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Zhiwei Wu is affiliated with Fudan University in China and has a research portfolio primarily focused on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. They have contributed extensively to the fields of Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Control and Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering. Their work spans a variety of topics related to climate and atmospheric studies.

The main topics covered by their research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Zhiwei Wu has a significant number of publications in several scientific venues. The most frequent journals where their work appears include:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Journal of Climate
  • Atmospheric Research

They have coauthored numerous papers with other researchers, with frequent collaborators including Jianping Li, Chaofeng Li, Can Cao, Binbin Zhu, and Wogu Zhong.

Some of Zhiwei Wu's recent papers are:

  • "Elevation dependent warming over the Tibetan Plateau: Patterns, mechanisms and perspectives," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "How can the winter North Atlantic Oscillation influence the early summer precipitation in Northeast Asia: effect of the Arctic sea ice," 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • "Large-scale climate patterns offer preseasonal hints on the co-occurrence of heat wave and O 3 pollution in China," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Seasonal prediction of the northern and southern temperature modes of the East Asian winter monsoon: the importance of the Arctic sea ice," 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • "The strengthened relationship between the Yangtze River Valley summer rainfall and the Southern Hemisphere annular mode in recent decades," 2020, Climate Dynamics

Best Publications

  • How to Measure the Strength of the East Asian Summer Monsoon

    Bin Wang;Zhiwei Wu;Jianping Li;Jian Liu

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

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

  • Multi-scale climate variability of the South China Sea monsoon: A review

    Bin Wang;Fei Huang;Zhiwei Wu;Jing Yang

  • Review of snow cover variation over the Tibetan Plateau and its influence on the broad climate system

    Qinglong You;Tao Wu;Liuchen Shen;Nick Pepin

  • Can Global Warming Strengthen the East Asian Summer Monsoon

    Jianping Li;Zhiwei Wu;Zhihong Jiang;Jinhai He

  • Another Look at Interannual-to-Interdecadal Variations of the East Asian Winter Monsoon: The Northern and Southern Temperature Modes

    Bin Wang;Zhiwei Wu;Chih-Pei Chang;Jian Liu

  • Elevation dependent warming over the Tibetan Plateau: Patterns, mechanisms and perspectives

    Qinglong You;Deliang Chen;Fangying Wu;Nick Pepin

  • A comparison of heat wave climatologies and trends in China based on multiple definitions

    Qinglong You;Zhihong Jiang;Lei Kong;Zhiwei Wu

  • Possible effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation on the strengthening relationship between the East Asian Summer monsoon and ENSO

    Zhiwei Wu;Zhiwei Wu;Jianping Li;Zhihong Jiang;Jinhai He

  • Modulation of the Tibetan Plateau Snow Cover on the ENSO Teleconnections: From the East Asian Summer Monsoon Perspective

    Zhiwei Wu;Jianping Li;Zhihong Jiang;Tingting Ma

  • Can the Southern Hemisphere annular mode affect China winter monsoon

    Zhiwei Wu;Zhiwei Wu;Jianping Li;Bin Wang;Xinhua Liu

  • Contribution of the Autumn Tibetan Plateau Snow Cover to Seasonal Prediction of North American Winter Temperature

    Hai Lin;Zhiwei Wu

  • Can the Tibetan Plateau snow cover influence the interannual variations of Eurasian heat wave frequency

    Zhiwei Wu;Peng Zhang;Hua Chen;Yun Li

  • Distinct Principal Modes of Early and Late Summer Rainfall Anomalies in East Asia

    Bin Wang;Jian Liu;Jing Yang;Tianjun Zhou

  • A comparison of regional monsoon variability using monsoon indices

    So-Young Yim;Bin Wang;Jian Liu;Zhiwei Wu

  • Relative effects of climatic and local factors on fire occurrence in boreal forest landscapes of northeastern China.

    Zhiwei Wu;Hong S. He;Hong S. He;Jian Yang;Zhihua Liu

  • Possible association of the western Tibetan Plateau snow cover with the decadal to interdecadal variations of northern China heatwave frequency

    Zhiwei Wu;Zhiwei Wu;Zhihong Jiang;Jianping Li;Shanshan Zhong

  • Predictable climate dynamics of abnormal East Asian winter monsoon: once-in-a-century snowstorms in 2007/2008 winter

    Zhiwei Wu;Zhiwei Wu;Jianping Li;Zhihong Jiang;Jinhai He

  • Another look at influences of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation on the wintertime East Asian weather

    Jinhai He;Hai Lin;Zhiwei Wu

  • Occurrence of droughts and floods during the normal summer monsoons in the mid‐ and lower reaches of the Yangtze River

    Zhiwei Wu;Zhiwei Wu;Jianping Li;Jinhai He;Zhihong Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Hong S. He
Hong S. He University of Missouri
Jianping Li
Jianping Li Ocean University of China
Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qinglong You
Qinglong You Fudan University
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu United States Geological Survey
Nick Pepin
Nick Pepin University of Portsmouth
Todd J. Hawbaker
Todd J. Hawbaker United States Geological Survey
Abraham Pinter
Abraham Pinter Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Amir AghaKouchak
Amir AghaKouchak University of California, Irvine

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