I am Xiao Dong, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. My research interests include: the intra-seasonal and interdecadal variation of East Asia summer monsoon (precipitation and associated circulation), application of ocean data assimilation in coupled climate models, air–sea coupling processes in the East Asian monsoon region, monsoon simulations, climate, and ecology interactions, among others. I have published several peer-reviewed papers in high-quality international journals (SCI), including the International Journal of Climatology, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Atmospheric Science Letters, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, et al.