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Yan Du is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Environmental Science. Their work encompasses a total of 242 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 95 in Environmental Science, reflecting a broad engagement with these fields.

Their research contributions predominantly lie within several subfields of study, including:

  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

The main topics Yan Du has addressed cover multiple aspects of climate and oceanographic science, featuring:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Yan Du has published research in several notable scientific journals, demonstrating ongoing engagement with key academic communities. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Physical Oceanography

They have collaborated extensively with co-authors such as Yuhong Zhang, Ying Zhang, Tianyu Wang, Minyang Wang, and Zesheng Chen, reflecting a network of frequent research partnerships.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Increasing summer precipitation in arid Central Asia linked to the weakening of the East Asian summer monsoon in the recent decades, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • Thermocline Warming Induced Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole in 2019, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Observed strong subsurface marine heatwaves in the tropical western Pacific Ocean, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Submesoscale Fronts and Their Dynamical Processes Associated with Symmetric Instability in the Northwest Pacific Subtropical Ocean, 2020, Journal of Physical Oceanography
  • Vertical structures of marine heatwaves, 2023, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Indian Ocean Capacitor Effect on Indo–Western Pacific Climate during the Summer following El Niño

    Shang Ping Xie;Kaiming Hu;Jan Hafner;Hiroki Tokinaga

  • Indo-Western Pacific Ocean Capacitor and Coherent Climate Anomalies in Post-ENSO Summer: A Review

    Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Yu Kosaka;Yan Du;Kaiming Hu

  • Pantropical Climate Interactions

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Lixin Wu;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Tim Li

  • Role of Air-Sea Interaction in the Long Persistence of El Nino-Induced North Indian Ocean Warming*

    Yan Du;Shang-Ping Xie;Gang Huang;Kaiming Hu

  • Role of atmospheric adjustments in the tropical Indian Ocean warming during the 20th century in climate models

    Yan Du;Yan Du;Shang Ping Xie

  • Tropical Indian Ocean Influence on Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclones in Summer following Strong El Niño

    Yan Du;Lei Yang;Shang-Ping Xie

  • Decadal Shift in El Niño Influences on Indo–Western Pacific and East Asian Climate in the 1970s*

    Shang Ping Xie;Yan Du;Gang Huang;Xiao Tong Zheng

  • South China Sea throughflow: A heat and freshwater conveyor

    Tangdong Qu;Yan Du;Hideharu Sasaki

  • Connecting the tropical Pacific with Indian Ocean through South China Sea

    Tangdong Qu;Yan Du;Gary Meyers;Akio Ishida

  • Sea Surface Temperature and its Variability in the Indonesian Region

    T Qu;Y Du;J Strachan;GA Meyers

  • Interannual variability of the South China Sea throughflow inferred from wind data and an ocean data assimilation product

    Dong Xiao Wang;Qinyan Liu;Rui Xin Huang;Yan Du

  • Indian Ocean Dipole Response to Global Warming in the CMIP5 Multimodel Ensemble

    Xiao-Tong Zheng;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Yan Du;Lin Liu

  • A New Type of the Indian Ocean Dipole since the Mid-1970s

    Yan Du;Wenju Cai;Yanling Wu

  • Intraseasonal variability of sea surface height in the Bay of Bengal

    Xuhua Cheng;Xuhua Cheng;Shang Ping Xie;Shang Ping Xie;Julian P. McCreary;Yiquan Qi

  • Monsoon-Induced Biases of Climate Models over the Tropical Indian Ocean*

    Gen Li;Shang-Ping Xie;Yan Du

  • Seasonal heat budget in the mixed layer of the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean in a high-resolution ocean general circulation model

    Yan Du;Tangdong Qu;Gary Meyers;Yukio Masumoto

  • Effects of excessive equatorial cold tongue bias on the projections of tropical Pacific climate change. Part I: the warming pattern in CMIP5 multi-model ensemble

    Gen Li;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Yan Du;Yiyong Luo

  • Upwelling in the continental shelf of northern South China Sea associated with 1997–1998 El Niño

    Zhiyou Jing;Yiquan Qi;Yan Du

  • Increasing summer precipitation in arid Central Asia linked to the weakening of the East Asian summer monsoon in the recent decades

    Chunzhu Chen;Xiaojian Zhang;Huayu Lu;Liya Jin

  • Thermocline Warming Induced Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole in 2019

    Yan Du;Yuhong Zhang;Lian-Yi Zhang;Tomoki Tozuka

  • Indian Ocean variability in the CMIP5 multi-model ensemble: the zonal dipole mode

    Lin Liu;Shang-Ping Xie;Shang-Ping Xie;Xiao-Tong Zheng;Tim Li

  • The 1997¸1998 warm event in the South China Sea

    Dongxiao Wang;Qiang Xie;Yan Du;Weiqiang Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Shang-Ping Xie
Shang-Ping Xie University of California, San Diego
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Ming Feng
Ming Feng Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gang Huang
Gang Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tangdong Qu
Tangdong Qu University of California, Los Angeles
Bo Qiu
Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Lin Liu
Lin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Rui Xin Huang
Rui Xin Huang Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gary Meyers
Gary Meyers University of Tasmania
Dongxiao Wang
Dongxiao Wang Sun Yat-sen University

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