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  1. Impacts of Thermal Heating over the Tibetan Plateau on Atmospheric River Activity

    Article • March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Zhao

  2. The Energy-Pump Mechanism Behind Dubai ‘16•4’ Record-Breaking Rainfall

    Article • March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Zhao

  3. Indo–Western Pacific Tropical Heating Anomalies Regulate the Cross‐Pacific Atmospheric River Highways During Boreal Summer

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, February 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Zhao

  4. The Quantitative Role of Moisture and Vertical Motion in Shaping Summer Heavy Rainfall over North China under Two Distinct Large-Scale Weather Patterns

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  5. A Deep‐Learning Ensemble Method to Detect Atmospheric Rivers and Its Application to Projected Changes in Precipitation Regime

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  6. The Critical Role of the Upper-Level Synoptic Disturbance on the China Henan “21.7” Extreme Precipitation Event

    Article • SOLA, January 2023, Meteorological Society of Japan

    Dr Yang Zhao

  7. Influence of stratosphere-to-troposphere transport on summertime surface O3 changes in North China Plain in 2019

    Article • Atmospheric Research, October 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Yang Zhao

  8. Importance of Diabatic Heating for the Eastward-Moving Heavy Rainfall Events along the Yangtze River, China

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, September 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Yang Zhao

  9. Cloud Response Is Significantly Biased by CMIP6 Over the Tibetan Plateau

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  10. The Remote Effect of Binary Typhoon Infa and Cempaka on the “21.7” Heavy Rainfall in Henan Province, China

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  11. Anomalous surface O3 changes in North China Plain during the northwestward movement of a landing typhoon

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, May 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Yang Zhao

  12. Correction to: Future precipitation changes in three key sub-regions of East Asia: the roles of thermodynamics and dynamics

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  13. Improving the Estimate of Summer Daytime Planetary Boundary Layer Height Over Land From GPS Radio Occultation Data

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

    Professor Xubin Zeng, Dr Yang Zhao

  14. A vertical transport window of water vapor in the troposphere over the Tibetan Plateau with implications for global climate change

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", January 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Zhao

  15. Quantitative Attribution of Vertical Motion Responsible for Summer Heavy Rainfall Over North China

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

    Dr Yang Zhao, Ziwei Li

  16. Future precipitation changes in three key sub-regions of East Asia: the roles of thermodynamics and dynamics

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  17. Intensity and microphysical properties surrounding the rapid intensification in landfalling Super Typhoons over China during the summer and autumn seasons

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, June 2021, Wiley

    Dr Yang Zhao

  18. How Were the Eastward-Moving Heavy Rainfall Events from the Tibetan Plateau to the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Enhanced?

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  19. The Impact of the Observation Data Assimilation on Atmospheric Reanalyses over Tibetan Plateau and Western Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau

    Article • Atmosphere, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Yang Zhao

  20. Projection of Future Summer Precipitation over the Yellow River Basin: A Moisture Budget Perspective

    Article • Atmosphere, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Yang Zhao

  21. Why are there more summer afternoon low clouds over the Tibetan Plateau compared to eastern China?

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

    Professor Xubin Zeng, Dr Yang Zhao

  22. Statistical Characteristics and Synoptic Situations of Long‐Duration Heavy Rainfall Events Over North China

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  23. Impact of Model Bias Correction on a Hybrid Data Assimilation System

    Article • Journal of Meteorological Research, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Zhao

  24. Spatiotemporal variation in the impact of meteorological conditions on PM2.5 pollution in China from 2000 to 2017

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Yang Zhao

  25. Climate modulation of summer rainstorm activity in eastern China based on the Tibetan Plateau spring heating

    Article • Arabian Journal of Geosciences, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Zhao

  26. Enhancement of the summer extreme precipitation over North China by interactions between moisture convergence and topographic settings

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  27. Association of Climate-related Total Atmospheric Energy Anomalies in the Tibetan Plateau with Haze in Eastern China

    Article • Aerosol and Air Quality Research, January 2020, Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research

    Dr Yang Zhao

  28. Influence of Thermal Effects on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on Air Quality in Typical Regions of China in Winter

    Article • Atmosphere, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Yang Zhao

  29. The Large‐Scale Circulation Patterns Responsible for Extreme Precipitation Over the North China Plain in Midsummer

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, December 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Yang Zhao

  30. Effect of the Asian Water Tower over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the characteristics of atmospheric water circulation

    Article • Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version), September 2019, Science China Press., Co. Ltd.

    Dr Yang Zhao

  31. Effects of convection over the Tibetan Plateau on rainstorms downstream of the Yangtze River Basin

    Article • Atmospheric Research, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Yang Zhao

  32. Vertical Structures of Dust Aerosols over East Asia Based on CALIPSO Retrievals

    Article • Remote Sensing, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Yang Zhao

  33. Diurnal Variations in Summer Precipitation over the Yellow River Basin

    Article • Advances in Meteorology, February 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Yang Zhao

  34. Effects of the Tibetan Plateau and its second staircase terrain on rainstorms over North China: From the perspective of water vapour transport

    Article • International Journal of Climatology, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Yang Zhao

  35. Impact of Meteorological Conditions on PM2.5 Pollution in China during Winter

    Article • Atmosphere, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Yang Zhao

  36. The severity of drought and precipitation prediction in the eastern fringe of the Tibetan Plateau

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  37. Trends in observed mean and extreme precipitation within the Yellow River Basin, China

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  38. The Third Atmospheric Scientific Experiment for Understanding the Earth–Atmosphere Coupled System over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Effects

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, April 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Yang Zhao

  39. Precursory strong-signal characteristics of the convective clouds of the Central Tibetan Plateau detected by radar echoes with respect to the evolutionary processes of an eastward-moving heavy rainstorm belt in the Yangtze River Basin

    Article • Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Zhao

  40. Are precipitation anomalies associated with aerosol variations over eastern China?

    Article • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics", June 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Yang Zhao

  41. The upstream “strong signals” of the water vapor transport over the Tibetan Plateau during a heavy rainfall event in the Yangtze River Basin

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

    Dr Yang Zhao

  42. Extreme precipitation events in East China and associated moisture transport pathways

    Article • Science China Earth Sciences, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Yang Zhao