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Sun, Dezheng

Research Associate

Positions

Lecturer, Continuing Education & Professional Studies
Research Associate, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC)

Publications

selected publications

book
- Climate Dynamics Why Does Climate Vary? 2010
chapter
- Global climate change and ENSO: a theoretical framework 2000
conference proceeding
- The effect of subtropical/extratropical cooling on ENSO: A numerical study. 174-178. 2003
journal article
- Why do we have El Nino: quantifying a diabatic and nonlinear perspective using observations. Climate Dynamics. 6705-6717. 2019
- Precipitation and Moisture in Four Leading CMIP5 Models: Biases across Large-Scale Circulation Regimes and Their Attribution to Dynamic and Thermodynamic Factors. Journal of Climate. 5089-5106. 2018
- Contrasting Cloud Radiative Feedbacks during Warm Pool and Cold Tongue El Ninos. SOLA : Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere. 126-131. 2018
- Factors Determining the Asymmetry of ENSO. Journal of Climate. 6097-6106. 2017
- Weak ENSO Asymmetry Due to Weak Nonlinear Air-Sea Interaction in CMIP5 Climate Models. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 352-364. 2016
- A Further Study of ENSO Rectification: Results from an OGCM with a Seasonal Cycle*. Journal of Climate. 1362-1382. 2015
- ENSO Asymmetry in CMIP5 Models. Journal of Climate. 4070-4093. 2014
- Rectification of El Nino-Southern Oscillation into Climate Anomalies of Decadal and Longer Time Scales: Results from Forced Ocean GCM Experiments. Journal of Climate. 2545-2561. 2014
- North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability. Journal of Climate. 9247-9290. 2013
- Interdecadal Amplitude Modulation of El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Its Impact on Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability*. Journal of Climate. 7280-7297. 2013
- Cloud and Water Vapor Feedbacks to the El Nino Warming: Are They Still Biased in CMIP5 Models?. Journal of Climate. 4947-4961. 2013
- Western pacific warm pool and ENSO asymmetry in CMIP3 models. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 940-953. 2013
- ENSO, climate variability and crop yields in China. Climate Research. 133-148. 2013
- The Effect of ENSO Events on the Tropical Pacific Mean Climate: Insights from an Analytical Model. Journal of Climate. 7590-7606. 2012
- New Strategies for Evaluating ENSO Processes in Climate Models. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 235-238. 2012
- Physics of US Surface Temperature Response to ENSO. Journal of Climate. 4874-4887. 2011
- Water vapor and cloud radiative forcings over the Pacific Ocean simulated by the LASG/IAP AGCM: Sensitivity to convection schemes. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 80-98. 2011
- An Evaluation of ENSO Asymmetry in the Community Climate System Models: A View from the Subsurface. Journal of Climate. 5933-5961. 2009
- Response of ENSO and the Mean State of the Tropical Pacific to Extratropical Cooling and Warming: A Study Using the IAP Coupled Model. Journal of Climate. 5902-5917. 2009
- Tropical Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks in Climate Models: A Further Assessment Using Coupled Simulations. Journal of Climate. 1287-1304. 2009
- What causes the excessive response of clear-sky greenhouse effect to El Ni(n)over-tildeo warming in Community Atmosphere Models?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2008
- Response of water vapor and clouds to El Nino warming in three National Center for Atmospheric Research atmospheric models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 2006
- Radiative and dynamical feedbacks over the equatorial cold tongue: Results from nine atmospheric GCMs. Journal of Climate. 4059-4074. 2006
- A regulatory effect of ENSO on the time-mean thermal stratification of the equatorial upper ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 2006
- The effect of subtropical cooling on the amplitude of ENSO: A numerical study. Journal of Climate. 3786-3798. 2004
- On the radiative and dynamical feedbacks over the equatorial Pacific cold tongue. Journal of Climate. 2425-2432. 2003
- A Possible Effect of an Increase in the Warm-Pool SST on the Magnitude of El Niño Warming. Journal of Climate. 185-205. 2003
- Vertical correlations of water vapor in GCMs. Geophysical Research Letters. 259-262. 2001
- Radiative sensitivity to water vapor under all-sky conditions. Journal of Climate. 2798-2807. 2001
- The Heat Sources and Sinks of the 1986–87 El Niño. Journal of Climate. 3533-3550. 2000
- Coordinated heat removal from the equatorial Pacific during the 1986-87 El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters. 2659-2662. 1998
- El Niño: A coupled response to radiative heating?. Geophysical Research Letters. 2031-2034. 1997
- Dynamic Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling: A Thermostat for the Tropics. Science. 1148-1150. 1996
- A Comparison of Modeled and Observed Relationships between Interannual Variations of Water Vapor and Temperature. Journal of Climate. 665-675. 1996
- Humidity–Temperature Relationships in the Tropical Troposphere. Journal of Climate. 1974-1987. 1995
- A PV View of the Zonal Mean Distribution of Temperature and Wind in the Extratropical Troposphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 757-772. 1994
- Distribution of Tropical Tropospheric Water Vapor. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 1643-1660. 1993
- Water vapor feedback and the ice age snowline record. 204-215. 1993
- Does low-frequency atmospheric variability exhibit regime-like behavior?. Tellus Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 16-26. 1991

Teaching

courses taught

ATOC 4500 - Special Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
Acquaints students at the upper division level with current research in atmospheres, oceans, and climate. Topics may vary each semester. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours within the degree as long as the topic is different. Students may register for more than one section of this course in the same semester. Recommended prerequisites and corequisites: will vary depending on topic. Recommended restriction: students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
ATOC 5500 - Special Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023
Acquaints students with current research in atmospheres, oceans, and climate. Topics may vary each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Students may register for more than one section of this course in the same semester. Formerly ATOC 7500.
ATOC 7500 - Special Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Primary Instructor - Summer 2019 / Spring 2020
Acquaints students with current research in atmospheres, oceans, and climate. Topics may vary each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Students may register for more than one section of this course in the same semester. Formerly ATOC 7500.

Background

education and training

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1992
M.S., Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) 1987
B.S., Nanjing Univ of Sci & Tech (China) 1985

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ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2238-0484