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Taiwan
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
9360
World Ranking
5506
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Taiwan Leader Award

Overview

Chun-Chieh Wu is affiliated with National Taiwan University in Taiwan and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily spans atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and oceanography, with additional work relating to cardiology and pulmonary medicine.

The main topics explored in their research include tropical and extratropical cyclones, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, ocean waves and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, atrial fibrillation management and outcomes, as well as computational physics and Python applications.

Wu has been published frequently in several scientific journals and venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in Monthly Weather Review and the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. Other notable venues include the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Heart Rhythm, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Frequent collaborators in research projects include Kosuke Ito, Chi Lok Loi, Yu-Chiao Liang, Wei-Chung Tsai, and Ruo-Yun Shih.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Chun-Chieh Wu are:

  • A foundation model for the Earth system, 2025, Nature
  • Diurnal Variation of the Convective Area and Eye Size Associated with the Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones, 2020, Monthly Weather Review
  • Deep Eye Clouds in Tropical Cyclone Trami (2018) during T-PARCII Dropsonde Observations, 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • The Role of Surface Heat Fluxes on the Size of Typhoon Megi (2016), 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Understanding the Impacts of Upper-Tropospheric Cold Low on Typhoon Jongdari (2018) Using Piecewise Potential Vorticity Inversion, 2021, Monthly Weather Review

Best Publications

  • New evidence for enhanced ocean primary production triggered by tropical cyclone

    I. Lin;W. Timothy Liu;Chun-Chieh Wu;George T. F. Wong

  • Current understanding of tropical cyclone structure and intensity changes – a review

    Y. Wang;C.-C. Wu

  • Upper-Ocean Thermal Structure and the Western North Pacific Category 5 Typhoons. Part I: Ocean Features and the Category 5 Typhoons’ Intensification

    I. I. Lin;Chun Chieh Wu;Iam Fei Pun;Dong Shan Ko

  • The Interaction of Supertyphoon Maemi (2003) with a Warm Ocean Eddy

    I. I. Lin;Chun Chieh Wu;Kerry A. Emanuel;I. Huan Lee

  • Typhoons Affecting Taiwan: Current Understanding and Future Challenges

    Chun-Chieh Wu;Ying-Hwa Kuo

  • Warm ocean anomaly, air sea fluxes, and the rapid intensification of tropical cyclone Nargis (2008)

    I. I. Lin;Chi Hong Chen;Iam Fei Pun;W. Timothy Liu

  • An ocean coupling potential intensity index for tropical cyclones

    I.-I. Lin;I.-I. Lin;Peter G. Black;James F. Price;C.-Y. Yang

  • Upper-Ocean Thermal Structure and the Western North Pacific Category 5 Typhoons. Part II: Dependence on Translation Speed

    I. I. Lin;Iam Fei Pun;Chun Chieh Wu

  • Rainfall Simulation Associated with Typhoon Herb (1996) near Taiwan. Part I: The Topographic Effect

    Chun-Chieh Wu;Tzu-Hsiung Yen;Ying-Hwa Kuo;Wei Wang

  • The Effect of the Ocean Eddy on Tropical Cyclone Intensity

    Chun-Chieh Wu;Chia-Ying Lee;I.-I. Lin

  • Environmental Dynamical Control of Tropical Cyclone Intensity—An Observational Study

    Zhihua Zeng;Yuqing Wang;Chun-Chieh Wu

  • Satellite observations of modulation of surface winds by typhoon-induced upper ocean cooling

    I.-I. Lin;W. Timothy Liu;Chun-Chieh Wu;J. C. H. Chiang;J. C. H. Chiang

  • Dropwindsonde Observations for Typhoon Surveillance near the Taiwan Region (DOTSTAR): An Overview

    Chun Chieh Wu;Po Hsiung Lin;Sim Aberson;Tien Chiang Yeh

  • Impact of typhoons on the ocean in the pacific

    E.A. D'Asaro;P. G. Black;L. R. Centurioni;Y.-T. Chang

  • Concentric Eyewall Formation in Typhoon Sinlaku (2008). Part II: Axisymmetric Dynamical Processes

    Yi-Hsuan Huang;Michael T. Montgomery;Chun-Chieh Wu

  • Interaction of a Baroclinic Vortex with Background Shear: Application to Hurricane Movement

    Chun-Chieh Wu;Kerry A. Emanuel

  • Targeted Observations of Tropical Cyclone Movement Based on the Adjoint-Derived Sensitivity Steering Vector

    Chun-Chieh Wu;Jan-Huey Chen;Po-Hsiung Lin;Kun-Hsuan Chou

  • The Impact of Dropwindsonde Data on Typhoon Track Forecasts in DOTSTAR

    Chun-Chieh Wu;Kun-Hsuan Chou;Po-Hsiung Lin;Sim D. Aberson

  • Controlling synoptic‐scale factors for the distribution of transient luminous events

    Li Jou Lee;Alfred B. Chen;Shu Chun Chang;Cheng Ling Kuo;Cheng Ling Kuo

  • Potential vorticity Diagnostics of Hurricane Movement. Part 1: A Case Study of Hurricane Bob (1991)

    Chun-Chieh Wu;Kerry A. Emanuel

Frequent Co-Authors

I-I Lin
I-I Lin National Taiwan University
Yuqing Wang
Yuqing Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Sim D. Aberson
Sim D. Aberson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Melinda S. Peng
Melinda S. Peng United States Naval Research Laboratory
Michael T. Montgomery
Michael T. Montgomery Naval Postgraduate School
Ying-Hwa Kuo
Ying-Hwa Kuo University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Huang-Hsiung Hsu
Huang-Hsiung Hsu Academia Sinica
Patrick A. Harr
Patrick A. Harr Jupiter Intelligence
W. Timothy Liu
W. Timothy Liu California Institute of Technology

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