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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aiguo Dai is a Chinese-American atmospheric scientist and professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY. Before joining the University at Albany in 2012 as an associate professor, he worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which he first joined in 1999 as a project scientist.
Aiguo Dai's Published Works
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Published Works
- Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models (2013) (3184)
- Drought under global warming: a review (2011) (2626)
- The changing character of precipitation (2003) (2348)
- Global warming and changes in drought (2014) (2018)
- A Global Dataset of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870–2002: Relationship with Soil Moisture and Effects of Surface Warming (2004) (1919)
- Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM) (2010) (1194)
- Precipitation Characteristics in Eighteen Coupled Climate Models (2006) (1000)
- Estimates of Freshwater Discharge from Continents: Latitudinal and Seasonal Variations (2002) (986)
- Characteristics and trends in various forms of the Palmer Drought Severity Index during 1900–2008 (2011) (829)
- Changes in Continental Freshwater Discharge from 1948 to 2004 (2009) (791)
- Effects of Clouds, Soil Moisture, Precipitation, and Water Vapor on Diurnal Temperature Range (1999) (738)
- Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle (2008) (714)
- Estimates of the Global Water Budget and Its Annual Cycle Using Observational and Model Data (2007) (676)
- Surface Observed Global Land Precipitation Variations during 1900-88 (1997) (628)
- Global patterns of ENSO‐induced precipitation (2000) (554)
- The Diurnal Cycle and Its Depiction in the Community Climate System Model (2004) (465)
- Simulation of Global Land Surface Conditions from 1948 to 2004. Part I: Forcing Data and Evaluations (2006) (456)
- Observed and model‐simulated diurnal cycles of precipitation over the contiguous United States (1999) (435)
- Recent climatology, variability, and trends in global surface humidity (2006) (414)
- The recent Sahel drought is real (2004) (414)
- Effects of Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption on the hydrological cycle as an analog of geoengineering (2007) (413)
- Global variations in droughts and wet spells: 1900–1995 (1998) (411)
- How Often Does It Rain (2006) (406)
- Global Precipitation and Thunderstorm Frequencies. Part II: Diurnal Variations (2001) (397)
- Responses of East Asian summer monsoon to historical SST and atmospheric forcing during 1950–2000 (2010) (380)
- Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges (2017) (353)
- How Often Will It Rain (2005) (349)
- Decadal modulation of global surface temperature by internal climate variability (2014) (345)
- Drylands face potential threat under 2[thinsp][deg]C global warming target (2017) (337)
- Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America (2017) (325)
- Arctic amplification is caused by sea-ice loss under increasing CO2 (2019) (297)
- Summer Precipitation Frequency, Intensity, and Diurnal Cycle over China: A Comparison of Satellite Data with Rain Gauge Observations (2007) (284)
- A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results (2009) (276)
- The influence of the inter-decadal Pacific oscillation on US precipitation during 1923–2010 (2013) (262)
- Climates of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Simulated by the NCAR Climate System Model (2001) (256)
- A near-global, 2-hourly data set of atmospheric precipitable water from ground-based GPS measurements (2007) (232)
- Impact of Ural Blocking on Winter Warm Arctic–Cold Eurasian Anomalies. Part I: Blocking-Induced Amplification (2016) (231)
- The frequency, intensity, and diurnal cycle of precipitation in surface and satellite observations over low- and mid-latitudes (2007) (218)
- Challenges in quantifying changes in the global water cycle (2015) (212)
- The influence of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation on Temperature and Precipitation over the Globe (2015) (210)
- Climate Change and Drought: a Precipitation and Evaporation Perspective (2018) (208)
- The Magnitude and Causes of Global Drought Changes in the Twenty-First Century under a Low-Moderate Emissions Scenario (2015) (204)
- Diurnal and semidiurnal variations in global surface wind and divergence fields (1999) (200)
- Temperature and pressure dependence of the rain‐snow phase transition over land and ocean (2008) (187)
- Regional climate model simulation of summer precipitation diurnal cycle over the United States (2004) (184)
- Can climate variability contribute to the “missing” CO2 sink? (1993) (180)
- Diurnal and Semidiurnal Tides in Global Surface Pressure Fields (1999) (175)
- Global estimates of water‐vapor‐weighted mean temperature of the atmosphere for GPS applications (2005) (175)
- Spatial aspects of the design and targeting of agricultural development strategies (1999) (174)
- Clouds, precipitation and temperature range (1997) (171)
- Uncertainties in historical changes and future projections of drought. Part I: estimates of historical drought changes (2017) (164)
- Increased Quasi Stationarity and Persistence of Winter Ural Blocking and Eurasian Extreme Cold Events in Response to Arctic Warming. Part I: Insights from Observational Analyses (2017) (163)
- Climate Change Impacts on the Water Balance of the Colorado Headwaters: High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Simulations (2014) (163)
- Global Precipitation and Thunderstorm Frequencies. Part I: Seasonal and Interannual Variations (2001) (160)
- Recent Trends in Cloudiness over the United States: A Tale of Monitoring Inadequacies. (2006) (156)
- Regional climate model downscaling of the U.S. summer climate and future change (2006) (155)
- Diurnal variation in water vapor over North America and its implications for sampling errors in radiosonde humidity (2002) (148)
- Uncertainties in historical changes and future projections of drought. Part II: model-simulated historical and future drought changes (2017) (142)
- Spatial dependence of diurnal temperature range trends on precipitation from 1950 to 2004 (2009) (140)
- Climate change and water: IPCC technical paper VI (2008) (135)
- Observed Changes in the Distributions of Daily Precipitation Frequency and Amount over China from 1960 to 2013 (2015) (135)
- Revisiting the parameterization of potential evaporation as a driver of long‐term water balance trends (2008) (134)
- Impact of Ural Blocking on Winter Warm Arctic–Cold Eurasian Anomalies. Part II: The Link to the North Atlantic Oscillation (2016) (133)
- Changes in global vegetation activity and its driving factors during 1982–2013 (2018) (125)
- A New Approach to Homogenize Daily Radiosonde Humidity Data (2011) (123)
- Observed climate variability and change of relevance to the biosphere (2000) (119)
- HadISD: a quality-controlled global synoptic report database for selected variables at long-term stations from 1973–2011 (2012) (108)
- The relative roles of upper and lower tropospheric thermal contrasts and tropical influences in driving Asian summer monsoons (2013) (103)
- How much do precipitation extremes change in a warming climate? (2012) (98)
- An ensemble-based explicit four-dimensional variational assimilation method (2008) (97)
- Detection and attribution of anthropogenic forcing to diurnal temperature range changes from 1950 to 1999: comparing multi-model simulations with observations (2009) (93)
- Evaluation of satellite and reanalysis products of downward surface solar radiation over East Asia: Spatial and seasonal variations (2013) (92)
- Ensemble Simulation of Twenty-First Century Climate Changes: Business-as-Usual versus CO2 Stabilization (2001) (90)
- Radiation dry bias correction of Vaisala RS92 humidity data and its impacts on historical radiosonde data (2013) (89)
- Hydroclimatic trends in the Mississippi river basin from 1948 to 2004 (2007) (86)
- A new mechanism for warm-season precipitation response to global warming based on convection-permitting simulations (2017) (85)
- Erratum: Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models (2013) (82)
- Probability distributions of land surface wind speeds over North America (2010) (76)
- Impacts of internal variability on temperature and precipitation trends in large ensemble simulations by two climate models (2018) (75)
- Historical and Future Changes in Streamflow and Continental Runoff (2016) (75)
- Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled General Circulation Model: Unforced Variations versus Forced Changes (2005) (73)
- Increased Quasi Stationarity and Persistence of Winter Ural Blocking and Eurasian Extreme Cold Events in Response to Arctic Warming. Part II: A Theoretical Explanation (2017) (72)
- Little influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude climate (2020) (70)
- The Spatial and Temporal Structure of ENSO Nonlinearity (2004) (69)
- Global Water Vapor Trend from 1988 to 2011 and Its Diurnal Asymmetry Based on GPS, Radiosonde, and Microwave Satellite Measurements (2016) (69)
- A dual‐pass variational data assimilation framework for estimating soil moisture profiles from AMSR‐E microwave brightness temperature (2009) (68)
- Changes in Atmospheric Blocking Circulations Linked with Winter Arctic Warming: A New Perspective (2018) (67)
- Trends in Tropospheric Humidity from 1970 to 2008 over China from a Homogenized Radiosonde Dataset (2012) (67)
- A nonlinear multiscale interaction model for atmospheric blocking: The eddy‐blocking matching mechanism (2014) (66)
- Changes in Convective Available Potential Energy and Convective Inhibition under Global Warming (2020) (64)
- The Probability Distribution of Land Surface Wind Speeds (2011) (64)
- Metrics for the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation: Toward Routine Benchmarks for Climate Models (2016) (62)
- Hydrometeorology of the Amazon in ERA-40 (2005) (62)
- The winter midlatitude-Arctic interaction: effects of North Atlantic SST and high-latitude blocking on Arctic sea ice and Eurasian cooling (2018) (61)
- Response of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation to Increased Atmospheric CO2 in a Coupled Model (2004) (58)
- Effects of precipitation‐bias corrections on surface hydrology over northern latitudes (2007) (58)
- Changing links between South Asian summer monsoon circulation and tropospheric land‐sea thermal contrasts under a warming scenario (2010) (58)
- The Footprint of the Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation in Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures (2016) (57)
- A new integrated and homogenized global monthly land surface air temperature dataset for the period since 1900 (2018) (54)
- Detectable anthropogenic shift toward heavy precipitation over eastern China (2017) (53)
- Spatiotemporal patterns of changes in maximum and minimum temperatures in multi‐model simulations (2009) (53)
- A Characterization of Tropical Transient Activity in the CAM3 Atmospheric Hydrologic Cycle (2006) (51)
- Winter Eurasian cooling linked with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (2017) (46)
- The Recent Decline and Recovery of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Relative Roles of External Forcing and Internal Variability (2020) (45)
- Recent changes in the diurnal cycle of precipitation over the United States (1999) (45)
- The ACPI Climate Change Simulations (2004) (42)
- Floridian heatwaves and extreme precipitation: future climate projections (2018) (41)
- Solar activity and earth rotation variability (2003) (40)
- Asymmetric Modulation of ENSO Teleconnections by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (2018) (40)
- Effects of stabilizing atmospheric CO2 on global climate in the next two centuries (2001) (39)
- Contributions of Internal Variability and External Forcing to the Recent Pacific Decadal Variations (2018) (39)
- The uncertainties and causes of the recent changes in global evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2010 (2017) (38)
- A microwave land data assimilation system: Scheme and preliminary evaluation over China (2010) (38)
- Process-Oriented Evaluation of Climate and Weather Forecasting Models (2019) (37)
- Dependence of estimated precipitation frequency and intensity on data resolution (2018) (37)
- A Nonlinear Theory of Atmospheric Blocking: A Potential Vorticity Gradient View (2019) (37)
- South Asian summer monsoon projections constrained by the interdecadal Pacific oscillation (2020) (36)
- Future Warming Patterns Linked to Today’s Climate Variability (2016) (36)
- Aerosol-forced multidecadal variations across all ocean basins in models and observations since 1920 (2020) (34)
- Precipitation Characteristics in the Community Atmosphere Model and Their Dependence on Model Physics and Resolution (2019) (33)
- Evaluation of atmospheric precipitable water from reanalysis products using homogenized radiosonde observations over China (2015) (33)
- Anchoring of atmospheric teleconnection patterns by Arctic Sea ice loss and its link to winter cold anomalies in East Asia (2020) (33)
- Hydroclimatic trends during 1950–2018 over global land (2021) (32)
- A land surface soil moisture data assimilation system based on the dual‐UKF method and the Community Land Model (2008) (29)
- Contributions of Different Combinations of the IPO and AMO to Recent Changes in Winter East Asian Jets (2019) (28)
- Recent Winter Precipitation Changes over Eastern China in Different Warming Periods and the Associated East Asian Jets and Oceanic Conditions (2017) (28)
- The Positive North Atlantic Oscillation with Downstream Blocking and Middle East Snowstorms: The Large-Scale Environment (2015) (27)
- Decadal Relationship between European Blocking and the North Atlantic Oscillation during 1978-2011. Part I: Atlantic Conditions (2015) (26)
- Impact of Chinese Urbanization and Aerosol Emissions on the East Asian Summer Monsoon (2017) (25)
- Spatial dependence of diurnal temperature range trends on precipitation from 1950 to 2004 (2009) (24)
- Nonlinear Climate Responses to Increasing CO2 and Anthropogenic Aerosols Simulated by CESM1 (2019) (24)
- A new approach to construct representative future forcing data for dynamic downscaling (2017) (24)
- Quantifying Contributions of Internal Variability and External Forcing to Atlantic Multidecadal Variability Since 1870 (2020) (24)
- Snowfall and snowpack in the Western U.S. as captured by convection permitting climate simulations: current climate and pseudo global warming future climate (2021) (24)
- An Externally Forced Decadal Rainfall Seesaw Pattern Over the Sahel and Southeast Amazon (2019) (23)
- Erratum: Drought under global warming: a review (2012) (22)
- Climate Changes in the 21st Century over the Asia-Pacific Region Simulated by the NCAR CSM and PCM (2001) (22)
- Effects of urban land-use change in East China on the East Asian summer monsoon based on the CAM5.1 model (2016) (22)
- The influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on North Central China precipitation during boreal autumn (2018) (20)
- The Surface-Pressure Signature of Atmospheric Tides in Modern Climate Models (2010) (20)
- New estimates of continental discharge and oceanic freshwater transport [poster] (2003) (19)
- The Positive North Atlantic Oscillation with Downstream Blocking and Middle East Snowstorms: Impacts of the North Atlantic Jet (2016) (18)
- Drought Under Global Warming (2010) (18)
- Decadal Relationship between European Blocking and the North Atlantic Oscillation during 1978–2011. Part II: A Theoretical Model Study (2015) (16)
- Combined Influences on North American Winter Air Temperature Variability from North Pacific Blocking and the North Atlantic Oscillation: Subseasonal and Interannual Time Scales (2020) (16)
- Evapotranspiration and Drought Changes: Some Key Issues (2015) (16)
- Conditional Attribution of the 2018 Summer Extreme Heat over Northeast China: Roles of Urbanization, Global Warming, and Warming-Induced Circulation Changes (2020) (16)
- Special issue: Advances in convection-permitting climate modeling (2020) (15)
- Projected Changes in Daily Variability and Seasonal Cycle of Near-Surface Air Temperature over the Globe during the Twenty-First Century (2019) (15)
- Contributions of Arctic Sea‐Ice Loss and East Siberian Atmospheric Blocking to 2020 Record‐Breaking Meiyu‐Baiu Rainfall (2021) (14)
- A New Approach to Homogenize Global Subdaily Radiosonde Temperature Data from 1958 to 2018 (2020) (14)
- Detection and Attribution of Atmospheric Precipitable Water Changes since the 1970s over China (2019) (14)
- Dai and Trenberth Global River Flow and Continental Discharge Dataset (2017) (14)
- Assessing possible dynamical effects of condensate in high resolution climate simulations (2012) (13)
- A Connection of Winter Eurasian Cold Anomaly to the Modulation of Ural Blocking by ENSO (2021) (13)
- Trends in northern midlatitude atmospheric wave power from 1950 to 2099 (2020) (12)
- Atmospheric Tides in the Latest Generation of Climate Models (2013) (11)
- Establishment of the South Asian high over the Indo-China Peninsula during late spring to summer (2017) (11)
- Recent Eurasian winter cooling partly caused by internal multidecadal variability amplified by Arctic sea ice-air interactions (2022) (11)
- Arctic Amplification Weakens the Variability of Daily Temperatures over Northern Middle-High Latitudes (2021) (10)
- The Impact of Sea‐Ice Loss on Arctic Climate Feedbacks and Their Role for Arctic Amplification (2021) (10)
- An ensemble conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation approach: Formulation and applications to parameter calibration (2010) (10)
- The Convective‐To‐Total Precipitation Ratio and the “Drizzling” Bias in Climate Models (2021) (10)
- Northern Hemisphere Winter Air Temperature Patterns and Their Associated Atmospheric and Ocean Conditions (2020) (9)
- Improved methods for estimating equilibrium climate sensitivity from transient warming simulations (2020) (9)
- Quantifying Human-Induced Dynamic and Thermodynamic Contributions to Severe Cold Outbreaks Like November 2019 in the Eastern United States (2021) (8)
- Arctic amplification is caused by sea-ice loss under increasing CO2 (2019) (8)
- A Unified Nonlinear Multiscale Interaction Model of Pacific–North American Teleconnection Patterns (2020) (7)
- Decadal Variability of Winter Warm Arctic‐Cold Eurasia Dipole Patterns Modulated by Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (2021) (7)
- Sea ice–air interactions amplify multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic and Arctic region (2020) (6)
- Large-Scale Disasters: Impact of climate change on precipitation (2008) (6)
- Inhomogeneous distributions of Meiyu rainfall in the Jiang-Huai basin, and associated circulation patterns (2011) (5)
- Are the Transient and Equilibrium Climate Change Patterns Similar in Response to Increased CO2? (2020) (5)
- The controlling factors of urban heat in Bengaluru, India (2021) (5)
- CMIP6 Model-projected Hydroclimatic and Drought Changes and Their Causes in the 21st Century (2021) (5)
- The modulation of Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on winter Eurasian cold anomaly via the Ural blocking change (2021) (5)
- Reconciling Human and Natural Drivers of the Tripole Pattern of Multidecadal Summer Temperature Variations Over Eurasia (2021) (5)
- Global Precipitation Variability and its Relationship with Other Climate Changes (1996) (5)
- MECHANISMS OF AN INTENSIFIED HADLEY CIRCULATION IN RESPONSE TO SOLAR FORCING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (2004) (5)
- The joint impacts of Atlantic and Pacific multidecadal variability on South American precipitation and temperature (2021) (4)
- Dai Global Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) (2017) (4)
- Correction to: The uncertainties and causes of the recent changes in global evapotranspiration from 1982 to 2010 (2018) (2)
- High Resolution Climate Modeling of the Water Cycle over the Contiguous United States Including Potential Climate Change Scenarios (2015) (2)
- Linkage between Projected Precipitation and Atmospheric Thermodynamic Changes (2020) (2)
- Arctic amplification is the main cause of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation weakening under large CO2 increases (2022) (2)
- Validation of GPS-derived long-term trend in the atmospheric water vapor using homogenized radiosonde data (2012) (1)
- Origins of Barents-Kara sea-ice interannual variability modulated by the Atlantic pathway of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (2023) (1)
- Understanding the inter‐decadal variability of autumn precipitation over North Central China using model simulations (2019) (1)
- Correction to: Impacts of internal variability on temperature and precipitation trends in large ensemble simulations by two climate models (2018) (1)
- Reconciling Roles of External Forcing and Internal Variability in Indian Ocean Decadal Variability Since 1920 (2022) (1)
- Diurnal Variations in the Community Climate System Model (2003) (1)
- Final Report on "Collaborative Research to Narrow Uncertainties in Precipitation and the Hydrological Cycle in Climate Models" (2018) (1)
- The diurnal cycle from observations and ERA5 in surface pressure, temperature, humidity, and winds (2023) (1)
- Little Influence of Asian Anthropogenic Aerosols on Summer Temperature in Central East Asia Since 1960 (2022) (1)
- Changes in thermohaline circulation in future climate [presentation] (2003) (0)
- Surface-pressure Tides Simulated by WACCM-1 and CMIP3 / IPCC Climate Models (2008) (0)
- Observed changes of the precipitation spectrum structure over China in a warming climate (2015) (0)
- A Global Climatology of Thunderstorm, Hail, and Tornado Days (2001) (0)
- North Hemispheric winter air temperature variability and its linkage to North Pacific and North Atlantic SST modes? (2020) (0)
- The convective-to-total precipitation ratio and the "drizzling" bias in climate models (2020) (0)
- A New Approach to Construct Representative Future Forcing for Dynamical Downscaling (2014) (0)
- Drought and Freshwater Resources under Global Warming (2011) (0)
- North Atlantic Ocean response to future anthropogenic forcing in a coupled GCM [presentation] (2002) (0)
- Changes in Thermohaline Circulation in Future Climate (2003) (0)
- Evaluations of estimates of freshwater discharge from continents [presentation] (2003) (0)
- U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre Global Sub-Daily Station Observations (HadISD) (2013) (0)
- Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Simulations over the Contiguous United States Including Potential Climate Change Scenarios (2016) (0)
- A New Approach for 4DVar Data Assimilation (2018) (0)
- The Impacts of the Multi-decadal Pacific-Atlantic Interactions on South American Temperature and Precipitation (2019) (0)
- Contributions of Internal Variability and External Forcing to the Recent Decadal Variations in Atlantic and Pacific SSTs (2019) (0)
- P 3 . 33 How often does it rain ? (2004) (0)
- Arctic Climate Feedbacks in ERA5 Reanalysis: Seasonal and Spatial Variations and the Impact of Sea‐Ice Loss (2022) (0)
- 2007 annual meeting organizing committee (2007) (0)
- Long-term variations in the 1000+ year PCM control run [poster] (2003) (0)
- An Imminent Transition to Drier Conditions over the Continental U.S. (2013) (0)
- Response of Meridional Wind to Greenhouse Gas Forcing, Arctic Sea-ice loss and Arctic Amplification (2022) (0)
- EARLY ONLINE RELEASE (2011) (0)
- Long-term Variations in the 1000+ Year PCM Control Run (2003) (0)
- Subtropical drying under greenhouse gas-induced warming (2023) (0)
- Climate change modeling: A brief history of the theory and recent 21st century ensemble simulation (2006) (0)
- Frontiers of Climate Modeling: Climate-change modeling: a brief history of the theory and recent twenty-first-century ensemble simulations (2006) (0)
- Spatial-temporal evolution of dust events and the column burden of natural and anthropogenic dust of northern China (2017) (0)
- Ensemble Simulations of the 20th and 21st Century Climates by a Coupled GCM (2001) (0)
- The Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation over the Globe: Observations vs. Model Simulations (2006) (0)
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