Topic 1: Dynamics and Predictability of the Tropical Cyclone—Ocean Coupling System.
Topic 2: Impacts of Climate Warming on Tropical and Post-Tropical Cyclones: Characteristics and Hazards.
Topic 3: Solar Geoengineering to Counter Future Storm Changes.
Li, D. Y., Z. M. Tan, and L. Lei: How can tropical cyclone track forecast uncertainty influence intensity uncertainty? In preparation.
Li, D. Y., and Z. M. Tan: Sea surface temperature cooling induced by ocean surface divergence within the tropical cyclone-warm ocean eddy interaction. In preparation.
Li, D. Y., and Z. M. Tan, 2023: The role of ocean-atmosphere interactions in tropical cyclone intensity predictability. J. Atmos. Sci., 80, 1213-1226. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0152.1.
Li, D. Y., and C. Y. Huang, 2019: The influences of ocean on intensity of Typhoon Soudelor (2015) as revealed by coupled modeling. Atmos. Sci. Lett., 20, https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.871.
Li, D. Y., and C. Y. Huang, 2018: The influences of orography and ocean on track of Typhoon Megi (2016) past Taiwan as identified by HWRF. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 123, 11492-11517. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029379.
Li, D. Y., K. A. Reed, S. J. Camargo, C. Y. Lee, A. H. Sobel, C. M. Zarzycki, and M. Bieli, 2026: A statistical model for improving post-tropical cyclone hazard assessment. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 131, e2025JD044936. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044936
Li, D. Y., K. A. Reed, C. M. Zarzycki, and S. J. Camargo: Robust responses of tropical and post-tropical cyclones to climate warming in WRF and CAM storyline ensembles. Weath. Clim. Extremes, under review.
Li, D. Y., K. A. Reed, A. H. Sobel, S. J. Camargo, C. M. Zarzycki, C. Y. Lee, and B. O. Fosu: Future Northeastward Shift of Extratropical Transition over the North Atlantic in Downscaling Projections, under review.
External Presentations
Invited Talk:
Digital Typhoon: Typhoon Research under the Development of High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence Technology. The winter meeting of the High Performance Computing Committee, Jiangsu Computer Society. Nanjing, China, 2021.
The Influences of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions on Typhoon Track and Intensity. The 1st Yangtze River Delta Student Forum of Atmospheric Sciences. Nanjing, China, 2021.
Oral:
Downscaling Projections of Future Post-Tropical Cyclone Activity over the North Atlantic, The 2025 AGU annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2025
A Statistical Model for Post-Tropical Cyclone Hazard. The 11th Northeast Tropical Workshop, Albany, NY, USA, 2025
An Environmentally Forced Post-Tropical Cyclone Hazard Model. The 2024 AGU annual meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 2024
Evaluating the Responses of Hurricanes to Climate Warming using WRF and CAM Storyline Ensembles. TROPIcal Cyclones in ANthropocene: Physics, Simulations & Attribution (TROPICANA), Orsay, France, 2024
Evaluating the Responses of Hurricanes to Climate Warming using WRF and CAM Storyline Ensembles. The 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology (AMS), Long Beach, CA, USA, 2024
Exploring Hurricane Storyline Simulations in WRF and CAM. The New York Meeting on Tropical Cyclones and Global Storm-Resolving Analysis, New York, NY, USA, 2024.
The Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in Tropical Cyclone Intensity Predictability. The 103rd annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Denver & online, 2023.
The Influences of Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling on the Uncertainty Growth and Propagation in Forecasting Typhoon Maria (2018). The 7th Young Scientist Forum of Earth Science. Guiyang, China, 2021.
The Influences of Topography on Track Simulation of Typhoon Megi (2016) Past Taiwan as Identified by HWRF. The 15th annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Honolulu, USA, 2018.
Poster:
The Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in Tropical Cyclone Intensity Predictability. The 4th National Mesoscale Meteorology Forum. Hangzhou, China, 2022.
The Influences of Topography on Track Simulation of Typhoon Megi (2016) Past Taiwan as Identified by HWRF. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Typhoon Symposium. Taipei, Taiwan, 2018.
Teaching & Community Services
Provide training sessions on numerical models (WRF and HWRF) for graduate students and early-career scientists
Co-teach MAR570: Methods of Multivariate Statistics in Atmospheric and Marine Sciences (graduate-level course)
Review for AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA), Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, Earth's Future, Earth and Space Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and Journal of Climate.