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Submitted / Under Review:
Hu, Y. *, Wang L.: Atmospheric Blocking as a Serendipitous Encounter Between Traveling Storms and Periodic Seeds.
Holder Z. *, Hu Y. *, Wang L., Chavas D., Feng Z., and Leung L. R.: Enhanced Occurrence of Extreme Precipitation Associated With Mesoscale Convective Systems Over the US by Baroclinic Annular Mode.
Ho, K. *, Wang, L., Gerber E., Ming Y.: The Recurrence of Atmospheric Blocking.
Published:
Mahendra, N., Chilukoti N., Liu X., Chowdary J.S., Wang L., Huber M. (2026): Missing summer westerly jet barotropic governor effect explains climate models - observation discrepancies in the Indian monsoon trends. AGU Advances, e2025AV002173. Link
Wang, L., Lu J., Breeden M., Chen G., Henderson S., Narinesingh V., Simpson I., Woollings T., Hu Y.*, Lubis S. (2026): Gaps and Ways Forward in Atmospheric Blocking and Extreme Weather Research. Nature Communications 17, 2873. Link
He, C., Zhang L.N., Leung L.R., and co-authors including Wang L. (2025): Harnessing land-atmosphere interactions to enhance subseasonal-to-seasonal predictability. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) Link
Mahendra, N., Huber M., Wang L., Hunt K.M., Chilukoti N., Chowdary J.S. (2025): Stagnation of atmospheric circulation leads to historically-prolonged extreme rainfall event over northwestern India in August 2024. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. JGRD70062. Link
Liu, X., Zhang Y. G., Huber M., Chang P., and Wang L. (2025): Connecting warming patterns of the paleo-ocean to our future. AGU Advances . Link
Liu, Z. *, Wang, L. (2025). Blocking diversity causes distinct roles of diabatic heating in the Northern Hemisphere. Nature Communications 16, 5613. Link
Yan, X. *, & Wang, L., E. Gerber, V. Castaneda, K. Ho (2024). Traffic Bottlenecks: Predicting Atmospheric Blocking with a Diminishing Flow Capacity. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL111035. Link
Liu, Z. *, & Wang, L. (2024). Enhanced occurrence of atmospheric blocking in the
Southern Hemisphere by Baroclinic Annular Mode. Geophysical Research Letters, 51,
e2023GL107343. Link
Castañeda, V. *, & Wang, L. (2024). The role of climatological state in supporting US heat waves through Rossby waves packets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039212. link
Liu, Z.*, & Wang, L. (2023). Regional features of the 20–30 Day periodic behavior in the Southern Hemisphere summer circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104256. Link
Prior to Purdue:
Kleiner, N., Chan, P. W., Wang, L., Ma, D., & Kuang, Z. (2021). Effects of climate model mean-state bias on blocking underestimation. Geophysical Research Letters. Link
Coumou, D., Di Capua, G., Vavrus, S., Wang, L., and Wang, S. (2018): The Influence of Arctic Amplification on Mid-Latitude Summer Circulation. Nature Communication. Link
Wang, L., Lu, J., and Kuang, Z. (2018): A robust increase of the intra-seasonal periodic behavior of the precipitation and eddy kinetic energy in a warming climate. Geophysical Research Letters. Link
Wang, L., and Nakamura, N. (2016): Covariation of finite-amplitude wave activity and the zonal mean flow in the mid-latitude troposphere. Part 2: Eddy forcing spectra and the periodic behavior in the Southern Hemisphere summer. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Link
Wang, L., and Lee, S. (2016): The role of fast eddies on poleward jet shift of non- advective mean flow. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Link
Wang, L., Jansen, M., and Abernathey, R. (2016): Eddy phase speeds in a two-layer model of quasigeostrophic baroclinic turbulence with applications to ocean observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography. Link
Wang, L., and Nakamura, N. (2015): Covariation of finite-amplitude wave activity and the zonal mean flow in the midlatitude troposphere. Part 1: Theory and application to the Southern Hemisphere summer, Geophysical Research Letters. Link
Nakamura, N., and Wang, L. (2013): On the Thickness Ratio in the Quasigeostrophic Two-Layer Model of Baroclinic Instability. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Link
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