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Lee, J., S.-Y. Wang, and co-authors, 2025: Amplification of Northern Hemisphere winter stationary waves in a warming world. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, in press (PDF)

Yu, H.-W., S.-Y. Wang, and W.-Y. Liu, 2024: Do Fire Weather Conditions Significantly Affect Wildfires in Subtropical Forests in Taiwan?. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 10.1175/JAMC-D-24-0031.1 (PDF)

Zhang, W., S.-Y. Wang, ..., 2024: A weather pattern responsible for increasing wildfires in the Western United States. Environmental Research Letters, 20, 014007.

Deng, L., K. Borhara, P. Promchote, and S.-Y. Wang, 2024: Explainable AI in Lengthening ENSO Prediction from Western North Pacific Precursor. Ocean Modeling, DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2024.102431.

Kuinkel, D., P. Promchote, K. R. Upreti, S.-Y. Wang, et al., 2024: Projected changes in precipitation extremes in Southern Thailand using CMIP6 models. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, in press. (PDF)

Chikamoto, Y., S.-Y. Wang, H.-I Chang, and C. Castro, 2024: Tropical Inter-Basin Interaction as Effective Predictors of Late-Spring Precipitation Variability in the Southern Great Plains. Journal of Climate, in press (PDF)

Zhao, L., X. Meng, S.-Y. Wang, et al. 2024: Summer High-altitude Diurnal Rainfall Change in the Three Rivers Source Region and Associated Mechanism. Journal of Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0730.1.

LaPlante, M., P. Dahal, S.-Y. Wang, et al., 2024: A 'Nuclear Bomb' or Just a Joke'? Groundwater Models May Help Communicate Nuanced Risks to the Great Salt Lake. Water, DOI:10.3390/w16162221.

LaPlante, M., L. Dalanhese, L. Deng, and S.-Y. Wang, 2024: East Pacific ENSO Offers Early Predictive Signals for Harvest Yields. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, DOI:10.1175/JAMC-D-23-0121.1.

Huyen, NG, S.-Y. Wang, and J.-H. Yoon, 2024: Trends and Variations of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Contributions in the Indochina Peninsula. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. DOI: 10.1007/s00704-024-05084-5.

Gu, H., J. D. D. Meyer, S.-Y. Wang, et al., 2024: Assessing the future probable maximum precipitation in Utah under global warming. International Journal of Climatology, DOI:10.1002/joc.8554.

Ryu, J., S.-Y. Wang, J-H Jeong, and J.-H. Yoon, 2024: Sub-seasonal prediction skill: Is the mean state a good model evaluation metric? Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-024-07315-x.

Ryu, J., S.-Y. Wang, and J.-H. Yoon, 2024: A Time of Emergence (TOE) Analysis on the Impact and Uncertainty of Global Warming on Korean Peak Summers. Climatic Change, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-024-03766-7. (PDF)

Pokharel, B., K. A. Jagannathan, S.-Y. Wang, A. Jones, M. D. LaPlante, S. Buddhavarapu, K. Borhara et al, 2024: Can We Rely on Drought-ending “miracles” in the Colorado River Basin?, Journal of the American Water Resources Association. DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.13204.

Lee, J., S.-Y. Wang, S.-W. Son, D. Kim, J.-H. Jeong, H. Kim, and J.-H. Yoon, 2024: Evolving winter atmospheric teleconnection patterns and their potential triggers across western North America. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 63 (PDF)

Hong, Y., S.-Y. Wang, S.-W. Son, et al., 2024: From Peak to Plummet: Impending Decline of the Warm Arctic-Cold Continents Phenomenon. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 66 (PDF)

Chang, H.-I, Y. Chikamoto, S.-Y. Wang, C. Castro, M. D. LaPlante, et al. 2024: Enhancing extreme precipitation predictions with dynamical downscaling: A convection-permitting modeling study in Texas and Oklahoma. Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI:10.1029/2023JD038765 (PDF)

LaPlante, M., L. Deng, L. Dalanhese, and S.-Y. Wang, 2024: Ocean Temperatures Do Not Account for a Record-Setting Winter in the U.S. West. Atmosphere, DOI:10.3390/atmos15030284 (PDF)

Chen, Y.-Y., S.-Y. Wang, H.-W. Yu, and W.-Y. Liu, 2024: When Forests Hold Their Breath: Will Increasing Drought Further Disrupt Carbon Sequestration? Environmental Research Letters, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ad27ba (PDF)

Yu, H.-W., S.-Y. Wang, and W.-Y. Liu, 2024: Estimating Wildfire Potential in Taiwan Under Different Climate Change Scenarios. Climatic Change, DOI: 10.1007/s10584-023-03669-z (PDF)

Wang, S.-Y., and W.-Y. Liu, 2023: Empowering Taiwan’s Climate Financial Risk Management: A Perspective. Business and Technology Innovation Journal, 3, 27-33. (PDF)

Mukherjee, A., P. Roy, D. Sanyal, T. N. Roy, and S.-Y. Wang, 2023: Does socio-economic dynamics influence crop yield variability? Current Science, 125(8), 25. (PDF)

Moon, S., N. Utsumi, J.-H. Jeong, J.-H. Yoon, S.-Y. Wang, H Shiogama, and H. Kim, 2023: Anthropogenic Warming Induced Intensification of Summer Monsoon Frontal Precipitation over East Asia. Science Advances (Science), DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adh4195 (PDF)

Huang, H.-S., S.-H. Wang, K.-M. Lau, S.-Y. Wang, A. M. de Salva, 2023: Impact of regional climate patterns on the biomass burning emissions and transport over Peninsular Southeast Asia, 2000-2019. Atmospheric Research, 297, 107067 (PDF).

Jagannathan, K., Buddhavarapu, S., Ullrich, P. A., Jones, A., ...S.-Y. Wang, and Coauthors, 2023: Typologies of actionable climate information and its use. Global Environmental Change, 82, 102732. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102732 (PDF).

Dalanhese, L., J. Stuivenvolt Allen, M. LaPlante, S.-Y. Wang, T. L. Costa, H. D. Ferreira da Silva, and A. L. Belem, 2023: A new climatology of South American extratropical cyclogenesis with an inter-comparison among ERA5, JRA55, and the Brazilian Navy. International Journal of Climatology, DOI:10.1002/joc.8251 (PDF)

Stuivenvolt Allen, J., S.-Y. Wang, Y. Chikamoto, J. D.D. Meyer, Z. F. Johnson, and L. Deng, 2023: Growing Pacific Linkage with Western North Atlantic Explosive Cyclogenesis. Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0784.1 (PDF)

Promchote, P., B. Pokharel, L. Deng, S.-Y. Wang, J.-H. Yoon, and P. Kittipadakul, 2023: Boosting Thailand's Palm Oil Yield with Advanced Seasonal Predictions. Environmental Research Letters, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ace06c (PDF)

Sharma, S., K. Hamal, B. Pokharel, B. Fosu, S.-Y. Wang, et al., 2023: Atypical forcing embedded in typical forcing leading to the extreme summer 2020 precipitation in Nepal. Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-023-06777-9 (PDF)

Lin, H.-I., J.-S. Hong, P.-C. Hsu, S.-Y. Wang, et al. 2023: Meeting note: 2021 Asia Pacific Climate Service Workshop. Climate Services, DOI:10.1016/j.cliser.2023.100392 (PDF)

Borhara, K., B. Fosu, and S.-Y. Wang, 2023: The Role of the Western North Pacific (WNP) as an El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Precursor in a Warmer Future Climate. Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-023-06773-z (PDF)

Chikamoto, Y., W. Zhang, L. Hipps, S.-Y. Wang, et al., 2023: Interannual Variability and Trends of Summertime PM2.5-based Air Quality in the Intermountain West. Environmental Research Letters, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/acc6e0 (PDF)

Xu, C., S.-Y. Wang, K. Borhara, B. Buckley, et al., 2023: Global warming strengthens the linkage of Asian-Australian summer monsoons with ENSO. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, DOI: s41612-023-00341-2 (PDF)

Hong, J., S.-Y. Wang, S.-W. Son, J.-H. Jeong, S.-W. Kim, B. Kim, H. Kim, and J.-H. Yoon, 2023: Arctic-associated increased fluctuations of midlatitude winter temperature in the 1.5° and 2.0° warmer world. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, DOI:10.1038/s41612-023-00345-y (PDF)

Pokharel, B., S. Sharma, J. Stuivenvolt-Allen, S.-Y. Wang, M. LaPlante, et al., 2023: Amplified drought trends in Nepal increase the potential for Himalayan wildfires. Climatic Change, DOI:10.1007/s10584-023-03495-3 (PDF)
Liu, W.-Y., D.-R. Lee, S.-Y. Wang, et al., 2023: Assessing the ecological loss of mining areas in Taiwan. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 195, 288. DOI:10.1007/s10661-022-10780-8

Stuivenvolt Allen, J., and S.-Y. Wang, 2022: North American fire weather catalyzed by the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-022-06561-1 (PDF).

Lee, C.-T., S.-Y. Wang, and T.-T. Lo, 2022: A revised Meiyu-season onset index for Taiwan based on ERA5. Atmosphere, DOI:10.3390/atmos13111762 (PDF)

Promchote, P., S.-Y. Wang, J.-H. Yoon, P. G. Johnson, E. Creech, Y. Shen, and M.-H. Yao, 2022: On the Changing Cool Season Affecting Rice Growth and Yield in Taiwan. Agronomy, DOI:10.3390/agronomy12112625 (PDF)

Son, R., P.-L. Ma, H. Wang, P. J. Rasch, S.-Y. Wang, H. Kim, J.-H. Jeong, K.-S. Lim, J.-H. Yoon, 2022: Machine Learning provides substantial improvements to county-level fire weather forecasting over the western United States. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, DOI:10.1029/2022MS002995 (PDF)

Mukherjee, S., S.-Y. Wang, D. Hirschfeld, J. Lisonbee, and R. Gillies, 2022: Feasibility of Adding Twitter Data to Aid Drought Depiction: Case Study in Colorado. Water, DOI:10.3390/w14182773 (PDF)

Huang, S.-H., P.-Y. Lai, S.-Y. Hwang, K. Borhara, W.-R. Huang, and S.-Y. Wang, 2022: Climate Variability Shifting Immigrated Rice Planthoppers in Taiwan. Climate, DOI: 10.3390/cli10050071 (PDF)

Sun, X., Q. Ding, S.-Y. Wang, D. Topál, Q. Li, C. Castro, H. Teng, R. Luo, Y. Ding, 2022: Enhanced jet stream waviness induced by suppressed tropical Pacific convection during boreal summer. Nature Communications, 13, #1288 (PDF)

Wu, C.-H., P.-C. Tsay, W.-R. Huang, and S.-Y. Wang, 2022: Winter-summer contrast of the 1990s decadal change in relation to Afro-Asian monsoons. Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-022-06191-7 (PDF)