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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2007 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

William K. M. Lau is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several related subfields.

The scientist has concentrated on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Infectious Diseases, Environmental Engineering, and Oceanography. Their main topics of work include Climate variability and models, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Among the recent papers authored by William K. M. Lau are:

  • "Interactions of Asian mineral dust with Indian summer monsoon: Recent advances and challenges" (2021, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): organization and experimental design" (2021, Geoscientific model development)
  • "Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation: Initialization and Improved Prediction" (2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • "Large Wildfires in the Western United States Exacerbated by Tropospheric Drying Linked to a Multi-Decadal Trend in the Expansion of the Hadley Circulation" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Impacts of radiative effect of pre-monsoon biomass burning aerosols on atmospheric circulation and rainfall over Southeast Asia and southern China" (2022, Climate Dynamics)

William K. M. Lau collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • L. Ruby Leung
  • Yongkang Xue
  • Tandong Yao
  • Aaron Boone
  • Ismaïla Diallo

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia

    Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;W. K.M. Lau;V. Ramanathan;G. Wu

  • Intraseasonal oscillations in 15 atmospheric general circulation models: results from an AMIP diagnostic subproject

    J. M. Slingo;K. R. Sperber;J. S. Boyle;J.-P. Ceron

  • Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System

    William K. M. Lau;Duane E. Waliser

  • Global observations of aerosol-cloud-precipitation-climate interactions

    Daniel Rosenfeld;Meinrat O. Andreae;Ari Asmi;Mian Chin

  • Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

    Bin Wang;June Yi Lee;In Sik Kang;J. Shukla

  • South Asian monsoon

    William K. M. Lau;Duane E. Waliser;B. N. Goswami

  • The 2010 Pakistan Flood and Russian Heat Wave: Teleconnection of Hydrometeorological Extremes

    William K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim

  • Enhanced Surface Warming and Accelerated Snow Melt in the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau Induced by Absorbing Aerosols

    William K M Lau;Maeng-Ki Kim;Kyu-Myong Kim;Woo-Seop Lee

  • Light-absorbing Particles in Snow and Ice: Measurement and Modeling of Climatic and Hydrological impact

    Yun Qian;Teppei J. Yasunari;Teppei J. Yasunari;Sarah J. Doherty;Mark G. Flanner

  • Robust Hadley Circulation changes and increasing global dryness due to CO2 warming from CMIP5 model projections

    William K. M. Lau;Kyu-Myong Kim

  • A canonical response of precipitation characteristics to global warming from CMIP5 models

    William K.-M. Lau;H.-T. Wu;K.-M. Kim

  • Air-sea interaction

    William K. M. Lau;Duane E. Waliser;Harry Hendon

  • On the maintenance and initiation of the intraseasonal oscillation in the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and in the GLA and UKMO AMIP simulations

    Kenneth R Sperber;Julia M Slingo;Peter M Inness;William K-M Lau

  • Variability and predictability of West African droughts: a review on the role of sea surface temperature anomalies.

    Belen Rodríguez-Fonseca;Elsa Mohino;Carlos R. Mechoso;Cyril Caminade

  • Intercomparison and analyses of the climatology of the West African Monsoon in the West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation project (WAMME) first model intercomparison experiment

    Yongkang Xue;Fernando De Sales;W. K.-M. Lau;Aaron Boone

  • Intraseasonal variability of the atmosphere–ocean–climate system: East Asian monsoon

    William K. M. Lau;Duane E. Waliser;Huang-Hsiung Hsu

  • Satellite observations of desert dust‐induced Himalayan snow darkening

    Ritesh Gautam;Ritesh Gautam;N. Christina Hsu;William K.-M. Lau;Teppei J. Yasunari;Teppei J. Yasunari

  • Biogeophysical Consequences of a Tropical Deforestation Scenario: A GCM Simulation Study

    Y. C. Sud;W. K-M. Lau;G. K. Walker;J-H. Kim

  • Prediction skill of the Madden and Julian Oscillation in dynamical extended range forecasts

    C. Jones;D. E. Waliser;J.-K. E. Schemm;W. K. M. Lau

  • Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System

    Duane Waliser;William K. M. Lau

Frequent Co-Authors

Kyu-Myong Kim
Kyu-Myong Kim Goddard Space Flight Center
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Zhanqing Li
Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park
Yoram J. Kaufman
Yoram J. Kaufman Goddard Space Flight Center
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Si-Chee Tsay
Si-Chee Tsay Goddard Space Flight Center
Randal D. Koster
Randal D. Koster Goddard Space Flight Center
Sheng-Hsiang Wang
Sheng-Hsiang Wang National Central University
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center
Ritesh Gautam
Ritesh Gautam Environmental Defense Fund

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