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26-Jun-2025

International team identifies key to reliable tropical cyclone projections—realistic ocean warming patterns

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an era of intensifying extreme weather, this review offers a clear message: to better project the future of tropical cyclones in a warmer climate, we must first understand the patterns of the warming seas.

Journal: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

24-Jun-2025

A century of seasonal forecast improvement for the western pacific subtropical high driven by Indo-Pacific ocean

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A team of climate scientists reveal how our ability to predict the Western Pacific Subtropical High has transformed over the past century.

Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

23-Jun-2025

When rain, snow, and soil align: The triple threat behind 2024's deadly central Asian floods

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An international team of scientists led by Dr Zhang Wenxia at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS), unravel the driving mechanisms underlying the record-breaking flood event from the end of March to April 2024 impacting large areas of Kazakhstan and neighboring southwestern Russia.

Journal: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences