Publications

First author

Jacob L. Gunnarson, Malte F. Stuecker, Sen Zhao (2024). Drivers of future extratropical sea surface temperature variability changes in the North Pacific. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 164.

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Sen Zhao, Fei-Fei Jin, Malte F. Stuecker, Philip R. Thompson, Jong-Seong Kug, Mike J. McPhaden, Mark A. Cane, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Wenju Cai (2024). Explainable El Niño predictability from climate mode interactions. Nature, 630(8018), 891–898.

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Xinxin Tang, Jianping Li, Yazhou Zhang, Yanjie Li, Sen Zhao (2023). Synergistic effect of El Niño and negative phase of North Atlantic Oscillation on winter precipitation in the southeastern United States. Journal of Climate, 36 (6), 1767-1791.

Feng Shi, Hugues Goosse, Jianping Li, Qiuzhen Yin, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Tao Lian, Cheng Sun, Lin Wang, Zhiwei Wu, Juan Li, Sen Zhao, Chenxi Xu, Wei Liu, Ting Liu, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Zhengtang Guo (2022). Interdecadal to multidecadal variability of East Asian summer monsoon over the past half millennium. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(30), e2022JD037260.

Sen Zhao, Christina Karamperidou (2022). Competing Effects of Eastern and Central‐Western Pacific Winds in the Evolution of the 2017 Extreme Coastal El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(15), e2022GL098859.

Feng Shi, Cheng Sun, Antoine Guion, Antoine Guion, Qiuzhen Yin, Sen Zhao, Ting Liu, Zhengtang Guo (2022). Roman Warm Period and Late Antique Little Ice Age in an Earth system model large ensemble. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(16), e2021JD035832.

Xiaofan Li, Zeng‐Zhen Hu, Sen Zhao, Ruiqiang Ding, Banglin Zhang (2022). On the asymmetry of the tropical Pacific thermocline fluctuation associated with ENSO recharge and discharge. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(11), e2022GL099242.

Xinxin Tang, Jianping Li, Huqiang Zhang, Sen Zhao (2022). Representation of Rossby wave propagation and its effect on the teleconnection between the Indian summer monsoon and extratropical rainfall in the Met Office Unified Model. Climate Dynamics, 58(3), 907-924.

Sen Zhao, Fei-Fei Jin, Malte F. Stuecker (2021). Understanding Lead Times of Warm Water Volumes to ENSO Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(19), e2021GL094366.

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Han-Ching Chen, Fei-Fei Jin, Sen Zhao, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Shaocheng Xie (2021). ENSO Dynamics in the E3SM-1-0, CESM2, and GFDL-CM4 Climate Models. Journal of Climate, 34 (23), 9365-9384.

Sen Zhao, Fei-Fei Jin, Xiaoyu Long, Mark A. Cane (2021). On the Breakdown of ENSO’s Relationship with Thermocline Depth in the Central‐Equatorial Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(9), e2020GL092335.

Fei-Fei Jin, Han-Ching Chen, Sen Zhao, Michiya Hayashi, Christina Karamperidou, Malte F. Stuecker, Ruihuang Xie, Licheng Geng (2020). Simple ENSO Models. Geophysical Monograph Series: El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate. eds: A. Santoso, W. Cai, and M. J. McPhaden, 119-151.

Ting Liu, Jianping Li, Qiuyun Wang, Sen Zhao (2020). Influence of the Autumn SST in the Southern Pacific Ocean on Winter Precipitation in the North American Monsoon Region. Atmosphere, 11(8):844.

Xin Zhou, Quanliang Chen, Zhenglin Wang, Mian Xu, Sen Zhao, Zhigang Cheng, Fan Feng (2020). Longer duration of the weak stratospheric vortex during extreme El Niño events linked to spring Eurasian coldness. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(16):e2019JD032331.

Yazhou Zhang, Jianping Li, Sen Zhao, Fei Zheng, Juan Feng, Yang Li, Yidan Xu (2020). Indian Ocean tripole mode and its associated atmospheric and oceanic processes. Climate Dynamics, 55(5):1367–1383.

Aoyun Xue, Fei‐Fei Jin, Wenjun Zhang, Julien Boucharel, Sen Zhao, Xinyi Yuan (2020). Delineating the Seasonally Modulated Nonlinear Feedback onto ENSO from Tropical Instability Waves. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(7):e2019GL085863.

Sen Zhao, Malte F. Stuecker, Fei-Fei Jin, Juan Feng, Hong-Li Ren, Wenjun Zhang, Jianping Li (2020). Improved Predictability of the Indian Ocean Dipole using a Stochastic-Dynamical Model compared to the North American Multi-model Ensemble Forecast. Weather and Forecasting, 35(2):379-399.

Yu-heng Tseng, Ruiqiang Ding, Sen Zhao, Yi-chun Kuo, Yu-chiao Liang (2020). Could the North Pacific Oscillation Be Modified by the Initiation of the East Asian Winter Monsoon?. Journal of Climate, 33:2389–2406.

Feng Shi, Hugues Goosse, François Klein, Sen Zhao, Ting Liu, Zhengtang Guo (2019). Monopole mode of precipitation in East Asia modulatedby the South China Sea over the last four centuries. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(24), 14713–14722.

Sen Zhao, Fei-Fei Jin, Malte F. Stuecker (2019). Improved Predictability of the Indian Ocean Dipole Using Seasonally Modulated ENSO Forcing Forecasts. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(16):9980-9990.

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Sen Zhao, Jianping Li, Yanjie Li, Fei-Fei Jin, Jiayu Zheng (2019). Interhemispheric Influence of Indo-Pacific Convection Oscillation on Southern Hemisphere Rainfall through Southward Propagation of Rossby Waves. Climate Dynamics, 52(5-6):3203-3221.

Qiuyun Wang, Jianping Li, Yanjie Li, Jiaqing Xue, Sen Zhao, Yidan Xu, Yuehong Wang, Yazhou Zhang, Di Dong, Jingwen Zhang (2019). Modulation of tropical cyclone tracks over the western North Pacific by intra-seasonal Indo-western Pacific convection oscillation during the boreal extended summer. Climate Dynamics, 52(1-2):913-927.

Juan Feng, Jianping Li, Fei-Fei Jin, Zhengyu Liu, Sen Zhao (2019). Effect of El Niño on the Response Ratio of Hadley Circulation to Different SST Meridional Structures. Climate Dynamics.

Yanjie Li, Jianping Li, Fred Kucharski, Jin Feng, Sen Zhao, Jiayu Zheng (2018). Two Leading Modes of the Interannual Variability in South American Surface Air Temperature during Austral Winter. Climate Dynamics, 51(5-6):2141-2156.

Xin Zhou, Jianping Li, Fei Xie, Ruiqiang Ding, Yanjie Li, Sen Zhao, Jiankai Zhang, Yang Li (2018). The Effects of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool on the Stratosphere. Climate Dynamics, 51(11-12):4043-4064.

Yanjie Li, Jin Feng, Jianping Li, Sen Zhao (2018). The Circle Diagram in the Group Velocity Domain for Rossby Wave under the Horizontally Non-Uniform Flow. SOLA, 14:121-125.

Juan Feng, Jianping Li, Feifei Jin, Sen Zhao, Jianlei Zhu (2018). Relationship between the Hadley circulation and different tropical meridional SST structures during boreal summer. Journal of Climate, 31(16):6575-6590.

Malte F. Stuecker, Cecilia M. Bitz, Kyle C. Armour, Cristian Proistosescu, Sarah M. Kang, Shang-Ping Xie, Doyeon Kim, Shayne McGregor, Wenjun Zhang, Sen Zhao, Wenju Cai, Yue Dong, Fei-Fei Jin (2018). Polar Amplification Dominated by Local Forcing and Feedbacks. Nature Climate Change, 8(12):1076-1081.

Ting Liu, Jianping Li, YanJie Li, Sen Zhao, Fei Zheng, Jiayu Zheng, Zhixiong Yao (2018). Influence of the May Southern Annular Mode on the South China Sea Summer Monsoon. Climate Dynamics, 51(11-12);4095-4107.

Jiaqing Xue, Jianping Li, Cheng Sun, Sen Zhao, Jiangyu Mao, Di Dong, Yanjie Li, Juan Feng (2018). Decadal-Scale Teleconnection between South Atlantic SST and Southeast Australia Surface Air Temperature in Austral Summer. Climate Dynamics, 50(7-8):2687-2703.

Malte F. Stuecker, Axel Timmermann, Fei-Fei Jin, Yoshimitsu Chikamoto, Wenjun Zhang, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Esther Widiasih, Sen Zhao (2017). Revisiting ENSO/Indian Ocean Dipole Phase Relationships. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(5):2481–2492.

Fei Xie, Jianping Li, Jiankai Zhang, Wenshou Tian, Yongyun Hu, Sen Zhao, Cheng Sun, Ruiqiang Ding, Juan Feng, Yun Yang (2017). Variations in North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Caused by Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Anomalies. Environmental Research Letters, 12(11):114023.

Juan Feng, Jianping Li, Feifei Jin, Sen Zhao, Fei Xie (2017). The responses of the Hadley circulation to different meridional SST structures in the seasonal cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122(15):7785-7799.

Wenshou Tian, Yuanpu Li, Fei Xie, Jiankai Zhang, Martyn P Chipperfield, Wuhu Feng, Yongyun Hu, Sen Zhao, Xin Zhou, Yun Yang, Xuan Ma (2017). The relationship between lower-stratospheric ozone at southern high latitudes and sea surface temperature in the East Asian marginal seas in austral spring. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17(11):6705-6722.

Lidou Huyan, Jianping Li, Sen Zhao, Cheng Sun, Di Dong, Ting Liu, Yufei Zhao (2017). The Impact of Layer Perturbation Potential Energy on the East Asian Summer Monsoon. Journal of Climate, 30(17):7087-7103.

Jianhuang Qin, Ruiqiang Ding, Zhiwei Wu, Jianping Li, Sen Zhao (2017). Relationships between the extratropical ENSO precursor and leading modes of atmospheric variability in the Southern Hemisphere. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34(3):360-370.

Feng Shi, Sen Zhao, Zhengtang Guo, Hugues Goosse, Qiuzhen Yin (2017). Multi-proxy reconstructions of May--September precipitation field in China over the past 500 years. Climate of the Past, 13(12):1919-1938.

Sen Zhao (2016). Theory of Cross-Equatorial Propagation of Planetary Wave in Horizontally Non-Uniform Basic Flow and Its Applications in Atmospheric Teleconnections. PhD Dissertation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Sen Zhao, Jianping Li, Cheng Sun (2016). Decadal Variability in the Occurrence of Wintertime Haze in Central Eastern China Tied to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Scientific Reports, 6:27424.

Fengmei Yang, Naiang Wang, Feng Shi, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Sen Zhao, Ting Liu (2016). The spatial distribution of precipitation over the West Qinling region, China, AD 1470--2000. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 443:278-285.

Jiayu Zheng, Qiaoyan Wu, Yipeng Guo, Sen Zhao (2016). The Impact of Summertime North Indian Ocean SST on Tropical Cyclone Genesis over the Western North Pacific. SOLA, 12:242-246.

Jianping Li, Sen Zhao, Yanjie Li, Lei Wang, Cheng Sun (2016). On the role of perturbation potential energy in variability of the East Asian summer monsoon: Current status and prospects (in Chinese). Advances in Earth Science, 31(2):115-125.

Ruiqiang Ding, Jianping Li, Yu-heng Tseng, Kyung-Ja Ha, Sen Zhao, June-Yi Lee (2016). Interdecadal change in the lagged relationship between the Pacific--South American pattern and ENSO. Climate Dynamics, 47(9-10):2867-2884.

Fei Zheng, Jianping Li, Yanjie Li, Sen Zhao, Difei Deng (2016). Influence of the Summer NAO on the Spring-NAO-Based Predictability of the East Asian Summer Monsoon. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 55(7):1459-1476.

Dildar Hussain Kazmi, Jianping Li, Chengqing Ruan, Sen Zhao, Yanjie Li (2016). A Statistical Downscaling Model for Summer Rainfall over Pakistan. Climate Dynamics, 47(7-8):2653-2666.

Sen Zhao, Jianping Li, Yanjie Li (2015). Dynamics of an Interhemispheric Teleconnection across the Critical Latitude through a Southerly Duct during Boreal Winter. Journal of Climate, 28(19):7437-7456.

Geli Zhu, Wantao Lin, Sen Zhao, Yanhua Cao (2015). Spatial and temporal variation characteristics of ocean waves in the South China Sea during the boreal winter. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 34(1):23-28.

Cheng Sun, Jianping Li, Sen Zhao (2015). Remote Influence of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability on Siberian Warm Season Precipitation. Scientific Reports, 5:16853.

Yanjie Li, Jianping Li, Fei Fei Jin, Sen Zhao (2015). Interhemispheric Propagation of Stationary Rossby Waves in a Horizontally Nonuniform Background Flow. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72(8):3233-3256.

Feng Shi, Bao Yang, Sen Zhao, Fengmei Yang (2014). Spatial pattern reconstruction of typical centennial warm periods of global temperature over the past millennium (in Chinese). Quaternary Sciences, 34(6):1125-1135.