Decadal climate cycles
An explanation about the global warming hiatus with respect to decadal climate variability
North America
Huang, S.-H., P.-Y. Lai, S.-Y. Hwang, K. Borhara, W.-R. Huang, and S.-Y. Wang, 2022: Climate Variability Shifting Immigrated Rice Planthoppers in Taiwan. Climate, DOI: 10.3390/cli10050071 (PDF)
Sun, X., Q. Ding, S.-Y. Wang, D. Topál, Q. Li, C. Castro, H. Teng, R. Luo, Y. Ding, 2022: Enhanced jet stream waviness induced by suppressed tropical Pacific convection during boreal summer. Nature Communications, in press (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, in press. (PDF)
Chikamoto, Y., S.-Y. Wang, M. Yost, L. Yocom, and R. R. Gillies, 2020: Colorado River water supply is predictable on multi-year timescales owing to long-term ocean memory. (Nature) Communications Earth & Environment, in press (PDF)
Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, O.-Y. Chung, and C. Shen, 2018: Cross-Basin Decadal Climate Regime connecting the Colorado River and the Great Salt Lake. Journal of Hydrometeorology, in press (PDF).
Gillies, R. R., O.-Y. Chung, S.-Y. Wang, J. DeRose, and Y. Sun, 2015: Added value from 576 years of tree-ring record in the prediction of the Great Salt Lake level. Journal of Hydrology, 529: 962-968. PDF.
Smith, K., C. Strong, and S.-Y. Wang, 2015: Connectivity between historical Great Basin precipitation and Pacific Ocean variability: A CMIP5 model evaluation. Journal of Climate. 28, 6096–6112. (PDF)
DeRose, J. R., S.-Y. Wang, B. M. Buckley, and M. Bekker, 2014: Tree-ring reconstruction of the Great Salt Lake level. The Holocene. DOI: 10.1177/0959683614530441 (PDF)
Wang, S.-Y., K. Hakala, R. R. Gillies, and W. J. Capehart, 2014: The Pacific Quasi-Decadal Oscillation (QDO) - An important precursor towards anticipating major flood events in the Missouri River Basin? Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 991-997 (link).
Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, and T. Reichler, 2012: Multi-decadal drought cycles in the Great Basin recorded by the Great Salt Lake: Modulation from a transition-phase teleconnection. Journal of Climate, 25, 1711-1721.
Gillies, R. R., O.-Y. Chung, S.-Y. Wang, and P. Kokoszka, 2011: Incorporation of Pacific SSTs in a time series model towards a longer-term forecast for the Great Salt Lake elevation. J. Hydrometeorology, 12, 474-480.
Wang, S.-Y.,R. R. Gillies, J. Jin, and L. E. Hipps, 2010: Coherence between the Great Salt Lake level and the Pacific quasi-decadal oscillation, J. Climate, 23, 2161–2177.
Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, J. Jin, and L. E. Hipps, 2009: Recent rainfall cycle in the Intermountain Region as a quadrature amplitude modulation from the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L02705.
Asia-Pacific
Johnson, Z. F., Y. Chikamoto, S.-Y. Wang, M. J. McPhaden, and T. Mochizuki, 2020: Pacific Decadal Oscillation remotely forced by the equatorial Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans. Climate Dynamics, DOI:/10.1007/s00382-020-05295-2 (PDF).
Sun, Y., S.-Y. Wang, R. Li☃, B. Buckley, R. Gillies, and K. Hansen, 2018: Feasibility of Predicting Vietnam’s Autumn Rainfall Regime Based on Tree Ring Record and Decadal Variability. Climate (Special issue on Decadal Variability and Predictability of Climate), DOI:10.3390/cli6020042 (PDF)
Zhao, L.☃, S.-Y. Wang, and J. D.D. Meyer, 2017: Inter-Decadal Climate Variations Controlling the Water Level of Lake Qinghai over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrometeorology, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0071.1 (PDF)
Huang, W.-R., S.-Y. Wang, and B. Guan, 2017: Decadal fluctuations in the western Pacific recorded by long precipitation records in Taiwan. Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3707-9 (PDF)
Wang, S.-Y., Lin, Y.-H. and Wu, C.-H., 2016: Interdecadal change of the active-phase summer monsoon in East Asia (Meiyu) since 1979. Atmosph. Sci. Lett., 17: 128–134. doi: 10.1002/asl.603
Li, R., S.-Y. Wang, R. R. Gillies, B. Buckley, L. H. Troung, C. Cho, 2015: Decadal oscillation of autumn precipitation in central Vietnam modulated by the East Pacific-North Pacific (EP-NP) teleconnection. Environmental Research Letters, 10 024008, (PDF).
Wang, S.-Y., and R. R. Gillies, 2013: Influence of the Pacific quasi-decadal oscillation on the monsoon precipitation in Nepal. Climate Dynamics, 40, 95-107. [ Erratum ]
Wang, S.-Y., and A. J. Clark, 2011: Quasi-decadal spectral peaks of tropical Western Pacific SSTs as a precursor for tropical cyclone threat. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L21810.
Huang, W.-R., S.-Y. Wang, and J. C.-L. Chan, 2011: Discrepancies between global reanalyses and observations in the interdecadal variations of Southeast Asian cold surge. Int. J. Climatology, 31, 2272–2280.
Wang, S.-Y., R. R. Gillies, L. E. Hipps, and J. Jin, 2011: A transition-phase teleconnection of the Pacific quasi-decadal oscillation, Clim Dynamics, 36, 681-693. [open access]