Latest Update: 3 Mar 2025
2025
Zhuoying Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2025: Westward shift of western North Pacific tropical cyclones in CMIP6-HighResMIP models. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 100594. [Link to paper]
Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Yue Zhang, and Xiran Xu, 2025: Modulation of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on the East Asian Surface Air Temperature in Boreal Winter. Journal of Climate, 38, 87-99. [Link to paper]
2024
Zheng-Hang Fu, Wen Zhou*, Shang-Ping Xie*, Ruhua Zhang, and Xudong Wang, 2024: Dynamic pathway linking Pakistan flooding to East Asian heatwaves. Science Advances, 10, eadk9250. [Link to paper] [Magazine cover]
Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Wenshou Tian, Yue Zhang, Junxia Zhang, and Jiali Luo, 2024: A stratospheric precursor of East Asian summer droughts and floods. Nature Communications, 15, 247. [Link to paper]
Shifei Tu, Zhenzhen Hu, Mei Liang, Wen Zhou*, Johnny C. L. Chan, and Jianjun Xu*, 2024: Decreasing trend in destructive potential of tropical cyclones in the South Indian Ocean since the mid-1990s. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 543. [Link to paper]
Zhuoying Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Poleward migration of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific in the CMIP6-HighResMIP models constrained by observations. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 161. [Link to paper]
Hongjie Liang, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Dynamic and thermodynamic processes related to sea-ice surface melt advance in the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea. The Cryosphere, 18, 3559-3569. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, Wen Zhou*, and Xin Wang, 2024: Extreme Meteorological Drought Events over China (1951–2022): Migration Patterns, Diversity of Temperature Extremes, and Decadal Variations. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li*, Zhiping Wen, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Different configurations of the Eurasian pattern and South Asian jet wave train and their impacts on the winter climate over East Asia. Climate Dynamics. [Link to paper]
Chao He*, Xiaolong Chen, Matthew Collins, Fengfei Song, Yamin Hu, Xingwen Jiang, Yanju Liu, Yihui Ding, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Rising geopotential height under global warming. Climate Dynamics. [Link to paper]
Xiaocheng Yu, Yue Zhang*, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Distinct preceding oceanic drivers for interannual variation of summer tropical cyclone–induced rainfall in South and East China. Climate Dynamics. [Link to paper]
Jiasi Chen, Yuanhong Guan*, Wen Zhou, Xianghua Wu, Qifeng Lu, and Xingyu Li, 2024: Influence of the Southern Indian Ocean Dipole on the following spring climate in China: A synthetic observational and numerical study. Atmospheric Research, 299, 107183. [Link to paper]
Xiaorui Zhang, Xiao Lu*, Fan Wang, Wen Zhou, Peng Wang, and Meng Gao*, 2024: Enhanced Late Spring Ozone in Southern China by Early Onset of the South China Sea Summer Monsoon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039029. [Link to paper]
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri, Wen Zhou*, Christopher E. Ndehedehe, and Xuan Wang, 2024: Global vegetation, moisture, thermal and climate interactions intensify compound extreme events. Science of the Total Environment, 912, 169261. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, and Ruhua Zhang, 2024: Decadal Changes in Dry and Wet Heatwaves in Eastern China: Spatial Patterns and Risk Assessment. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 41, 2011-2026. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Xiaocheng Yu, Ye Tian, and Ruhua Zhang, 2024: Long-term coupled variability of temperature and precipitation in eastern China and the underlying mechanisms. Climate Dynamics, 62, 1447-1465. [Link to paper]
Xuan Tong, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Assessing predictive attribution in NMME forecasts of summer precipitation in eastern china using deep learning. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 304. [Link to paper]
Xuan Tong, Wen Zhou*, and Jiangjiang Xia, 2024: Improving Boreal Summer Precipitation Predictions From the Global NMME Through Res34-Unet. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106391. [Link to paper]
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri*, Wen Zhou*, Christopher E. Ndehedehe, Xuan Wang, Kazeem A. Ishola, and Patrick Laux, 2024: Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change. One Earth, 7, 72-87. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Influence of Internal Climate System Forcing on the Relationship Between North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones and Saharan Dust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039766. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Interdecadal variation of the monsoon trough and its relationship with tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea and Philippine Sea around the mid-2000s. Climate Dynamics. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Jinxiao Li, Zixiang Yan, Zili Shen, Bo Wu, Bin Wang, Ronghua Zhang, and Zhijin Li*, 2024: Progress and future prospects of decadal prediction and data assimilation: A review. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 17, 100441. [Link to paper]
M. Pear Hossain, Wen Zhou, Marco Y. T. Leung, and Hsiang-Yu Yuan*, 2024: Association of air pollution and weather conditions during infection course with COVID-19 case fatality rate in the United Kingdom. Scientific reports, 14, 683. [Link to paper]
Yuqing Wang, Wen Zhou*, and Chunzai Wang*, 2024: Physical mechanism of the rapid increase in intense and long-lived extreme heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere since 1980. Science China Earth Sciences. [Link to paper]
Shuai-Lei Yao*, Renguang Wu*, Jing-Jia Luo, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Competing impacts of tropical Pacific and Atlantic on Southern Ocean inter-decadal variability. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 104. [Link to paper]
Weiwei Zhang, Dongxiao Wang, Marco Y. T. Leung*, Lin Wang, Jinchi Xie, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Upper-ocean cooling rate of the South China Sea in response to extreme cold surges and weak cold-air invasions. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 100517. [Link to paper]
Zixiang Yan, Wen Zhou*, Jinxiao Li, Xuedan Zhu, Yuxin Zang, and Liuyi Zhang, 2024: Skillful Seasonal Prediction of Global Onshore Wind Resources in SIDRI-ESS V1.0. Sustainability, 16, 7721. [Link to paper]
Zixiang Yan, Jinxiao Li*, Wen Zhou, Zouxing Lin, Yuxin Zang, and Siyuan Li, 2024: Evaluation of Seasonal Prediction of Extreme Wind Resource Potential over China Based on a Dynamic Prediction System SIDRI-ESS V1.0. Atmosphere, 15, 1024. [Link to paper]
2023
Zhenchen Liu, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Glo3DHydroClimEventSet(v1.0): A global-scale event set of hydroclimatic extremes detected with the 3D DBSCAN-based workflow (1951–2022). International Journal of Climatology, 43, 7722-7744. [Link to paper]
Zili Shen, Wen Zhou*, Jinxiao Li, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2023: A frequent ice-free Arctic is likely to occur before the mid-21st century. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 103. [Link to paper]
Ho-Nam Cheung*, Nour-Eddine Omrani*, Fumiaki Ogawa, Noel Keenlyside, Hisashi Nakamura, and Wen Zhou, 2023: Pacific oceanic front amplifies the impact of Atlantic oceanic front on North Atlantic blocking. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 61. [Link to paper]
Yuanhong Guan*, Yuxin Li, Wen Zhou, Lanjun Zou*, and Xiaohong Wang, 2023: Statistical characteristics and mechanism of the South Atlantic Ocean Dipole. International Journal of Climatology, 43, 6733-6744. [Link to paper]
Ye Tian, Wen Zhou*, Lin Zhang, Yue Zhang, and Ruhua Zhang, 2023: Changes in ENSO Modulation of the Distribution of Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific in Boreal Autumn. Journal of Climate, 36, 7739-7753. [Link to paper]
Ruhua Zhang, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Decadal Change in the Linkage between QBO and the Leading Mode of Southeast China Winter Precipitation. Journal of Climate, 36, 7379-7392. [Link to paper]
Ran Dong, Yuanhong Guan*, Wen Zhou, and Chenguang Guo, 2023: Impact of Southern Indian ocean dipole via the ITCZ on winter and spring precipitation in China. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100358. [Link to paper]
Hongjie Liang, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Arctic Sea Ice Melt Onset in the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea in Association with the Arctic Oscillation and Barents Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 36, 6363-6373. [Link to paper]
Xuan Tong, Zhongwei Yan*, Wen Zhou*, Jiangjiang Xia, and Xiaowei Quan, 2023: Multidecadal Oceanic Modulation of Summer Precipitation in North China in 1200-Year Global Climate Simulations. Journal of Climate, 36, 6125-6138. [Link to paper]
Jinling Piao, Wen Chen*, Jin-Soo Kim, Wen Zhou, Shangfeng Chen, Peng Hu, and Xiaoqing Lan, 2023: Future changes in rainy season characteristics over East China under continuous warming. Climatic Change, 176, 120. [Link to paper]
Bo Tong, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Role of the Australian High in Seasonal Phase Locking of the Indian Ocean Dipole. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102174. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, Wen Zhou*, and Yuan Yuan, 2023: 3D DBSCAN detection and parameter sensitivity of the 2022 Yangtze river summertime heatwave and drought. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100324. [Link to paper]
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri*, Wen Zhou*, Patrick Laux, Xuan Wang, Diarra Dieng, Lakshani A. E. Widana, and Muhammad Usman, 2023: Land use and land cover dynamics: Implications for thermal stress and energy demands. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 179, 113274. [Link to paper]
Yuntao Jian, Marco Y. T. Leung, Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou, Maoqiu Jian, Song Yang, Yerong Feng, and Banglin Zhang*, 2023: Bias and Uncertainty of the Relationship between AO and Winter Synoptic Temperature Variability over the Northern Hemisphere under Present and Future Climate. Journal of Climate, 36, 3245-3259. [Link to paper]
Jayarathna W. N. D. Sandaruwan, Wen Zhou*, Paxson K. Y. Cheung, Yan Du, and Xuan Wang, 2023: Characteristics and Formation of Two Leading Marine Heatwave Modes in the North Indian Ocean during Summer and Their Implications for Local Precipitation. Journal of Climate, 36, 3385-3402. [Link to paper]
Bo Tong, Xin Wang*, Dongxiao Wang, and Wen Zhou, 2023: A Novel Mechanism for Extreme El Niño Events: Interactions between Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific and Sea Surface Warming in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Journal of Climate, 36, 2585-2601. [Link to paper]
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri*, Wen Zhou*, Patrick Laux, Christopher E. Ndehedehe, Xuan Wang, Muhammad Usman, and Akintomide A. Akinsanola, 2023: Multivariate Drought Monitoring, Propagation, and Projection Using Bias-Corrected General Circulation Models. Earth’s Future, 11, e2022EF003303. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou*, and Yuntao Jian, 2023: Extended Impact of Cold Air Invasions in East Asia in Response to a Warm South China Sea and Philippine Sea. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 40, 531-540. [Link to paper]
Widana Arachchige Erandani Lakshani, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Observed decadal shifts and trends in global tropical cyclone activities from 1980 to 2021. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100321. [Link to paper]
Yuanhong Guan, Wen Zhou*, Xiaolong Jia, Yue Zhang, and Ran Dong, 2023: The synergistic impact of SPOD and ENSO on ITCZ: observation study. Climate Dynamics, 60, 1297-1311. [Link to paper]
Han Zhou*, Wen Zhou*, Yuanbo Liu*, Jiejun Huang*, Yanbin Yuan*, and Yongwei Liu*, 2023: Climatological spatial scales of meteorological droughts in China and associated climate variability. Journal of Hydrology, 617, 129056. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Global Seasonal-Scale Meteorological Droughts. Part II: Temperature Anomaly-Based Classifications. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2, 0017. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Global Seasonal-Scale Meteorological Droughts. Part I: Detection, Metrics, and Inland/Coastal Types. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2, 0016. [Link to paper]
Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Wenshou Tian, Yue Zhang, Yuntao Jian, and Yana Li, 2023: Tropical Stratospheric Forcings Weaken the Response of the East Asian Winter Temperature to ENSO. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2, 0001. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Impact of Saharan dust on landfalling North Atlantic tropical cyclones over North America in September. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100276. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Oceanic thermal forcing of North Atlantic tropical cyclones. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100286. [Link to paper]
2022
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri, Wen Zhou*, Xuan Wang, Ruhua Zhang, Patrick Laux, Kazeem A. Ishola, and Muhammad Usman, 2022: The trend and spatial spread of multisectoral climate extremes in CMIP6 models. Scientific Reports, 12, 21000. [Link to paper]
Ke Huang, Ming Feng, Ying Wu, Dongxiao Wang*, Wen Zhou, Tingting Zu, Weiqiang Wang*, Qiang Xie, Lei Yang, Jinglong Yao, and Wei Zhou, 2022: Leading-Mode Connections of the Interannual Variability in Upper-Ocean Salinity in the Tropical Indian Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52, 3309-3329. [Link to paper]
Shifei Tu, Johnny C. L. Chan*, Jianjun Xu*, Quanjia Zhong, Wen Zhou, and Yu Zhang, 2022: Increase in tropical cyclone rain rate with translation speed. Nature Communications, 13, 7325. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, Xuan Wang, Ruhua Zhang, Yana Li, and Jianping Gan, 2022: IOD, ENSO, and seasonal precipitation variation over Eastern China. Atmospheric Research, 270, 106042. [Link to paper]
Yana Li*, Yi Deng, Ho-Nam Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Song Yang, and Henian Zhang, 2022: Amplifying subtropical hydrological transition over China in early summer tied to weakened mid-latitude synoptic disturbances. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 40. [Link to paper]
Chao He*, Wen Zhou, Tim Li, Tianjun Zhou, and Yuhao Wang, 2022: East Asian summer monsoon enhanced by COVID-19. Climate Dynamics, 59, 2965-2978. [Link to paper]
Yana Li, Wen Zhou*, Song Yang, Ruhua Zhang, Ho-Nam Cheung, and Yue Zhang, 2022: Recent Early-Spring Drying Trend over Southern China Associated with Changes in the Zonal Thermal Contrast over the Pacific. Journal of Climate, 35, 6487-6498. [Link to paper]
Weijie Feng, Marco Y. T. Leung*, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou, and Oscar Y. W. Zhang, 2022: An Extreme Drought over South China in 2020/21 Concurrent with an Unprecedented Warm Northwest Pacific and La Niña. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 39, 1637-1649. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Jian Ling, and Lixin Qi, 2022: Water Vapor Transport by an Equivalent-Barotropic Cyclonic Anomaly Corresponding to Extreme Austral Late Summer Precipitation in Southeast Australia during 2021. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79, 2343-2361. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, Wen Zhou*, Ruhua Zhang, Yue Zhang, and Ya Wang, 2022: Global-Scale Interpretable Drought Reconstruction Utilizing Anomalies of Atmospheric Dynamics. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 23, 1507-1524. [Link to paper]
Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Wenshou Tian, Yue Zhang, Zhenchen Liu, and Paxson K. Y. Cheung, 2022: Changes in the Relationship between ENSO and the Winter Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex in Recent Decades. Journal of Climate, 35, 5399-5414. [Link to paper]
Xiaocheng Yu, Wen Zhou*, and Yue Zhang, 2022: The decadal shift in TC-induced precipitation over China. Atmospheric Research, 274, 106186. [Link to paper]
Ho-Nam Cheung*, Noel Keenlyside, Torben Koenigk, Shuting Yang, Tian Tian, Zhiqing Xu, Yongqi Gao, Fumiaki Ogawa, Nour-Eddine Omrani, Shaobo Qiao, and Wen Zhou*, 2022: Assessing the influence of sea surface temperature and arctic sea ice cover on the uncertainty in the boreal winter future climate projections. Climate Dynamics, 59, 433-454. [Link to paper]
Marco Y.-T. Leung, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou*, Yue Zhang, and Lin Wang, 2022: Interdecadal Variation in Available Potential Energy of Stationary Eddies in the Midlatitude Northern Hemisphere in Response to the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098297. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, Sheng Chen, Jiepeng Chen, and Shanshan Li, 2022: Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO’s mechanistic importance in modulating the ensuing-summer precipitation over Eastern China. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 48. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou*, Paxson K. Y. Cheung, Yuntao Jian, and Fuan Xiao, 2022: Joint Effect of West Pacific Warming and the Arctic Oscillation on the Bidecadal Variation and Trend of the East Asian Trough. Journal of Climate, 35, 2491-2501. [Link to paper]
Chong-wei Zheng*, Di Wu, Hai-lang Wu, Jing Guo, Chong Shen, Chuan Tian, Xin-long Tian, Zi-niu Xiao, Wen Zhou, and Chong-yin Li, 2022: Propagation and attenuation of swell energy in the Pacific Ocean. Renewable Energy, 188, 750-764. [Link to paper]
E. Adeyeri*, P. Laux, K. A. Ishola, Wen Zhou, I. A. Balogun, Z. D. Adeyewa, and H. Kunstmann, 2022: Homogenising meteorological variables: Impact on trends and associated climate indices. Journal of Hydrology, 607, 127585. [Link to paper]
Shifei Tu, Johnny C. L. Chan*, Jianjun Xu*, and Wen Zhou, 2022: Opposite Changes in Tropical Cyclone Rain Rate During the Recent El Niño and La Niña Years. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL097412. [Link to paper]
Chong-wei Zheng*, Cheng-tao Yi, Chong Shen, De-chuan Yu, Xiao-lu Wang, Yong Wang, Wen-kai Zhang, Yong Wei, Yun-ge Chen, Wei Li, Xin Jin, Shuai-dong Jia, Di Wu, Ding-jiang Wei, Xiao-feng Zhao, Yan-yan Tian, Wen Zhou, and Zi-niu Xiao, 2022: A Positive Climatic Trend in the Global Offshore Wind Power. Frontiers in Energy Research, 10. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang*, Cong Zhang, and Wen Zhou, 2022: Association between tropospheric temperature and tropical cyclone peak intensity over the North Pacific and North Atlantic. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 15, 100117. [Link to paper]
A. E. Lakshani, Wen Zhou*, and Paxson K. Y. Cheung, 2022: Impacts of El Niño Diversity on Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Bay of Bengal. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10. [Link to paper]
Ye Tian, Wen Zhou*, and W. K. Wong, 2022: Detecting Interdecadal Change in Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Genesis Based on Cluster Analysis Using pHash + Kmeans. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. [Link to paper]
Paxson K. Y. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Dongxiao Wang, and Marco Y. T. Leung, 2022: Dissimilarity among Ocean Reanalyses in Equatorial Pacific Upper-Ocean Heat Content and Its Relationship with ENSO. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 39, 67-79. [Link to paper]
2021
Yuntao Jian, Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, Maoqiu Jian, and Song Yang, 2021: Present and Future Relations between ENSO and Winter Synoptic Temperature Variability over the Asian–Pacific–American Region Simulated by CMIP5/6. Journal of Climate, 34, 9899-9913. [Link to paper]
Shuai-Lei Yao*, Wen Zhou*, Fei-Fei Jin, and Fei Zheng, 2021: North Atlantic as a Trigger for Pacific-Wide Decadal Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094719. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, and Wen Zhou*, 2021: The 2019 Autumn Hot Drought Over the Middle-Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River in China: Early Propagation, Process Evolution, and Concurrence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033742. [Link to paper]
Paxson K. Y. Cheung, Marco Y. T. Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2021: Position, Magnitude, and Size of Warm-Pool El Niño: Variability, Seasonal Predictability, and Climate Impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD034917. [Link to paper]
Yuntao Jian, Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, Maoqiu Jian, Song Yang, and Xiaoxia Lin, 2021: Interdecadal Shift of the Relationship between ENSO and Winter Synoptic Temperature Variability over the Asian–Pacific–American Region in the 1980s. Journal of Climate, 34, 5321-5335. [Link to paper]
Gang Li, Wen Zhou*, Yue Zhang, and Hongming Yan, 2021: Spatiotemporal characteristics of spring rainfall over Southwest China and their relationships with sea surface temperature during 1961–2017. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 145, 775-786. [Link to paper]
Xiaochi Huang, Han Zhou, Xiaofeng Yang, Wen Zhou*, Jiejun Huang, and Yanbin Yuan, 2021: Spatial Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Their Possible Relationship With Environmental and Meteorological Factors in Hubei Province, China. GeoHealth, 5, e2020GH000358. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang*, Bingyin Chen, Yong Xu, Wen Zhou, and Xuemei Wang, 2021: Urban heat islands in Hong Kong: Bonding with atmospheric stability. Atmospheric Science Letters, 22, e1032. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang*, and Wen Zhou, 2021: Influence of dust aerosols on eastern Pacific tropical cyclone intensity. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 14, 100028. [Link to paper]
Han Zhou, Xiaochi Huang, Wen Zhou*, Yue Zhang, and Yong Liu, 2021: Spatial correlation length of summer extreme heat stress over eastern China. International Journal of Climatology, 41, 3121-3138. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, and Tim Li, 2021: Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on Evolution of the Subsequent ENSO: Relative Roles of Dynamic and Thermodynamic Processes. Journal of Climate, 34, 3591-3607. [Link to paper]
Yana Li, Ho-Nam Cheung*, and Wen Zhou, 2021: Asymmetric Relationship Between Mid-latitude Eurasian Circulation and Summer Rainfall in Hong Kong in Different Phases of ENSO. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. [Link to paper]
2020
Han Zhou, Wen Zhou, Yuanbo Liu*, Yanbin Yuan, Jiejun Huang, and Yongwei Liu, 2020: Identifying spatial extent of meteorological droughts: An examination over a humid region. Journal of Hydrology, 591, 125505. [Link to paper]
Akintomide Afolayan Akinsanola, Wen Zhou*, Tianjun Zhou, and Noel Keenlyside, 2020: Amplification of synoptic to annual variability of West African summer monsoon rainfall under global warming. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 3, 21. [Link to paper]
Chao He, and Wen Zhou*, 2020: Different Enhancement of the East Asian Summer Monsoon under Global Warming and Interglacial Epochs Simulated by CMIP6 Models: Role of the Subtropical High. Journal of Climate, 33, 9721-9733. [Link to paper]
Chao He, Tim Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2020: Drier North American Monsoon in Contrast to Asian–African Monsoon under Global Warming. Journal of Climate, 33, 9801-9816. [Link to paper]
Yuntao Jian, Xiaoxia Lin, Wen Zhou, Maoqiu Jian*, Marco Y. T. Leung, and Paxson K. Y. Cheung, 2020: Analysis of Record-High Temperature over Southeast Coastal China in Winter 2018/19: The Combined Effect of Mid- to High-Latitude Circulation Systems and SST Forcing over the North Atlantic and Tropical Western Pacific. Journal of Climate, 33, 8813-8831. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, Dongxiao Wang, P. W. Chan, S. M. Lee, and H. W. Tong, 2020: Remote Tropical Western Indian Ocean Forcing on Changes in June Precipitation in South China and the Indochina Peninsula. Journal of Climate, 33, 7553-7566. [Link to paper]
Yong Liu*, Wen Zhou, Xia Qu, and Renguang Wu, 2020: An Interdecadal Change of the Boreal Summer Silk Road Pattern around the Late 1990s. Journal of Climate, 33, 7083-7100. [Link to paper]
YaJun Shi, Yan Du*, Zesheng Chen, and Wen Zhou, 2019: Occurrence and impacts of tropical cyclones over the southern South China Sea. International Journal of Climatology, 40, 4218 – 4227.[Link to paper]
Akintayo T. Abolude*, Wen Zhou, and Akintomide A. Akinsanola, 2020: Evaluation and Projections of Wind Power Resources over China for the Energy Industry Using CMIP5 Models. Energies, 13, 2417. [Link to paper]
Akintomide A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2020: Understanding the Variability of West African Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Contrasting Tropospheric Features and Monsoon Index. Atmosphere, 11, 309. [Link to paper]
Shaobo Qiao, Meng Zou, Ho Nam Cheung*, Wen Zhou, Qingxiang Li, Guolin Feng, and Wenjie Dong*, 2020: Predictability of the wintertime 500 hPa geopotential height over Ural-Siberia in the NCEP climate forecast system. Climate Dynamics, 54, 1591-1606. [Link to paper]
Han Zhou, Wen Zhou, Yuanbo Liu*, Yanbin Yuan, Jiejun Huang, and Yongwei Liu, 2020: Meteorological Drought Migration in the Poyang Lake Basin, China: Switching among Different Climate Modes. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21, 415-431. [Link to paper]
2019
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Eric C. H. Chow, and Marco Y. T. Leung, 2019: Delayed impacts of the IOD: cross-seasonal relationships between the IOD, Tibetan Plateau snow, and summer precipitation over the Yangtze–Huaihe River region. Climate Dynamics, 53, 4077-4093. [Link to paper]
Yana Li, Song Yang*, Yi Deng, Xiaoming Hu, Ming Cai, and Wen Zhou, 2019: Detection and attribution of upper-tropospheric warming over the tropical western Pacific. Climate Dynamics, 53, 3057-3068. [Link to paper]
Fuan Xiao, Dongxiao Wang, Lili Zeng*, Qin-Yan Liu, and Wen Zhou, 2019: Contrasting changes in the sea surface temperature and upper ocean heat content in the South China Sea during recent decades. Climate Dynamics, 53, 1597-1612. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, K. Y. Cheung, H. N. Gong, and Y. Zhang, 2019: Enhancement of lower tropospheric winter synoptic temperature variations in Southwest China and the northern Indochina Peninsula after 2010. Climate Dynamics, 53, 2281-2294. [Link to paper]
Hainan Gong, Lin Wang*, Wen Chen, Renguang Wu, Wen Zhou, Lin Liu, Debashis Nath, and Xiaoqing Lan, 2019: Diversity of the Wintertime Arctic Oscillation Pattern among CMIP5 Models: Role of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex. Journal of Climate, 32, 5235-5250. [Link to paper]
A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Projection of West African summer monsoon rainfall in dynamically downscaled CMIP5 models. Climate Dynamics, 53, 81-95. [Link to paper]
Eric C. H. Chow, Min Wen, Lei Li, Marco Y. T. Leung, Paxson K. Y. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Assessment of the Environmental and Societal Impacts of the Category-3 Typhoon Hato. Atmosphere, 10, 296. [Link to paper]
Wei Wei*, Yuting Wu, Song Yang, and Wen Zhou, 2019: Role of the South Asian High in the Onset Process of the Asian Summer Monsoon during Spring-to-Summer Transition. Atmosphere, 10, 239. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, and Marco Y. T. Leung, 2019: Phase relationship between summer and winter monsoons over the South China Sea: Indian Ocean and ENSO forcing. Climate Dynamics, 52, 5229-5248. [Link to paper]
A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Ensemble-based CMIP5 simulations of West African summer monsoon rainfall: current climate and future changes. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 136, 1021-1031. [Link to paper]
A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Dynamic and thermodynamic factors controlling increasing summer monsoon rainfall over the West African Sahel. Climate Dynamics, 52, 4501-4514. [Link to paper]
Shuang Qiu, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Variation in Summer Rainfall over the Yangtze River Region during Warming and Hiatus Periods. Atmosphere, 10, 173. [Link to paper]
Hainan Gong, Wen Zhou*, Wen Chen, Lin Wang, Marco Y. T. Leung, Paxson K. Y. Cheung, and Yue Zhang, 2019: Modulation of the southern Indian Ocean dipole on the impact of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on Australian summer rainfall. International Journal of Climatology, 39, 2484-2490. [Link to paper]
A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Projections of West African summer monsoon rainfall extremes from two CORDEX models. Climate Dynamics, 52, 2017-2028. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang*, Wen Zhou, and Liangui Yang, 2019: Analysis of dust wet deposition in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 12, 217-227. [Link to paper]
Akintayo T. Abolude, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: A Comparative Computational Fluid Dynamic Study on the Effects of Terrain Type on Hub-Height Wind Aerodynamic Properties. Energies, 12, 83. [Link to paper]
2018
Marco Y. T. Leung, Shuang Qiu, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Modulations of rising motion and moisture on summer precipitation over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river. Climate Dynamics, 51, 4259-4269. [Link to paper]
Hainan Gong, Lin Wang, Wen Zhou, Wen Chen*, Renguang Wu, Lin Liu, Debashis Nath, and Marco Y. T. Leung, 2018: Revisiting the Northern Mode of East Asian Winter Monsoon Variation and Its Response to Global Warming. Journal of Climate, 31, 9001-9014. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Gang Huang*, Wen Chen, Wen Zhou, and Weiqiang Wang, 2018: Wet-to-dry shift over Southwest China in 1994 tied to the warming of tropical warm pool. Climate Dynamics, 51, 3111-3123. [Link to paper]
Jiepeng Chen, Xin Wang*, Wen Zhou, Chunzai Wang, Qiang Xie, Gang Li, and Sheng Chen, 2018: Unusual Rainfall in Southern China in Decaying August during Extreme El Niño 2015/16: Role of the Western Indian Ocean and North Tropical Atlantic SST. Journal of Climate, 31, 7019-7034. [Link to paper]
Eric C. H. Chow, Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Influence of Tropical Cyclones on Hong Kong Air Quality. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 35, 1177-1188. [Link to paper]
Jiepeng Chen, Xin Wang*, Wen Zhou, and Zhiping Wen, 2018: Interdecadal change in the summer SST-precipitation relationship around the late 1990s over the South China Sea. Climate Dynamics, 51, 2229-2246. [Link to paper]
Akintayo Temiloluwa Abolude, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Assessment and Performance Evaluation of a Wind Turbine Power Output. Energies, 11, 1992. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Circumglobal teleconnection and eddy control of variation in summer precipitation over Northwest China. Climate Dynamics, 51, 1351-1362. [Link to paper]
Cheng Qian*, Wen Zhou, Xiu-Qun Yang, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2018: Statistical prediction of non-Gaussian climate extremes in urban areas based on the first-order difference method. International Journal of Climatology, 38, 2889-2898. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, Chi-Ming Shun, and Pak-Wai Chan, 2018: Large-scale Circulation Control of the Occurrence of Low-level Turbulence at Hong Kong International Airport. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 35, 435-444. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Revisiting the intraseasonal, interannual and interdecadal variability of tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 11, 198-208. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung*, Noel Keenlyside, Nour-Eddine Omrani, and Wen Zhou, 2018: Remarkable link between projected uncertainties of Arctic sea-ice decline and winter Eurasian climate. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 35, 38-51. [Link to paper]
Gang Li, Jiepeng Chen, Xin Wang*, Xia Luo, Daoyong Yang, Wen Zhou, Yanke Tan, and Hongming Yan, 2018: Remote impact of North Atlantic sea surface temperature on rainfall in southwestern China during boreal spring. Climate Dynamics, 50, 541-553. [Link to paper]
Fuan Xiao, Lili Zeng, Qin-Yan Liu, Wen Zhou, and Dongxiao Wang*, 2018: Extreme subsurface warm events in the South China Sea during 1998/99 and 2006/07: observations and mechanisms. Climate Dynamics, 50, 115-128. [Link to paper]
2017
Shuang Qiu, Wen Zhou*, Marco Yu-Ting Leung, and Xiuzhen Li, 2017: Regional moisture budget associated with drought/flood events over China. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 4, 36. [Link to paper]
Akintayo T. Abolude, Wen Zhou*, and Yu Ting Leung, 2017: Regional Impact Assessment of Monsoon Variability on Wind Power Availability and Optimization in Asia. Atmosphere, 8, 219. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, 2017: Impact of Arctic amplification on East Asian winter climate. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 10, 385-388. [Link to paper]
Xiaobin Lin, Zhiping Wen, Wen Zhou*, Renguang Wu, and Ruidan Chen, 2017: Effects of tropical cyclone activity on the boundary moisture budget over the eastern China monsoon region. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 700-712. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, Wen Zhou*, C. M. Shun, and Tsz Cheung Lee, 2017: Change in Destructiveness of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones over China in Recent Decades. Journal of Climate, 30, 3367-3379. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, Wen Zhou, Mark Wenig, and Liangui Yang*, 2017: Impact of long-range desert dust transport on coastal East Asia: analysis of urban dust concentration and wet deposition with model simulation. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 10, 325-337. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, and Wen Zhou*, 2017: Statistical modeling and trend detection of extreme sea level records in the Pearl River Estuary. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 383-396. [Link to paper]
Akintayo Abolude*, and Wen Zhou, 2017: A preliminary analysis of wind turbine energy yield. Energy Procedia, 138, 423-428. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Yongqin David Chen*, and Wen Zhou, 2017: Response of Winter Moisture Circulation to the India–Burma Trough and Its Modulation by the South Asian Waveguide. Journal of Climate, 30, 1197-1210. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, Wen Zhou, Mark Wenig, and Liangui Yang*, 2017: Impact of long-range desert dust transport on hydrometeor formation over coastal East Asia. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 101-115. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Richard C. Y. Li, and Eric C. H. Chow, 2017: Intraseasonal variation of visibility in Hong Kong. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 26-38. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2017: Meridional displacement of the East Asian trough and its response to the ENSO forcing. Climate Dynamics, 48, 335-352. [Link to paper]
2016
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Marco Y. T. Leung, C. M. Shun, S. M. Lee, and H. W. Tong, 2016: A strong phase reversal of the Arctic Oscillation in midwinter 2015/2016: Role of the stratospheric polar vortex and tropospheric blocking. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 13, 443-413, 457. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2016: Direct and indirect ENSO modulation of winter temperature over the Asian–Pacific–American region. Scientific Reports, 6, 36356. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Edward Yan Yung Ng, and Yong Xu, 2016: Urban heat islands in Hong Kong: statistical modeling and trend detection. Natural Hazards, 83, 885-907. [Link to paper]
Marco Yu-Ting Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2016: Eddy contributions at multiple timescales to the evolution of persistent anomalous East Asian trough. Climate Dynamics, 46, 2287-2303. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2016: Simple metrics for representing East Asian winter monsoon variability: Urals blocking and western Pacific teleconnection patterns. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 33, 695-705. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Xiuzhen Li, Xin Wang, and Dongxiao Wang, 2016: Synoptic-scale characteristics and atmospheric controls of summer heat waves in China. Climate Dynamics, 46, 2923-2941.[Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Gang Huang*, Wen Zhou, and Wen Chen, 2016: Historical change and future scenarios of sea level rise in Macau and adjacent waters. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 33, 462-475. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Wen Zhou*, and Yongqin David Chen, 2016: Detecting the origins of moisture over southeast China: Seasonal variation and heavy rainfall. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 33, 319-329. [Link to paper]
Tao Feng, Xiu-Qun Yang*, Wen Zhou, Ronghui Huang, Liang Wu, and Dejian Yang, 2016: Synoptic-Scale Waves in Sheared Background Flow over the Western North Pacific. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 4583-4603. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, Wen Zhou, and Gang Huang, 2016: Understanding and detecting super-extreme droughts in Southwest China through an integrated approach and index. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142, 529-535. [Link to paper]
Li Xiuzhen, and Wen Zhou*, 2016: Modulation of the interannual variation of the India-Burma Trough on the winter moisture supply over Southwest China. Climate Dynamics, 46, 147-158. [Link to paper]
2015
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, Wen Zhou, and Gang Huang, 2015: Teleconnected influence of tropical Northwest Pacific sea surface temperature on interannual variability of autumn precipitation in Southwest China. Climate Dynamics, 45, 2527-2539. [Link to paper]
Marco Yu-Ting Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Variation of circulation and East Asian climate associated with anomalous strength and displacement of the East Asian trough. Climate Dynamics, 45, 2713-2732. [Link to paper]
Jiangjiang Xia*, Zhongwei Yan, Wen Zhou, Soi Kun Fong, Ka Cheng Leong, Iu Man Tang, S. W. Chang, W. K. Leong, and Shaofei Jin, 2015: Projection of the Zhujiang (Pearl) River Delta’s potential submerged area due to sea level rise during the 21st century based on CMIP5 simulations. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 34, 78-84. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Wen Zhou*, and Yongqin David Chen, 2015: Assessment of Regional Drought Trend and Risk over China: A Drought Climate Division Perspective. Journal of Climate, 28, 7025-7037. [Link to paper]
Marco Yu-Ting Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Vertical structure, physical properties, and energy exchange of the East Asian trough in boreal winter. Climate Dynamics, 45, 1635-1656. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Multiscale control of summertime persistent heavy precipitation events over South China in association with synoptic, intraseasonal, and low-frequency background. Climate Dynamics, 45, 1043-1057. [Link to paper]
Jiangjiang Xia*, Zhongwei Yan, Gensuo Jia, Heqing Zeng, Philip Douglas Jones, Wen Zhou, and Anzhi Zhang, 2015: Projections of the advance in the start of the growing season during the 21st century based on CMIP5 simulations. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 32, 831-838. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Yun Li, Xin Wang, and Dongxiao Wang, 2015: Statistical modeling and CMIP5 simulations of hot spell changes in China. Climate Dynamics, 44, 2859-2872. [Link to paper]
Kun-Hui Ye, Chi-Yung Tam*, Wen Zhou, and Soo-Jin Sohn, 2015: Seasonal prediction of June rainfall over South China: Model assessment and statistical downscaling. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 32, 680-689. [Link to paper]
Marco Yu-Ting Leung, Hoffman Ho-Nam Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Energetics and dynamics associated with two typical mobile trough pathways over East Asia in boreal winter. Climate Dynamics, 44, 1611-1626. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang*, Wen Chen, Wen Zhou, and Gang Huang, 2015: Drought in Southwest China: A Review. Atmos. Oceanic Sci. Lett., 102. [Link to paper].
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Implications of Ural Blocking for East Asian Winter Climate in CMIP5 GCMs. Part I: Biases in the Historical Scenario. Journal of Climate, 28, 2203-2216. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Implications of Ural Blocking for East Asian Winter Climate in CMIP5 GCMs. Part II: Projection and Uncertainty in Future Climate Conditions. Journal of Climate, 28, 2217-2233. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Sai-ming Lee, and Hang-wai Tong, 2015: Interannual and Interdecadal Variability of the Number of Cold Days in Hong Kong and Their Relationship with Large-Scale Circulation. Monthly Weather Review, 143, 1438-1454. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Soi Kun Fong, Ka Cheng Leong, Iu Man Tang, Sau Wa Chang, and Weng Kun Leong, 2015: Extreme rainfall and summer heat waves in Macau based on statistical theory of extreme values. Climate Reseach, 66:91-101. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, Wen Zhou*, and Tsz Cheung Lee, 2015: Climatological Characteristics and Observed Trends of Tropical Cyclone–Induced Rainfall and Their Influences on Long-Term Rainfall Variations in Hong Kong. Monthly Weather Review, 143, 2192-2206. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Interdecadal Changes in Summertime Tropical Cyclone Precipitation over Southeast China during 1960–2009. Journal of Climate, 28, 1494-1509. [Link to paper]
Qian Cheng*, Wen Zhou, Soi Kun Fong, and Ka Cheng Leong, 2015: Two Approaches for Statistical Prediction of Non-Gaussian Climate Extremes: A Case Study of Macao Hot Extremes during 1912–2012. Journal of Climate, 28, 623-636. [Link to paper]
2014
Xia Qu, Gang Huang*, and Wen Zhou, 2014: Consistent responses of East Asian summer mean rainfall to global warming in CMIP5 simulations. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 117, 123-131. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Dongxiao Wang, 2014: Comparison of the impact of two types of El Niño on tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea. International Journal of Climatology, 34, 2651-2660. [Link to paper]
Dongxiao Wang*, Xin Wang, Wen Zhou, and Chongyin Li, 2014: Comparisons of Two Types of El Niño Impacts on TC Genesis over the South China Sea. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 40. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, Wen Zhou*, and Tim Li, 2014: Influences of the Pacific–Japan Teleconnection Pattern on Synoptic-Scale Variability in the Western North Pacific. Journal of Climate, 27, 140-154. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Wen Zhou*, Deliang Chen, Chongyin Li, and Jie Song, 2014: Water Vapor Transport and Moisture Budget over Eastern China: Remote Forcing from the Two Types of El Niño. Journal of Climate, 27, 8778-8792. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2014: Interdecadal Change in South China Sea Tropical Cyclone Frequency in Association with Zonal Sea Surface Temperature Gradient. Journal of Climate, 27, 5468-5480. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, and Wen Zhou, 2014: Assessment of future drought in Southwest China based on CMIP5 multimodel projections. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 31, 1035-1050. [Link to paper]
Yuyun Liu, Lin Wang*, Wen Zhou, and Wen Chen, 2014: Three Eurasian teleconnection patterns: spatial structures, temporal variability, and associated winter climate anomalies. Climate Dynamics, 42, 2817-2839. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, and Deliang Chen, 2014: Summer High Temperature Extremes in Southeast China: Bonding with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and East Asian Summer Monsoon Coupled System. Journal of Climate, 27, 4122-4138. [Link to paper]
Jie Song*, Chongyin Li, and Wen Zhou, 2014: High and low latitude types of the downstream influences of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Climate Dynamics, 42, 1097-1111. [Link to paper]
Jian Ling*, Chongyin Li, Wen Zhou, and Xiaolong Jia, 2014: To begin or not to begin? A case study on the MJO initiation problem. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 115, 231-241. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang*, Mark Wenig, Wen Zhou, Thomas Diehl, Ka-Lok Chan, and Lingna Wang, 2014: The contribution of different aerosol sources to the Aerosol Optical Depth in Hong Kong. Atmospheric Environment, 83, 145-154. [Link to paper]
2013
Xiuzhen Li, Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Jie Song, 2013: Comparison of the Annual Cycles of Moisture Supply over Southwest and Southeast China. Journal of Climate, 26, 10139-10158. [Link to paper]
Xianjun Xiao*, Dongxiao Wang , Wen Zhou, Zuqiang Zhang, Yinghao Qin, Na He, and Lili Zeng, 2013: Impacts of a wind stress and a buoyancy flux on the seasonal variation of mixing layer depth in the South China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 32, 30-37. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, Soi Kun Fong, and Ka Cheng Leong, 2013: Summer high temperature extremes in Southeast China associated with the East Asian jet stream and circumglobal teleconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 8306-8319. [Link to paper]
Qun Zhou, Wen Chen*, and Wen Zhou, 2013: Solar cycle modulation of the ENSO impact on the winter climate of East Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 5111-5119. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2013: Modulation of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity by the ISO. Part II: Tracks and Landfalls. Journal of Climate26, 2919-2930. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2013: Modulation of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity by the ISO. Part I: Genesis and Intensity. Journal of Climate, 26, 2904-2918. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Hing Yim Mok, Man Chi Wu, and Yaping Shao, 2013: Revisiting the climatology of atmospheric blocking in the Northern Hemisphere. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 397-410. [Link to paper]
Jong-Suk Kim, Wen Zhou*, Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Chak Hang Chow, 2013: Variability and risk analysis of Hong Kong air quality based on Monsoon and El Niño conditions. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 280-290. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Wen Zhou*, Dongxiao Wang , and Chunzai Wang, 2013: The impacts of the summer Asian Jet Stream biases on surface air temperature in mid-eastern China in IPCC AR4 models. International Journal of Climatology, 33, 265-276. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Yaping Shao, Wen Chen, Hing Yim Mok, and Man Chi Wu, 2013: Observational climatology and characteristics of wintertime atmospheric blocking over Ural–Siberia. Climate Dynamics, 41, 63-79. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang*, Chunzai Wang, Wen Zhou, Lin Liu, and Dongxiao Wang , 2013: Remote influence of North Atlantic SST on the equatorial westerly wind anomalies in the western Pacific for initiating an El Niño event: an Atmospheric General Circulation Model Study. Atmospheric Science Letters, 14, 107-111. [Link to paper]
Jian Ling*, Chongyin Li, Wen Zhou, Xiaolong Jia, and Chidong Zhang, 2013: Effect of boundary layer latent heating on MJO simulations. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 101-115. [Link to paper]
2012
Xiuzhen Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2012: Quasi-4-Yr Coupling between El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Water Vapor Transport over East Asia–WNP. Journal of Climate, 25, 5879-5891. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2012: Changes in Western Pacific Tropical Cyclones Associated with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation Cycle. Journal of Climate25, 5864-5878. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, Wen Zhou*, Johnny C. L. Chan, and P. Huang, 2012: Asymmetric Modulation of Western North Pacific Cyclogenesis by the Madden–Julian Oscillation under ENSO Conditions. Journal of Climate, 25, 5374-5385. [Link to paper]
John Xun Yang, Alexis Kai Hon Lau*, Jimmy Chi Hung Fung, Wen Zhou, Mark Wenig, 2012: An air pollution episode and its formation mechanism during the tropical cyclone Nuri’s landfall in a coastal city of south China. Atmospheric Environment, 54, 746-753. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Hing Yim Mok, and Man Chi Wu, 2012: Relationship between Ural–Siberian Blocking and the East Asian Winter Monsoon in Relation to the Arctic Oscillation and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 25, 4242-4257. [Link to paper]
Huopo Chen*, Jianqi Sun, Xiaoli Chen, and Wen Zhou, 2012: CGCM projections of heavy rainfall events in China. International Journal of Climatology, 32, 441-450. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Dongxiao Wang , 2012: Effects of the East Asian summer monsoon on tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea on an interdecadal time scale. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 29, 249-262. [Link to paper]
Jong-Suk Kim, Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, and Shaleen Jain, 2012: El Niño Modoki and the Summer Precipitation Variability over South Korea: A Diagnostic Study. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 90, 673-684. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Zhiping Wen, Wen Zhou*, and Dongxiao Wang , 2012: Atmospheric Water Vapor Transport Associated with Two Decadal Rainfall Shifts over East China. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 90, 587-602. [Link to paper]
Yi Deng, Ping Shi, Wen Zhou, Yan Du, Qiang Xie, Wei Zhuang, and Dongxiao Wang*, 2012: A dipole wind curl pattern induced by Taiwan Island and its effect on upper stratification in the northeastern South China Sea. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 30, 944-952. [Link to paper]
Jong-Suk Kim, Richard Cheuk-Yin Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2012: Effects of the Pacific-Japan teleconnection pattern on tropical cyclone activity and extreme precipitation events over the Korean peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 117. [Link to paper]
Ningbo Jiang*, Kevin Cheung, Kehui Luo, Paul J. Beggs, and Wen Zhou, 2012: On two different objective procedures for classifying synoptic weather types over east Australia. International Journal of Climatology, 32, 1475-1494. [Link to paper]
Yuan Fang, Wen Chen*, and Wen Zhou, 2012: Analysis of the role played by circulation in the persistent precipitation over South China in June 2010. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 29, 769-781. [Link to paper]
Youfang Yan*, Yiquan Qi, and Wen Zhou, 2012: Variability of tropical cyclone occurrence date in the South China Sea and its relationship with SST warming. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 55-56, 45-59. [Link to paper]
Qizhong Wu, Zifa Wang, Huansheng Chen, Wen Zhou*, and Mark Wenig, 2012: An evaluation of air quality modeling over the Pearl River Delta during November 2006. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 116, 113-132. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Wen Chen, and Dongxiao Wang, 2012: The implications of El Niño-Southern Oscillation signal for South China monsoon climate. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 15, 14-19. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Dongxiao Wang , Wen Zhou*, and Chongyin Li, 2012: Interdecadal modulation of the influence of La Niña events on mei-yu rainfall over the Yangtze River valley. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ,29, 157-168. [Link to paper]
2011
Weiwen Wang, Dongxiao Wang*, Wen Zhou, Qinyan Liu, Yongqiang Yu, and Chao Li, 2011: Impact of the South China Sea throughflow on the pacific low-latitude western boundary current: A numerical study for seasonal and interannual time scales. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 28, 1367-1376. [Link to paper]
Jie Song*, Wen Zhou, Xin Wang, and Chongyin Li, 2011: Zonal Asymmetry of the Annular Mode and Its Downstream Subtropical Jet: An Idealized Model Study. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 1946-1973. [Link to paper]
Ren-Jun Zhou*, Peng-Bing Liu, Wen Zhou, Hong-Ke Cai, and Yue-Juan Chen, 2011: The analysis of quasi-biennial oscillation characteristics of stratospheric aerosol. Acta Geophysica Sinica, 54, 1174-1181. [Link to paper]
Zhongwei Yan, Jiangjiang Xia, Cheng Qian, and Wen Zhou*, 2011: Changes in seasonal cycle and extremes in China during the period 1960–2008. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 28, 269-283. [Link to paper]
JIangjiang Xia, Zhongwei Yan*, and Wen Zhou, 2011: Changes in Seasonality in China under Enhanced Atmospheric CO2 Concentration. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 4, 12-17. [Link to paper]
Juan Feng, Wen Chen*, C.-Y. Tam, and Wen Zhou, 2011: Different impacts of El Niño and El Niño Modoki on China rainfall in the decaying phases. International Journal of Climatology, 31, 2091-2101. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Chunzai Wang, Wen Zhou, Dongxiao Wang*, and Jie Song, 2011: Teleconnected influence of North Atlantic sea surface temperature on the El Niño onset. Climate Dynamics, 37, 663-676. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Zhiping Wen, and Wen Zhou*, 2011: Long-term Change in Summer Water Vapor Transport over South China in Recent Decades. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 89A, 271-282. [Link to paper]
Jie Song, Chongyin Li, Jing Pan, and Wen Zhou*, 2011: Climatology of Anticyclonic and Cyclonic Rossby Wave Breaking on the Dynamical Tropopause in the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Climate, 24, 1239-1251. [Link to paper]
Yali Zhu*, Huijun Wang, Wen Zhou, and Jiehua Ma, 2011: Recent changes in the summer precipitation pattern in East China and the background circulation. Climate Dynamics, 36, 1463-1473. [Link to paper]
Ke Wei*, Wen Chen, and Wen Zhou, 2011: Changes in the East Asian cold season since 2000. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 28, 69-79. [Link to paper]
2010
Youfang Yan*, Yiquan Qi, and Wen Zhou, 2010: Interannual heat content variability in the South China Sea and its response to ENSO. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 50, 400-414. [Link to paper]
Jian Huang*, Xin Wang, Wen Zhou, Huijun Huang, Dongxiao Wang, and Faxiu Zhou, 2010: The characteristics of sea fog with different airflow over the Huanghai Sea in boreal spring. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 29, 3-12. [Link to paper]
Jin-Nan Yuan*, Wen Zhou, Hui-Jun Huang, and Fei Liao, 2010: Observational analysis of asymmetric distribution of convection associated with tropical cyclones “chanchu” and “prapiroon” making landfall along the south China coast. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 16, 171-180. [Link to paper]
Dong-Xiao Wang *, Wen Zhou, Xiao-Li Yu, Qiang Xie, and Xin Wang, 2010: Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layers Associated with Summer Monsoon Onset over the South China Sea in 1998. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 3, 263-270. [Link to paper]
Zhongda Lin*, Riyu Lu, and Wen Zhou, 2010: Change in early-summer meridional teleconnection over the western North Pacific and East Asia around the late 1970s. International Journal of Climatology, 30, 2195-2204. [Link to paper]
Qizhong Wu, Zifa Wang*, A. Gbaguidi, Xiao Tang, and Wen Zhou, 2010: Numerical Study of The Effect of Traffic Restriction on Air Quality in Beijing. SOLA, 6A, 17-20. [Link to paper]
Lian-Tong Zhou*, Chi-Yung Tam, Wen Zhou, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2010: Influence of South China Sea SST and the ENSO on winter rainfall over South China. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 27, 832-844. [Link to paper]
Qinyan Liu*, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou, Qiang Xie, and Yan Zhang, 2010: Covariation of the Indonesian throughflow and South China Sea throughflow associated with the 1976/77 regime shift. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 27, 87-94. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, Wen Zhou, Johnny C. L. Chan, David Barriopedro, and Ronghui Huang, 2010: Effect of the climate shift around mid 1970s on the relationship between wintertime Ural blocking circulation and East Asian climate. International Journal of Climatology, 30, 153-158. [Link to paper]
Dehai Luo*, Wen Zhou, and Ke Wei, 2010: Dynamics of eddy-driven North Atlantic Oscillations in a localized shifting jet: zonal structure and downstream blocking. Climate Dynamics, 34, 73-100. [Link to paper]
2009
Wen Zhou*, Johnny C. L. Chan, Wen Chen, Jian Ling, Joaquim G. Pinto, and Yaping Shao, 2009: Synoptic-Scale Controls of Persistent Low Temperature and Icy Weather over Southern China in January 2008. Monthly Weather Review, 137, 3978-3991. [Link to paper]
Jie Song, Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Lixin Qi, 2009: Signature of the Antarctic oscillation in the northern hemisphere. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 105, 55-67. [Link to paper]
Wei Gu*, Chongyin Li, Weijing Li, Wen Zhou, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2009: Interdecadal unstationary relationship between NAO and east China’s summer precipitation patterns. Geophysical Research Letters, 36. [Link to paper]
Wei Gu*, Chongyin Li, Xin Wang, Wen Zhou, and Weijing Li, 2009: Linkage between mei-yu precipitation and North Atlantic SST on the decadal timescale. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 26, 101-108. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang*, Dongxiao Wang, and Wen Zhou, 2009: Decadal variability of twentieth-century El Niño and La Niña occurrence from observations and IPCC AR4 coupled models. Geophysical Research Letters, 36. [Link to paper]
Jie Song*, Chongyin Li, Wen Zhou, and Jing Pan, 2009: The linkage between the Pacific-North American teleconnection pattern and the North Atlantic Oscillation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 26, 229-239. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, Wen Zhou, and Ronghui Huang, 2009: Interannual Variations of East Asian Trough Axis at 500 hPa and its Association with the East Asian Winter Monsoon Pathway. Journal of Climate, 22, 600-614. [Link to paper]
H.W. Tong, Johnny C. L. Chan*, and Wen Zhou, 2009: The role of MJO and mid-latitude fronts in the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. Climate Dynamics, 33, 827-841. [Link to paper]
Hong-Ming Yan*, Chong-Yin Li, and Wen Zhou, 2009: Influence of subtropical dipole pattern in Southern Indian Ocean on ENSO event. Acta Geophysica Sinica, 52, 2436-2449. [Link to paper]
Chongyin Li, Xiaolong Jia, Jian Ling, Wen Zhou, and Chidong Zhang*, 2009: Sensitivity of MJO simulations to diabatic heating profiles. Climate Dynamics, 32, 167-187. [Link to paper]
2008
Yuan Yuan*, Johnny C. L. Chan, Wen Zhou, and Chongyin Li, 2008: Decadal and interannual variability of the Indian Ocean Dipole. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 25, 856-866. [Link to paper]
Yuan Yuan*, Hui Yang, Wen Zhou, and Chongyin Li, 2008: Influences of the Indian Ocean dipole on the Asian summer monsoon in the following year. International Journal of Climatology, 28, 1849-1859. [Link to paper]
Yuan Yuan*, Wen Zhou, Hui Yang, and Chongyin Li, 2008: Warming in the northwestern Indian Ocean associated with the El Niño event. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 25, 246-252. [Link to paper]
Yuan Yuan, Wen Zhou, Johnny C. L. Chan*, and Chongyin Li, 2008: Impacts of the basin-wide Indian Ocean SSTA on the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. International Journal of Climatology, 28, 1579-1587. [Link to paper]
Xuhua Cheng, Yiquan Qi*, and Wen Zhou, 2008: Trends of sea level variations in the Indo-Pacific warm pool. Global and Planetary Change, 63, 57-66. [Link to paper]
Martin L. M. Wong, Johnny C. L. Chan*, and Wen Zhou, 2008: A Simple Empirical Model for Estimating the Intensity Change of Tropical Cyclones after Landfall along the South China Coast. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 326-338. [Link to paper]
2007
Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, Tianjun Zhou, Chongyin Li, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2007: Interdecadal variability of the relationship between the East Asian winter monsoon and ENSO. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 98, 283-293. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Chongyin Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2007: Interdecadal mode and its propagating characteristics of SSTA in the South Pacific. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 98, 115-124. [Link to paper]
Dehai Luo*, Tingting Gong, Yina Diao, and Wen Zhou, 2007: Storm tracks and annular modes. Geophysical Research Letters, 34. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou, and Johnny C. L. Chan*, 2007: ENSO and the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. International Journal of Climatology, 27, 157-167. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou, Chongyin Li, and Xin Wang*, 2007: Possible connection between Pacific Oceanic interdecadal pathway and east Asian winter monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters, 34. [Link to paper]
2006
Chongyin Li*, Wen Zhou, Xiaolong Jia, and Xin Wang, 2006: Decadal/interdecadal variations of the ocean temperature and its impacts on climate. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 23, 964-981. [Link to paper]
Jie Song*, Wen Zhou, Jing Pan, and Chongyin Li, 2006: Global influence of the Northern Hemisphere second mode of the zonal average of the zonal wind. Geophysical Research Letters, 33. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2006: The interdecadal variations of the summer monsoon rainfall over South China. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 93, 165-175. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang*, Chongyin Li, and Wen Zhou, 2006: Interdecadal variation of the relationship between Indian rainfall and SSTA modes in the Indian Ocean. International Journal of Climatology, 26, 595-606. [Link to paper]
2005
Wen Zhou, and Johnny C. L. Chan*, 2005: Intraseasonal oscillations and the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. International Journal of Climatology, 25, 1585-1609. [Link to paper]
Johnny C. L. Chan*, and Wen Zhou, 2005: PDO, ENSO and the early summer monsoon rainfall over south China. Geophysical Research Letters, 32. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Johnny Chung-Leung Chan, and Chongyin Li, 2005: South China Sea summer monsoon onset in relation to the off-equatorial ITCZ. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 22, 665-676. [Link to paper]
2025
Zhuoying Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2025: Westward shift of western North Pacific tropical cyclones in CMIP6-HighResMIP models. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 100594. [Link to paper]
Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Yue Zhang, and Xiran Xu, 2025: Modulation of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on the East Asian Surface Air Temperature in Boreal Winter. Journal of Climate, 38, 87-99. [Link to paper]
2024
Zheng-Hang Fu, Wen Zhou*, Shang-Ping Xie*, Ruhua Zhang, and Xudong Wang, 2024: Dynamic pathway linking Pakistan flooding to East Asian heatwaves. Science Advances, 10, eadk9250. [Link to paper] [Magazine cover]
Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Wenshou Tian, Yue Zhang, Junxia Zhang, and Jiali Luo, 2024: A stratospheric precursor of East Asian summer droughts and floods. Nature Communications, 15, 247. [Link to paper]
Shifei Tu, Zhenzhen Hu, Mei Liang, Wen Zhou*, Johnny C. L. Chan, and Jianjun Xu*, 2024: Decreasing trend in destructive potential of tropical cyclones in the South Indian Ocean since the mid-1990s. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, 543. [Link to paper]
Zhuoying Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Poleward migration of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific in the CMIP6-HighResMIP models constrained by observations. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 161. [Link to paper]
Hongjie Liang, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Dynamic and thermodynamic processes related to sea-ice surface melt advance in the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea. The Cryosphere, 18, 3559-3569. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, Wen Zhou*, and Xin Wang, 2024: Extreme Meteorological Drought Events over China (1951–2022): Migration Patterns, Diversity of Temperature Extremes, and Decadal Variations. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li*, Zhiping Wen, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Different configurations of the Eurasian pattern and South Asian jet wave train and their impacts on the winter climate over East Asia. Climate Dynamics. [Link to paper]
Chao He*, Xiaolong Chen, Matthew Collins, Fengfei Song, Yamin Hu, Xingwen Jiang, Yanju Liu, Yihui Ding, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Rising geopotential height under global warming. Climate Dynamics. [Link to paper]
Xiaocheng Yu, Yue Zhang*, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Distinct preceding oceanic drivers for interannual variation of summer tropical cyclone–induced rainfall in South and East China. Climate Dynamics. [Link to paper]
Jiasi Chen, Yuanhong Guan*, Wen Zhou, Xianghua Wu, Qifeng Lu, and Xingyu Li, 2024: Influence of the Southern Indian Ocean Dipole on the following spring climate in China: A synthetic observational and numerical study. Atmospheric Research, 299, 107183. [Link to paper]
Xiaorui Zhang, Xiao Lu*, Fan Wang, Wen Zhou, Peng Wang, and Meng Gao*, 2024: Enhanced Late Spring Ozone in Southern China by Early Onset of the South China Sea Summer Monsoon. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039029. [Link to paper]
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri, Wen Zhou*, Christopher E. Ndehedehe, and Xuan Wang, 2024: Global vegetation, moisture, thermal and climate interactions intensify compound extreme events. Science of the Total Environment, 912, 169261. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, and Ruhua Zhang, 2024: Decadal Changes in Dry and Wet Heatwaves in Eastern China: Spatial Patterns and Risk Assessment. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 41, 2011-2026. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Xiaocheng Yu, Ye Tian, and Ruhua Zhang, 2024: Long-term coupled variability of temperature and precipitation in eastern China and the underlying mechanisms. Climate Dynamics, 62, 1447-1465. [Link to paper]
Xuan Tong, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Assessing predictive attribution in NMME forecasts of summer precipitation in eastern china using deep learning. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 304. [Link to paper]
Xuan Tong, Wen Zhou*, and Jiangjiang Xia, 2024: Improving Boreal Summer Precipitation Predictions From the Global NMME Through Res34-Unet. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106391. [Link to paper]
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri*, Wen Zhou*, Christopher E. Ndehedehe, Xuan Wang, Kazeem A. Ishola, and Patrick Laux, 2024: Minimizing uncertainties in climate projections and water budget reveals the vulnerability of freshwater to climate change. One Earth, 7, 72-87. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Influence of Internal Climate System Forcing on the Relationship Between North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones and Saharan Dust. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039766. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, and Wen Zhou*, 2024: Interdecadal variation of the monsoon trough and its relationship with tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea and Philippine Sea around the mid-2000s. Climate Dynamics. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Jinxiao Li, Zixiang Yan, Zili Shen, Bo Wu, Bin Wang, Ronghua Zhang, and Zhijin Li*, 2024: Progress and future prospects of decadal prediction and data assimilation: A review. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 17, 100441. [Link to paper]
M. Pear Hossain, Wen Zhou, Marco Y. T. Leung, and Hsiang-Yu Yuan*, 2024: Association of air pollution and weather conditions during infection course with COVID-19 case fatality rate in the United Kingdom. Scientific reports, 14, 683. [Link to paper]
Yuqing Wang, Wen Zhou*, and Chunzai Wang*, 2024: Physical mechanism of the rapid increase in intense and long-lived extreme heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere since 1980. Science China Earth Sciences. [Link to paper]
Shuai-Lei Yao*, Renguang Wu*, Jing-Jia Luo, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Competing impacts of tropical Pacific and Atlantic on Southern Ocean inter-decadal variability. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 104. [Link to paper]
Weiwei Zhang, Dongxiao Wang, Marco Y. T. Leung*, Lin Wang, Jinchi Xie, and Wen Zhou, 2024: Upper-ocean cooling rate of the South China Sea in response to extreme cold surges and weak cold-air invasions. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 100517. [Link to paper]
Zixiang Yan, Wen Zhou*, Jinxiao Li, Xuedan Zhu, Yuxin Zang, and Liuyi Zhang, 2024: Skillful Seasonal Prediction of Global Onshore Wind Resources in SIDRI-ESS V1.0. Sustainability, 16, 7721. [Link to paper]
Zixiang Yan, Jinxiao Li*, Wen Zhou, Zouxing Lin, Yuxin Zang, and Siyuan Li, 2024: Evaluation of Seasonal Prediction of Extreme Wind Resource Potential over China Based on a Dynamic Prediction System SIDRI-ESS V1.0. Atmosphere, 15, 1024. [Link to paper]
2023
Zhenchen Liu, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Glo3DHydroClimEventSet(v1.0): A global-scale event set of hydroclimatic extremes detected with the 3D DBSCAN-based workflow (1951–2022). International Journal of Climatology, 43, 7722-7744. [Link to paper]
Zili Shen, Wen Zhou*, Jinxiao Li, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2023: A frequent ice-free Arctic is likely to occur before the mid-21st century. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 103. [Link to paper]
Ho-Nam Cheung*, Nour-Eddine Omrani*, Fumiaki Ogawa, Noel Keenlyside, Hisashi Nakamura, and Wen Zhou, 2023: Pacific oceanic front amplifies the impact of Atlantic oceanic front on North Atlantic blocking. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 61. [Link to paper]
Yuanhong Guan*, Yuxin Li, Wen Zhou, Lanjun Zou*, and Xiaohong Wang, 2023: Statistical characteristics and mechanism of the South Atlantic Ocean Dipole. International Journal of Climatology, 43, 6733-6744. [Link to paper]
Ye Tian, Wen Zhou*, Lin Zhang, Yue Zhang, and Ruhua Zhang, 2023: Changes in ENSO Modulation of the Distribution of Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific in Boreal Autumn. Journal of Climate, 36, 7739-7753. [Link to paper]
Ruhua Zhang, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Decadal Change in the Linkage between QBO and the Leading Mode of Southeast China Winter Precipitation. Journal of Climate, 36, 7379-7392. [Link to paper]
Ran Dong, Yuanhong Guan*, Wen Zhou, and Chenguang Guo, 2023: Impact of Southern Indian ocean dipole via the ITCZ on winter and spring precipitation in China. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100358. [Link to paper]
Hongjie Liang, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Arctic Sea Ice Melt Onset in the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea in Association with the Arctic Oscillation and Barents Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 36, 6363-6373. [Link to paper]
Xuan Tong, Zhongwei Yan*, Wen Zhou*, Jiangjiang Xia, and Xiaowei Quan, 2023: Multidecadal Oceanic Modulation of Summer Precipitation in North China in 1200-Year Global Climate Simulations. Journal of Climate, 36, 6125-6138. [Link to paper]
Jinling Piao, Wen Chen*, Jin-Soo Kim, Wen Zhou, Shangfeng Chen, Peng Hu, and Xiaoqing Lan, 2023: Future changes in rainy season characteristics over East China under continuous warming. Climatic Change, 176, 120. [Link to paper]
Bo Tong, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Role of the Australian High in Seasonal Phase Locking of the Indian Ocean Dipole. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL102174. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, Wen Zhou*, and Yuan Yuan, 2023: 3D DBSCAN detection and parameter sensitivity of the 2022 Yangtze river summertime heatwave and drought. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100324. [Link to paper]
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri*, Wen Zhou*, Patrick Laux, Xuan Wang, Diarra Dieng, Lakshani A. E. Widana, and Muhammad Usman, 2023: Land use and land cover dynamics: Implications for thermal stress and energy demands. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 179, 113274. [Link to paper]
Yuntao Jian, Marco Y. T. Leung, Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou, Maoqiu Jian, Song Yang, Yerong Feng, and Banglin Zhang*, 2023: Bias and Uncertainty of the Relationship between AO and Winter Synoptic Temperature Variability over the Northern Hemisphere under Present and Future Climate. Journal of Climate, 36, 3245-3259. [Link to paper]
Jayarathna W. N. D. Sandaruwan, Wen Zhou*, Paxson K. Y. Cheung, Yan Du, and Xuan Wang, 2023: Characteristics and Formation of Two Leading Marine Heatwave Modes in the North Indian Ocean during Summer and Their Implications for Local Precipitation. Journal of Climate, 36, 3385-3402. [Link to paper]
Bo Tong, Xin Wang*, Dongxiao Wang, and Wen Zhou, 2023: A Novel Mechanism for Extreme El Niño Events: Interactions between Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific and Sea Surface Warming in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Journal of Climate, 36, 2585-2601. [Link to paper]
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri*, Wen Zhou*, Patrick Laux, Christopher E. Ndehedehe, Xuan Wang, Muhammad Usman, and Akintomide A. Akinsanola, 2023: Multivariate Drought Monitoring, Propagation, and Projection Using Bias-Corrected General Circulation Models. Earth’s Future, 11, e2022EF003303. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou*, and Yuntao Jian, 2023: Extended Impact of Cold Air Invasions in East Asia in Response to a Warm South China Sea and Philippine Sea. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 40, 531-540. [Link to paper]
Widana Arachchige Erandani Lakshani, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Observed decadal shifts and trends in global tropical cyclone activities from 1980 to 2021. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100321. [Link to paper]
Yuanhong Guan, Wen Zhou*, Xiaolong Jia, Yue Zhang, and Ran Dong, 2023: The synergistic impact of SPOD and ENSO on ITCZ: observation study. Climate Dynamics, 60, 1297-1311. [Link to paper]
Han Zhou*, Wen Zhou*, Yuanbo Liu*, Jiejun Huang*, Yanbin Yuan*, and Yongwei Liu*, 2023: Climatological spatial scales of meteorological droughts in China and associated climate variability. Journal of Hydrology, 617, 129056. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Global Seasonal-Scale Meteorological Droughts. Part II: Temperature Anomaly-Based Classifications. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2, 0017. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Global Seasonal-Scale Meteorological Droughts. Part I: Detection, Metrics, and Inland/Coastal Types. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2, 0016. [Link to paper]
Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Wenshou Tian, Yue Zhang, Yuntao Jian, and Yana Li, 2023: Tropical Stratospheric Forcings Weaken the Response of the East Asian Winter Temperature to ENSO. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2, 0001. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Impact of Saharan dust on landfalling North Atlantic tropical cyclones over North America in September. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100276. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, and Wen Zhou*, 2023: Oceanic thermal forcing of North Atlantic tropical cyclones. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100286. [Link to paper]
2022
Oluwafemi E. Adeyeri, Wen Zhou*, Xuan Wang, Ruhua Zhang, Patrick Laux, Kazeem A. Ishola, and Muhammad Usman, 2022: The trend and spatial spread of multisectoral climate extremes in CMIP6 models. Scientific Reports, 12, 21000. [Link to paper]
Ke Huang, Ming Feng, Ying Wu, Dongxiao Wang*, Wen Zhou, Tingting Zu, Weiqiang Wang*, Qiang Xie, Lei Yang, Jinglong Yao, and Wei Zhou, 2022: Leading-Mode Connections of the Interannual Variability in Upper-Ocean Salinity in the Tropical Indian Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52, 3309-3329. [Link to paper]
Shifei Tu, Johnny C. L. Chan*, Jianjun Xu*, Quanjia Zhong, Wen Zhou, and Yu Zhang, 2022: Increase in tropical cyclone rain rate with translation speed. Nature Communications, 13, 7325. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, Xuan Wang, Ruhua Zhang, Yana Li, and Jianping Gan, 2022: IOD, ENSO, and seasonal precipitation variation over Eastern China. Atmospheric Research, 270, 106042. [Link to paper]
Yana Li*, Yi Deng, Ho-Nam Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Song Yang, and Henian Zhang, 2022: Amplifying subtropical hydrological transition over China in early summer tied to weakened mid-latitude synoptic disturbances. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 40. [Link to paper]
Chao He*, Wen Zhou, Tim Li, Tianjun Zhou, and Yuhao Wang, 2022: East Asian summer monsoon enhanced by COVID-19. Climate Dynamics, 59, 2965-2978. [Link to paper]
Yana Li, Wen Zhou*, Song Yang, Ruhua Zhang, Ho-Nam Cheung, and Yue Zhang, 2022: Recent Early-Spring Drying Trend over Southern China Associated with Changes in the Zonal Thermal Contrast over the Pacific. Journal of Climate, 35, 6487-6498. [Link to paper]
Weijie Feng, Marco Y. T. Leung*, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou, and Oscar Y. W. Zhang, 2022: An Extreme Drought over South China in 2020/21 Concurrent with an Unprecedented Warm Northwest Pacific and La Niña. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 39, 1637-1649. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Jian Ling, and Lixin Qi, 2022: Water Vapor Transport by an Equivalent-Barotropic Cyclonic Anomaly Corresponding to Extreme Austral Late Summer Precipitation in Southeast Australia during 2021. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79, 2343-2361. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, Wen Zhou*, Ruhua Zhang, Yue Zhang, and Ya Wang, 2022: Global-Scale Interpretable Drought Reconstruction Utilizing Anomalies of Atmospheric Dynamics. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 23, 1507-1524. [Link to paper]
Ruhua Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Wenshou Tian, Yue Zhang, Zhenchen Liu, and Paxson K. Y. Cheung, 2022: Changes in the Relationship between ENSO and the Winter Arctic Stratospheric Polar Vortex in Recent Decades. Journal of Climate, 35, 5399-5414. [Link to paper]
Xiaocheng Yu, Wen Zhou*, and Yue Zhang, 2022: The decadal shift in TC-induced precipitation over China. Atmospheric Research, 274, 106186. [Link to paper]
Ho-Nam Cheung*, Noel Keenlyside, Torben Koenigk, Shuting Yang, Tian Tian, Zhiqing Xu, Yongqi Gao, Fumiaki Ogawa, Nour-Eddine Omrani, Shaobo Qiao, and Wen Zhou*, 2022: Assessing the influence of sea surface temperature and arctic sea ice cover on the uncertainty in the boreal winter future climate projections. Climate Dynamics, 59, 433-454. [Link to paper]
Marco Y.-T. Leung, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou*, Yue Zhang, and Lin Wang, 2022: Interdecadal Variation in Available Potential Energy of Stationary Eddies in the Midlatitude Northern Hemisphere in Response to the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098297. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, Sheng Chen, Jiepeng Chen, and Shanshan Li, 2022: Indian Ocean Dipole and ENSO’s mechanistic importance in modulating the ensuing-summer precipitation over Eastern China. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 48. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou*, Paxson K. Y. Cheung, Yuntao Jian, and Fuan Xiao, 2022: Joint Effect of West Pacific Warming and the Arctic Oscillation on the Bidecadal Variation and Trend of the East Asian Trough. Journal of Climate, 35, 2491-2501. [Link to paper]
Chong-wei Zheng*, Di Wu, Hai-lang Wu, Jing Guo, Chong Shen, Chuan Tian, Xin-long Tian, Zi-niu Xiao, Wen Zhou, and Chong-yin Li, 2022: Propagation and attenuation of swell energy in the Pacific Ocean. Renewable Energy, 188, 750-764. [Link to paper]
E. Adeyeri*, P. Laux, K. A. Ishola, Wen Zhou, I. A. Balogun, Z. D. Adeyewa, and H. Kunstmann, 2022: Homogenising meteorological variables: Impact on trends and associated climate indices. Journal of Hydrology, 607, 127585. [Link to paper]
Shifei Tu, Johnny C. L. Chan*, Jianjun Xu*, and Wen Zhou, 2022: Opposite Changes in Tropical Cyclone Rain Rate During the Recent El Niño and La Niña Years. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL097412. [Link to paper]
Chong-wei Zheng*, Cheng-tao Yi, Chong Shen, De-chuan Yu, Xiao-lu Wang, Yong Wang, Wen-kai Zhang, Yong Wei, Yun-ge Chen, Wei Li, Xin Jin, Shuai-dong Jia, Di Wu, Ding-jiang Wei, Xiao-feng Zhao, Yan-yan Tian, Wen Zhou, and Zi-niu Xiao, 2022: A Positive Climatic Trend in the Global Offshore Wind Power. Frontiers in Energy Research, 10. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang*, Cong Zhang, and Wen Zhou, 2022: Association between tropospheric temperature and tropical cyclone peak intensity over the North Pacific and North Atlantic. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 15, 100117. [Link to paper]
A. E. Lakshani, Wen Zhou*, and Paxson K. Y. Cheung, 2022: Impacts of El Niño Diversity on Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Bay of Bengal. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10. [Link to paper]
Ye Tian, Wen Zhou*, and W. K. Wong, 2022: Detecting Interdecadal Change in Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Genesis Based on Cluster Analysis Using pHash + Kmeans. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. [Link to paper]
Paxson K. Y. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Dongxiao Wang, and Marco Y. T. Leung, 2022: Dissimilarity among Ocean Reanalyses in Equatorial Pacific Upper-Ocean Heat Content and Its Relationship with ENSO. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 39, 67-79. [Link to paper]
2021
Yuntao Jian, Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, Maoqiu Jian, and Song Yang, 2021: Present and Future Relations between ENSO and Winter Synoptic Temperature Variability over the Asian–Pacific–American Region Simulated by CMIP5/6. Journal of Climate, 34, 9899-9913. [Link to paper]
Shuai-Lei Yao*, Wen Zhou*, Fei-Fei Jin, and Fei Zheng, 2021: North Atlantic as a Trigger for Pacific-Wide Decadal Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094719. [Link to paper]
Zhenchen Liu, and Wen Zhou*, 2021: The 2019 Autumn Hot Drought Over the Middle-Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River in China: Early Propagation, Process Evolution, and Concurrence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033742. [Link to paper]
Paxson K. Y. Cheung, Marco Y. T. Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2021: Position, Magnitude, and Size of Warm-Pool El Niño: Variability, Seasonal Predictability, and Climate Impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD034917. [Link to paper]
Yuntao Jian, Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, Maoqiu Jian, Song Yang, and Xiaoxia Lin, 2021: Interdecadal Shift of the Relationship between ENSO and Winter Synoptic Temperature Variability over the Asian–Pacific–American Region in the 1980s. Journal of Climate, 34, 5321-5335. [Link to paper]
Gang Li, Wen Zhou*, Yue Zhang, and Hongming Yan, 2021: Spatiotemporal characteristics of spring rainfall over Southwest China and their relationships with sea surface temperature during 1961–2017. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 145, 775-786. [Link to paper]
Xiaochi Huang, Han Zhou, Xiaofeng Yang, Wen Zhou*, Jiejun Huang, and Yanbin Yuan, 2021: Spatial Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Their Possible Relationship With Environmental and Meteorological Factors in Hubei Province, China. GeoHealth, 5, e2020GH000358. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang*, Bingyin Chen, Yong Xu, Wen Zhou, and Xuemei Wang, 2021: Urban heat islands in Hong Kong: Bonding with atmospheric stability. Atmospheric Science Letters, 22, e1032. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang*, and Wen Zhou, 2021: Influence of dust aerosols on eastern Pacific tropical cyclone intensity. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 14, 100028. [Link to paper]
Han Zhou, Xiaochi Huang, Wen Zhou*, Yue Zhang, and Yong Liu, 2021: Spatial correlation length of summer extreme heat stress over eastern China. International Journal of Climatology, 41, 3121-3138. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, and Tim Li, 2021: Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on Evolution of the Subsequent ENSO: Relative Roles of Dynamic and Thermodynamic Processes. Journal of Climate, 34, 3591-3607. [Link to paper]
Yana Li, Ho-Nam Cheung*, and Wen Zhou, 2021: Asymmetric Relationship Between Mid-latitude Eurasian Circulation and Summer Rainfall in Hong Kong in Different Phases of ENSO. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9. [Link to paper]
2020
Han Zhou, Wen Zhou, Yuanbo Liu*, Yanbin Yuan, Jiejun Huang, and Yongwei Liu, 2020: Identifying spatial extent of meteorological droughts: An examination over a humid region. Journal of Hydrology, 591, 125505. [Link to paper]
Akintomide Afolayan Akinsanola, Wen Zhou*, Tianjun Zhou, and Noel Keenlyside, 2020: Amplification of synoptic to annual variability of West African summer monsoon rainfall under global warming. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 3, 21. [Link to paper]
Chao He, and Wen Zhou*, 2020: Different Enhancement of the East Asian Summer Monsoon under Global Warming and Interglacial Epochs Simulated by CMIP6 Models: Role of the Subtropical High. Journal of Climate, 33, 9721-9733. [Link to paper]
Chao He, Tim Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2020: Drier North American Monsoon in Contrast to Asian–African Monsoon under Global Warming. Journal of Climate, 33, 9801-9816. [Link to paper]
Yuntao Jian, Xiaoxia Lin, Wen Zhou, Maoqiu Jian*, Marco Y. T. Leung, and Paxson K. Y. Cheung, 2020: Analysis of Record-High Temperature over Southeast Coastal China in Winter 2018/19: The Combined Effect of Mid- to High-Latitude Circulation Systems and SST Forcing over the North Atlantic and Tropical Western Pacific. Journal of Climate, 33, 8813-8831. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, Dongxiao Wang, P. W. Chan, S. M. Lee, and H. W. Tong, 2020: Remote Tropical Western Indian Ocean Forcing on Changes in June Precipitation in South China and the Indochina Peninsula. Journal of Climate, 33, 7553-7566. [Link to paper]
Yong Liu*, Wen Zhou, Xia Qu, and Renguang Wu, 2020: An Interdecadal Change of the Boreal Summer Silk Road Pattern around the Late 1990s. Journal of Climate, 33, 7083-7100. [Link to paper]
YaJun Shi, Yan Du*, Zesheng Chen, and Wen Zhou, 2019: Occurrence and impacts of tropical cyclones over the southern South China Sea. International Journal of Climatology, 40, 4218 – 4227.[Link to paper]
Akintayo T. Abolude*, Wen Zhou, and Akintomide A. Akinsanola, 2020: Evaluation and Projections of Wind Power Resources over China for the Energy Industry Using CMIP5 Models. Energies, 13, 2417. [Link to paper]
Akintomide A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2020: Understanding the Variability of West African Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Contrasting Tropospheric Features and Monsoon Index. Atmosphere, 11, 309. [Link to paper]
Shaobo Qiao, Meng Zou, Ho Nam Cheung*, Wen Zhou, Qingxiang Li, Guolin Feng, and Wenjie Dong*, 2020: Predictability of the wintertime 500 hPa geopotential height over Ural-Siberia in the NCEP climate forecast system. Climate Dynamics, 54, 1591-1606. [Link to paper]
Han Zhou, Wen Zhou, Yuanbo Liu*, Yanbin Yuan, Jiejun Huang, and Yongwei Liu, 2020: Meteorological Drought Migration in the Poyang Lake Basin, China: Switching among Different Climate Modes. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 21, 415-431. [Link to paper]
2019
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, Eric C. H. Chow, and Marco Y. T. Leung, 2019: Delayed impacts of the IOD: cross-seasonal relationships between the IOD, Tibetan Plateau snow, and summer precipitation over the Yangtze–Huaihe River region. Climate Dynamics, 53, 4077-4093. [Link to paper]
Yana Li, Song Yang*, Yi Deng, Xiaoming Hu, Ming Cai, and Wen Zhou, 2019: Detection and attribution of upper-tropospheric warming over the tropical western Pacific. Climate Dynamics, 53, 3057-3068. [Link to paper]
Fuan Xiao, Dongxiao Wang, Lili Zeng*, Qin-Yan Liu, and Wen Zhou, 2019: Contrasting changes in the sea surface temperature and upper ocean heat content in the South China Sea during recent decades. Climate Dynamics, 53, 1597-1612. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, K. Y. Cheung, H. N. Gong, and Y. Zhang, 2019: Enhancement of lower tropospheric winter synoptic temperature variations in Southwest China and the northern Indochina Peninsula after 2010. Climate Dynamics, 53, 2281-2294. [Link to paper]
Hainan Gong, Lin Wang*, Wen Chen, Renguang Wu, Wen Zhou, Lin Liu, Debashis Nath, and Xiaoqing Lan, 2019: Diversity of the Wintertime Arctic Oscillation Pattern among CMIP5 Models: Role of the Stratospheric Polar Vortex. Journal of Climate, 32, 5235-5250. [Link to paper]
A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Projection of West African summer monsoon rainfall in dynamically downscaled CMIP5 models. Climate Dynamics, 53, 81-95. [Link to paper]
Eric C. H. Chow, Min Wen, Lei Li, Marco Y. T. Leung, Paxson K. Y. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Assessment of the Environmental and Societal Impacts of the Category-3 Typhoon Hato. Atmosphere, 10, 296. [Link to paper]
Wei Wei*, Yuting Wu, Song Yang, and Wen Zhou, 2019: Role of the South Asian High in the Onset Process of the Asian Summer Monsoon during Spring-to-Summer Transition. Atmosphere, 10, 239. [Link to paper]
Yue Zhang, Wen Zhou*, and Marco Y. T. Leung, 2019: Phase relationship between summer and winter monsoons over the South China Sea: Indian Ocean and ENSO forcing. Climate Dynamics, 52, 5229-5248. [Link to paper]
A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Ensemble-based CMIP5 simulations of West African summer monsoon rainfall: current climate and future changes. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 136, 1021-1031. [Link to paper]
A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Dynamic and thermodynamic factors controlling increasing summer monsoon rainfall over the West African Sahel. Climate Dynamics, 52, 4501-4514. [Link to paper]
Shuang Qiu, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Variation in Summer Rainfall over the Yangtze River Region during Warming and Hiatus Periods. Atmosphere, 10, 173. [Link to paper]
Hainan Gong, Wen Zhou*, Wen Chen, Lin Wang, Marco Y. T. Leung, Paxson K. Y. Cheung, and Yue Zhang, 2019: Modulation of the southern Indian Ocean dipole on the impact of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on Australian summer rainfall. International Journal of Climatology, 39, 2484-2490. [Link to paper]
A. Akinsanola, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: Projections of West African summer monsoon rainfall extremes from two CORDEX models. Climate Dynamics, 52, 2017-2028. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang*, Wen Zhou, and Liangui Yang, 2019: Analysis of dust wet deposition in the mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 12, 217-227. [Link to paper]
Akintayo T. Abolude, and Wen Zhou*, 2019: A Comparative Computational Fluid Dynamic Study on the Effects of Terrain Type on Hub-Height Wind Aerodynamic Properties. Energies, 12, 83. [Link to paper]
2018
Marco Y. T. Leung, Shuang Qiu, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Modulations of rising motion and moisture on summer precipitation over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river. Climate Dynamics, 51, 4259-4269. [Link to paper]
Hainan Gong, Lin Wang, Wen Zhou, Wen Chen*, Renguang Wu, Lin Liu, Debashis Nath, and Marco Y. T. Leung, 2018: Revisiting the Northern Mode of East Asian Winter Monsoon Variation and Its Response to Global Warming. Journal of Climate, 31, 9001-9014. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Gang Huang*, Wen Chen, Wen Zhou, and Weiqiang Wang, 2018: Wet-to-dry shift over Southwest China in 1994 tied to the warming of tropical warm pool. Climate Dynamics, 51, 3111-3123. [Link to paper]
Jiepeng Chen, Xin Wang*, Wen Zhou, Chunzai Wang, Qiang Xie, Gang Li, and Sheng Chen, 2018: Unusual Rainfall in Southern China in Decaying August during Extreme El Niño 2015/16: Role of the Western Indian Ocean and North Tropical Atlantic SST. Journal of Climate, 31, 7019-7034. [Link to paper]
Eric C. H. Chow, Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Influence of Tropical Cyclones on Hong Kong Air Quality. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 35, 1177-1188. [Link to paper]
Jiepeng Chen, Xin Wang*, Wen Zhou, and Zhiping Wen, 2018: Interdecadal change in the summer SST-precipitation relationship around the late 1990s over the South China Sea. Climate Dynamics, 51, 2229-2246. [Link to paper]
Akintayo Temiloluwa Abolude, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Assessment and Performance Evaluation of a Wind Turbine Power Output. Energies, 11, 1992. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Circumglobal teleconnection and eddy control of variation in summer precipitation over Northwest China. Climate Dynamics, 51, 1351-1362. [Link to paper]
Cheng Qian*, Wen Zhou, Xiu-Qun Yang, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2018: Statistical prediction of non-Gaussian climate extremes in urban areas based on the first-order difference method. International Journal of Climatology, 38, 2889-2898. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Wen Zhou*, Chi-Ming Shun, and Pak-Wai Chan, 2018: Large-scale Circulation Control of the Occurrence of Low-level Turbulence at Hong Kong International Airport. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 35, 435-444. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2018: Revisiting the intraseasonal, interannual and interdecadal variability of tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 11, 198-208. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung*, Noel Keenlyside, Nour-Eddine Omrani, and Wen Zhou, 2018: Remarkable link between projected uncertainties of Arctic sea-ice decline and winter Eurasian climate. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 35, 38-51. [Link to paper]
Gang Li, Jiepeng Chen, Xin Wang*, Xia Luo, Daoyong Yang, Wen Zhou, Yanke Tan, and Hongming Yan, 2018: Remote impact of North Atlantic sea surface temperature on rainfall in southwestern China during boreal spring. Climate Dynamics, 50, 541-553. [Link to paper]
Fuan Xiao, Lili Zeng, Qin-Yan Liu, Wen Zhou, and Dongxiao Wang*, 2018: Extreme subsurface warm events in the South China Sea during 1998/99 and 2006/07: observations and mechanisms. Climate Dynamics, 50, 115-128. [Link to paper]
2017
Shuang Qiu, Wen Zhou*, Marco Yu-Ting Leung, and Xiuzhen Li, 2017: Regional moisture budget associated with drought/flood events over China. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 4, 36. [Link to paper]
Akintayo T. Abolude, Wen Zhou*, and Yu Ting Leung, 2017: Regional Impact Assessment of Monsoon Variability on Wind Power Availability and Optimization in Asia. Atmosphere, 8, 219. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, 2017: Impact of Arctic amplification on East Asian winter climate. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 10, 385-388. [Link to paper]
Xiaobin Lin, Zhiping Wen, Wen Zhou*, Renguang Wu, and Ruidan Chen, 2017: Effects of tropical cyclone activity on the boundary moisture budget over the eastern China monsoon region. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 700-712. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, Wen Zhou*, C. M. Shun, and Tsz Cheung Lee, 2017: Change in Destructiveness of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones over China in Recent Decades. Journal of Climate, 30, 3367-3379. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, Wen Zhou, Mark Wenig, and Liangui Yang*, 2017: Impact of long-range desert dust transport on coastal East Asia: analysis of urban dust concentration and wet deposition with model simulation. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 10, 325-337. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, and Wen Zhou*, 2017: Statistical modeling and trend detection of extreme sea level records in the Pearl River Estuary. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 383-396. [Link to paper]
Akintayo Abolude*, and Wen Zhou, 2017: A preliminary analysis of wind turbine energy yield. Energy Procedia, 138, 423-428. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Yongqin David Chen*, and Wen Zhou, 2017: Response of Winter Moisture Circulation to the India–Burma Trough and Its Modulation by the South Asian Waveguide. Journal of Climate, 30, 1197-1210. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang, Wen Zhou, Mark Wenig, and Liangui Yang*, 2017: Impact of long-range desert dust transport on hydrometeor formation over coastal East Asia. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 101-115. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Richard C. Y. Li, and Eric C. H. Chow, 2017: Intraseasonal variation of visibility in Hong Kong. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 34, 26-38. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2017: Meridional displacement of the East Asian trough and its response to the ENSO forcing. Climate Dynamics, 48, 335-352. [Link to paper]
2016
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Marco Y. T. Leung, C. M. Shun, S. M. Lee, and H. W. Tong, 2016: A strong phase reversal of the Arctic Oscillation in midwinter 2015/2016: Role of the stratospheric polar vortex and tropospheric blocking. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 13, 443-413, 457. [Link to paper]
Marco Y. T. Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2016: Direct and indirect ENSO modulation of winter temperature over the Asian–Pacific–American region. Scientific Reports, 6, 36356. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Edward Yan Yung Ng, and Yong Xu, 2016: Urban heat islands in Hong Kong: statistical modeling and trend detection. Natural Hazards, 83, 885-907. [Link to paper]
Marco Yu-Ting Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2016: Eddy contributions at multiple timescales to the evolution of persistent anomalous East Asian trough. Climate Dynamics, 46, 2287-2303. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2016: Simple metrics for representing East Asian winter monsoon variability: Urals blocking and western Pacific teleconnection patterns. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 33, 695-705. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Xiuzhen Li, Xin Wang, and Dongxiao Wang, 2016: Synoptic-scale characteristics and atmospheric controls of summer heat waves in China. Climate Dynamics, 46, 2923-2941.[Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Gang Huang*, Wen Zhou, and Wen Chen, 2016: Historical change and future scenarios of sea level rise in Macau and adjacent waters. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 33, 462-475. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Wen Zhou*, and Yongqin David Chen, 2016: Detecting the origins of moisture over southeast China: Seasonal variation and heavy rainfall. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 33, 319-329. [Link to paper]
Tao Feng, Xiu-Qun Yang*, Wen Zhou, Ronghui Huang, Liang Wu, and Dejian Yang, 2016: Synoptic-Scale Waves in Sheared Background Flow over the Western North Pacific. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 4583-4603. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, Wen Zhou, and Gang Huang, 2016: Understanding and detecting super-extreme droughts in Southwest China through an integrated approach and index. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142, 529-535. [Link to paper]
Li Xiuzhen, and Wen Zhou*, 2016: Modulation of the interannual variation of the India-Burma Trough on the winter moisture supply over Southwest China. Climate Dynamics, 46, 147-158. [Link to paper]
2015
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, Wen Zhou, and Gang Huang, 2015: Teleconnected influence of tropical Northwest Pacific sea surface temperature on interannual variability of autumn precipitation in Southwest China. Climate Dynamics, 45, 2527-2539. [Link to paper]
Marco Yu-Ting Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Variation of circulation and East Asian climate associated with anomalous strength and displacement of the East Asian trough. Climate Dynamics, 45, 2713-2732. [Link to paper]
Jiangjiang Xia*, Zhongwei Yan, Wen Zhou, Soi Kun Fong, Ka Cheng Leong, Iu Man Tang, S. W. Chang, W. K. Leong, and Shaofei Jin, 2015: Projection of the Zhujiang (Pearl) River Delta’s potential submerged area due to sea level rise during the 21st century based on CMIP5 simulations. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 34, 78-84. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Wen Zhou*, and Yongqin David Chen, 2015: Assessment of Regional Drought Trend and Risk over China: A Drought Climate Division Perspective. Journal of Climate, 28, 7025-7037. [Link to paper]
Marco Yu-Ting Leung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Vertical structure, physical properties, and energy exchange of the East Asian trough in boreal winter. Climate Dynamics, 45, 1635-1656. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Multiscale control of summertime persistent heavy precipitation events over South China in association with synoptic, intraseasonal, and low-frequency background. Climate Dynamics, 45, 1043-1057. [Link to paper]
Jiangjiang Xia*, Zhongwei Yan, Gensuo Jia, Heqing Zeng, Philip Douglas Jones, Wen Zhou, and Anzhi Zhang, 2015: Projections of the advance in the start of the growing season during the 21st century based on CMIP5 simulations. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 32, 831-838. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Yun Li, Xin Wang, and Dongxiao Wang, 2015: Statistical modeling and CMIP5 simulations of hot spell changes in China. Climate Dynamics, 44, 2859-2872. [Link to paper]
Kun-Hui Ye, Chi-Yung Tam*, Wen Zhou, and Soo-Jin Sohn, 2015: Seasonal prediction of June rainfall over South China: Model assessment and statistical downscaling. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 32, 680-689. [Link to paper]
Marco Yu-Ting Leung, Hoffman Ho-Nam Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Energetics and dynamics associated with two typical mobile trough pathways over East Asia in boreal winter. Climate Dynamics, 44, 1611-1626. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang*, Wen Chen, Wen Zhou, and Gang Huang, 2015: Drought in Southwest China: A Review. Atmos. Oceanic Sci. Lett., 102. [Link to paper].
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Implications of Ural Blocking for East Asian Winter Climate in CMIP5 GCMs. Part I: Biases in the Historical Scenario. Journal of Climate, 28, 2203-2216. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Implications of Ural Blocking for East Asian Winter Climate in CMIP5 GCMs. Part II: Projection and Uncertainty in Future Climate Conditions. Journal of Climate, 28, 2217-2233. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Sai-ming Lee, and Hang-wai Tong, 2015: Interannual and Interdecadal Variability of the Number of Cold Days in Hong Kong and Their Relationship with Large-Scale Circulation. Monthly Weather Review, 143, 1438-1454. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Soi Kun Fong, Ka Cheng Leong, Iu Man Tang, Sau Wa Chang, and Weng Kun Leong, 2015: Extreme rainfall and summer heat waves in Macau based on statistical theory of extreme values. Climate Reseach, 66:91-101. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, Wen Zhou*, and Tsz Cheung Lee, 2015: Climatological Characteristics and Observed Trends of Tropical Cyclone–Induced Rainfall and Their Influences on Long-Term Rainfall Variations in Hong Kong. Monthly Weather Review, 143, 2192-2206. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2015: Interdecadal Changes in Summertime Tropical Cyclone Precipitation over Southeast China during 1960–2009. Journal of Climate, 28, 1494-1509. [Link to paper]
Qian Cheng*, Wen Zhou, Soi Kun Fong, and Ka Cheng Leong, 2015: Two Approaches for Statistical Prediction of Non-Gaussian Climate Extremes: A Case Study of Macao Hot Extremes during 1912–2012. Journal of Climate, 28, 623-636. [Link to paper]
2014
Xia Qu, Gang Huang*, and Wen Zhou, 2014: Consistent responses of East Asian summer mean rainfall to global warming in CMIP5 simulations. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 117, 123-131. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Dongxiao Wang, 2014: Comparison of the impact of two types of El Niño on tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea. International Journal of Climatology, 34, 2651-2660. [Link to paper]
Dongxiao Wang*, Xin Wang, Wen Zhou, and Chongyin Li, 2014: Comparisons of Two Types of El Niño Impacts on TC Genesis over the South China Sea. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 40. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, Wen Zhou*, and Tim Li, 2014: Influences of the Pacific–Japan Teleconnection Pattern on Synoptic-Scale Variability in the Western North Pacific. Journal of Climate, 27, 140-154. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Wen Zhou*, Deliang Chen, Chongyin Li, and Jie Song, 2014: Water Vapor Transport and Moisture Budget over Eastern China: Remote Forcing from the Two Types of El Niño. Journal of Climate, 27, 8778-8792. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2014: Interdecadal Change in South China Sea Tropical Cyclone Frequency in Association with Zonal Sea Surface Temperature Gradient. Journal of Climate, 27, 5468-5480. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, and Wen Zhou, 2014: Assessment of future drought in Southwest China based on CMIP5 multimodel projections. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 31, 1035-1050. [Link to paper]
Yuyun Liu, Lin Wang*, Wen Zhou, and Wen Chen, 2014: Three Eurasian teleconnection patterns: spatial structures, temporal variability, and associated winter climate anomalies. Climate Dynamics, 42, 2817-2839. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, and Deliang Chen, 2014: Summer High Temperature Extremes in Southeast China: Bonding with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and East Asian Summer Monsoon Coupled System. Journal of Climate, 27, 4122-4138. [Link to paper]
Jie Song*, Chongyin Li, and Wen Zhou, 2014: High and low latitude types of the downstream influences of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Climate Dynamics, 42, 1097-1111. [Link to paper]
Jian Ling*, Chongyin Li, Wen Zhou, and Xiaolong Jia, 2014: To begin or not to begin? A case study on the MJO initiation problem. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 115, 231-241. [Link to paper]
Zhenxi Zhang*, Mark Wenig, Wen Zhou, Thomas Diehl, Ka-Lok Chan, and Lingna Wang, 2014: The contribution of different aerosol sources to the Aerosol Optical Depth in Hong Kong. Atmospheric Environment, 83, 145-154. [Link to paper]
2013
Xiuzhen Li, Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Jie Song, 2013: Comparison of the Annual Cycles of Moisture Supply over Southwest and Southeast China. Journal of Climate, 26, 10139-10158. [Link to paper]
Xianjun Xiao*, Dongxiao Wang , Wen Zhou, Zuqiang Zhang, Yinghao Qin, Na He, and Lili Zeng, 2013: Impacts of a wind stress and a buoyancy flux on the seasonal variation of mixing layer depth in the South China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 32, 30-37. [Link to paper]
Weiwen Wang, Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, Soi Kun Fong, and Ka Cheng Leong, 2013: Summer high temperature extremes in Southeast China associated with the East Asian jet stream and circumglobal teleconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 8306-8319. [Link to paper]
Qun Zhou, Wen Chen*, and Wen Zhou, 2013: Solar cycle modulation of the ENSO impact on the winter climate of East Asia. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 118, 5111-5119. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2013: Modulation of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity by the ISO. Part II: Tracks and Landfalls. Journal of Climate26, 2919-2930. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2013: Modulation of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity by the ISO. Part I: Genesis and Intensity. Journal of Climate, 26, 2904-2918. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Hing Yim Mok, Man Chi Wu, and Yaping Shao, 2013: Revisiting the climatology of atmospheric blocking in the Northern Hemisphere. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 397-410. [Link to paper]
Jong-Suk Kim, Wen Zhou*, Hoffman H. N. Cheung, and Chak Hang Chow, 2013: Variability and risk analysis of Hong Kong air quality based on Monsoon and El Niño conditions. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 280-290. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Wen Zhou*, Dongxiao Wang , and Chunzai Wang, 2013: The impacts of the summer Asian Jet Stream biases on surface air temperature in mid-eastern China in IPCC AR4 models. International Journal of Climatology, 33, 265-276. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Yaping Shao, Wen Chen, Hing Yim Mok, and Man Chi Wu, 2013: Observational climatology and characteristics of wintertime atmospheric blocking over Ural–Siberia. Climate Dynamics, 41, 63-79. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang*, Chunzai Wang, Wen Zhou, Lin Liu, and Dongxiao Wang , 2013: Remote influence of North Atlantic SST on the equatorial westerly wind anomalies in the western Pacific for initiating an El Niño event: an Atmospheric General Circulation Model Study. Atmospheric Science Letters, 14, 107-111. [Link to paper]
Jian Ling*, Chongyin Li, Wen Zhou, Xiaolong Jia, and Chidong Zhang, 2013: Effect of boundary layer latent heating on MJO simulations. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 30, 101-115. [Link to paper]
2012
Xiuzhen Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2012: Quasi-4-Yr Coupling between El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Water Vapor Transport over East Asia–WNP. Journal of Climate, 25, 5879-5891. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2012: Changes in Western Pacific Tropical Cyclones Associated with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation Cycle. Journal of Climate25, 5864-5878. [Link to paper]
Richard C. Y. Li, Wen Zhou*, Johnny C. L. Chan, and P. Huang, 2012: Asymmetric Modulation of Western North Pacific Cyclogenesis by the Madden–Julian Oscillation under ENSO Conditions. Journal of Climate, 25, 5374-5385. [Link to paper]
John Xun Yang, Alexis Kai Hon Lau*, Jimmy Chi Hung Fung, Wen Zhou, Mark Wenig, 2012: An air pollution episode and its formation mechanism during the tropical cyclone Nuri’s landfall in a coastal city of south China. Atmospheric Environment, 54, 746-753. [Link to paper]
Hoffman H. N. Cheung, Wen Zhou*, Hing Yim Mok, and Man Chi Wu, 2012: Relationship between Ural–Siberian Blocking and the East Asian Winter Monsoon in Relation to the Arctic Oscillation and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation. Journal of Climate, 25, 4242-4257. [Link to paper]
Huopo Chen*, Jianqi Sun, Xiaoli Chen, and Wen Zhou, 2012: CGCM projections of heavy rainfall events in China. International Journal of Climatology, 32, 441-450. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Dongxiao Wang , 2012: Effects of the East Asian summer monsoon on tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea on an interdecadal time scale. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 29, 249-262. [Link to paper]
Jong-Suk Kim, Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, and Shaleen Jain, 2012: El Niño Modoki and the Summer Precipitation Variability over South Korea: A Diagnostic Study. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 90, 673-684. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Zhiping Wen, Wen Zhou*, and Dongxiao Wang , 2012: Atmospheric Water Vapor Transport Associated with Two Decadal Rainfall Shifts over East China. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 90, 587-602. [Link to paper]
Yi Deng, Ping Shi, Wen Zhou, Yan Du, Qiang Xie, Wei Zhuang, and Dongxiao Wang*, 2012: A dipole wind curl pattern induced by Taiwan Island and its effect on upper stratification in the northeastern South China Sea. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 30, 944-952. [Link to paper]
Jong-Suk Kim, Richard Cheuk-Yin Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2012: Effects of the Pacific-Japan teleconnection pattern on tropical cyclone activity and extreme precipitation events over the Korean peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 117. [Link to paper]
Ningbo Jiang*, Kevin Cheung, Kehui Luo, Paul J. Beggs, and Wen Zhou, 2012: On two different objective procedures for classifying synoptic weather types over east Australia. International Journal of Climatology, 32, 1475-1494. [Link to paper]
Yuan Fang, Wen Chen*, and Wen Zhou, 2012: Analysis of the role played by circulation in the persistent precipitation over South China in June 2010. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 29, 769-781. [Link to paper]
Youfang Yan*, Yiquan Qi, and Wen Zhou, 2012: Variability of tropical cyclone occurrence date in the South China Sea and its relationship with SST warming. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 55-56, 45-59. [Link to paper]
Qizhong Wu, Zifa Wang, Huansheng Chen, Wen Zhou*, and Mark Wenig, 2012: An evaluation of air quality modeling over the Pearl River Delta during November 2006. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 116, 113-132. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Wen Chen, and Dongxiao Wang, 2012: The implications of El Niño-Southern Oscillation signal for South China monsoon climate. Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 15, 14-19. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Dongxiao Wang , Wen Zhou*, and Chongyin Li, 2012: Interdecadal modulation of the influence of La Niña events on mei-yu rainfall over the Yangtze River valley. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ,29, 157-168. [Link to paper]
2011
Weiwen Wang, Dongxiao Wang*, Wen Zhou, Qinyan Liu, Yongqiang Yu, and Chao Li, 2011: Impact of the South China Sea throughflow on the pacific low-latitude western boundary current: A numerical study for seasonal and interannual time scales. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 28, 1367-1376. [Link to paper]
Jie Song*, Wen Zhou, Xin Wang, and Chongyin Li, 2011: Zonal Asymmetry of the Annular Mode and Its Downstream Subtropical Jet: An Idealized Model Study. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 1946-1973. [Link to paper]
Ren-Jun Zhou*, Peng-Bing Liu, Wen Zhou, Hong-Ke Cai, and Yue-Juan Chen, 2011: The analysis of quasi-biennial oscillation characteristics of stratospheric aerosol. Acta Geophysica Sinica, 54, 1174-1181. [Link to paper]
Zhongwei Yan, Jiangjiang Xia, Cheng Qian, and Wen Zhou*, 2011: Changes in seasonal cycle and extremes in China during the period 1960–2008. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 28, 269-283. [Link to paper]
JIangjiang Xia, Zhongwei Yan*, and Wen Zhou, 2011: Changes in Seasonality in China under Enhanced Atmospheric CO2 Concentration. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 4, 12-17. [Link to paper]
Juan Feng, Wen Chen*, C.-Y. Tam, and Wen Zhou, 2011: Different impacts of El Niño and El Niño Modoki on China rainfall in the decaying phases. International Journal of Climatology, 31, 2091-2101. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Chunzai Wang, Wen Zhou, Dongxiao Wang*, and Jie Song, 2011: Teleconnected influence of North Atlantic sea surface temperature on the El Niño onset. Climate Dynamics, 37, 663-676. [Link to paper]
Xiuzhen Li, Zhiping Wen, and Wen Zhou*, 2011: Long-term Change in Summer Water Vapor Transport over South China in Recent Decades. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 89A, 271-282. [Link to paper]
Jie Song, Chongyin Li, Jing Pan, and Wen Zhou*, 2011: Climatology of Anticyclonic and Cyclonic Rossby Wave Breaking on the Dynamical Tropopause in the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Climate, 24, 1239-1251. [Link to paper]
Yali Zhu*, Huijun Wang, Wen Zhou, and Jiehua Ma, 2011: Recent changes in the summer precipitation pattern in East China and the background circulation. Climate Dynamics, 36, 1463-1473. [Link to paper]
Ke Wei*, Wen Chen, and Wen Zhou, 2011: Changes in the East Asian cold season since 2000. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 28, 69-79. [Link to paper]
2010
Youfang Yan*, Yiquan Qi, and Wen Zhou, 2010: Interannual heat content variability in the South China Sea and its response to ENSO. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 50, 400-414. [Link to paper]
Jian Huang*, Xin Wang, Wen Zhou, Huijun Huang, Dongxiao Wang, and Faxiu Zhou, 2010: The characteristics of sea fog with different airflow over the Huanghai Sea in boreal spring. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 29, 3-12. [Link to paper]
Jin-Nan Yuan*, Wen Zhou, Hui-Jun Huang, and Fei Liao, 2010: Observational analysis of asymmetric distribution of convection associated with tropical cyclones “chanchu” and “prapiroon” making landfall along the south China coast. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 16, 171-180. [Link to paper]
Dong-Xiao Wang *, Wen Zhou, Xiao-Li Yu, Qiang Xie, and Xin Wang, 2010: Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layers Associated with Summer Monsoon Onset over the South China Sea in 1998. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 3, 263-270. [Link to paper]
Zhongda Lin*, Riyu Lu, and Wen Zhou, 2010: Change in early-summer meridional teleconnection over the western North Pacific and East Asia around the late 1970s. International Journal of Climatology, 30, 2195-2204. [Link to paper]
Qizhong Wu, Zifa Wang*, A. Gbaguidi, Xiao Tang, and Wen Zhou, 2010: Numerical Study of The Effect of Traffic Restriction on Air Quality in Beijing. SOLA, 6A, 17-20. [Link to paper]
Lian-Tong Zhou*, Chi-Yung Tam, Wen Zhou, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2010: Influence of South China Sea SST and the ENSO on winter rainfall over South China. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 27, 832-844. [Link to paper]
Qinyan Liu*, Dongxiao Wang, Wen Zhou, Qiang Xie, and Yan Zhang, 2010: Covariation of the Indonesian throughflow and South China Sea throughflow associated with the 1976/77 regime shift. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 27, 87-94. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, Wen Zhou, Johnny C. L. Chan, David Barriopedro, and Ronghui Huang, 2010: Effect of the climate shift around mid 1970s on the relationship between wintertime Ural blocking circulation and East Asian climate. International Journal of Climatology, 30, 153-158. [Link to paper]
Dehai Luo*, Wen Zhou, and Ke Wei, 2010: Dynamics of eddy-driven North Atlantic Oscillations in a localized shifting jet: zonal structure and downstream blocking. Climate Dynamics, 34, 73-100. [Link to paper]
2009
Wen Zhou*, Johnny C. L. Chan, Wen Chen, Jian Ling, Joaquim G. Pinto, and Yaping Shao, 2009: Synoptic-Scale Controls of Persistent Low Temperature and Icy Weather over Southern China in January 2008. Monthly Weather Review, 137, 3978-3991. [Link to paper]
Jie Song, Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Lixin Qi, 2009: Signature of the Antarctic oscillation in the northern hemisphere. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 105, 55-67. [Link to paper]
Wei Gu*, Chongyin Li, Weijing Li, Wen Zhou, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2009: Interdecadal unstationary relationship between NAO and east China’s summer precipitation patterns. Geophysical Research Letters, 36. [Link to paper]
Wei Gu*, Chongyin Li, Xin Wang, Wen Zhou, and Weijing Li, 2009: Linkage between mei-yu precipitation and North Atlantic SST on the decadal timescale. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 26, 101-108. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang*, Dongxiao Wang, and Wen Zhou, 2009: Decadal variability of twentieth-century El Niño and La Niña occurrence from observations and IPCC AR4 coupled models. Geophysical Research Letters, 36. [Link to paper]
Jie Song*, Chongyin Li, Wen Zhou, and Jing Pan, 2009: The linkage between the Pacific-North American teleconnection pattern and the North Atlantic Oscillation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 26, 229-239. [Link to paper]
Lin Wang, Wen Chen*, Wen Zhou, and Ronghui Huang, 2009: Interannual Variations of East Asian Trough Axis at 500 hPa and its Association with the East Asian Winter Monsoon Pathway. Journal of Climate, 22, 600-614. [Link to paper]
H.W. Tong, Johnny C. L. Chan*, and Wen Zhou, 2009: The role of MJO and mid-latitude fronts in the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. Climate Dynamics, 33, 827-841. [Link to paper]
Hong-Ming Yan*, Chong-Yin Li, and Wen Zhou, 2009: Influence of subtropical dipole pattern in Southern Indian Ocean on ENSO event. Acta Geophysica Sinica, 52, 2436-2449. [Link to paper]
Chongyin Li, Xiaolong Jia, Jian Ling, Wen Zhou, and Chidong Zhang*, 2009: Sensitivity of MJO simulations to diabatic heating profiles. Climate Dynamics, 32, 167-187. [Link to paper]
2008
Yuan Yuan*, Johnny C. L. Chan, Wen Zhou, and Chongyin Li, 2008: Decadal and interannual variability of the Indian Ocean Dipole. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 25, 856-866. [Link to paper]
Yuan Yuan*, Hui Yang, Wen Zhou, and Chongyin Li, 2008: Influences of the Indian Ocean dipole on the Asian summer monsoon in the following year. International Journal of Climatology, 28, 1849-1859. [Link to paper]
Yuan Yuan*, Wen Zhou, Hui Yang, and Chongyin Li, 2008: Warming in the northwestern Indian Ocean associated with the El Niño event. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 25, 246-252. [Link to paper]
Yuan Yuan, Wen Zhou, Johnny C. L. Chan*, and Chongyin Li, 2008: Impacts of the basin-wide Indian Ocean SSTA on the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. International Journal of Climatology, 28, 1579-1587. [Link to paper]
Xuhua Cheng, Yiquan Qi*, and Wen Zhou, 2008: Trends of sea level variations in the Indo-Pacific warm pool. Global and Planetary Change, 63, 57-66. [Link to paper]
Martin L. M. Wong, Johnny C. L. Chan*, and Wen Zhou, 2008: A Simple Empirical Model for Estimating the Intensity Change of Tropical Cyclones after Landfall along the South China Coast. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 326-338. [Link to paper]
2007
Wen Zhou*, Xin Wang, Tianjun Zhou, Chongyin Li, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2007: Interdecadal variability of the relationship between the East Asian winter monsoon and ENSO. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 98, 283-293. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang, Chongyin Li, and Wen Zhou*, 2007: Interdecadal mode and its propagating characteristics of SSTA in the South Pacific. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 98, 115-124. [Link to paper]
Dehai Luo*, Tingting Gong, Yina Diao, and Wen Zhou, 2007: Storm tracks and annular modes. Geophysical Research Letters, 34. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou, and Johnny C. L. Chan*, 2007: ENSO and the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. International Journal of Climatology, 27, 157-167. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou, Chongyin Li, and Xin Wang*, 2007: Possible connection between Pacific Oceanic interdecadal pathway and east Asian winter monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters, 34. [Link to paper]
2006
Chongyin Li*, Wen Zhou, Xiaolong Jia, and Xin Wang, 2006: Decadal/interdecadal variations of the ocean temperature and its impacts on climate. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 23, 964-981. [Link to paper]
Jie Song*, Wen Zhou, Jing Pan, and Chongyin Li, 2006: Global influence of the Northern Hemisphere second mode of the zonal average of the zonal wind. Geophysical Research Letters, 33. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Chongyin Li, and Johnny C. L. Chan, 2006: The interdecadal variations of the summer monsoon rainfall over South China. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 93, 165-175. [Link to paper]
Xin Wang*, Chongyin Li, and Wen Zhou, 2006: Interdecadal variation of the relationship between Indian rainfall and SSTA modes in the Indian Ocean. International Journal of Climatology, 26, 595-606. [Link to paper]
2005
Wen Zhou, and Johnny C. L. Chan*, 2005: Intraseasonal oscillations and the South China Sea summer monsoon onset. International Journal of Climatology, 25, 1585-1609. [Link to paper]
Johnny C. L. Chan*, and Wen Zhou, 2005: PDO, ENSO and the early summer monsoon rainfall over south China. Geophysical Research Letters, 32. [Link to paper]
Wen Zhou*, Johnny Chung-Leung Chan, and Chongyin Li, 2005: South China Sea summer monsoon onset in relation to the off-equatorial ITCZ. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 22, 665-676. [Link to paper]