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Overview

Changhai Liu is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields, chiefly in Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. Within these broad categories, Liu's work focuses extensively on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Building and Construction.

Their research topics cover a range of scientific areas, including Climate Variability and Models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis.

Liu has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals and publication venues, with a frequent presence in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Processes

The recent papers coauthored by Liu demonstrate a focus on climate modeling, weather simulation, and hydrological projections. Notable studies include:

  • "Snowfall and snowpack in the Western U.S. as captured by convection permitting climate simulations: current climate and pseudo global warming future climate," 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • "WRF Gray-Zone Simulations of Precipitation Over the Middle-East and the UAE: Impacts of Physical Parameterizations and Resolution," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "The conterminous United States are projected to become more prone to flash floods in a high-end emissions scenario," 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Advancing South American Water and Climate Science through Multidecadal Convection-Permitting Modeling," 2023, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "What Causes the Unobserved Early-Spring Snowpack Ablation in Convection-Permitting WRF Modeling Over Utah Mountains?" 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Collaborations form a significant aspect of Liu's research practice. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Roy Rasmussen
  • Kyoko Ikeda
  • Fei Chen
  • Andreas F. Prein
  • Lulin Xue

These collaborations span multiple publications that intersect climatology, atmospheric simulations, and environmental engineering topics. Liu's work contributes to advancing the understanding of precipitation patterns, climate variability, and engineering applications related to weather and environmental systems.

Best Publications

  • The future intensification of hourly precipitation extremes

    Andreas F. Prein;Roy M. Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda;Changhai Liu

  • Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America

    Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Mike Barlage

  • Slower snowmelt in a warmer world

    Keith N. Musselman;Martyn P. Clark;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

  • High resolution coupled climate-runoff simulations of seasonal snowfall over Colorado: A process study of current and warmer climate

    Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;David Gochis

  • Projected increases and shifts in rain-on-snow flood risk over western North America

    Keith N. Musselman;Flavio Lehner;Kyoko Ikeda;Martyn P. Clark

  • Increased rainfall volume from future convective storms in the US

    Andreas F. Prein;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Stanley B. Trier

  • A Comparison of Statistical and Dynamical Downscaling of Winter Precipitation over Complex Terrain

    Ethan D. Gutmann;Roy M. Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

  • Climate Change Impacts on the Water Balance of the Colorado Headwaters: High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Simulations

    Roy Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda;Changhai Liu;David Gochis

  • High-Resolution Simulations of Wintertime Precipitation in the Colorado Headwaters Region: Sensitivity to Physics Parameterizations

    Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Gregory Thompson;Roy Rasmussen

  • Simulating North American mesoscale convective systems with a convection-permitting climate model

    Andreas F. Prein;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda;Randy Bullock

  • Changes in the convective population and thermodynamic environments in convection-permitting regional climate simulations over the United States

    Kristen L. Rasmussen;Kristen L. Rasmussen;Andreas F. Prein;Roy M. Rasmussen;Kyoko Ikeda

  • Simulation of seasonal snowfall over Colorado

    Kyoko Ikeda;Roy Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;David Gochis

  • Changes in Hurricanes from a 13-Yr Convection-Permitting Pseudo–Global Warming Simulation

    Ethan D. Gutmann;Roy M. Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

  • Convection Initiation by Density Currents: Role of Convergence, Shear, and Dynamical Organization

    Mitchell W. Moncrieff;Changhai Liu

  • A new mechanism for warm-season precipitation response to global warming based on convection-permitting simulations

    Aiguo Dai;Aiguo Dai;Roy M. Rasmussen;Changhai Liu;Kyoko Ikeda

  • Importance of Regional Climate Model Grid Spacing for the Simulation of Heavy Precipitation in the Colorado Headwaters

    Andreas F. Prein;Gregory J. Holland;Roy M. Rasmussen;James Done

  • Simulation, Modeling, and Dynamically Based Parameterization of Organized Tropical Convection for Global Climate Models

    Mitchell W. Moncrieff;Changhai Liu;Peter A. Bogenschutz

  • A Numerical Study of the Diurnal Cycle of Tropical Oceanic Convection

    Changhai Liu;Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • A Numerical Study of the Effects of Ambient Flow and Shear On Density Currents

    Changhai Liu;Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • Representing convective organization in prediction models by a hybrid strategy

    Mitchell W. Moncrieff;Changhai Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Roy Rasmussen
Roy Rasmussen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Kyoko Ikeda
Kyoko Ikeda National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mitchell W. Moncrieff
Mitchell W. Moncrieff National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jimy Dudhia
Jimy Dudhia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gregory Thompson
Gregory Thompson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Aiguo Dai
Aiguo Dai University at Albany, State University of New York
David Gochis
David Gochis National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ethan Gutmann
Ethan Gutmann National Center for Atmospheric Research

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