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Tree-Ring Reconstruction of the Level of Great Salt Lake, USA
The Holocene (2014)
R. Justin DeRose, Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Brendan M. Buckley and Matthew F. Bekker
Utah’s Great Salt Lake (GSL) is a closed-basin remnant of the larger Pleistocene-age Lake Bonneville. The modern instrumental record of ...
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Could the 2012 Drought in Central U. S. Have Been ...
Journal of Earth Science and Engineering (2014)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Danny Barandiaran, Kyle Hilburn and Paul Houser
This paper summarizes research related to the 2012 record drought in the central United States conducted by members of the ...
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Coupling of Pre-Monsoon Tropical Cyclones With the Monsoon Onset in ...
Climate Dynamics (2014)
B. O. Fosu and Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang
The pre-monsoon tropical cyclone (TC) activity and the monsoon evolution in the Bay of Bengal (BoB) are both influenced by ...
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Global Eastward Propagation Signals Associated With the 4-5-year ENSO Cycle
Climate Dynamics (2014)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, X. Jiang and B. Fosu
Longitude-time evolution of sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) reveals a slow southeastward propagation from the western North Pacific (WNP) around ...
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Significant Impacts of Radiation Physics in the WRF Model on ...
Climate Dynamics (2014)
R. Li, J. Jin, Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and R. R. Gillies
Precipitation from the West African Monsoon (WAM) provides food security and supports the economy in the region. As a consequence ...
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Using Inventory-Based Tree-Ring Data as a Proxy for Historical Climate ...
Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research. IUFRO World Congress (2014)
R. Justin DeRose, Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and J. D. Shaw
In 2009, the Interior West Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the U.S. Forest Service started to archive approximatel ...
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Identification of Extreme Precipitation Threat Across Midlatitude Regions Based on ...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (2013)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Robert E. Davies and Robert R. Gillies
The most severe thunderstorms, producing extreme precipitation, occur over subtropical and midlatitude regions. Atmospheric conditions conducive to organized, intense thunderstorms ...
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Observational and Synoptic Analyses of the Winter Precipitation Regime Change ...
Journal of Climate (2012)
Robert R. Gillies, Shih-Yu Wang and Marty R. Booth
Previous studies have indicated a widespread decline in snowpack over Utah accompanied by a decline in the snow–precipitation ratio while ...
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Connecting Subseasonal Movements of the Winter Mean Ridge in Western ...
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (2012)
Shi-Yu (Simon) Wang, Robert R. Gillies, Randy Martin, Robert E. Davies, et al.
A 10-yr record of PM2.5 (particulate matter of aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μm), collected in Cache Valley near downtown Logan, ...
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ENSO Prediction One Year in Advance Using Western North Pacific ...
Geophysical Research Letters (2012)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Michelle L'Heureux and Hsin Hsing Chia
We present evidence that the de-trended, boreal winter sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) in the western North Pacific (WNP) are ...
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Multi-Decadal Drought Cycles in the Great Basin Recorded by the ...
Journal of Climate (2012)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Robert R. Gillies and Thomas Reichler
This study investigates the meteorological conditions associated with multidecadal drought cycles as revealed by lake level fluctuation of the Great ...
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Modern Climatology
Utah State University Faculty Monographs (2012)
Shih-Yu Wang and Robert R. Gillies
Climatology, the study of climate, is no longer regarded as a single discipline that treats climate as something that fluctuates ...
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Observational and Synoptic Analyses of the Winter Precipitation Regime Change ...
Journal of Climate (2012)
Robert R. Gillies, Shih-Yu Wang and Marty R. Booth
Previous studies have indicated a widespread decline in snowpack over Utah accompanied by a decline in the snow–precipitation ratio while ...
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Pakistan's Two-Stage Monsoon and Links With the Recent Climate ...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (2011)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Robert Davies, Wan Ru Huang and Robert R. Gillies
Meteorological conditions related to the Pakistan floods of 2010 were examined in the context of monsoon dynamics and large‐scale circulations. ...
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Climatology of Summer Midtropospheric Perturbations in the U.S. Northern ...
Climate Dynamics (2011)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, T. C. Chen and J. Correia
Northwest flow severe weather outbreaks (NWF outbreaks) describe a type of summer convective storm that occurs in areas of mid-level ...
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Climatology of Summer Midtropospheric Perturbations in the U.S. Northern ...
Climate Dynamics (2011)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, T. C. Chen and E. S. Takle
Propagating convective storms across the US northern plains are often coupled with preexisting midtropospheric perturbations (MPs) initiated over the Rocky ...
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Incorporation of Pacific SSTs in a time series model towards ...
Journal of Hydrometeorology (2011)
R. R. Gillies, O. Y. Chung, Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and P. Kokoszka
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Observed Change in Sahel Rainfall, Circulations, African Easterly Waves, and ...
International Journal of Geophysics (2011)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and Robert R. Gillies
Here, we examine the dynamic properties associated with the recent increase in the Sahel rainfall using an ensemble of five ...
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Quasi-Decadal Spectral Peaks of Tropical Western Pacific SSTs as a ...
Geophysical Research Letters (2010)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and Adam J. Clark
A recent study identified significant spectral peaks in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) at quasi‐decadal frequency bands, which were unique to ...
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Atmospheric Scale Interaction on Wintertime Intermountain West Low-Level Inversions
Weather and Forecasting (2010)
Robert R. Gillies, Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and Marty R. Booth
Persistent winter inversions result in poor air quality in the Intermountain West of the United States. Although the onset of ...
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CFS Prediction of Winter Persistent Inversions in the Intermountain Region
Weather and Forecasting (2010)
Robert R. Gillies, Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Jin Ho Yoon and Scott Weaver
A recent study by Gillies and others of persistent inversion events in the Intermountain West of the United States found ...
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NAM Model Forecasts of Warm Season Quasi-Stationary Frontal Environments in ...
U.S. Weather Forecasting (2010)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and Adam J. Clark
Using a composite procedure, North American Mesoscale Model (NAM) forecast and observed environments associated with zonally oriented, quasi-stationary surface fronts ...
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A Planetary-Scale Land-Sea Breeze Circulation in East Asia and the ...
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2010)
W. R. Huang, J. C-L Chan and Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang
The diurnal wind variation over the East Asian continent is commonly considered to be a combination of a land-sea breeze ...
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Coherence between the Great Salt Lake level and the Pacific ...
Journal of Climate (2010)
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Robert R. Gillies, Jiming Jin and Lawrence E. Hipps
The lake level elevation of the Great Salt Lake (GSL), a large closed basin lake in the arid western United ...
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Sudden Surface Warming/Drying Events Caused by Typhoon Passages Across ...
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (2010)
T. C. Chen, Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, M. C. Yen, A. J. Clark, et al.
Typhoon passages across Taiwan can generate sudden surface warming in downslope regions. Special characteristics and mechanisms for 54 such warming ...
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