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John C. H. Chiang is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research on various topics, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Their frequent co-authors include Chuan-Chou Shen, Hsun-Ming Hu, Valérie Trouet, Véronique Michel, and Hsien-Chen Tsai.

Publications by John C. H. Chiang appear in several well-known scientific venues, notably:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Communications
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent published papers by the researcher include:

  • Enriched East Asian oxygen isotope of precipitation indicates reduced summer seasonality in regional climate and westerlies, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Later Onset of the Rainy Season in California, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Global warming-induced Asian hydrological climate transition across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Southward Shift of Westerlies Intensifies the East Asian Early Summer Rainband Following El Niño, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Relative Roles of Energy and Momentum Fluxes in the Tropical Response to Extratropical Thermal Forcing, 2020, Journal of Climate

Best Publications

  • Analogous Pacific and Atlantic Meridional Modes of Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Variability*

    John C. H. Chiang;Daniel J. Vimont

  • Influence of high latitude ice cover on the marine Intertropical Convergence Zone

    John C. H. Chiang;Cecilia M. Bitz

  • Tropical tropospheric temperature variations caused by ENSO and their influence on the remote tropical climate

    John C. H. Chiang;Adam H. Sobel

  • Increase in the range between wet and dry season precipitation

    Chia Chou;Chia Chou;John C. H. Chiang;Chia-Wei Lan;Chia-Hui Chung

  • Extratropical Cooling, Interhemispheric Thermal Gradients, and Tropical Climate Change

    John C.H. Chiang;Andrew R. Friedman

  • Pacific meridional mode and El Niño—Southern Oscillation

    Ping Chang;Li Zhang;R. Saravanan;Daniel J. Vimont

  • Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in CMIP5 Models: RCP and Historical Simulations

    Wei Cheng;John C. H. Chiang;Dongxiao Zhang

  • Role of seasonal transitions and westerly jets in East Asian paleoclimate

    John C.H. Chiang;John C.H. Chiang;Inez Y. Fung;Chi Hua Wu;Yanjun Cai

  • Variability of stalagmite-inferred Indian monsoon precipitation over the past 252,000 y

    Yanjun Cai;Yanjun Cai;Inez Y. Fung;R. Lawrence Edwards;Zhisheng An

  • Sensitivity of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone to Last Glacial Maximum boundary conditions

    John C. H. Chiang;Michela Biasutti;David S. Battisti

  • Deconstructing Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone variability: Influence of the local cross-equatorial sea surface temperature gradient and remote forcing from the eastern equatorial Pacific

    John C. H. Chiang;John C. H. Chiang;John C. H. Chiang;Yochanan Kushnir;Alessandra Giannini;Alessandra Giannini

  • Mid-latitude afforestation shifts general circulation and tropical precipitation

    Abigail L. S. Swann;Inez Y. Fung;John C. H. Chiang

  • East Asian hydroclimate modulated by the position of the westerlies during Termination I

    Hongbin Zhang;Michael L. Griffiths;John C. H. Chiang;Wenwen Kong

  • Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Niño on Pleiades visibility

    Benjamin S. Orlove;John C. H. Chiang;Mark A. Cane

  • The ENSO Teleconnection to the Tropical Atlantic Ocean: Contributions of the Remote and Local SSTs to Rainfall Variability in the Tropical Americas*

    Alessandra Giannini;John C. H. Chiang;Mark A. Cane;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Enhanced tropical methane production in response to iceberg discharge in the North Atlantic

    Rachael H. Rhodes;Edward J. Brook;John C. H. Chiang;Thomas Blunier

  • 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

  • What are the climate controls on δD in precipitation in the Zongo Valley (Bolivia)? Implications for the Illimani ice core interpretation

    Françoise Vimeux;Robert Gallaire;Sandrine Bony;Georg Hoffmann

  • Interhemispheric Temperature Asymmetry over the Twentieth Century and in Future Projections

    Andrew R. Friedman;Yen-Ting Hwang;John C. H. Chiang;Dargan M. W. Frierson

  • The Tropics in Paleoclimate

    John C.H. Chiang

  • Southern Ocean wind response to North Atlantic cooling and the rise in atmospheric CO2: Modeling perspective and paleoceanographic implications

    Shih Yu Lee;Shih Yu Lee;John C.H. Chiang;Katsumi Matsumoto;Kathy L Tokos

  • Sulfate Aerosol Control of Tropical Atlantic Climate over the Twentieth Century

    C.-Y. Chang;J. C. H. Chiang;M. F. Wehner;A. R. Friedman

  • Role of seasonal transitions and the westerlies in the interannual variability of the East Asian summer monsoon precipitation

    J. C. H. Chiang;L. M. Swenson;W. Kong

Frequent Co-Authors

Ping Chang
Ping Chang Texas A&M University
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Inez Y. Fung
Inez Y. Fung University of California, Berkeley
Yanjun Cai
Yanjun Cai Xi'an Jiaotong University
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Benjamin R. Lintner
Benjamin R. Lintner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Chia Chou
Chia Chou Academia Sinica
Cecilia M. Bitz
Cecilia M. Bitz University of Washington
Yochanan Kushnir
Yochanan Kushnir Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jan-Berend W Stuut
Jan-Berend W Stuut Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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