Tropical Cyclone

climatology, impact, & variability

  • Zhao, L., S.-Y. Wang, E. Becker, J.-H. Yoon, and A. Mukherjee, 2020: Cyclone Fani: The tug-of-war between regional warming and anthropogenic aerosol effects. Environmental Research Letters, in press (PDF).


  • Wang, S.-Y., L. Zhao, J.-H. Yoon, P. Klotzbach, and R. R. Gillies, 2018: Attribution of climate effects on Hurricane Harvey’s extreme rainfall in Texas. Environmental Research Letters, in press (PDF).


  • Chang, C.J., S.-Y. Wang, and H.-H. Hsu, 2016: Changes in tropical cyclone activity can offset the ocean surface warming in northwest Pacific: 1981-2014. Atmospheric Sciences Letters, DOI: 10.1002/asl.651 (PDF).


  • Wang, S.-Y., P. Promchote, H. T. Luu, B. Buckley, R. Li, R. R. Gillies, T. Q. T. Nguyen, B. Guan, and T. T. Monh, 2015: Changes in the autumn precipitation and tropical cyclone activity over Central Vietnam and its East Sea. Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 1-7. (PDF)


  • Fosu, B. O., and S.-Y. Wang, 2014: Bay of Bengal: Coupling of pre-monsoon tropical cyclones with the monsoon onset in Myanmar. Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2289-z, (PDF).


  • Wang, S.-Y., B. Buckley, J.-H. Yoon and B. Fosu, 2013: Intensification of pre-monsoon tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and its impacts on Myanmar. Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 1-12, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50396.


  • 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.


  • Chen, T.-C., S.-Y. Wang, M.-C. Yen, A. J. Clark, and J.-D. Tsay, 2010: Sudden surface warming/drying events caused by typhoon passages across Taiwan. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 49, 234-252.


  • Chen, T.-C., S.-Y. Wang, M.-C. Yen, and A. J. Clark, 2009: Impact of the intraseasonal variability of large-scale circulation over the Western North Pacific on the characteristics of tropical cyclone track. Wea. Forecasting, 24, 646–666.


  • Chen, T.-C., S.-Y. Wang, and A. J. Clark, 2008: North Atlantic hurricanes contributed by African easterly waves north of the African easterly jet. J. Climate. 21, 6767–6776.


  • Chen, T.-C., S.-Y. Wang, M.-C. Yen, and A. J. Clark, 2008: Are tropical cyclones less effectively formed by easterly waves in the Western North Pacific than in the North Atlantic? Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 4527–4540.


  • Chen, T.-C., S.-Y. Wang, and M.-C. Yen, 2006: Interannual variation of the tropical cyclone activity over the Western North Pacific. J. Climate, 19, 5709–5720.


  • Chen, T.-C., S.-Y. Wang, M.-C. Yen, and W. A. Gallus, 2004: Role of the monsoon gyre in the interannual variation of tropical cyclone formation over the Western North Pacific. Wea. Forecasting, 19, 776–785.