Publications

For project participants: your publication should include “This is a contribution no XXX to CORDEX-FPS-CPTP.” in the acknowledgement. Please contact Tinghai for the contribution number (XXX).

Authorship guidelines

The lead author of a paper has the authority to decide who the co-authors of their study are. The only exception is if data (e.g., modeling results, observations) are presented for the first time. In this case, up to two people from an institution that provided novel data should be included as co-authors (more people from an institution might be included if they provided a substantial contribution, e.g., an ensemble of simulations). More general considerations on authorship guidelines can be found in this article.
The lead author of a study is responsible for providing collaboration opportunities to members of the CPTP project. This can be done by, e.g., sending out an email to the CPTP mailing list, in which the study is briefly described.

Peer-reviewed publications

Publications since 2020

2024

• Collier, E., N. Ban, N. Richter, B. Ahrens, D. Chen, X. Chen, H.-W. Lai, R. Leung, L. Li, A. Medvedova, T. Ou, P. K. Pothapakula, E. Potter, A. F. Prein, K. Sakaguchi, M. Schroeder, P. Singh, S. Sobolowski, S. Sugimoto, J. Tang, H. Yu, C. Ziska, 2024: The First Ensemble of Kilometre-Scale Simulations of a Hydrological Year over the Third Pole. Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-024-07291-2.
• Jiang, H., Y. Gao, G. Wang, 2024: Discrepancies of kilometer-scale dynamic downscaling over the Tibetan Plateau: underestimation of nocturnal precipitation in summer. Climate Dynamics, 62, 5909-5925, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-024-07183-5.
• Li, Y., Y. Gao, G. Chen, G. Wang, M. Zhang, 2024: Decomposition and reduction of WRF-modeled wintertime cold biases over the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics, 62, 4189-4203, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-024-07126-0.
• Zou, L., T. Zhou, 2024: Convection-Permitting Simulations of Current and Future Climates over the Tibetan Plateau. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 41, 1901-1916, DOI: 10.1007/s00376-024-3277-9.
• Zou, L., T. Zhou, Y. Zhao, 2024: How does regional convection-permitting modeling improve the simulation of the atmospheric water cycle in spring over the Tibetan Plateau? Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2024JD040964, DOI: 10.1029/2024JD040964.

2023

• Kukulies, J. A. F. Prein, J. Curio, H. Yu, D. Chen, 2023: Kilometer-scale multi-model and multi-physics ensemble simulations of a mesoscale convective system in the lee of the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for climate simulations. Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0240.1.
• Kukulies, J, H. Lai, J. Curio, Z. Feng, C. Lin, P. Li, S. Sugimoto, T. Ou, D. Chen, 2023. Mesoscale convective systems in the Third Pole region: Characteristics, Mechanisms and Impact on precipitation. Frontiers in Earth Science. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2023.1143380.
• Li, P., F. Song, H. Chen, J. Li, A. F. Prein, W. Zhang, T. Zhou, M. Zhuang, K. Furtado, M. Muetzelfeldt, R.Schiemann, C. Li, 2023. Intensification of mesoscale convective systems in the East Asian rainband over the past two decades. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL103595. DOI: 10.1029/2023GL103595.
• Lin, Q., J. Chen, T. Ou, H.-W. Lai, A. F. Prein, D. Chen, 2023. Performance of the WRF model at the convection-permitting scale in simulating snowfall and lake-effect snow over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD038433. DOI: 10.1029/2022JD038433.
• Ou, T., D. Chen, J. Tang, C. Lin, X. Wang, J. Kukulies, and H.-W. Lai, 2023: Wet bias of summer precipitation in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau in ERA5 is linked to over estimated lower-level southerly wind over the plateau. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-023-06672-3.
• Singh, P., B. Ahrens, 2023: Modeling Lightning Activity in the Third Pole Region: Performance of a km-Scale ICON-CLM Simulation. Atmosphere. DOI: 10.3390/atmos14111655.
• Tang, Y., J. Dan, M. Zhang, H. Jiang, Y. Gao, 2023: Recycling and transport of evapotranspiration over the Tibetan Plateau: Detected by a water vapour tracer method embedded in regional climate model. International Journal of Climatology, 43, 7899-7914, DOI: 10.1002/joc.8298.

2022

• Gao, Y., J. Xu, M. Zhang, Z. Liu, J. Dan, 2022: Regional climate dynamical downscaling over the Tibetan Plateau-From quarter-degree to kilometer-scale. Science China Earth Sciences, 65, 2237-2247, DOI: 10.1007/s11430-022-9968-4.
• Jiang, Y., K. Yang, H. Yang, H. Lu, Y. Chen, X. Zhou, J. Sun, Y. Yang, Y. Wang, 2022. Characterizing basin-scale precipitation gradients in the Third Pole region using a high-resolution atmospheric simulation-based dataset. Hydrol Earth Syst Sci, 26(17): 4587-4601. DOI: 10.5194/hess-26-4587-2022.
• Li, P., M. Muetzelfeldt, R. Schiemann, H. Chen, J. Li, K. Furtado, M. Zhuang, 2022: Sensitivity of simulated mesoscale convective systems over East Asia to the treatment of convection in a high-resolution GCM. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-022-06471-2.
• Liu, Z., Y. Gao, Y., G. Zhang, 2022: How well can a convection-permitting-modelling improve the simulation of summer precipitation diurnal cycle over the Tibetan Plateau? Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-06090-3.
• Prein, A. F., N. Ban, T. Ou, J. Tang, K. Sakaguchi, E. Collier, S. Jayanarayanan, L. Li, S. Sobolowski, X. Chen, X. Zhou, H.-W. Lai, S. Sugimoto, L. Zou, S. u. Hasson, M. Ekstrom, P. K. Pothapakula, B. Ahrens, R. Stuart, H. C. Steen-Larsen, R. Leung, D. Belusic, J. Kukulies, J. Curio, D. Chen, 2022: Towards Ensemble-Based Kilometer-Scale Climate Simulations over the Third Pole Region. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-022-06543-3.

2021

• Kukulies, J., D. Chen, J. Curio, 2021: The role of mesoscale convective systems in precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD035279. DOI: 10.1029/2021JD035279.
• Lin, C., K. Yang, D. Chen, N. Guyennon, R. Balestrini, X. Yang, S. Acharya, T. Ou, T. Yao, G. Tartari, F. Salerno, 2021: Summer afternoon precipitation associated with wind convergence near the Himalayan glacier fronts. Atmospheric Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105658.
• Sugimoto, S., K. Ueno, H. Fujinami, T. Nasuno, T. Sato, H. G. Takahashi, 2021. Cloud-resolving-model simulations of nocturnal precipitation over the Himalayan slopes and foothills. Journal of Hydrometeorology, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-21-0103.1.
• Zhao, Y. T., Zhou, P. Li, K. Furtado, L. Zou, 2021. Added value of a convection permitting model in simulating atmospheric water cycle over the Asian Water Tower. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD034788. DOI: 10.1029/2021JD034788.
• Zhou, X., K. Yang, L. Ouyang, Y. Wang, Y. Jiang, X. Li, D. Chen, A. Prein, 2021: Added value of kilometer scale modeling over the third pole region: a CORDEX CPTP pilot study. Climate Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05653-8.

2020

• Gao, Y., F. Chen, Y. Jiang, 2020: Evaluation of a Convection-Permitting Modeling of Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Influences on the Simulation of Snow-Cover Fraction. J. Hydrometeor, 21, 1531-1548, DOI:10.1175/JHM-D-19-0277.1.
• Li, P., K. Furtado, T. Zhou, H. Chen, J. Li, 2020. Convection-permitting modelling improves simulated precipitation over the central and eastern Tibetan Plateau. Q J R Meteorol Soc. 1-22, DOI:10.1002/qj.3921.
• Ou, T., D. Chen, X. Chen, C. Lin, K. Yang, H.-W. Lai, F. Zhang, 2020: Simulation of summer precipitation diurnal cycles over the Tibetan Plateau at the gray-zone grid spacing for cumulus parameterization. Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-020-05181-x.
• Wang, Y., K. Yang, X. Zhou, D. Chen, H. Lu, L. Ouyang, Y. Chen, Lazhu, B. Wang, 2020: Synergy of orographic drag parameterization and high resolution greatly reduces biases of WRF-simulated precipitation in central Himalaya. Climate Dynamics, 54, 1729-1740, DOI:10.1007/s00382-019-05080-w.

Related publications before 2020

• He, J., F. Zhang, X. Chen, X. Bao, D. Chen, H.-M. Kim, H.-W. Lai, L. R. Leung, X. Ma, Z. Meng, T. Ou, Z. Xiao, E.-G. Yang, K. Yang, and L. Zhu, 2019: Development and Evaluation of an Ensemble-based Data Assimilation System for Regional Reanalysis over the Tibetan Plateau and Surrounding Regions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 2503–2522, DOI:10.1029/2019MS001665.
• Zhou, X., K. Yang, A. Beljaars, H. Li, C. Lin, B. Huang, and Y. Wang, 2019: Dynamical impact of parameterized turbulent orographic form drag on the simulation of winter precipitation over the western Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics, 707-720, DOI:10.1007/s00382-019-04628-0
• Gao, Y., L. Xiao, D. Chen, J. Xu, and H. Zhang, 2018: Comparison between past and future extreme precipitations simulated by global and regional climate models over the Tibetan Plateau. Int. J. Climatol, 38: 1285-1297, DOI:10.1002/joc.5243.
• Lin, C., D. Chen, K. Yang, and T. Ou, 2018: Impact of model resolution on simulating the water vapor transport through the Himalayas: implication for models' wet bias over the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-018-4074-x.
• Zhou, X., K. Yang, and Y. Wang, 2018: Implementation of a turbulent orographic form drag scheme in WRF and its application to the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics, 1-13, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3677-y.
• Li, L., D. J. Gochis, S. Sobolowski, and M. D. S. Mesquita, 2017: Evaluating the present annual water budget of a Himalayan headwater river basin using a high-resolution atmosphere-hydrology model. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 4786-4807, DOI:10.1002/2016JD026279.
• Sanjay, J., R. Krishnan, A. B. Shrestha, R. Rajbhandari, and G.-Y. Ren, 2017: Downscaled climate change projections for the Hindu Kush Himalayan region using CORDEX South Asia regional climate models. Advances in Climate Change Research, 8, 185-198, DOI:10.1016/j.accre.2017.08.003.
• Wang, Y., K. Yang, Z. Pan, J. Qin, D. Chen, C. Lin, Y. Chen, Lazhu, W. Tang, M. Han, N. Lu, and H. Wu, 2017: Evaluation of precipitable water vapor from four satellite products and four reanalysis datasets against GPS measurements on the Southern Tibetan Plateau. J. Climate, 30, 5699-5713, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0630.1
• Gao, Y., J. Xu, and D. Chen, 2015: Evaluation of WRF Mesoscale Climate Simulations over the Tibetan Plateau during 1979-2011. J. Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00300.1.
• Bhatt, B. C., S. Sobolowski, and M. P. King, 2014: Assessment of downscaled current and future projections of diurnal rainfall patterns for the Himalaya. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 12,533-12,545, DOI:10.1002/2014JD022134.

Annual report

Annual report 2023

Annual report 2022

Annual report 2021

Annual report 2020

Conference contributions

2023

• EGU 2023 session "Mesoscale and severe convection over land: processes, modelling advances, predictability, and impacts"

2022

• EGU 2022 session "Mesoscale convection and disturbances in high mountain environments"

2021

• EGU 2021 session "Mesoscale convection and disturbances in high mountain environments"

2019

• Tandong Yao and Deliang Chen participated in the side event of the High Mountain Summit (HMS) on 29–31 October 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland, convened by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). (Link to the news)
• We organized a session entitled “Session D1: Third Pole Environment: high resolution simulation/reanalysis and its implication/application” in the International Conference on Regional Climate-CORDEX 2019 (ICRC-CORDEX 2019) during 14th-18th October 2019 in Beijing, China. In this session, some recent efforts related to high-resolution (down to a few km) climate simulations/reanalysis over the Third Pole region and their applications were presented. TPE made a video about the session.