Atmospheric Interaction USM

Check out our new layout for the visualization page of our research website. We think it looks cool!

See it at https://atmosfera.usm.my/visualization.html

Postdoc opportunity in USM. Apply now!

The Postdoctoral Fellowship (FPD) 2026 is Now Open for Application School of Industrial Technology (PPTI), USM Official Website

Welcome to our Atmospheric Interaction Research group, Beibei E!

Beibei is a doctoral student (supervisor: Associate Professor Dr. Henry Potter) of the Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, and he will be in our lab for a month as a part of the FLUXNET Secondment program. He is studying the effects of coastal processes on air-sea momentum flux. We got together due to our shared interest in air-sea interaction. Visit our research website at https://atmosfera.usm.my and our database repository at https://tidbrepo.usm.my

Our experts weigh in. Read it here.

Hot and dry weather spell good news for Malaysian farmers While the dry weather is good, it also poses other challenges, specifically increased threats to crops, like rats, rice pests, and various diseases.

As the Senyar Tropical Storm is developing (https://www.met.gov.my), we have seen the water temperature drop over the past two weeks to sub-20°C. Winds were consistently 2.5 m/s on November 24, 2025, a level we haven't seen since 2016. Lately, the wind speed has been rising again. See the weather data as it develops at https://atmosfera.usm.my/visualization.html.

Happy graduation, Dr. Abigail Birago Adomako. Now, go forth and do great things!

Winds are strong and consistently so for a whole two days. Never observed this before. Water temperature is sub 20C, too. Cold!

Our group's statement in the news about La Niña and the Monsoon.

Read more about our research at https://atmosfera.usm.my

Penang, Kedah brace for floods GEORGE TOWN: Penang and Kedah are on full alert as Malaysia braces for the La Nina season which is expected to bring heavy rain and possible flooding until December.

My poster and I (co-author: Fikri) at the AsiaFlux 2025 conference. Had a visitor at my booth, George Burba, giving me ideas on how to proceed with closed-path ways of measurement for low values of fluxes.

This was the strong-wind-event that happened yesterday night, October 21st. The wind was consistently increasing for a couple of hours until midnight. In comparison, the average wind speed at Teluk Bahang coast is 0.5 m/s, but yesterday, it was 5 times higher.

First time in Indonesia, attending the AsiaFlux 2025 conference at Pengkalan Kerinci, Riau, Indonesia.