I-Chun Tsai 

蔡宜君

Associate Research Fellow

Research Center for Environmental Changes

Academia Sinica

Email: ictsaiATgateDOTsinicaDOTeduDOTtw

Phone:(886)2-27875935 

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Education

Professional Experiences

Research Interests

Awards and Honors

Publications (*: corresponding author)

Peer-reviewed papers:

1. Tsai, I-C., P.-R. Hsieh, H.-H. Hsu, Y.-S. Tung, Y.-M. Chen, and C.-T. Cheng*, 2024: Climate Change-induced Impact on PM2.5 in Taiwan under 2 and 4 °C Global Warming. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 15(6), 120106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2024.102106. 

2. Tsai, I-C., S.-W. Yang, C.-J. Shiu*, Y.-Y. Chen, Chen-An Chen, W.-L. Lee, and H.-H. Hsu,  2024: Aerosol Impacts on the East Asian Winter Monsoon: Insights from TaiESM1 and CMIP6 Simulations. International Journal of Climatology, 44(9), 2816–2832. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8483

3. Tsai, I-C., C.-W. Lin, S.-H. Su*, C.-W. Chang, C.-W. Su, and S.-C. C. Lung, 2024: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Scooter-Induced Traffic Patterns and Their Environmental Implications. Atmospheric Environmental: X. 23, 100291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeaoa.2024.100291

4. Wu, C.-H.*, S.-Y. Lee, I-C. Tsai, C.-J. Shiu, Y.-Y. Chen, 2023: Volcanic contribution to the 1990s North Pacific climate shift in winter. Scientific Reports, 13 (1), 5672.

5. Wu, C.-H.*, C.-J. Shiu, Y.-Y. Chen, I-C. Tsai, S.-Y. Lee, 2023: Climatological changes in East Asian winter monsoon circulation in a warmer future, Atmospheric Research, 284, 106593, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106593.

6. Tsai, I-C.*, P.-R. Hsieh, C.-T. Cheng, Y.-S. Tung, L.-Y. Lin and H.-H. Hsu, 2023: Impacts of 2 and 4 °C global warmings on extreme temperatures in Taiwan, International Journal of Climatology. 43(2), 702-719, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7815.

7. Chen, Y.-C.*, P.-H. Lin, W.-N. Chen, I-C. Tsai, S. Laplace, C.-C. Ting, C. Fu, Charles, C.-K. Chou, 2022: Decade long-term measurement for investigating vertical thermodynamic of urban boundary layer, Urban Climate, 46, 2022, 101301,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101301.

8.  Tsai, I-C., L.-S. Shu, J.-P. Chen*, P.-R. Hsieh, and C.-T. Cheng, 2022: Projecting ozone impact on crop yield in Taiwan under climate warming. Accepted by Science of the Total Environment.

9. Lee, S.-Y.*, S.-C. C. Lung, P.-G. Chiu, W.-C. Wang, I-C. Tsai, T.-H. Lin, 2022: Northern hemisphere urban heat stress and associated labor hour hazard from ERA5 reanalysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2022, 19, 8163. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138163

10. Su, S.-H.*, C.-W. Chang, I.-C. Tsai, J.-L.Chu, Y.-L. Chen, and T.-S. Yo, 2022: Taiwan Atmospheric Event Database. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/4ZUTJ

11. Tsai, I-C.*, P.-R. Hsieh, H. C. Cheung, and C. C.-K. Chou, 2021: Aerosol impacts on fog microphysics over the western side of Taiwan Strait in April from 2015 to 2017, Atmospheric Environment, 118523, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2021.118523.

12. Tsai, I-C.*, C.-Y. Lee, S.-C. C. Lung, C.-W. Su, 2021: Characterization of the vehicle emissions in the Greater Taipei Area through vision-based traffic analysis system and its impacts on urban air quality, Science of the Total Environment, 782(2021), 146571, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146571.

13. Lee, W.-L.*, Y.-C. Wang, C.-J. Shiu, I-C. Tsai, C.-Y. Tu, Y.-Y. Lan, J.-P. Chen, H.-L. Pan, and H.-H. Hsu, 2020: Taiwan Earth System Model Version 1: description and evaluation of mean state, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 3887–3904, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3887-2020.

14. Zhang, L., T.-M. Fu*, H. Tian, Y. Ma, J.-P. Chen, T.-C. Tsai, I-C. Tsai, Z. Meng, X. Yang. 2020: Anthropogenic Aerosols Significantly Reduce Mesoscale Convective System Occurrences and Precipitation over Southern China in April, Geophysical Research Letters. 47, e2019GL086204. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086204.

15. Wu, C.-H.*, I-C. Tsai, P.-C. Tsai and Y.-S. Tung, 2019: Large-Scale Seasonal Control of Air Quality in Taiwan, Atmospheric Environment, 214, 116868, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.116868.

16. Huang C.-C., S.-H. Chen*, Y.-C. Lin, K. Earl, T. Matsui, H.-H. Lee, I-C. Tsai, J.-P. Chen, C.-T. Cheng, 2019: Impacts of Dust-Radiation versus Dust-Cloud Interactions on the Development of a Modeled Mesoscale Convective System over North Africa.  Monthly Weather Review, 147, 3301–3326, https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-18-0459.1.

17. Tsai, I-C.*, W.-Y. Chen, J.-P. Chen, and M.-C. Liang, 2019: Kinetic mass-transfer calculation of water isotope fractionation due to cloud microphysics in a regional meteorological model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 1753-1766, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1753-2019.

18. Lung, S.-C.*, S.-W. Chou, J.-P. Chen, P.-C. Wen, H.-J. J. Su, I-C. Tsai, and Y.-S. Shen, 2018: Science Plan of “Climate Change and Health Adaptation”, Journal of Taiwan Land Research, 21, 2, 209-239 (in Chinese).

19. Tsai, I-C.*, W.-C. Wang, H.-H. Hsu, and W.-L. Lee, 2016: Aerosol effects on summer monsoon over Asia during 1980s and 1990s, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 11761–11776, doi:10.1002/2016JD025388.

20. Chen, J.-P.*, I-J. Chen and I-C. Tsai, 2016: Dynamic feedback of aerosol effect on the East Asian summer monsoon. Journal of Climate, 29(17):6137-6149. Li, N., J.-P. Chen*, I-C. Tsai, Q. He, S.-Y. Chi, Y.-C. Lin, and T.-M. Fu, 2016: Potential impacts of electric vehicles on air quality in Taiwan.  Science of the Total Environment, 566-567(2016).

21.  Li, N., J.-P. Chen*, I-C. Tsai, Q. He, S.-Y. Chi, Y.-C. Lin, and T.-M. Fu, 2016: Potential impacts of electric vehicles on air quality in Taiwan.  Science of the Total Environment, 566-567(2016).

22. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen*, C. S.-C. Lung, N. Li, W.-N. Chen, T.-M. Fu, C.-C. Chang, and G.-D. Hwang, 2015: Sources and formation pathways of organic aerosol in a subtropical metropolis during summer.  Atmospheric Environment, 117, 51-60.

23. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen*, Y.-C. Lin, C C.-K. Chou, and W.-N. Chen, 2015: Numerical investigation of the coagulation mixing between dust and hygroscopic aerosol particles and its impacts.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 120, 9, 4313-4233, doi:10.1002/2014JD022899.

24. Chen, J.-P.*, C.-E. Yang and I-C. Tsai, 2015: Estimation of foreign versus domestic contributions to Taiwan's air pollution. Atmospheric Environment, 112,9-19, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.02.022

25. Lin, Y.-C., J.-P. Chen*, T.-Y. Ho and I-C. Tsai, 2015: Atmospheric Iron deposition in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and its Adjacent Marginal Seas: the Importance of Coal Burning. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 29, 139–159,  doi:10.1002/2013GB004795.

26. Chen, J.-P.*, I-C. Tsai, and Y.-C. Lin, 2013: A statistical–numerical aerosol parameterization scheme, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 10483-10504, doi:10.5194/acp-13-10483-2013.

27. Tsai, I-C., M.-C. Liang, and J.-P. Chen*, 2012: Methane-Nitrogen binary nucleation: a new microphysical mechanism for cloud formation in Titan's atmosphere.  Astrophys. J., 747.

28. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen*, P.-Y. Lin, W.-C. Wang and I. S. A. Isaksen, 2010:  Sulfur cycle and sulfate radiative forcing simulated from a coupled global climate-chemistry model.  Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 3693-3709.

29. Chen, J.-P.*, Z. Wang, C.-Y. Young, F. Tsai, I-C. Tsai, G.-J. Wang, W.-C. Shieh, H.-W. Lin, J.-Y. Huang, and M.-J. Lu, 2004: Simulations of Asian Yellow Dust Incursion Over Taiwan for the Spring of 2002 and 2003, Terrest. Atmos. Ocean. Vol 15, No. 5, 949-981.

Book and Chapter in Book

1. Wang, W.-C., J.-P. Chen, I. S. A. Isaksen, I-C. Tsai, K. Noone and K. McGuffie, 2012: Climate-chemistry interaction: Future tropospheric ozone and aerosol. In A. Henderson-Sellers and K. McGuffie (eds): The Future of the World’s Climate. World Survey of Climatology series, Elsevier Science, ISBN: 978-0-12-386917-3, pp. 367-399.  (2012 ASLI Choice Award) 

2. Chen, J.-P., A. Hazra, C.-J. Shiu, I-C. Tsai, and H.-H. Lee, 2008:  Interaction between aerosols and clouds: current understanding. In Liou, K.-N., M.-D. Chou and H.-H. Hsu (eds.): Recent Progress in Atmospheric Sciences: Application to the Asia-Pacific Region. World Scientific, ISBN-13 978-981-281-890-4, QC861.3.R43, pp. 231-281.

Conference Proceedings:

1. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen, H.-M. Hung, C. C.-K. Chou, and W.-N. Chen, 2017: Numerical investigation of Enhanced Sulfate Formation Over mountain areas in Central Taiwan. AOGS 2017, Aug. 6-11, Singapore, Singapore.

2. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen, and C.-Y. Yang, 2016: Simulation of tropical cyclones response to aerosol type. 17th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP). July 25-29, 2016, Manchester, UK.

3. Tsai, I-C., W.-C. Wang, W.-L. Lee, and H.-H. Hsu, 2016: Aerosol-monsoon interactions over East Asia: A study using changes in anthropogenic aerosol emissions during 1980s and 1990s. East Asian Climate 13th workshop. March 24-25, Beijing, China

4. Tsai, I-C., W.-T. Chen, C.-Y. Yang and J.-P. Chen, 2014: Evaluation of Fog Simulation Capability by Several Cloud Microphysical Schemes in the WRF Model.  Fall Meeting of the AGU.  December 15-19, San Francisco, California, USA.

5. Chen, J.-P., I-C. Tsai, W.-Y. Chen and M.-C. Liang, 2014: Simulation of cloud microphysical effects on water isotope fractionation in a frontal system.  Fall Meeting of the AGU.  December 15-19, San Francisco, California, USA.

6. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen, Y.-C. Lin, C. C.-K. Chou and W.-N. Chen, 2014: Numerical investigation of the internal mixing between dust and hygroscopic aerosol particles and its impacts.  Tenth East Asia Climate and Environment (EACE10) workshop.  April 17-18, Beijing, China.

7. Chen, J.-P., I-J. Chen, and I-C. Tsai, 2014: Aerosol impacts on East Asian Summer Monsoon.  Tenth East Asia Climate and Environment (EACE10) workshop.  April 17-18, Beijing, China.

8. Wang, C.-Y., J.-P. Chen and I-C. Tsai, 2013: The impacts of future climate change on surface ozone.  Fall Meeting of the AGU.  December 9-13, San Francisco, California, USA.

9. Shiu, C.-J., Y.-H. Chen, W.-T. Chen, J.-L. F. Li, I-C. Tsai, J.-P. Chen and H.-H. H, 2013: Implementing a warm cloud microphysics parameterization for convective clouds in NCAR CESM.  Fall Meeting of the AGU.  December 9-13, San Francisco, California, USA.

10. Tsai, I-C., G.-D. Hwang, C. C.-K. Chou, W.-N. Chen, C.-C. Chang, S.-C. C Lung and J.-P. Chen, 2012: Numerical simulation of organic aerosol at a rural site near the Taipei City in Taiwan, IGAC Conference 2012, 17-21 September, 2012, Beijing, China. 

11. Tsai, I-C., Y.-C. Lin, S.-C. Hsu, and J.-P. Chen, 2012: Simulation and evaluation of rain scavenging process.  16th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation (ICCP), 30 July-03 August, 2012, Leipzig, Germany. 

12. Chen, J.-P., I-C. Tsai, and Y.-C. Lin, 2011: Impacts of aerosol on clouds.  Symposium on Air Pollution & Climate: A Science-Policy Dialogue in Asia, 07 November, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.

13. Chen, J.-P., I-C. Tsai, and Y.-C. Lin, 2011: Impacts of dust mixing state on radiation and cloud microphysics.  8th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 08-12 August, 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.

14. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen, C.-J. Shiu, W.-N. Chen and C. C.-K. Chou, 2011: Simulation of aerosol mixing state in a dust event over Taiwan.  2011 International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Conference, 28 June-7 July, Melbourne, Australia.

15. Chen, S.-H., C. -T. Cheng, J. -P. Chen, Y. -C. Lin, H. -H. Lee, and I -C. Tsai, 2011: The Influence of Dust-microphysics Processes on Tropical Cyclone Development.  2011 International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) Conference, 28 June-7 July, Melbourne, Australia.

16. Chen, J.-P. and I-C. Tsai, 2010: Aerosol mixing sate simulated with a physically-based three-moment modal aerosol parameterization scheme.  Fall Meeting of the AGU, December 13-17, San Francisco, California, USA.

17. Tsai, I-C. and J.-P. Chen, 2010: Simulation of dust mixture state and its impacts.  「第七屆海峽兩岸氣膠技術研討會暨第二屆空氣污染技術研討會」，Nov. 22-23, 2010,中央研究院

18. Liang, M.-C., I-C. Tsai and J.-P. Chen, 2010: Aerosol formation in the atmospheres of Titan and Venus. 7th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, 5-9 July, Hyderabad, India.

19. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen and M.-C. Liang, 2010: Aerosol formation in the atmospheres of Titan and Venus. 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, 22-25, June, Taipei, Taiwan. [invited talk]

20. Chen, J.-P., Y.-C. Lin and I-C. Tsai, 2010: Deposition of mineral dust and anthropogenic pollutants over NWPO and SCS. 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, 22-25, June, Taipei, Taiwan.

21. Chen, J-P., and I-C. Tsai, 2010: Simulating the influence of Kelvin effect and mixing state on the radiative properties of aerosols. 「海峽兩岸亞洲地區城市化及其環境、氣候影響」學術研討會，Jan. 19-20, 2010,中央研究院。

22. Chen, J.-P., and I-C. Tsai, 2009: Application of a physically-based aerosol parameterization scheme in studying aerosol mixing state.  IGAC-SPARC Joint Workshop, Kyoto, Oct. 25-26, 2009.

23. Tsai, I-C., P.-Y. Tang and J.-P. Chen, 2009: Studying the impact of Kelvin effect in aerosol water content by a bulk aerosol parameterization.  6th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, 11-15 August, 2009.

24. Tsai, I-C., and J.-P. Chen, 2009: Physically-based bulk aerosol parameterization. 6th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, 11-15 August, 2009.

25. Lin, Y.-C., I-C. Tsai and J.-P. Chen, 2009: Asian dust deposition over NWPO and SCS. 6th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, 11-15 August, 2009.

26. Hazra, A., I-C. Tsai, and J.-P. Chen, 2009: Some effects of cloud-aerosol interaction and aerosol scavenging with by ice hydrometeors on cloud microphysics and precipitation formation. 6th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society, Singapore, 11-15 August, 2009.

27. Tsai, I-C., and J.-P. Chen, 2008: Application of Physically-Based Bulk aerosol parameterization into a regional air quality model. IGAC Conference 2008, 7-12 September, Annecy, France.

28. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen, W.-C. Wang and I. S. A. Isaksen, 2008: Sulfate direct and indirect effects simulated with the coupled Global Climate-Chemistry Model.  IGAC Conference 2008, 7-12 September, Annecy, France.

29. Tsai, I-C., J.-P. Chen, P.-Y. Lin, W.-C. Wang and I. S. A. Isaksen, 2007: Estimating sulfate aerosol-climate interactions by a Global Climate-Chemistry Model with focus on East Asia.  Seventh Workshop on East Asia Chemistry and Climate, Jun 18-20 2007, Oslo, Norway. 

30. Chen, J.-P., Tsai, I-C., P.-Y. Lin, and W.-C. Wang, 2006: GCCM simulation of aerosol-climate interactions. Atmospheric Chemistry at the Interface, Joint CACGP/IGAC/WMO Symposium, September 17-22, Cape Town South Africa.

31. Chen, J.-P., I-C. Tsai, W.-C. Wang, P.-Y. Lin, and I.S.A. Isaksen, 2006: GCCM simulation of aerosol-climate interaction with focus on the East Asia Region.  Eighth AMIP/East Asian Climate Workshop, 31 March – 1 April, Nantou, Taiwan.

32. Wang, W.-C., I. S. A. Isaksen, T. Liang, I-C. Tsai, J.-P. Chen, and T. K. Berntsen, 2005: A global tropospheric climate-chemistry model study of the radiative forcing from changes in tropospheric O3 and sulfate aerosols. 2005 Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, August 2-11, Beijing.

33. Tsai, I-C., H.-H. Lee, and J.-P. Chen, 2005: Dust model with modal parameterization and application in the East Asia region.  2005 Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, August 2-11, Beijing.