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  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Fei-Fei Jin is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

Their work focuses on multiple intertwined topics including 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 Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Fei-Fei Jin has contributed to a substantial body of literature with a number of recent papers such as:

  • Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate, 2021, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Anthropogenic impacts on twentieth-century ENSO variability changes, 2023, published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Understanding the recent increase in multiyear La Niñas, 2023, published in Nature Climate Change
  • ENSO and Tropical Cyclones, 2020, published in Geophysical monograph
  • Maintenance of mid-latitude oceanic fronts by mesoscale eddies, 2020, published in Science Advances

Frequent co-authors of Fei-Fei Jin include Malte F. Stuecker, Wenjun Zhang, Feng Jiang, Sen Zhao, and Jong-Seong Kug, reflecting collaboration across a range of expertise within their research domains.

Their research has been published extensively in prominent venues such as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Climate
  • Nature Communications
  • Climate Dynamics
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fei-Fei Jin was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2016, recognizing their contributions to the geophysical sciences community.

Best Publications

  • Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Simon Borlace;Matthieu Lengaigne;Peter van Rensch

  • An Equatorial Ocean Recharge Paradigm for ENSO. Part I: Conceptual Model

    Fei-Fei Jin

  • El Niño in a changing climate

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

  • Two Types of El Niño Events: Cold Tongue El Niño and Warm Pool El Niño

    Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin;Soon Il An

  • The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Nino

    Mat Collins;Mat Collins;Soon Il An;Wenju Cai;Alexandre Ganachaud

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

    Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

  • Understanding ENSO Diversity

    Antonietta Capotondi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Matthew Newman;Emanuele Di Lorenzo

  • Thermal Controls on the Asian Summer Monsoon

    Guoxiong Wu;Yimin Liu;Bian He;Bian He;Qing Bao

  • ENSO and greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Guojian Wang;Sang Wook Yeh

  • Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Guojian Wang;Guojian Wang;Agus Santoso;Michael J. Mcphaden

  • Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming

    Shayne McGregor;Axel Timmermann;Malte F Stuecker;Matthew Heathcote England

  • An Equatorial Ocean Recharge Paradigm for ENSO. Part II: A Stripped-Down Coupled Model

    Fei-Fei Jin

  • El Niño on the Devil's Staircase: Annual Subharmonic Steps to Chaos

    Fei-Fei Jin;J. David Neelin;Michael Ghil

  • An empirical seasonal prediction model of the east Asian summer monsoon using ENSO and NAO

    Zhiwei Wu;Bin Wang;Jianping Li;Fei-Fei Jin

  • Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

  • Sea surface temperature in the north tropical Atlantic as a trigger for El Niño/Southern Oscillation events

    Yoo-Geun Ham;Yoo-Geun Ham;Jong-Seong Kug;Jong-Yeon Park;Fei-Fei Jin

  • Nonlinearity and Asymmetry of ENSO(.

    Soon Il An;Fei Fei Jin

  • Niño indices for two types of ENSO

    Hong-Li Ren;Hong-Li Ren;Fei-Fei Jin

  • The Direct Response to Tropical Heating in a Baroclinic Atmosphere

    Feifei Jin;Brian J. Hoskins

  • Interaction between El Niño and Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole

    Jing-Jia Luo;Ruochao Zhang;Swadhin K. Behera;Yukio Masumoto

  • Erratum: El Niño in a changing climate

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

Frequent Co-Authors

Malte F. Stuecker
Malte F. Stuecker University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jong-Seong Kug
Jong-Seong Kug Seoul National University
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University
In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography
Soon-Il An
Soon-Il An Yonsei University
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Eric Guilyardi
Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité
Yoo-Geun Ham
Yoo-Geun Ham Seoul National University
Shayne McGregor
Shayne McGregor Monash University
Cheng Sun
Cheng Sun Northwestern University

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