Gang Chen

Gang Chen

Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles

Math Sci Building 7149, Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Publications

2026

  1. Mohima Sultana Mimi, Wei Liu, Weiming Ma and Gang Chen, 2026: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Slowdown Modulates Atmospheric Rivers in a Warmer Climate, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72555-w.
  2. Bowen Ge, Gang Chen and Kezhou Lu, 2026: Mechanisms of Southern Hemisphere Midlatitude Surface Air Temperature Variability under Climate Warming in the CESM2 Large Ensemble (LENS2), Journal of Climate, e250435, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-25-0435.1.
  3. Weiming Ma, Nicole Feldl, Hailong Wang, Gang Chen, Sandro W. Lubis, Yun Qian and Bryce E. Harrop, 2026: Model-Observation Discrepancies in Arctic Moisture Intrusions: Causes and Pathways for Improved Simulation, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, doi:10.1038/s41612-026-01400-0.
  4. Lei Wang, Jian Lu, Melissa L. Breeden, Gang Chen, Stephanie A. Henderson, Veeshan Narinesingh, Isla R. Simpson, Tim Woollings, Yanjun Hu and Sandro W. Lubis, 2026: Gaps and Ways Forward in Atmospheric Blocking and Extreme Weather Research, Nature Communications, 17, 2873, doi:10.1038/s41467-026-70487-z.
  5. Bingjie Lv, Shuguang Wang, Gang Chen and Baoqiang Xiang, 2026: Precipitation and Soil Moisture Coupling Constrains Subseasonal Predictability of a Prolonged Extreme Heatwave, Communications Earth & Environment, 7, 323, doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03341-1.
  6. Kezhou Lu, Gang Chen, Bowen Ge, Rong Fu, Weiming Ma and Hailong Wang, 2026: The Role of Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks in Midlatitude Wintertime Surface Temperature Variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL120713, doi:10.1029/2025GL120713.
  7. Gang Chen and Xiuyuan Ding, 2026: Benchmarking the Dynamic Modes of Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling in Northern Annular Modes (NAM) in CMIP6 Models, Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL121278, doi:10.1029/2025GL121278.

2025

  1. Huanhuan Ran, Lin Wang, Thomas Spengler, Gang Chen, Ping Huang and Kaiming Hu, 2025: Long-Term Trends of Northern Hemisphere Marine Cold Air Outbreaks during Boreal Winter: Influence of Sea Ice Retreat and Atmospheric Circulation, Journal of Climate, e240658, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0658.1.
  2. Yu Nie, Ying Sun, Xuebin Zhang and Gang Chen, 2025: Human-Induced Changes in Extreme Cold Surges across the Northern Hemisphere, Nature Communications, 16, 8086, doi:10.1038/s41467-025-62576-2.
  3. Bowen Ge, Gang Chen, Jian Lu and Wenyu Zhou, 2025: Moist Energy Constraints on Surface Temperature Variance Under Climate Warming, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17, doi:10.1029/2024MS004612.
  4. Xiuyuan Ding, Gang Chen, Yuan Wang and Lantao Sun, 2025: Demystifying the drivers of the spring warming asymmetry between Eurasia and North America, Science Advances, 11, doi:10.1126/sciadv.adu2364.
  5. Wendong Ge, Noah S Prime, Steven J Smith, Junfeng Liu, Yang Ren, Yuhan Zhou, Huihuang Wu, Xian Wang and Gang Chen, 2025: The short-term comprehensive impact of the phase-out of global coal combustion on air pollution and climate change, Environmental Pollution, 367, 125669, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2025.125669.
  6. Gang Chen and Yu Nie, 2025: Effective Time Scale of the Northern Hemisphere Winter Circulation Waviness, Journal of Climate, 38, 1021–1035, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0236.1.

2024

  1. Xiuyuan Ding, Gang Chen and Gudrun Magnusdottir, 2024: North American cooling signature of strong stratospheric wave events depends on the QBO phase, Environmental Research: Climate, doi:10.1088/2752-5295/ad53f6.
  2. Jian Lu, Bryce E Harrop, Sandro W Lubis, Samuel Smith, Gang Chen and L Ruby Leung, 2024: The Role of Cloud Radiative Effects in the Propagating Southern Annular Mode, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, doi:10.1029/2023JD040428.
  3. Jiachen Liu, Jun Yang, Feng Ding, Gang Chen and Yongyun Hu, 2024: Hydrologic cycle weakening in hothouse climates, Science Advances, 10, doi:10.1126/sciadv.ado2515.
  4. Weiming Ma, Hailong Wang, Gang Chen, Yun Qian, Ian Baxter, Yiling Huo and Mark W Seefeldt, 2024: Wintertime extreme warming events in the high Arctic: characteristics, drivers, trends, and the role of atmospheric rivers, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24, 4451–4472, doi:10.5194/acp-24-4451-2024.
  5. Weiming Ma, Hailong Wang, Gang Chen, L Ruby Leung, Jian Lu, Philip J Rasch, Qiang Fu, Ben Kravitz, Yufei Zou, John J Cassano and Wieslaw Maslowski, 2024: The role of interdecadal climate oscillations in driving Arctic atmospheric river trends, Nature Communications, 15, 2135, doi:10.1038/s41467-024-45159-5.

2023

  1. Weiming Ma, Gang Chen, Bin Guan, Christine A Shields, Baijun Tian and Emilio Yanez, 2023: Evaluating the Representations of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation in Reanalyses With Satellite Observations, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, doi:10.1029/2023JD038937.
  2. Yun Lin, Yoshihide Takano, Yu Gu, Yuan Wang, Shujun Zhou, Tianhao Zhang, Kuilin Zhu, Jingyu Wang, Bin Zhao, Gang Chen, Damao Zhang, Rong Fu and John Seinfeld, 2023: Characterization of the aerosol vertical distributions and their impacts on warm clouds based on multi-year ARM observations, Science of The Total Environment, 904, 166582, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166582.
  3. Xiuyuan Ding, Gang Chen and Weiming Ma, 2023: Stratosphere‐Troposphere Coupling of Extreme Stratospheric Wave Activity in CMIP6 Models, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, doi:10.1029/2023JD038811.
  4. Xiuyuan Ding, Gang Chen, Pengfei Zhang, Daniela I. V. Domeisen and Clara Orbe, 2023: Extreme stratospheric wave activity as harbingers of cold events over North America, Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 187, doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00845-y.
  5. Heng Quan, Boer Zhang, Stephen Bourguet, Marianna Linz and Gang Chen, 2023: How Do Different Processes Shape Temperature Probability Distributions? A Percentile-averaged Temperature Tendency Decomposition, Journal of Climate, 1–36, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0556.1.
  6. Yu Nie, Gang Chen, Jian Lu, Wenyu Zhou and Yang Zhang, 2023: Constraining the Varied Response of Northern Hemisphere Winter Circulation Waviness to Climate Change, Geophysical Research Letters, 50, doi:10.1029/2022GL102150.
  7. Pengfei Zhang, Gang Chen, Mingfang Ting, L. Ruby Leung, Bin Guan and Laifang Li, 2023: More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice, Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01599-3.

2022

  1. Xianan Jiang, Duane E Waliser, Peter B Gibson, Gang Chen and Weina Guan, 2022: Why Seasonal Prediction of California Winter Precipitation Is Challenging, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103, E2688–E2700, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0252.1.
  2. Weiming Ma and Gang Chen, 2022: What Controls the Interannual Variability of the Boreal Winter Atmospheric River Activities over the Northern Hemisphere?, Journal of Climate, 1–39, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0089.1.
  3. Yu Nie, Yang Zhang, Gang Chen and Xiu-qun Yang, 2022: Quantifying Eddy Generation and Dissipation in the Jet Response to Upper-versus Lower-level Thermal Forcing, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-21-0307.1.
  4. Ye Wang, Natalie Mahowald, Peter Hess, Wenxiu Sun and Gang Chen, 2022: The relationship between PM2.5 and anticyclonic wave activity during summer over the United States, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22, 7575–7592, doi:10.5194/acp-22-7575-2022.
  5. Junyi Xiu, Xianan Jiang, Renhe Zhang, Weina Guan and Gang Chen, 2022: An Intraseasonal Mode Linking Wintertime Surface Air Temperature over Arctic and Eurasian Continent, Journal of Climate, 35, 2675–2696, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0495.1.
  6. Gang Chen, Yu Nie and Yang Zhang, 2022: Jet Stream Meandering in the Northern Hemisphere Winter: An Advection–Diffusion Perspective, Journal of Climate, 35, 2055–2073, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0411.1.
  7. J. David Neelin, Cristian Martinez-Villalobos, Samuel N Stechmann, Fiaz Ahmed, Gang Chen, Jesse Norris, Yi-Hung Kuo and Geert Lenderink, 2022: Precipitation Extremes and Water Vapor, Current Climate Change Reports, 8, 17–33, doi:10.1007/s40641-021-00177-z.
  8. Xiuyuan Ding, Gang Chen, Lantao Sun and Pengfei Zhang, 2022: Distinct North American Cooling Signatures Following the Zonally Symmetric and Asymmetric Modes of Winter Stratospheric Variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 49, doi:10.1029/2021GL096076.
  9. Boer Zhang, Marianna Linz and Gang Chen, 2022: Interpreting Observed Temperature Probability Distributions Using a Relationship between Temperature and Temperature Advection, Journal of Climate, 35, 705–724, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0920.1.

2021

  1. Weiming Ma, Gang Chen, Yannick Peings and Noah Alviz, 2021: Atmospheric River Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Polar Amplification Model Intercomparison Project, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, 1–12, doi:10.1029/2021GL094883.
  2. Jezabel Curbelo, Gang Chen and Carlos Roberto Mechoso, 2021: Lagrangian Analysis of the Northern Stratospheric Polar Vortex Split in April 2020, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, doi:10.1029/2021GL093874.
  3. Yuexiang Sun, Gang Chen and Benkui Tan, 2021: Formation and maintenance mechanisms of the Pacific-Japan pattern as an intraseasonal variability mode, Climate Dynamics, 1, doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05851-4.
  4. Pengfei Zhang, Gang Chen, Weiming Ma, Yi Ming and Zheng Wu, 2021: Robust atmospheric river response to global warming in idealized and comprehensive climate models, Journal of Climate, 1–52, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-1005.1.
  5. Pengfei Zhang, Gang Chen and Yi Ming, 2021: Quantifying the Mechanisms of Atmospheric Circulation Response to Greenhouse Gas Increases in a Forcing-Feedback Framework, Journal of Climate, 1–50, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0778.1.
  6. Weina Guan, Xianan Jiang, Xuejuan Ren, Gang Chen and Qinghua Ding, 2021: Pacific sea surface temperature anomalies as important boundary forcing in driving the interannual Warm Arctic-Cold Continent pattern over the North American sector, Journal of Climate, 1–43, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0867.1.

2020

  1. Weina Guan, Xianan Jiang, Xuejuan Ren, Gang Chen, Pu Lin and Hai Lin, 2020: The Leading Intraseasonal Variability Mode of Wintertime Surface Air Temperature over the North American Sector, Journal of Climate, 33, 9287–9306, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0096.1.
  2. Weiming Ma, Gang Chen and Bin Guan, 2020: Poleward Shift of Atmospheric Rivers in the Southern Hemisphere in Recent Decades, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, doi:10.1029/2020GL089934.
  3. Pengfei Zhang, Yutian Wu, Gang Chen and Yueyue Yu, 2020: North American cold events following sudden stratospheric warming in the presence of low Barents-Kara Sea sea ice, Environmental Research Letters, 15, 124017, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abc215.
  4. Huang Yang, Darryn W. Waugh, Clara Orbe and Gang Chen, 2020: Dependence of Atmospheric Transport Into the Arctic on the Meridional Extent of the Hadley Cell, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, 1–11, doi:10.1029/2020GL090133.
  5. Huilin Huang, Yongkang Xue, Nagaraju Chilukoti, Ye Liu, Gang Chen and Ismaila Diallo, 2020: Assessing Global and Regional Effects of Reconstructed Land-Use and Land-Cover Change on Climate since 1950 Using a Coupled Land–Atmosphere–Ocean Model, Journal of Climate, 33, 8997–9013, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0108.1.
  6. Jesse Norris, Gang Chen and Chao Li, 2020: Dynamic Amplification of Subtropical Extreme Precipitation in a Warming Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, 1–15, doi:10.1029/2020GL087200.
  7. Chao Li, Ying Sun, Francis Zwiers, Dongqian Wang, Xuebin Zhang, Gang Chen and Hui Wu, 2020: Rapid Warming in Summer Wet Bulb Globe Temperature in China with Human-Induced Climate Change, Journal of Climate, 33, 5697–5711, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0492.1.
  8. Weina Guan, Xianan Jiang, Xuejuan Ren, Gang Chen and Qinghua Ding, 2020: Role of atmospheric variability in driving the “Warm-Arctic, Cold-continent” pattern over the North America sector and sea ice variability over the Chukchi‐Bering Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2020GL088599.
  9. Danny M. Leung, Hongrong Shi, Bin Zhao, Jing Wang, Elizabeth M. Ding, Yu Gu, Haotian Zheng, Gang Chen, Kuo‐Nan Liou, Shuxiao Wang, Jerome D. Fast, Guangjie Zheng, Jingkun Jiang, Xiaoxiao Li and Jonathan H. Jiang, 2020: Wintertime particulate matter decrease buffered by unfavorable chemical processes despite emissions reductions in China, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2020GL087721.
  10. Yuan Wang, Tianhao Le, Gang Chen, Yuk L Yung, Hui Su, John H Seinfeld and Jonathan H Jiang, 2020: Reduced European aerosol emissions suppress winter extremes over northern Eurasia, Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/s41558-020-0693-4.
  11. Marianna Linz, Gang Chen, Boer Zhang and Pengfei Zhang, 2020: A framework for understanding how dynamics shape temperature distributions, Geophysical Research Letters, e2019GL085684, doi:10.1029/2019GL085684.
  12. Gang Chen, Pengfei Zhang and Jian Lu, 2020: Sensitivity of the latitude of the westerly jet stream to climate forcing, Geophysical Research Letters, e2019GL086563.
  13. Paul W. Staten, Kevin M. Grise, Sean M. Davis, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Darryn W. Waugh, Amanda Maycock, Qiang Fu, Kerry Cook, Ori Adam, Isla R. Simpson, Robert J Allen, Karen Rosenlof, Gang Chen, Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Xiao-Wei Quan, James P. Kossin, Nicholas A. Davis and Seok-Woo Son, 2020: Tropical widening: From global variations to regional impacts, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, preprint, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0047.1.
  14. Weiming Ma, Jesse Norris and Gang Chen, 2020: Projected Changes to Extreme Precipitation Along North American West Coast From the CESM Large Ensemble, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, 1–10, doi:10.1029/2019GL086038.

2019

  1. Hung‐I Lee, Jonathan L Mitchell, Aradhna Tripati, Juan M Lora, Gang Chen and Qinghua Ding, 2019: North Atlantic and Pacific Quasi‐Stationary Parts of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Implications for East Asian Monsoon Onset, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2019GL084272.
  2. Wenxiu Sun, Peter Hess, Gang Chen and Simone Tilmes, 2019: How waviness in the circulation changes surface ozone: a viewpoint using local finite-amplitude wave activity, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 12917–12933, doi:10.5194/acp-19-12917-2019.
  3. Ziwei Wang, Gang Chen, Yu Gu, Bin Zhao, Qiao Ma, Shuxiao Wang and Kuo‐Nan Liou, 2019: Large‐scale meteorological control on the spatial pattern of wintertime PM 2.5 pollution over China, Atmospheric Science Letters, 1–9, doi:10.1002/asl.938.
  4. Jesse Norris, Gang Chen and J. David Neelin, 2019: Changes in frequency of large precipitation accumulations over land in a warming climate from the CESM Large Ensemble: the roles of moisture, circulation and duration, Journal of Climate, JCLI–D–18–0600.1, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0600.1.
  5. Chao Li, Francis Zwiers, Xuebin Zhang, Gang Chen, Jian Lu, Guilong Li, Jesse Norris, Yaheng Tan, Ying Sun and Min Liu, 2019: Larger increases in more extreme local precipitation events as climate warms, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019GL082908, doi:10.1029/2019GL082908.

2018

  1. Jesse Norris, Gang Chen and J. David Neelin, 2018: Thermodynamic versus dynamic controls on extreme precipitation in a warming climate from the Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble, Journal of Climate, JCLI–D–18–0302.1, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0302.1.
  2. Gang Chen, Jesse Norris, J. David Neelin, Jian Lu, L. Ruby Leung and Koichi Sakaguchi, 2018: Thermodynamic and Dynamic Mechanisms for Hydrological Cycle Intensification over the Full Probability Distribution of Precipitation Events, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, JAS–D–18–0067.1, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-18-0067.1.
  3. Marianna Linz, Gang Chen and Zeyuan Hu, 2018: Large-scale Atmospheric Control on Non-Gaussian Tails of Midlatitude Temperature Distributions, Geophysical Research Letters, 1–9, doi:10.1029/2018GL079324.
  4. Jian Lu, Daokai Xue, Yang Gao, Gang Chen, L. Ruby Leung and Paul Staten, 2018: Enhanced hydrological extremes in the western United States under global warming through the lens of water vapor wave activity, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 1, 7, doi:10.1038/s41612-018-0017-9.
  5. Patrick Martineau, Gang Chen, Seok-Woo Son and Joowan Kim, 2018: Lower-Stratospheric Control of the Frequency of Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 3051–3070, doi:10.1002/2017JD027648.
  6. Yutian Wu, Gang Chen, Lindsey Taylor and Pengfei Zhang, 2018: On the Linkage Between the Asian Summer Monsoon and Tropopause Folds, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 2037–2049, doi:10.1002/2017JD027870.

2017

  1. Patrick Martineau, Gang Chen and D. Alex Burrows, 2017: Wave Events: Climatology, Trends, and Relationship to Northern Hemisphere Winter Blocking and Weather Extremes, Journal of Climate, 30, 5675–5697, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0692.1.
  2. Jian Lu, Koichi Sakaguchi, Qing Yang, L. Ruby Leung, Gang Chen, Chun Zhao, Erik Swenson and Zhangshuan J. Hou, 2017: Examining the Hydrological Variations in an Aquaplanet World Using Wave Activity Transformation, Journal of Climate, 30, 2559–2576, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0561.1.
  3. Daokai Xue, Jian Lu, Lantao Sun, Gang Chen and Yaocun Zhang, 2017: Local increase of anticyclonic wave activity over northern Eurasia under amplified Arctic warming, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 3299–3308, doi:10.1002/2017GL072649.
  4. Gang Chen, Clara Orbe and Darryn Waugh, 2017: The role of monsoon-like zonally asymmetric heating in interhemispheric transport, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 3282–3298, doi:10.1002/2016JD026427.
  5. D Alex Burrows, Gang Chen and Lantao Sun, 2017: Barotropic and Baroclinic Eddy Feedbacks in the Midlatitude Jet Variability and Responses to Climate Change–Like Thermal Forcings, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74, 111–132, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-16-0047.1.
  6. Erool Palipane, Jian Lu, Paul Staten, Gang Chen and Edwin K. Schneider, 2017: Investigating the zonal wind response to SST warming using transient ensemble AGCM experiments, Climate Dynamics, 48, 523–540, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3092-9.

2016

  1. Huang Yang, Gang Chen, Qi Tang and Peter G. Hess, 2016: Quantifying isentropic stratosphere-troposphere exchange of ozone, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 3372–3387, doi:10.1002/2015JD024180.
  2. George D. McDonald, Alexander G. Hayes, Ryan C. Ewing, Juan M. Lora, Claire E. Newman, Tetsuya Tokano, Antoine Lucas, Alejandro Soto and Gang Chen, 2016: Variations in Titan’s dune orientations as a result of orbital forcing, Icarus, 270, 197–210, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.11.036.
  3. Yu Nie, Yang Zhang, Gang Chen and Xiu-Qun Yang, 2016: Delineating the Barotropic and Baroclinic Mechanisms in the Midlatitude Eddy-Driven Jet Response to Lower-Tropospheric Thermal Forcing, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 429–448, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-15-0090.1.

2015

  1. Gang Chen, Jian Lu, D. Alex Burrows and L. Ruby Leung, 2015: Local finite-amplitude wave activity as an objective diagnostic of midlatitude extreme weather, Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 10,952–10,960, doi:10.1002/2015GL066959.
  2. Jian Lu, Gang Chen, L. Ruby Leung, D. Alex Burrows, Qing Yang, Koichi Sakaguchi and Samson Hagos, 2015: Toward the Dynamical Convergence on the Jet Stream in Aquaplanet AGCMs, Journal of Climate, 28, 6763–6782, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00761.1.
  3. Huang Yang, Lantao Sun and Gang Chen, 2015: Separating the Mechanisms of Transient Responses to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion–Like Cooling in an Idealized Atmospheric Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72, 763–773, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0353.1.

2014

  1. Yu Nie, Yang Zhang, Gang Chen, Xiu-qun Yang and D Alex Burrows, 2014: Quantifying barotropic and baroclinic eddy feedbacks in the persistence of the Southern Annular Mode, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 8636–8644, doi:10.1002/2014GL062210.
  2. Gang Chen and R. Alan Plumb, 2014: Effective Isentropic Diffusivity of Tropospheric Transport, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 3499–3520, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0333.1.
  3. Lantao Sun, Gang Chen and Walter A. Robinson, 2014: The Role of Stratospheric Polar Vortex Breakdown in Southern Hemisphere Climate Trends, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 2335–2353, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0290.1.
  4. Huang Yang, Gang Chen and Daniela I.V. V. Domeisen, 2014: Sensitivities of the Lower-Stratospheric Transport and Mixing to Tropical SST Heating, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 71, 2674–2694, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0276.1.
  5. Jian Lu, L. Ruby Leung, Qing Yang, Gang Chen, William D. Collins, Fuyu Li, Z. Jason Hou and Xuelei Feng, 2014: The robust dynamical contribution to precipitation extremes in idealized warming simulations across model resolutions, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 2971–2978, doi:10.1002/2014GL059532.

2013

  1. Jian Lu, Lantao Sun, Yutian Wu and Gang Chen, 2013: The role of subtropical irreversible PV mixing in the zonal mean circulation response to global warming-like thermal forcing, Journal of Climate, 27, 2297–2316, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00372.1.
  2. Daniela I. V. Domeisen, Lantao Sun and Gang Chen, 2013: The role of synoptic eddies in the tropospheric response to stratospheric variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 4933–4937, doi:10.1002/grl.50943.
  3. Erool Palipane, Jian Lu, Gang Chen and James L. Kinter, 2013: Improved annular mode variability in a global atmospheric general circulation model with 16 km horizontal resolution, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 4893–4899, doi:10.1002/grl.50649.
  4. Lantao Sun, Gang Chen and Jian Lu, 2013: Sensitivities and Mechanisms of the Zonal Mean Atmospheric Circulation Response to Tropical Warming, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 2487–2504, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0298.1.
  5. Gang Chen, 2013: The Mean Meridional Circulation of the Atmosphere Using the Mass above Isentropes as the Vertical Coordinate, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 2197–2213, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0239.1.
  6. Gang Chen, Jian Lu and Lantao Sun, 2013: Delineating the Eddy–Zonal Flow Interaction in the Atmospheric Circulation Response to Climate Forcing: Uniform SST Warming in an Idealized Aquaplanet Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 2214–2233, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0248.1.
  7. Yu Nie, Yang Zhang, Xiu-Qun Yang and Gang Chen, 2013: Baroclinic anomalies associated with the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode: Roles of synoptic and low-frequency eddies, Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 2361–2366, doi:10.1002/grl.50396.

2012

  1. Abraham Solomon, Gang Chen and Jian Lu, 2012: Finite-amplitude Lagrangian-mean wave activity applied to the baroclinic eddy life-cycle, J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 3013–3027, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0294.1.
  2. Yang Zhang, Xiu-Qun Yang, Yu Nie and Gang Chen, 2012: Annular Mode-Like Variation in a Multilayer Quasigeostrophic Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69, 2940–2958, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0214.1.
  3. Lantao Sun, Walter A. Robinson and Gang Chen, 2012: The Predictability of Stratospheric Warming Events: More from the Troposphere or the Stratosphere?, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69, 768–783, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0144.1.

2011

  1. Yi Ming, V. Ramaswamy and Gang Chen, 2011: A Model Investigation of Aerosol-Induced Changes in Boreal Winter Extratropical Circulation, Journal of Climate, 24, 6077–6091, doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4111.1.
  2. Lantao Sun, Walter A. Robinson and Gang Chen, 2011: The Role of Planetary Waves in the Downward Influence of Stratospheric Final Warming Events, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 2826–2843, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-014.1.
  3. Gang Chen and Lantao Sun, 2011: Mechanisms of the Tropical Upwelling Branch of the Brewer–Dobson Circulation: The Role of Extratropical Waves, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 2878–2892, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-044.1.
  4. Yuanyuan Fang, Arlene M. Fiore, Larry W. Horowitz, Anand Gnanadesikan, Isaac M. Held, Gang Chen, Gabriel Vecchi and Hiram Levy, 2011: The impacts of changing transport and precipitation on pollutant distributions in a future climate, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, D18303, doi:10.1029/2011JD015642.
  5. Gang Chen, Yi Ming, Noah D. Singer and Jian Lu, 2011: Testing the Clausius–Clapeyron constraint on the aerosol-induced changes in mean and extreme precipitation, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L04807, doi:10.1029/2010GL046435.

2010

  1. Jian Lu, Gang Chen and Dargan M. W. Frierson, 2010: The Position of the Midlatitude Storm Track and Eddy-Driven Westerlies in Aquaplanet AGCMs, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67, 3984–4000, doi:10.1175/2010JAS3477.1.
  2. Gang Chen, R. Alan Plumb and Jian Lu, 2010: Sensitivities of zonal mean atmospheric circulation to SST warming in an aqua-planet model, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L12701, doi:10.1029/2010GL043473.

2009

  1. Gang Chen and R. Alan Plumb, 2009: Quantifying the Eddy Feedback and the Persistence of the Zonal Index in an Idealized Atmospheric Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 3707–3720, doi:10.1175/2009JAS3165.1.

2008

  1. Gang Chen, Jian Lu and Dargan M. W. Frierson, 2008: Phase Speed Spectra and the Latitude of Surface Westerlies: Interannual Variability and Global Warming Trend, Journal of Climate, 21, 5942–5959, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2306.1.
  2. Jian Lu, Gang Chen and Dargan M. W. Frierson, 2008: Response of the Zonal Mean Atmospheric Circulation to El Nino versus Global Warming, Journal of Climate, 21, 5835–5851, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2200.1.
  3. Gang Chen and Pablo Zurita-Gotor, 2008: The Tropospheric Jet Response to Prescribed Zonal Forcing in an Idealized Atmospheric Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 2254–2271, doi:10.1175/2007JAS2589.1.

2007

  1. Gang Chen and Isaac M. Held, 2007: Phase speed spectra and the recent poleward shift of Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L21805, doi:10.1029/2007GL031200.
  2. Dargan M. W. Frierson, Jian Lu and Gang Chen, 2007: Width of the Hadley cell in simple and comprehensive general circulation models, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L18804, doi:10.1029/2007GL031115.
  3. Gang Chen, Isaac M. Held and Walter A. Robinson, 2007: Sensitivity of the Latitude of the Surface Westerlies to Surface Friction, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 2899–2915, doi:10.1175/JAS3995.1.

PhD Thesis