• Planetary wave dynamics
• Global climate change
• Coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction

Selected Publications:

• White, W. B., S.-C. Chen, R. J. Allan, and R. C. Stone, Positive feedbacks between the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave and the global El Niño–Southern Oscillation Wave, J. Geophys. Res., 107(C10), 3165, doi:10.1029/2000JC000581, 2002.
  
• White, W.B., and S.-C. Chen, 2002. Thermodynamic mechanisms responsible for the troposphere response to SST anomalies in the Antarctic circumpolar wave, J. Climate, 15, 2577-2596.
  
• White, W.B., and R.J. Allan, 2001: A global quasi-biennial wave in surface temperature and pressure and its decadal modulation from 1900 to 1994. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 26,789-26,803.
  
• White, W.B., 2001: Evidence for coupled Rossby waves in the annual cycle of the Indo-Pacific Ocean. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 31, 2944-2957.
  
• Tourre, Y.M., B. Rajagopalan, Y. Kushnir, M. Barlow, and W.B. White, 2001: Patterns of coherent decadal and interdecadal climate signals in the Pacific Basin during the 20th Century. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, p. 2069-2072.
  
• White, W.B., D.R. Cayan, M. Dettinger, and G. Auad, 2001: Sources of global warming in upper ocean temperature during El Niño. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 4349-4367.
  
• Gloersen, P., and W.B. White, 2001: Reestablishing the circumpolar wave in sea ice around Antarctica from one winter to the next. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 4391-4395.
  
• White, W.B. M.D. Dettinger, D.R. Cayan, 2000: Global average upper ocean temperature response to changing solar irradiance: Exciting the internal decadal mode, Proc. 1st Solar Space Wea. Eurocent., Spain, 463, 125-133.
  
• White, W.B., 2000: Coupled Rossby Waves in the Indian Ocean on Interannual Timescales, J. Phys. Oceanogr., 30, 2972-2988.
  
• White, W.B., 2000: Influence of the Antarctic circumpolar wave on Australia precipitation from 1958-1997. J, Climate, 13, 2125-2141.