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  1. Unusual and persistent easterlies restrained the 2023/24 El Niño development after a triple-dip La Niña

    Article • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Baijun Tian

  2. Assessing the Tropospheric Temperature and Humidity Simulations in CMIP3/5/6 Models Using the AIRS Obs4MIPs V2.1 Data

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  3. Evaluating the Representations of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation in Reanalyses With Satellite Observations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  4. Overemphasized role of preceding strong El Niño in generating multi-year La Niña events

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Baijun Tian

  5. Is a Preceding Strong El Niño Required to Generate Multi-year La Niña?

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Baijun Tian

  6. Stratospheric Kelvin Wave Activity as a Function of Equivalent Depth in AIRS and Reanalysis Datasets

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, February 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  7. Estimating and Removing the Sampling Biases of the AIRS Obs4MIPs V2 Data

    Article • Earth and Space Science, December 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  8. The Double‐ITCZ Bias in CMIP3, CMIP5, and CMIP6 Models Based on Annual Mean Precipitation

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  9. The Double-ITCZ Bias in CMIP6 Models

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Baijun Tian

  10. Interannual variations of water vapor in the tropical upper troposphere and the lower and middle stratosphere and their connections to ENSO and QBO

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Baijun Tian

  11. Climate Model Evaluation in the Presence of Observational Uncertainty: Precipitation Indices over the Contiguous United States

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, July 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  12. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Obs4MIPs Version 2 Data Set

    Article • Earth and Space Science, February 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  13. Interannual variations of water vapor in the tropical upper troposphere and the lower and middle stratosphere and their connections to ENSO and QBO

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, December 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Baijun Tian

  14. On the Emergent Constraints of Climate Sensitivity

    Article • Journal of Climate, January 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Mark Zelinka, Dr Baijun Tian

  15. Development of a Model Performance Metric and Its Application to Assess Summer Precipitation over the U.S. Great Plains in Downscaled Climate Simulations

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, October 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  16. Evaluating hourly rainfall characteristics over the U.S. Great Plains in dynamically downscaled climate model simulations using NASA-Unified WRF

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2017, Wiley

    Dr Baijun Tian

  17. Sensitivity of CONUS Summer Rainfall to the Selection of Cumulus Parameterization Schemes in NU-WRF Seasonal Simulations

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, June 2017, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  18. Winter precipitation characteristics in western US related to atmospheric river landfalls: observations and model evaluations

    Article • Climate Dynamics, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Baijun Tian

  19. A Decade of Spaceborne Observations of the Arctic Atmosphere: Novel Insights from NASA’s AIRS Instrument

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, November 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  20. Spread of model climate sensitivity linked to double‐Intertropical Convergence Zone bias

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  21. Surface mass balance contributions to acceleration of Antarctic ice mass loss during 2003-2013

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, May 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian, Ki-Weon Seo

  22. Accelerated mass loss from Greenland ice sheet: Links to atmospheric circulation in the North Atlantic

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, May 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Baijun Tian

  23. Northern Hemisphere mid-winter vortex-displacement and vortex-split stratospheric sudden warmings: Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  24. The response of the equatorial tropospheric ozone to the Madden–Julian Oscillation in TES satellite observations and CAM-chem model simulation

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", November 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Baijun Tian

  25. Tropical Intraseasonal Modes of the Atmosphere

    Article • Annual Review of Environment and Resources, October 2014, Annual Reviews

    Dr Baijun Tian

  26. The response of the equatorial tropospheric ozone to the Madden–Julian Oscillation in TES satellite observations and CAM-chem model simulation

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, June 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Baijun Tian

  27. The effects of ENSO under negative AO phase on spring dust activity over northern China: an observational investigation

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Olga Kalashnikova, Dr Baijun Tian, Jhoon Kim

  28. Estimating sampling biases and measurement uncertainties of AIRS/AMSU-A temperature and water vapor observations using MERRA reanalysis

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, March 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  29. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder version 6 cloud products

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", January 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Baijun Tian

  30. Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Baijun Tian

  31. Representation of tropical subseasonal variability of precipitation in global reanalyses

    Article • Climate Dynamics, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Baijun Tian

  32. Tropical Atlantic dust and smoke aerosol variations related to the Madden‐Julian Oscillation in MODIS and MISR observations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Ralph A Kahn, Dr Baijun Tian, Dr Olga Kalashnikova

  33. A link between tropical intraseasonal variability and Arctic stratospheric ozone

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  34. Evaluating CMIP5 models using AIRS tropospheric air temperature and specific humidity climatology

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  35. Planetary boundary layer heights from GPS radio occultation refractivity and humidity profiles

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  36. Intraseasonal temperature variability in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere from the GPS radio occultation measurements

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  37. Evaluation of cloud and water vapor simulations in CMIP5 climate models using NASA “A-Train” satellite observations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, July 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Michel d. S. Mesquita, Dr Baijun Tian

  38. Evidence of the recent decade change in global fresh water discharge and evapotranspiration revealed by reanalysis and satellite observations

    Article • Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Baijun Tian

  39. Vertical structure of MJO-related subtropical ozone variations from MLS, TES, and SHADOZ data

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", January 2012, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Baijun Tian

  40. Closing the Global Water Vapor Budget with AIRS Water Vapor, MERRA Reanalysis, TRMM and GPCP Precipitation, and GSSTF Surface Evaporation

    Article • Journal of Climate, December 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  41. Chemical and biological impacts

    Article • October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Baijun Tian

  42. El Niño–Southern Oscillation in Tropical and Midlatitude Column Ozone

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, September 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  43. Modulation of Atlantic aerosols by the Madden-Julian Oscillation

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Ralph A Kahn, Dr Baijun Tian

  44. The Apparent Water Vapor Sinks and Heat Sources Associated with the Intraseasonal Oscillation of the Indian Summer Monsoon

    Article • Journal of Climate, August 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Sun Wong, Dr Baijun Tian

  45. Record of tropical interannual variability of temperature and water vapor from a combined AIRS-MLS data set

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, March 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  46. Vertical Moist Thermodynamic Structure of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Retrievals: An Update and a Comparison to ECMWF Interim Re-Analysis

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, December 2010, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  47. GRACE and AMSR-E-based estimates of winter season solid precipitation accumulation in the Arctic drainage region

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, October 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  48. Tropical mid-tropospheric CO 2 variability driven by the Madden–Julian oscillation

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Baijun Tian

  49. Long tails in deep columns of natural and anthropogenic tropospheric tracers

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, March 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  50. How well can satellite data characterize the water cycle of the Madden-Julian Oscillation?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2009, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  51. Vertical Heating Structures Associated with the MJO as Characterized by TRMM Estimates, ECMWF Reanalyses, and Forecasts: A Case Study during 1998/99 Winter

    Article • Journal of Climate, November 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  52. Evaluation of global land-to-ocean fresh water discharge and evapotranspiration using space-based observations

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, July 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Baijun Tian

  53. Comparison of upper tropospheric water vapor observations from the Microwave Limb Sounder and Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  54. On the diurnal cycle of deep convection, high-level cloud, and upper troposphere water vapor in the Multiscale Modeling Framework

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, August 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  55. Does the Madden-Julian Oscillation influence aerosol variability?

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Ralph A Kahn, Dr Baijun Tian

  56. Characterization of MJO-related upper tropospheric hydrological processes using MLS

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  57. Intraseasonal variations of the tropical total ozone and their connection to the Madden-Julian Oscillation

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, April 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  58. Modulation of the diurnal cycle of tropical deep convective clouds by the MJO

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  59. Vertical Moist Thermodynamic Structure and Spatial–Temporal Evolution of the MJO in AIRS Observations

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, October 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  60. Diurnal cycle of summertime deep convection over North America: A satellite perspective

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2005, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  61. Diurnal cycle of convection, clouds, and water vapor in the tropical upper troposphere: Satellites versus a general circulation model

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Baijun Tian

  62. A Simple Moist Tropical Atmosphere Model: The Role of Cloud Radiative Forcing

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2003, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  63. Role of Tropical Clouds in Surface and Atmospheric Energy Budget

    Article • Journal of Climate, February 2002, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian

  64. Heat Balance in the Pacific Warm Pool Atmosphere during TOGA COARE and CEPEX

    Article • Journal of Climate, April 2001, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Baijun Tian