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Chunzai Wang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, focusing on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, and Geology.

The main topics of Wang's research include Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Wang has published extensively, frequently contributing to journals such as Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Variations in Summer Marine Heatwaves in the South China Sea, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • The seas around China in a warming climate, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • A stable Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a changing North Atlantic Ocean since the 1990s, 2020, Science Advances
  • Influences of three oceans on record-breaking rainfall over the Yangtze River Valley in June 2020, 2021, Science China Earth Sciences
  • Multi-year El Niño events tied to the North Pacific Oscillation, 2022, Nature Communications

Wang frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Regular co-authors include:

  • Yulong Yao (11 joint publications)
  • Hanjie Fan (8 joint publications)
  • Lei Zhang (7 joint publications)
  • Xin Wang (6 joint publications)
  • Jiayu Zheng (6 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • A global perspective on CMIP5 climate model biases

    Chunzai Wang;Liping Zhang;Liping Zhang;Sang-Ki Lee;Sang-Ki Lee;Lixin Wu

  • UNDERSTANDING EL NINO IN OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS : Progress and Challenges

    Eric Guilyardi;Andrew Wittenberg;Alexey Fedorov;Matthew Collins

  • A Western Pacific Oscillator Paradigm for the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

    Robert H. Weisberg;Chunzai Wang

  • The Tropical Western Hemisphere Warm Pool

    Chunzai Wang;David B. Enfield

  • ENSO variability and the eastern tropical Pacific: A review

    Chunzai Wang;Paul C. Fiedler

  • Three-ocean interactions and climate variability: a review and perspective

    Chunzai Wang

  • Understanding Enso Physics—A Review

    Chunzai Wang;JoëL Picaut

  • Influences of the Atlantic Warm Pool on Western Hemisphere Summer Rainfall and Atlantic Hurricanes

    Chunzai Wang;David B. Enfield;Sang-Ki Lee;Christopher W. Landsea

  • Atmospheric Circulation Cells Associated with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

    Chunzai Wang

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

    Eric D. Maloney;Suzana J. Camargo;Edmund Chang;Brian Colle

  • Western Pacific Interannual Variability Associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

    Chunzai Wang;Robert H. Weisberg;Jyotika I. Virmani

  • Atlantic Climate Variability and Its Associated Atmospheric Circulation Cells

    Chunzai Wang

  • Interannual variability of the South China Sea associated with El Niño

    Chunzai Wang;Weiqiang Wang;Dongxiao Wang;Qi Wang

  • A Unified Oscillator Model for the El Nino-Southern Oscillation

    Chunzai Wang

  • A Further Study of the Tropical Western Hemisphere Warm Pool

    Chunzai Wang;David B. Enfield

  • Atlantic warm pool, Caribbean low-level jet, and their potential impact on Atlantic hurricanes

    Chunzai Wang;Sang-ki Lee

  • Classifying El Niño Modoki I and II by Different Impacts on Rainfall in Southern China and Typhoon Tracks

    Chunzai Wang;Xin Wang

  • Climate Response to Anomalously Large and Small Atlantic Warm Pools during the Summer

    Chunzai Wang;Sang-Ki Lee;David B. Enfield

  • Multidecadal North Atlantic sea surface temperature and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability in CMIP5 historical simulations

    Liping Zhang;Liping Zhang;Chunzai Wang

  • Earth's climate : the ocean-atmosphere interaction

    Chunzai Wang;Shang-Ping Xie;James A. Carton

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Understanding El Niño in Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models: progress and challenges

    E. Guilyardi;A. Wittenberg;A. Fedorov;M. Collins

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Sang-Ki Lee
Sang-Ki Lee Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
David B. Enfield
David B. Enfield University of Miami
Robert H. Weisberg
Robert H. Weisberg University of South Florida St. Petersburg
Fangli Qiao
Fangli Qiao Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Suzana J. Camargo
Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Ben P. Kirtman
Ben P. Kirtman University of Miami
J. David Neelin
J. David Neelin University of California, Los Angeles
Fred Kucharski
Fred Kucharski International Centre for Theoretical Physics

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