Publications
Zhou, Y., Wehner, M. & Collins, W. Back-to-back high category atmospheric river landfalls occur more often on the west coast of the United States. Commun Earth Environ 5, 187 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01368-w
Siirila-Woodburn, E. R., Dennedy-Frank, P. J., Rhoades, A., Vahmani, P., Maina, F., Hatchett, B., Zhou, Y., Jones, A. (2023). The role of atmospheric rivers on groundwater: Lessons learned from an extreme wet year. Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR033061. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR033061
Zhou, Y., O’Brien, T. A., Collins, W. D., Shields, C. A., Loring, B., & Elbashandy, A. A. (2022). Characteristics and variability of winter northern Pacific atmospheric river flavors. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037105. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037105
Leung, L. R., Boos, W. R., Catto, J. L., A. DeMott, C., Martin, G. M., Neelin, J. D., O’Brien, T. A., Xie, S., Feng, Z., Klingaman, N. P., Kuo, Y., Lee, R. W., Martinez-Villalobos, C., Vishnu, S., Priestley, M. D. K., Tao, C., & Zhou, Y. (2022). Exploratory Precipitation Metrics: Spatiotemporal Characteristics, Process-Oriented, and Phenomena-Based, Journal of Climate, 35(12), 3659-3686.
O'Brien, T.A., M.F. Wehner, A. Payne, C. Shields, J. Rutz, R. Leung, F.M. Ralph, B. Guan, J. Lora, E. McClenny, K. Nardi, A. Ramos, R. Tomé, C. Sarangi, E. Shearer, P.A. Ullrich, C.M. Zarzycki, B. Loring, H. Huang, H. Inda Díaz, A.M. Rhoades, and Y. Zhou. (2021). Increases in Future AR Count and Size: Overview of the ARTMIP Tier 2 CMIP5/6 Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD036013. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036013
Inda-Díaz, H. A., T. A. O'Brien, Y. Zhou, & W.D. Collins. (2021). Constraining and Characterizing the size of Atmospheric Rivers: A perspective independent from the detection algorithm. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033746. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033746
Zhou, Y., O'Brien, T. A., Ullrich, P. A., Collins, W. D., Patricola, C. M., & Rhoades, A. M. (2021). Uncertainties in atmospheric river lifecycles by detection algorithms: Climatology and variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033711. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033711
Huang, H., Patricola, C. M., Bercos‐Hickey, E., Zhou, Y., Rhoades, A., Risser, M., & Collins, W. D. (2021). Sources of subseasonal‐to‐seasonal predictability of atmospheric rivers and precipitation in the western United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD034053. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD034053
Zhou, Y., Kim, H., & Waliser, D. E. (2021). Atmospheric River Lifecycle Responses to the Madden Julian Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL090983. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090983
Rhoades, A.M., Jones, A.D., Srivastava, A., Huang, H., O’Brien, T.A., Patricola, C.M., Ullrich, P.A., Wehner, M., & Y. Zhou (2020). The shifting scales of western U.S. landfalling atmospheric rivers under climate change. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089096. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089096
O'Brien, T., Payne, A. E., Shields, C. A., Rutz, J., Brands, S., Castellano, C., … ,Y. Zhou. (2020). Detection Uncertainty Matters for Understanding Atmospheric Rivers. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 0, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0348.1
Zhou, Y., & Kim, H. (2019). Impact of Distinct Origin Locations on the Life Cycles of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers Over the U.S. West Coast. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031218
Zhou, Y., Kim, H., & Guan, B. (2018). Life Cycle of Atmospheric Rivers: Identification and Climatological Characteristics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029180
Zhou, Y. and H. Kim. (2018). Prediction of atmospheric rivers over the North Pacific and its connection to ENSO in the North American Multi-Model Ensembles (NMME), Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3973-6
Kim, H., Y. Zhou and M. A. Alexander. (2017). Changes in atmospheric rivers and moisture transport over the Northeast Pacific and western North America in response to ENSO diversity, Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3598-9
Kim, H. and Y. Zhou. (2016). Prediction of atmospheric rivers associated with modes of S2S variability, U.S. CLIVAR Variations., Vol.14 (Fall 2016), pages 24-30.
Zhou, Y., and S. Fan. (2013). A review of aircraft emission impacts from take-off and landing activities, Meteorological and Environmental Sciences, 36(4):62-67