Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

    Sun, H., T. Yao, F. Su, T. Ou, Z. He, G. Tang, D. Chen, 2024: Increased glacier melt enhances future extreme floods in the southern Tibetan Plateau. Advances in Climate Change Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.accre.2024.01.003.(PDF)

    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.(PDF)

    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. (PDF)

    Ma, M., J. Tang, T. Ou, and D. Chen, 2023: Sub-daily extreme precipitation and its linkage to global warming over the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 128, e2023JD039062. DOI: 10.1029/2023JD039062 (PDF)

    Ma, M., J. Tang, T. Ou, P. Zhou, 2023: High-resolution climate projection over the Tibetan Plateau using WRF forced by bias-corrected CESM. Atmospheric Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106670. (PDF)

    Minola, L., G. Zhang, T. Ou, J. Kukulies, J. Curio, J. A. Guijarro, K. Deng, C. Azorin-Molina, C. Shen, A. Pezzoli, and D. Chen, 2023: Climatology of near-surface wind speed from observational, reanalysis and high-resolution regional climate model data over the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-023-06931-3. (PDF)

    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 overestimated lower-level southerly wind over the plateau. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-023-06672-3. (PDF)

    Wang, Y., H. Wang, P. Cui, D. Chen, J. Tang, T. Ou, J. Hao, J. Wang, G. Zhang, Y. Lei, C. Wu, 2023. Disaster effects of climate change and the associated scientific challenges. Chinese Science Bulletin. DOI: 10.1360/TB-2023-0325. (in Chinese with English abstract) (PDF)

    Xing, H., K. Fang, Q. Yao, F. Zhou, T. Ou, J. Liu, S. Zhou, S. Jiang, Y. Chen, M. Bai, J. M. Chen, 2023. Impacts of changes in climate extremes on wildfire occurrences in China. Ecological Indicators. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.111288. (PDF)

    He, M., K. Fang, F. Zhou, T. Ou, D. Chen, 2022: A delayed modulation of ultraviolet radiation on the COVID-19 transmission reflects an incubation period. Meteorological Applications. DOI: 10.1002/met.2099. (PDF)

    Ma, M., T. Ou, D. Liu, S. Wang, J. Fang, J. Tang, 2022: Summer regional climate simulations over Tibetan Plateau: from gray zone to convection permitting scale. Climate Dynamics. DOI:10.1007/s00382-022-06314-0. (PDF)

    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. (PDF)

    Shaw, T E., E. S. Miles, D. Chen, A. Jouberton, M. Kneib, S. Fugger, T. Ou, H.-W. Lai, K. Fujita, W. Yang, S. Fatichi, and F. Pellicciotti, 2022: Multi-Decadal Monsoon Characteristics and Glacier Response in High Mountain Asia. Environ. Res. Lett., 17, 104001, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9008. (PDF)

    Su, F., H. D. Pritchard, T. Yao, J. Huang, T. Ou, F. Meng, H. Sun, Y. Li, D. Chen, 2022: Contrasting fate of western Third Pole's water resources under 21st century climate change. Earth's Future, 10, e2022EF002776. DOI: 10.1029/2022EF002776. (PDF)

    Sun, H., T. Yao, F. Su, Z. He, G. Tang, N. Li, B. Zheng, J. Huang, F. Meng, T. Ou, D. Chen, 2022: Corrected ERA5 precipitation by machine learning significantly improved flow simulations for the Third Pole basins. J Hydrometeorol. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-22-0015.1. (PDF)

    Wang, X., T. Ou, W. Zhang, Y. Ran, 2022: An Overview of Vegetation Dynamics Revealed by Remote Sensing and Its Feedback to Regional and Global Climate. Remote Sensing. 14, 5275. DOI: 10.3390/rs14205275. (PDF)

    Yao, Q., K. Fang, T. Ou, F. Zhou, M. He, B. Zheng, J. Liu, H. Xing, V. Trouet, 2022: Reply to: Fire activity as measured by burned area reveals weak effects of ENSO in China. Nat Commun. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32014-8. (PDF)

    Zhou, P., M. Shao, M. Ma, T. Ou, J. Tang, 2022: WRF gray-zone dynamical downscaling over the Tibetan Plateau during 1999-2019: model performance and added value. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-022-06631-4. (PDF)

    Chen, S., Q. Yao, X. Chen, J. Liu, D. Chen, T. Ou, J. Liu, Z. Dong, Z. Zheng, K. Fang, 2021: Tree-ring recorded variations of 10 heavy metal elements over the past 168 years in southeastern China. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9 (1): 00075. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.2020.20.00075.(PDF)

    Fang, K., Q. Yao, Z. Guo, B. Zheng, J. Du, F. Qi, P. Yan, J. Li, T. Ou, J. Liu, M. He, V. Trouet, 2021: ENSO modulates wildfire activity in China. Nat Commun 12, 1764. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21988-6.(PDF)

    Lai, H.-W., H. W. Chen, J. Kukulies, T. Ou, D. Chen, 2021: Regionalization of seasonal precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and associated large-scale atmospheric systems. Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0521.1.(PDF)

    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. (PDF)

    Niu, X., J. Tang, D. Chen, S. Wang, T. Ou, C. Fu, 2021: The performance of CORDEX-EA-II simulations in simulating seasonal temperature and elevation-dependent warming over the Tibetan Plateau. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05760-6. (PDF)

    Niu, X., J. Tang, D. Chen, S. Wang, T. Ou, 2021: Elevation-dependent warming over the Tibetan plateau simulated by an ensemble of CORDEX-EA regional climate simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere. DOI: 10.1029/2020JD033997. (PDF).

    Sun, H., F. Su, Z. He, T. Ou, D. Chen, Z. Li, Y. Li, 2021: Hydrological evaluation of high-resolution precipitation estimates from the WRF model in the Third Pole river basins. Journal of Hydrometeorology. DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0272.1. (PDF)

    Sun, H., F. Su, T. Yao, Z. He, G. Tang, J. Huang, B. Zheng, F. Meng, T. Ou, D. Chen, 2021: General overestimation of ERA5 precipitation in flow simulations for High Mountain Asia basins. Environmental Research Communications. 3, 121003, DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ac40f0. (PDF)

    Wang, X., D. Chen, G. Pang, S. A. Anwar, T. Ou, M. Yang, 2021: Effects of cumulus parameterization and land-surface hydrology schemes on Tibetan Plateau climate simulation during the wet season: Insights from the RegCM4 model. Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-05781-1. (PDF)

    Bai, M., Z. Dong, D. Chen, H. Zheng, F. Zhou, X. Cao, T. Ou, and K. Fang 2020: Different responses of the radial growth of the planted and natural forests to climate change in humid subtropical China, Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, DOI: 10.1080/04353676.2020.1769364. (PDF)

    Chen D, F. Zhou, Z. Dong, A. Zeng, T. Ou, and K. Fang 2020: A tree-ring δ18O based reconstruction of East Asia summer monsoon over the past two centuries. PLoS ONE, 15(6): e0234421. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234421. (PDF)

    Chen, D., H. Rodhe, K. Emanuel, S. I. Seneviratne, P. Zhai, B. Allard, P. Berg, S. Björck, I. A. Brown, L. Bärring, L. Chafik, K. Deng, M.-J. Gaillard-Lemdahl, M. Hieronymus, E. Kjellström, H. W. Linderholm, W. May, J.-O. Näslund, T. Ou, A. Rutgersson, E. Sahlee, F. Schenk, J. Sjolte, M. K. Sporre, A. Stigebrandt, G. A. Weyhenmeyer, P. Zhang, and Q. Zhang, 2020: Summary of a workshop on Extreme Weather Events in a Warming World organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, DOI: 10.1080/16000889.2020.1794236. (PDF)

    Chen, D., P. Zhang, K. Seftigen, T. Ou, M. Giese, R. Barthel, 2020: Hydroclimate changes over Sweden in the 20th and 21st centuries: a millennium perspective. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography. DOI: 10.1080/04353676.2020.1841410. (PDF)

    Ou, T., D. Chen, X. Chen, C. Lin, K. Yang, H.-W. Lai, and 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.(PDF)

    Wang, X., D. Chen, G. Pang, T. Ou, M. Yang, and M. Wang, 2020: A climatology of surface–air temperature difference over the Tibetan Plateau: Results from multi‐source reanalyses. International Journal of Climatology, DOI:10.1002/joc.6568. (PDF)

    Fang, K., D. Chen, L. Ilvonen, L. Pasanen, L.Holmström, H. Seppa, G. Huang, T. Ou, and H. Linderholm, 2019: Oceanic and atmospheric modes in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans since the Little Ice Age (LIA): towards a synthesis. Quaternary Science Reviews, 215, 293-307, DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.05.014. (PDF)

    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. (PDF)

    Huang, J., T. Ou, D. Chen, Y. Luo, and Z. Zhao, 2019: The amplified Arctic warming in the recent decades may have been overestimated by CMIP5 models. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 13,338–13,345. DOI: 10.1029/2019GL084385. (PDF)

    Lin, C., H. Wu, T. Ou, and D. Chen, 2019: A new perspective on solar dimming over the Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Climatology, 39: 302-316. DOI: 10.1002/joc.5807. (PDF)

    Ou, T., Y. Hu, T. Gustavsson, and J. Bogren, 2019: On the relationship between the risk of hoar frost on roads and a changing climate in Sweden. International Journal of Climatology, 39: 2601– 2611. DOI: 10.1002/joc.5974. (PDF)

    Fang, K., E. Cook, Z. Guo, D. Chen, T. Ou, D. Frank, and Y. Zhao, 2018: Synchronous multi-decadal tree-ring patterns of the Pacific areas reveal dynamics of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) since 1567. Environmental Research Letters, 13 024016, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa9f74. (PDF)

    Hu, Y., T. Ou, J. Huang, T. Gustavsson, and J. Bogren, 2018: Winter hoar frost conditions on Swedish roads in a warming climate. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.5672. (PDF)

    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. (PDF)

    Wang, L., K. Fang, D. Chen, Z. Dong, F. Zhou, Yi. Li, P. Zhang, T. Ou, G. Guo, X. Cao, and M. Yu, 2018: Intensified variability of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation enhances its modulations on tree growths in southeastern China over the past 218 years. International Journal of Climatology, DOI: 10.1002/joc.5730. (PDF)

    Grundström, M., Å. Dahl, T. Ou, D. Chen, and H. Pleijel, 2017: The relationship between birch pollen, air pollution and weather types in two Swedish cities. Aerobiologia, DOI: 10.1007/s10453-017-9478-2.(PDF)

    Lehsten, V., L. Wiik, A. Hannukkala, D. Chen, T. Ou, E. Andreasson, E. Liljeroth, Å. Lankinen, and L. Grenville-Briggs, 2017: Earlier occurrence and increased explanatory power of climate for the first incidence of potato late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans in Fennoscandia. PLoS ONE, 12(5): e0177580, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177580.(PDF)

    Xu, J., Y. Gao, D. Chen, L. Xiao, and T. Ou, 2017: Evaluation of Global Climate Models for downscaling applications centered over the Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Climatology, 37: 657–671, DOI: 10.1002/joc.4731.(PDF)

    Chen, D. Y. Tian, T. Yao, and T. Ou, 2016: Satellite measurements reveal strong anisotropy in spatial coherence of climate variations over the Tibet Plateau. Scientific Reports, 6:30304, DOI: 10.1038/srep30304.(PDF)

    Su, F., L. Zhang, T. Ou, D. Chen, T. Yao, and K. Tong, 2016: Hydrological response to future climate changes for the major upstream river basins in the Tibetan Plateau, Global and Planetary Change, 136, 82-95, DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.10.012. (PDF)

    Ou, T., D. Chen, J.-H. Jeong, H. W. Linderholm, and T. Zhou, 2015: Changes in winter cold surges over Southeast China: 1961 to 2012, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s13143-014-0057-y. (PDF)

    Chen, D., C. Achberger, T. Ou, U. Postgård, A. Walther, and Y. Liao, 2014: Projecting future local precipitation and its extremes for Sweden. Geografiska Annaler, DOI: 10.1111/geoa.12084. (PDF)

    Linderholm, H. W., M. Cardinale, V. Bartolino, D. Chen, T. Ou, and H. Svedäng, 2014: Influences of large- and regional-scale climate on fish recruitment in the Skagerrak-Kattegat over the last century. Journal of Marine Systems, 134, 1-11. (PDF)

    Ou, T. D. Chen, H. W. Linderholm, and J.-H. Jeong, 2013: Evaluation of global climate models in simulating extreme precipitation in China. Tellus A, 65, 19799, DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.19799. (PDF)

    Linderholm, H. w., A. Seim, T. Ou, J.-H Jeong, Y. Liu, X. Wang, G. Bao, and C. Folland, 2013: Exploring teleconnections between the summer NAO (SNAO) and climate in East Asia over the last four centuries - a tree-ring perspective. Dendrochronologia, DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2012.08.004. (PDF)

    Ou, T., Y. Liu, D. Chen, D. Rayner, Q. Zhang, G. Gao, and W. Xiang, 2011: The influence of large-scale circulation on the summer hydrological cycle in the Haihe River basin of China. Acta Meteor. Sinica, 25, 517-526, DOI: 10.1007/s13351-011-0410-3. (PDF)

    Jeong, J.-H., T. Ou, H. W. Linderholm, B.-M. Kim, S.-J. Kim, J.-S. Kug, and D. Chen, 2011: Recent recovery of the Siberian High intensity. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D23102, DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015904. (PDF)

    Duan X., Y. Xie, T. Ou, and H. Lu, 2011: Effects of soil erosion on long-term soil productivity in the black soil region of northeastern China. CATENA, 87, 268-275, DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2011.06.012. (PDF)

    Linderholm, H. W., T. Ou, J.-H. Jeong, C. K. Folland, D. Gong, H. Liu, Y. Liu, and D. Chen, 2011: Interannual teleconnections between the summer North Atlantic Oscillation and the East Asian summer monsoon. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D13107, DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015235. (PDF)

    Chen, D., T. Ou, L. Gong, C.-Y. Xu, W. Li, C.-H. Ho, and W. Qian, 2010: Spatial interpolation of daily precipitation in China: 1951-2005. Advances in atmospheric Sciences, 27, 1221-1232. (PDF, Link to the data access page)

    Tang, L., D. Chen, P.E. Karlsson, Y. Gu, and T. Ou, 2009: Synoptic circulation and its influence on spring and summer surface ozone concentrations in southern Sweden. Boreal Env. Res., 14, 889-902. (PDF)

    Ou, T. and WH Qian (2006), Vegetation variations along the monsoon boundary zone in East Asia. Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 49, 698-705, DOI: 10.1002/cjg2.876. (PDF)

Reports

    Ou, T., 2017: Droughts and wildfires in Sweden: past variation and future projection. Research Report MSB1112, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), Karlstad, Sweden, 19 pp. (PDF)

    Chen, D. C. Achberger, U. Postgård, A. Walther, Y. Liao, T. Ou, 2008: Using a weather generator to create future daily precipitation scenarios for Sweden . Research Report, C76, Earth Sciences Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, 82 pp. (PDF)

Invited talks

    Hydrological extreme changes in the 21st century for five headwater river basins in the Tibetan Plateau, the Third Pole Science Summit (TPSS) on 10-12 July 2017, Kunming, China.

    Interdecadal changes in autumn snow cover over Eurasia: 1967 to 2012, 5 May, 2014, ESS seminar, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

International Conference Presentations

    Simulated diurnal cycle of summer precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau at gray-zone grid spacing, International Conference on Regional Climate-CORDEX 2019 (ICRC-CORDEX 2019), 14th-18th October 2019, Beijing, China.

    Interdecadal changes in snow cover over Eurasia: 1967 to 2012, EGU General Assembly 2014,27 April - 02 May, 2014, Austria, Vienna.

    Influences of Arctic sea ice variability on the summer North Atlantic Oscillation (SNAO), 19th International Symposium on Polar Sciences, 16-18 October, 2013, in Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Republic of Korea.

    Performance of climate models on simulation of extreme precipitation in China, AGU Fall Meeting, 5-9 December 2011, in San Francisco, California, USA.