2

  • Seow MXC, “A new type of tropical Pacific warming—El Niño Modoki”, Physics Today, 71(12), 50–52, 2018. doi: 10.1063/PT.3.4092

  • Seow MXC, and Roth M, “Influence of climate oscillations on urban and rural temperature variability in the Kanto region of Japan”, Climate Research, 75(1), 65–80, 2018. doi: 10.3354/cr01507

  • Seow MXC, and Ziegler AD, “Correcting systematic underprediction of biochemical oxygen demand in support vector regression”, Journal of Environmental Engineering, 143(9), p04017046, 2017. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001243