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  1. How Much of the Interannual Variability in Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity Is Driven by Sea Surface Temperature? Evidence From CMIP6 HighResMIP Simulations

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, January 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  2. The Roles of Inner and Outer Rainbands in Secondary Eyewall Formation in a High‐Resolution Simulation of Typhoon Lekima (2019)

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, November 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  3. Philippine archipelago and South China Sea monsoon plus ocean cooling buffer Northwestern Pacific super typhoons

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  4. Western North Pacific Monsoon Gyres: A New Identification Approach, Interannual Variability, and Seasonal Prediction

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  5. Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon Circulation Patterns Regulate Tropical Cyclogenesis Productivity

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  6. Amplified Bimodal Distribution of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Lifetime Maximum Intensity

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, January 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  7. A Dynamical Downscaling Framework for Tropical Cyclone Activity Over the Western North Pacific

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

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  8. Growing Threat of Tropical Cyclone Disasters in Inland Areas of East China

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  9. Simulating the Response of Tropical Cyclones to Potential Nuclear War

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

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  10. Evaluation of the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation modulation on western North Pacific tropical cyclone genesis in CMIP6 HighResMIP models

    Article • Climate Dynamics, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  11. Projected Poleward Migration of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Genesis

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, August 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  12. Decreasing global tropical cyclone frequency in CMIP6 historical simulations

    Article • Science Advances, July 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr. Haikun Zhao, Suzana J. Camargo

  13. Western North Pacific Monsoon Vorticity Distribution as a Potential Driver of Interannual Meridional Migration of the Boreal Summer Synoptic-Scale Wave Train

    Article • Journal of Climate, July 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  14. Strengthened Combined Impact of the Pacific and Atlantic Meridional Modes on Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones since the 1990s

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  15. Interannual Variability in the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation Modulates the Meridional Migration of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Genesis

    Article • Journal of Climate, July 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  16. Can Tibetan Plateau Snow Depth Influence the Interannual Association between Tropical Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures and Rapidly Intensifying Typhoons?

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2023, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  17. Factors affecting climate variability of basin‐wide western North Pacific tropical cyclone intensity

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, December 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  18. Environmental characteristics of western North Pacific tropical cyclone onset in neutral ENSO years

    Article • Climate Dynamics, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  19. Higher Sensitivity of Northern Hemisphere Monsoon to Anthropogenic Aerosol Than Greenhouse Gases

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, October 2022, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  20. Reversed and comparable climate impacts from historical anthropogenic aerosol and GHG on global-scale tropical cyclone genesis potential

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, August 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  21. Recent Weakening of the Relationship between ENSO and Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Season Onset Date

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, August 2022, Wiley

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  22. Interannual and Interdecadal Drivers of Meridional Migration of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Lifetime Maximum Intensity Location

    Article • Journal of Climate, May 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  23. A Statistical Intraseasonal Prediction Model of Extended Boreal Summer Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Genesis

    Article • Journal of Climate, April 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  24. Enhanced Predictability of Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific Associated with Snow Depth Changes over the Tibetan Plateau

    Article • Journal of Climate, April 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  25. Author Correction: Hemisphere-asymmetric tropical cyclones response to anthropogenic aerosol forcing

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  26. Hemisphere-asymmetric tropical cyclones response to anthropogenic aerosol forcing

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  27. Meridional Migration of Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclogenesis: Joint Contribution of Interhemispheric Temperature Differential and ENSO

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  28. What Caused the Unprecedented Absence of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones in July 2020?

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, May 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  29. The Influence of Large-Scale Environment on the Extremely Active Tropical Cyclone Activity in November 2019 over the Western North Pacific

    Article • Atmosphere, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  30. Modulation of North Pacific and North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones by Tropical Transbasin Variability and ENSO during May–October

    Article • Journal of Climate, March 2021, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  31. Impact of tibetan plateau snow cover on tropical cyclogenesis via the Madden–Julian oscillation during the following boreal summer

    Article • Climate Dynamics, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  32. NUIST ESM v3 Data Submission to CMIP6

    Article • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  33. An Abrupt Slowdown of Late Season Tropical Cyclone over the Western North Pacific in the Early 1980s

    Article • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, January 2021, Meteorological Society of Japan

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  34. Dominant Influence of ENSO-Like and Global Sea Surface Temperature Patterns on Changes in Prevailing Boreal Summer Tropical Cyclone Tracks over the Western North Pacific

    Article • Journal of Climate, November 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  35. Possible Influence of Tropical Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature on the Proportion of Rapidly Intensifying Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones during the Extended Boreal Summer

    Article • Journal of Climate, November 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  36. Interannual Variability of the Basinwide Translation Speed of Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific

    Article • Journal of Climate, October 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  37. Changes in extended boreal summer tropical cyclogenesis associated with large-scale flow patterns over the western North Pacific in response to the global warming hiatus

    Article • Climate Dynamics, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  38. Azimuthal Variations of the Convective-scale Structure in a Simulated Tropical Cyclone Principal Rainband

    Article • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  39. Sources of the Intermodel Spread in Projected Global Monsoon Hydrological Sensitivity

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

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  40. Distinct response of Northern Hemisphere land monsoon precipitation to transient and stablized warming scenarios

    Article • Advances in Climate Change Research, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  41. Simulation of Extreme Updrafts in the Tropical Cyclone Eyewall

    Article • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  42. Recent Increased Covariability of Tropical Cyclogenesis Latitude and Longitude over the Western North Pacific during the Extended Boreal Summer

    Article • Journal of Climate, December 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  43. Recent Strengthening of the Relationship between the Western North Pacific Monsoon and Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity during the Boreal Summer

    Article • Journal of Climate, December 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  44. Modulation of Boreal Extended Summer Tropical Cyclogenesis over the Northwest Pacific by the Quasi‐Biweekly Oscillation under different El Niño‐Southern Oscillation Phases

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, July 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  45. Consistent Late Onset of the Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Season Following major El Niño Events

    Article • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, January 2019, Meteorological Society of Japan

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  46. Impact of the Extended Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation on Western North Pacific Tropical Cloud Cluster Genesis Productivity

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

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  47. Recent decrease in genesis productivity of tropical cloud clusters over the Western North Pacific

    Article • Climate Dynamics, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  48. Changes in Characteristics of Rapidly Intensifying Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones Related to Climate Regime Shifts

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

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  49. Is there a quiescent typhoon season over the western North Pacific following a strong El Niño event?

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  50. Multi-scale interactions of equatorial waves associated with tropical cyclogenesis over the western North Pacific

    Article • Climate Dynamics, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  51. Inter-decadal change of the lagged inter-annual relationship between local sea surface temperature and tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Climatology, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  52. On the relationship between ENSO and tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific during the boreal summer

    Article • Climate Dynamics, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  53. Potential Large-Scale Forcing Mechanisms Driving Enhanced North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity since the Mid-1990s

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

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  54. Simulation of tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific based on CMIP5 models

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Climatology, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  55. Impact of the boreal summer quasi-biweekly oscillation on Eastern North Pacific tropical cyclone activity

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Philip Klotzbach, Dr. Haikun Zhao, Dr Graciela B Raga

  56. Modulation of convectively coupled equatorial Rossby wave on the western North Pacific tropical cyclones activity

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  57. Modulation of tropical cyclogenesis in the western North Pacific by the quasi-biweekly oscillation

    Article • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  58. Boreal Summer Synoptic-Scale Waves over the Western North Pacific in Multimodel Simulations

    Article • Journal of Climate, June 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  59. Interdecadal modulation on the relationship between ENSO and typhoon activity during the late season in the western North Pacific

    Article • Climate Dynamics, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  60. Impact of the Madden–Julian Oscillation on Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclogenesis Associated with Large-Scale Patterns

    Article • Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, July 2015, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  61. On the distinct interannual variability of tropical cyclone activity over the easter North Pacific

    Article • Atmósfera, July 2015, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  62. A downscaling technique to simulate changes in western North Pacific tropical cyclone activity between two types of El Niño events

    Article • Theoretical and Applied Climatology, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  63. Modulation of Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Genesis by the Intraseasonal Variability

    Article • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, January 2015, Meteorological Society of Japan

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  64. Exploratory analysis of extremely low tropical cyclone activity during the late-season of 2010 and 1998 over the western North Pacific and the South China Sea

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, December 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  65. The influence of large-scale circulations on the extremely inactive tropical cyclone activity in 2010 over the western North Pacific

    Article • Atmósfera, October 2014, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera

    Dr Graciela B Raga, Dr. Haikun Zhao

  66. Traveling waves for competitive Lotka–Volterra systems with spatial diffusions and spatio-temporal delays

    Article • Applied Mathematics and Computation, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  67. Inter-decadal shift of the prevailing tropical cyclone tracks over the western North Pacific and its mechanism study

    Article • Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, April 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  68. Decadal variations of intense tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific during 1948–2010

    Article • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  69. Dynamically Derived Tropical Cyclone Intensity Changes over the Western North Pacific

    Article • Journal of Climate, January 2012, American Meteorological Society

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  70. Interannual Changes of Tropical Cyclone Intensity in the Western North Pacific

    Article • Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, January 2011, Meteorological Society of Japan

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  71. Assessing the influence of the ENSO on tropical cyclone prevailing tracks in the western North Pacific

    Article • Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  72. Observational relationship of climatologic beta drift with large-scale environmental flows

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

    Dr. Haikun Zhao

  73. Kernel Density Estimation Applied to Tropical Cyclones Genesis in Northwestern Pacific

    Article • July 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Haikun Zhao