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Overview

Aiguo Dai is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their academic focus spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with extensive research covering multiple subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The research topics covered by Aiguo Dai include Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, Cryospheric studies and observations, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Little influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude climate (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • The Impact of Sea-Ice Loss on Arctic Climate Feedbacks and Their Role for Arctic Amplification (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • The Convective-To-Total Precipitation Ratio and the "Drizzling" Bias in Climate Models (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • South Asian summer monsoon projections constrained by the interdecadal Pacific oscillation (2020, Science Advances)
  • Hydroclimatic trends during 1950-2018 over global land (2021, Climate Dynamics)

Aiguo Dai has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Climate (14 publications)
  • Climate Dynamics (13 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (12 publications)
  • Nature Communications (5 publications)
  • Science Advances (4 publications)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Wenjian Hua, Dehai Luo, Binhe Luo, Ian Simmonds, and Jiechun Deng, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

    Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai

  • Drought under global warming: a review

    Aiguo Dai

  • The Changing Character of Precipitation

    Kevin E. Trenberth;Aiguo Dai;R. O. Y. M. Rasmussen;David B. Parsons

  • Global warming and changes in drought

    Kevin E. Trenberth;Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;Gerard van der Schrier;Gerard van der Schrier;Philip D. Jones;Philip D. Jones

  • A Global Dataset of Palmer Drought Severity Index for 1870–2002: Relationship with Soil Moisture and Effects of Surface Warming

    Aiguo Dai;K Evin E. Trenberth;Taotao Qian

  • Technical Description of version 4.0 of the Community Land Model (CLM)

    W. Oleson;M. Lawrence;B. Bonan;G. Flanner

  • Estimates of Freshwater Discharge from Continents: Latitudinal and Seasonal Variations

    Aiguo Dai;Kevin E. Trenberth

  • Precipitation Characteristics in Eighteen Coupled Climate Models

    Aiguo Dai

  • Characteristics and trends in various forms of the Palmer Drought Severity Index during 1900–2008

    Aiguo Dai

  • Changes in Continental Freshwater Discharge from 1948 to 2004

    Aiguo Dai;Taotao Qian;Kevin E. Trenberth;John D. Milliman

  • Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle

    K. W. Oleson;G. Y. Niu;Zong-Liang Yang;D. M. Lawrence

  • Estimates of the Global Water Budget and Its Annual Cycle Using Observational and Model Data

    Kevin E. Trenberth;Lesley Smith;Taotao Qian;Aiguo Dai

  • Effects of Clouds, Soil Moisture, Precipitation, and Water Vapor on Diurnal Temperature Range

    Aiguo Dai;Kevin E. Trenberth;Thomas R. Karl

  • Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

    J. Huang;Y. Li;Y. Li;C. Fu;C. Fu;F. Chen

  • Surface Observed Global Land Precipitation Variations during 1900-88

    Aiguo Dai;Inez Y. F Ung;Anthony D. Del Genio

  • Global patterns of ENSO‐induced precipitation

    Aiguo Dai;T. M. L. Wigley

  • Drylands face potential threat under 2[thinsp][deg]C global warming target

    Jianping Huang;Haipeng Yu;Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;Yun Wei

  • Arctic amplification is caused by sea-ice loss under increasing CO2

    Aiguo Dai;Dehai Luo;Mirong Song;Jiping Liu

  • Observed and model‐simulated diurnal cycles of precipitation over the contiguous United States

    Aiguo Dai;Filippo Giorgi;Kevin E. Trenberth

  • Recent climatology, variability, and trends in global surface humidity

    Aiguo Dai

  • Global variations in droughts and wet spells: 1900–1995

    Aiguo Dai;Kevin E. Trenberth;Thomas R. Karl

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin E. Trenberth
Kevin E. Trenberth University of Auckland
Junhong Wang
Junhong Wang University at Albany, State University of New York
Roy Rasmussen
Roy Rasmussen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gerald A. Meehl
Gerald A. Meehl National Center for Atmospheric Research
Warren M. Washington
Warren M. Washington National Center for Atmospheric Research
Tianjun Zhou
Tianjun Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ian Simmonds
Ian Simmonds University of Melbourne
Kyoko Ikeda
Kyoko Ikeda National Center for Atmospheric Research
Changhai Liu
Changhai Liu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Daniel R. Marsh
Daniel R. Marsh National Center for Atmospheric Research

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