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Mingfang Ting is a researcher affiliated with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in the United States. Their work spans a range of topics within Earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on atmospheric science and climate variability. Ting's research contributions are largely situated in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, supported by extensive publication activity.

Their main subfields of study include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Central to Ting's work are research topics such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Mingfang Ting has published numerous papers in notable scientific journals. Some recent publications include:

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • 2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions (2022, Nature Climate Change)
  • Recent Increases in Exposure to Extreme Humid-Heat Events Disproportionately Affect Populated Regions (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Dynamics and characteristics of dry and moist heatwaves over East Asia (2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science)
  • More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice (2023, Nature Climate Change)

Their publications have appeared frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Climate Dynamics

Collaborations are a significant component of Ting's research career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Richard Seager
  • L. Ruby Leung
  • Cheng Zheng
  • Karthik Balaguru
  • Wenwei Xu

Best Publications

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Insights from Earth system model initial-condition large ensembles and future prospects

    Clara Deser;Flavio Lehner;Keith B. Rodgers;Toby R. Ault

  • Forced and Internal Twentieth-Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic*

    Mingfang Ting;Yochanan Kushnir;Richard Seager;Cuihua Li

  • Northern Winter Stationary Waves: Theory and Modeling

    Isaac M. Held;Mingfang Ting;Hailan Wang

  • Projections of Declining Surface-Water Availability for the Southwestern United States

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Cuihua Li;Naomi H. Naik

  • Have Aerosols Caused the Observed Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

    Rong Zhang;Thomas L. Delworth;Rowan Sutton;Daniel L. R. Hodson

  • A U.S. CLIVAR Project to Assess and Compare the Responses of Global Climate Models to Drought-Related SST Forcing Patterns: Overview and Results

    Siegfried Schubert;David Gutzler;Hailan Wang;Hailan Wang;Aiguo Dai

  • Summertime U.S. Precipitation Variability and Its Relation toPacific Sea Surface Temperature

    Mingfang Ting;Hui Wang

  • Impact of Atmospheric Moisture Storage on Precipitation Recycling

    Francina Dominguez;Praveen Kumar;Xin Zhong Liang;Mingfang Ting

  • Northern Hemisphere winter snow anomalies: ENSO, NAO and the winter of 2009/10

    Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Jennifer A. Nakamura;Mingfang Ting

  • Mexican drought: an observational modeling and tree ring study of variability and climate change

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;M. Davis;Mark A. Cane

  • Intensification of Northern Hemisphere subtropical highs in a warming climate

    Wenhong Li;Laifang Li;Mingfang Ting;Yimin Liu

  • Regional Climate Model Simulation of U.S. Precipitation during 1982–2002. Part I: Annual Cycle

    Xin-Zhong Liang;L I Li;Kenneth E. Kunkel;Mingfang Ting

  • Mechanisms of Tropical Atlantic SST Influence on North American Precipitation Variability

    Yochanan Kushnir;Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Naomi H. Naik

  • Mechanisms of ENSO-forcing of hemispherically symmetric precipitation variability

    Richard Seager;Nili Harnik;W. A. Robinson;Yochanan Kushnir

  • Robust features of Atlantic multi-decadal variability and its climate impacts

    Mingfang Ting;Yochanan Kushnir;Richard Seager;Cuihua Li

  • Organization of extratropical transients during El Niño

    Martin P. Hoerling;Mingfang Ting

  • 2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions

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  • Causes of Increasing Aridification of the Mediterranean Region in Response to Rising Greenhouse Gases

    Richard Seager;Haibo Liu;Naomi L. Henderson;Isla R. Simpson

  • Factors Determining the Extratropical Response to Equatorial Diabatic Heating Anomalies.

    Mingfang Ting;Prashant D. Sardeshmukh

  • Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in

    Richard Seager;Mingfang Ting;Isaac Held;Yochanan Kushnir

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Yochanan Kushnir
Yochanan Kushnir Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Naomi Naik
Naomi Naik Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Isla R. Simpson
Isla R. Simpson National Center for Atmospheric Research
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
Suzana J. Camargo
Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Martin P. Hoerling
Martin P. Hoerling National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Song Yang
Song Yang Guizhou University
Lisa M. Goddard
Lisa M. Goddard Columbia University

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