California

Papers:

• Lee, J., S.-Y. Wang, S.-W. Son, D. Kim, J.-H. Jeong, H. Kim, and J.-H. Yoon, 2024: Evolving winter atmospheric teleconnection patterns and their potential triggers across western North America. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, in press (PDF)

• Son, R., P.-L. Ma, H. Wang, P. J. Rasch, S.-Y. Wang, H. Kim, J.-H. Jeong, K.-S. S. Lim, J.-H. Yoon, 2022: Machine Learning provides substantial improvements to county-level fire weather forecasting over the western United States. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, in press (PDF)

• Zhang, W., V. Hari, S.-Y. Wang, M. D. LaPlante, G. Garfin, G. Affram, and R. Kumar, 2021: Fewer troughs, not more ridges, have led to a drying trend in the western United States. Geophysical Research Letters, DOI:10.1029/2021GL097089 (PDF)

• Keen, R. M., S. L. Voelker, S.-Y. Wang, B. J. Bentz, and Coauthors, 2021: Changes in tree drought sensitivity provided early warning signals to the California drought and forest mortality event. Global Change Biology, DOI:10.1111/gcb.15973 (PDF)

• Son, R., S.-Y. Wang, S.-H. Kim, H. Kim, J.-H. Jeong, and J.-H. Yoon, 2021: Recurrent pattern of extreme fire weather in California. Environmental Research Letters, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/ac1f44 (PDF)

• Stuivenvolt Allen, J., S.-Y. Wang, Z. Johnson, and Y. Chikamoto, 2021: Atmospheric rivers impacting Northern California exhibit a quasi-decadal frequency. Journal of Geophysical Research-A, DOI:10.1029/2020JD034196 (PDF)

• Keen, R. M., S. L. Voelker, B. J. Bentz, S. -Y. Wang, and R. Ferrell, 2020: Stronger influence of growth rate than severity of drought stress on mortality of large ponderosa pines during the 2012-2015 California drought. Oecologia, DOI:10.1007/s00442-020-04771-0

• O'Brien. J. P.,  T.  A. O'Brien,  C. M. Patricola, S.-Y. Wang, 2019: Metrics for Understanding Large-scale Controls of Multivariate Temperature and Precipitation Variability. Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-019-04749-6  (PDF)

• Wang, S.-Y., J.-H. Yoon, E. Becker, and R. R. Gillies, 2017: California from drought to deluge. Nature Climate Change, 7, 465-468.  (PDF)

• Lin, Y.-H., L. Hipps, S.-Y. Wang, and J.-H. Yoon, 2016: Empirical and modeling analysis of the circulation influences on California precipitation deficits. Atmospheric Sciences Letters, DOI: 10.1002/asl.719 (PDF)

• Wang, S.-Y., Y.-H. Lin, R. R. Gillies, and K. Hakala, 2016: Indications for protracted groundwater depletion after drought over the Central Valley of California. Journal of Hydrometeorology. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0105.1 ( PDF ).

• Yoon, J.-H., Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, B. Kravitz, L. Hipps, and P. Rasch, 2015: Increasing Water Cycle Extremes in California and in Relation to ENSO Cycle Under Global Warming. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9657 (PDF).

• Yoon, J.-H., Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, L. Hipps, B. Kravitz, and P. Rasch, 2015: Extreme Fire Season in California: A Glimpse into the Future?. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96, S#(in press) PDF.

• Wang, S.-Y., W.-R. Huang, and J.-H. Yoon, 2015: The North American winter 'dipole' and extremes activity: A CMIP5 assessment. Atmospheric Science Letters, (PDF), doi: 10.1002/asl2.565. 

• Wang, S.-Y., L. Hipps, R. R. Gillies, and J.-H. Yoon, 2014: Probable causes of the abnormal ridge accompanying the 2013-14 California drought: ENSO precursor and anthropogenic warming footprint. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059748 

Chapters:

• Wang, S.-Y., J.-H. Yoon, R. R. Gillies, and H-H Hsu, 2016: The California Drought: Trends and Impacts. In Climate Extremes: Patterns and Mechanisms, AGU Monograph, Wang et al. (Ed.), 223-235 (PDF)

• Wang, S.-Y., and Coauthors, 2014: Fire and Ice - California Drought and "Polar Vortex" in a Changing Climate. NWS/NOAA Science and Technology Infusion Climate Bulletin. p37-39.