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Yang, D., D. Abbot, and S. Seidel, 2024: Predator and Prey: A Minimum Recipe for the Transition from Steady to Oscillating Precipitation in Hothouse Climates. 

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11350

Ramírez-Reyes, A. and D. Yang, 2024: The Moisture-Entrainment-Convection Feedback Can Lead to Spontaneous Tropical Cyclone Genesis. Revised.

Refereed publications

​Ong, H. and D. Yang, 2024: Vapor Kinetic Energy for the Detection and Understanding of Atmospheric Rivers. Nature Communications.  

doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-53369-0

Supplementary Video1, Video2, Video3

UChicago News

Fan, B., D. Yang, and D. Abbot, 2024: ​Climate Bistability at the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone due to Runaway Greenhouse and Cloud Feedbacks. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 

doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad7789

Yang, D., L. Yao, and W. Hannah, 2024: Vertically Resolved Analysis of the Madden-Julian Oscillation Highlights the Role of Convective Transport of Moist Static Energy. Geophysical Research Letters. 

doi: 10.1029/2024GL109910

Seidel, S. and D. Yang, 2024: Vapor-Buoyancy Feedback in an Idealized GCM. Journal of Climate

doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0558.1

Yao, L., and D. Yang, 2023: Convective Self-Aggregation Occurs Without Radiative Feedbacks in Warm Climates. Geophysical Research Letters. 

doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104624

Yang, D., and S. Seidel, 2023: Vapor Buoyancy Increases Clear-Sky Thermal Emission. Environmental Research: Climate

doi: 10.1088/2752-5295/acba39

Zhou, Y., S. Wang, J. Fang, and D. Yang, 2023: Global Impact of the Maritime Continent Barrier Effect on the MJO. Journal of Climate

doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0492.1

Yang, D., and co-authors, 2022: Substantial influence of vapor buoyancy on tropospheric air temperature and subtropical cloud. Nature Geoscience

doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01033-x

Seidel, S., and D. Yang, 2022: Temperatures of Anvil Clouds and Radiative Tropopause in a Wide Array of Cloud-Resolving Simulations. Journal of Climate.

doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0962.1 

Ong, H. and D. Yang, 2022: The nontraditional Coriolis terms and convective system propagation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-21-0219.1

Preprint: doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10507722.1

Yao, L., D. Yang and Z.-M. Tan, 2022: A Vertically Resolved MSE Framework Highlights the Role of the Boundary Layer in Convective Self-Aggregation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 

doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-20-0254.1

Preprint: arXiv:2008.10158

 

Muller, C., D. Yang, G. Craig, et al., 2022: Spontaneous Aggregation of Convective Storms. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.

doi/10.1146/annurev-fluid-022421-011319

Reyes, A. and D. Yang, 2021: Spontaneous Cyclogenesis without Radiative and Surface-Flux Feedbacks.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 

doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-21-0098.1

EarthArxiv preprint: doi: 10.31223/osf.io/8fshw

Toms, B., K. Kashinath, Prabhat, and D. Yang, 2021: Deep Learning for Scientific Inference from Geophysical Data: The Madden-Julian Oscillation as a Test Case. Geoscientific Model Development.   

doi: 10.5194/gmd-2020-152

Yang, D., 2021: A Shallow Water Model for Convective Self-Aggregation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 

doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-20-0031.1

EarthArxiv preprint: doi: 10.31223/osf.io/rtc2y

Zhou, W., D. Yang and F. Song, 2020: Contrasting ITCZ changes over recent decades and under anthropogenic warming. Geophysical Research Letters. In press. 

Zhou, W., D. Yang, S. Xie, 2020: Amplified Madden-Julian Oscillation Impacts in Pacific-North America Region. Nature Climate Change

doi: 10.1038/s41558-020-0814-0

Seidel, S. and D. Yang, 2020: The Lightness of Water Vapor Helps to Stabilize Tropical Climate. Science Advances.

doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba1951

 

Press release: University News, Phys.org, ScienceDaily, The Week, DOE Research Headline (May 12) and Live Science

Zhang, C., Á. Adames, B. Khouider, B. Wang and D. Yang, 2020: Four Theories of the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Review of Geophysics.

doi: 10.1029/2019RG000685

Yang, D. and S. Seidel, 2020: The Incredible Lightness of Water Vapor.  Journal of Climate.

doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0260.1

EarthArxiv preprint: doi: 10.31223/osf.io/ha9sx

Recommended by Judith Curry in Week in Review.

Yang, D., A. Adames, B. Khouider, B. Wang, and C. Zhang 2020: A Review of Contemporary MJO Theories. The Multi-Scale Global Monsoon SystemIn press.

doi.org/10.1142/11723

Nabizadeh, E., P. Hassanzadeh, D. Yang and E. Barnes, 2019: Size of the atmospheric blocking events: Scaling law and response to climate change. Geophysical Research Letters.

doi: 10.1029/2019GL084863


Press release: Phys.org, ScienceDaily, and NSF

Zhou, W., S.-P. Xie, and D. Yang, 2019: Enhanced Equatorial Warming Causes Deep-Tropical Contraction and Subtropical Monsoon Shift. Nature Climate Change. 

doi: 10.1038/s41558-019-0603-9

 

Press release: Berkeley Lab, Phys.org, and The Daily Californian

Yang, D., 2019: Convective Heating Leads to Self-Aggregation by Generating Available Potential Energy. Geophysical Research Letters.

doi: 10.1029/2019GL083805

Zhou, W., Zhao, M., & Yang, D. 2019: Understand the direct effect of CO2 increase on tropical circulation and TC activity: Land surface warming versus direct radiative forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6859 – 6867. 

doi: 10.1029/2019GL082865

Yang, D. 2018: Boundary layer diabatic processes, the virtual effect, and convective self‐aggregation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10, 2163 - 2176. 

doi: 10.1029/2017MS001261

Yang, D., 2018: Boundary Layer Height and Buoyancy Determine the Horizontal Scale of Convective Self-Aggregation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 75, 469–478.

doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0150.1

Pritchard, M.S. and D. Yang, 2016: Response of the Superparameterized Madden–Julian Oscillation to Extreme Climate and Basic-State Variation Challenges a Moisture Mode View. Journal of Climate, 29, 4995–5008.

doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0790.1

Yang, D., and Ingersoll, A. P., 2014: A theory of the MJO horizontal scale, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 1059 – 1064.

doi:10.1002/2013GL058542

Yang, D. and A.P. Ingersoll, 2013: Triggered Convection, Gravity Waves, and the MJO: A Shallow-Water Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 2476–2486.

doi: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0255.1

Yang, D. and A.P. Ingersoll, 2011: Testing the Hypothesis that the MJO is a Mixed Rossby–Gravity Wave Packet. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 68, 226–239.

doi: 10.1175/2010JAS3563.1

Hu, Y., Yang, D., and Yang, J., 2008: Blocking systems over an aqua planet, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L19818.

doi: 10.1029/2008GL035351

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