Publications

2025

  • Chakraborty T., Y. Qian, J. Li, L. Leung, and C.N. Sarangi. 2025. "Daytime urban heat stress in North America reduced by irrigation." Nature Geoscience 18, no. 1:57-64. PNNL-SA-195967. doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01613-z
  • Huang H., Y. Qian, G. Bisht, J. Wang, T. Chakraborty, D. Hao, and J. Li, et al. 2025. "WRF-ELM v1.0: a regional climate model to study land-atmosphere interactions over heterogeneous land use regions." Geoscientific Model Development 18. PNNL-SA-199431. doi:10.5194/gmd-18-1427-2025
  • Li J., A.V. Geiss, Z. Feng, L. Leung, Y. Qian, and W. Cui. 2025. "A derecho climatology (2004-2021) in the United States based on machine learning identification of bow echoes." Earth System Science Data 17, no. 8:3721-3740. PNNL-SA-196692. doi:10.5194/essd-17-3721-2025

2024

  • Hassan Mozumder M., K. Zhang, J. Li, B. Singh, S. Zhang, H. Wang, and P. Ma. 2024. "Impacts of spatial heterogeneity of anthropogenic aerosol emissions in a regionally refined global aerosol-climate model." Geoscientific Model Development 17, no. 8:3507-3532. PNNL-SA-185364. doi:10.5194/gmd-17-3507-2024
  • Li J., K. Zhang, M. Hassan Mozumder, S. Zhang, P. Ma, B. Singh, and Q. Yan, et al. 2024. "Assessing the Sensitivity of Aerosol Mass Budget and Effective Radiative Forcing to Horizontal Grid Spacing in E3SMv1 Using A Regional Refinement Approach." Geoscientific Model Development 17, no. 3:1327-1347. PNNL-SA-183690. doi:10.5194/gmd-17-1327-2024
  • Liu Y., Y. Qian, L.K. Berg, Z. Feng, J. Li, J. Chen, and Z. Yang. 2024. "Tracking precipitation features and associated large-scale environments over southeastern Texas." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24, no. 14:8165-8181. PNNL-SA-192004. doi:10.5194/acp-24-8165-2024
  • Yang Z., J. Wang, Y. Qian, T. Chakraborty, P. Xue, W.J. Pringle, and C. Huang, et al. 2024. "Summer Convective Precipitation Changes over the Great Lakes Region under a Warming Scenario." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 129, no. 14:e2024JD041011. PNNL-SA-195053. doi:10.1029/2024JD041011

2023

  • Feng Z., J.C. Hardin, H.C. Barnes, J. Li, L. Leung, A.C. Varble, and Z. Zhang. 2023. "PyFLEXTRKR: a Flexible Feature Tracking Python Software for Convective Cloud Analysis." Geoscientific Model Development 16, no. 10:2753-2776. PNNL-SA-179219. doi:10.5194/gmd-16-2753-2023
  • Li J., Y. Qian, L. Leung, X. Chen, Z. Yang, and Z. Feng. 2023. "Potential weakening of the June 2012 North American derecho under future warming conditions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128, no. 2:Art. No. e2022JD037494. PNNL-SA-175153. doi:10.1029/2022JD037494
  • Yang Z., Y. Qian, P. Xue, J. Wang, T. Chakraborty, W. Pringle, and J. Li, et al. 2023. "Moisture Sources of Precipitation in the Great Lakes Region: Climatology and Recent Changes." Geophysical Research Letters 50, no. 5:Art. No. e2022GL100682. PNNL-SA-170910. doi:10.1029/2022GL100682

2022

  • Li J., Y. Qian, L. Leung, Z. Feng, C. Sarangi, Y. Liu, and Z. Yang. 2022. "Impacts of large-scale urbanization and irrigation on summer precipitation in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States." Geophysical Research Letters 49, no. 8:Art. No. e2022GL097845. PNNL-SA-169659. doi:10.1029/2022GL097845
  • Qian Y., T. Chakraborty, J. Li, D. Li, C. He, C. Sarangi, and F. Chen, et al. 2022. "Urbanization impact on regional climate and extreme weather: Current understanding, uncertainties, and future research directions." Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 39, no. 6:819-860. PNNL-SA-167131. doi:10.1007/s00376-021-1371-9

2021

  • Feng Z., L. Leung, N. Liu, J. Wang, R.A. Houze, J. Li, and J.C. Hardin, et al. 2021. "A Global High-resolution Mesoscale Convective System Database using Satellite-derived Cloud Tops, Surface Precipitation, and Tracking." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126, no. 8:e2020JD034202. PNNL-SA-157800. doi:10.1029/2020JD034202
  • Li J., Y. Qian, L. Leung, and Z. Feng. 2021. "Summer mean and extreme precipitation over the Mid-Atlantic region: climatological characteristics and contributions from different precipitation types." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126, no. 15:e2021JD035045. PNNL-SA-161356. doi:10.1029/2021JD035045
  • Li J., Z. Feng, Y. Qian, and L. Leung. 2021. "A high-resolution unified observational data product of mesoscale convective systems and isolated deep convection in the United States for 2004 - 2017." Earth System Science Data 13, no. 2:827-856. PNNL-SA-153640. doi:10.5194/essd-13-827-2021