What I do

Summary

Please see my CV for summarized bullet points of what I do but please scroll down to see the page to know more in details if you are not in a rush!:)

Ph.D. dissertation: Attributing regional changes in the hydrological cycle with a hierarchy of climate model simulations

Project #3: a detection and attribution study on historical Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance changes [Ph.D. dissertation Chapter 3]

- Collaborating with Riley Culberg (Cornell Univ.) and Flavio Lehner (Cornell Univ.).
- Manuscript submitted to The Cryosphere (August 2025).

Project #2: understanding the tropical SST's impacts on the U.S. Southwest hydroclimate trend with a combination of linear inverse model and atmospheric general circulation model (LIM-AMIP) [Ph.D. dissertation Chapter 2]

- Advised by Flavio Lehner (Cornell Univ.) and collaborating with Clara Deser (NCAR), Matthew Newman (NOAA), Adam Philips (NCAR), Isla Simpson (NCAR), Sang-Ik Shin (NOAA), Julie Arblaster (Monash Univ.), Spencer Wong (Monash Univ.).
- Published on Nature Geoscience (2025).

Project #1: the evidence of forced Pacific Decadal Variability and its impacts on the U.S. Southwest precipitation [Ph.D. dissertation Chapter 1]

Advised by Flavio Lehner and collaborating with Hanjun Kim (Cornell Univ.).
Published on Geophysical Research Letters (2023).

ENSO Complexity and Global Hydrology

Project #2: understanding how ENSO complexity affects hydroclimate with LIM-AMIP.

Collaborating with Ashley Huang and Flavio Lehner.
Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters (July 2025).

Project #1: comparing two extreme ENSO events and ENSO complexity on affecting sea-level variation. [Kuo's B.Sc. thesis]

Advised by Min-Hui Lo (National Taiwan Unversity (NTU)) and collaborating with Yu-Chiao Liang (NTU, Columbia Univ., WHOI), Yu-Heng Tseng (NTU), and Chia-Wei Hsu (Colorado State Univ.).
Published on Geophysical Research Letters (2021).

Side Projects and Projects I was involved

Forced Component Estimation Statistical Method Intercomparison Project (ForceSMIP):

Attending the NCAR hub hackathon [August 2023].
Collaborating with Justin Lien to develop a method for a ForceSMIP contribution [2024].
ForceSMIP paper under review (2025) and method developed during ForceSMIP is published in Physical Review Research (2025).

Project #2: Exploring the changes in the seasonality of Arctic Amplification and its uncertainty with single-model initial-condition large ensembles (SMILEs). [during Kuo's research assistant appointment at NTU 2020-2021]

Collaborating with You-Ting Wu (NTU), Yu-Chiao Liang (NTU), Flavio Lehner, Michael Previdi (Columbia Univ.), Lorenzo M. Polvani (Columbia Univ.), Min-Hui Lo, Chia-Wei Lan (NTU).
Wu et al. published on Geophysical Research Letters (2023).

Project #1: Understanding the role of rainforest in the hydroclimate of the Marintime Continent with idealized CESM deforestation experiments. [during Kuo's research assistant appointment at NTU 2020-2021]

Collaborating with Ting-Hui Lee (NTU), Min-Hui Lo, and Chun-Lien Chiang (NTU).
Lee et al. published on Communications Earth & Environment (2023) and Chiang et al. manuscript in preparation.

Project #0: Analyzing the ocean chemistry properties from seawater samples of coral reef regions around Taiwan [during Kuo's undergraduate research fellowship at the Institution of Oceanography at NTU 2018 summer]

Advised by Huei-Ting (Tina) Lin as a contributor to Lin et al. published on Coral Reefs (2024).

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