Ngar-Cheung Lau

Publication List Details

Period

1978 - 2009

Number

26

Co-Authors

2000: Impact of ENSO on the variability of the AsianAustralian monsoons as simulated in GCM experiments (2009)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Jo Nath

The influences of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the summer- and wintertime precipitation and circulation over the principal monsoon regions of Asia and Australia have been studied using a...

Role of eastward propagating convection systems in the diurnal cycle and seasonal mean of summertime rainfall over the U.S. Great Plains (2009)

Xianan Jiang, Ngar-cheung Lau, Stephen A. Klein

Reanalysis rainfall data set for the 1979–2003 period, it is illustrated that the eastward propagation of convection systems from the Rockies to the Great Plains plays an essential role for the...

2002: The atmospheric bridge: The influence of ENSO teleconnections on air–sea interaction over the global oceans (2009)

Michael A. Alexander, Ileana Bladé, Matthew Newman, John R. Lanzante, Ngar-cheung Lau, James D. Scott

During El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, the atmospheric response to sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the equatorial Pacific influences ocean conditions over the remainder of...

12 Interactions between the Asian monsoon and the (2009)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Bin Wang

The other chapters in this book have devoted considerable attention to the signi®cant role of the sea surface temperature (SST) conditions over the Paci®c and Indian Oceans in climatological...

2003: Atmosphere–ocean variations in the Indo-Pacific sector during ENSO episodes (2009)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Jo Nath

The influences of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events on air–sea interaction in the Indian–western Pacific (IWP) Oceans have been investigated using a general circulation model....

2664 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 21 Intraseasonal Teleconnection between North American and Western North Pacific Monsoons with 20-Day Time Scale (2007)

Xianan Jiang, Ngar-cheung Lau

Based on a recently released, high-resolution reanalysis dataset for the North American region, the intraseasonal variability (ISV; with a time scale of about 20 days) of the North American monsoon...

476 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 21 Interactions between the Responses of North American Climate to El Niño–La Niña and to the Secular Warming Trend in the Indian–Western Pacific Oceans (2007)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Ants Leetmaa, Jo Nath

The modulation of El Niño and La Niña responses by the long-term sea surface temperature (SST) warming trend in the Indian–Western Pacific (IWP) Oceans has been investigated using a large suite...

Simulation of Synoptic- and Subsynoptic-Scale Phenomena Associated with the East Asian Summer Monsoon Using a High-Resolution GCM (2007)

Ngar-cheung Lau, J. Ploshay

A 20-yr simulation using a global atmospheric general circulation model with a resolution of 0.5 ° latitude � 0.625 ° longitude is compared with observational findings. The primary goal of this...

Winter-to-Spring Transition in East Asia: A Planetary-Scale Perspective ofthe South China Spring Rain Onset (2006)

L. H. Linho, Ngar-cheung Lau

Analysis of observations from 1979 to 2002 shows that the seasonal transition from winter to spring in East Asia is marked with a distinctive event—the onset of the south China spring rain (SCSR)....

1862 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 20 Sensitivity to Horizontal Resolution in the AGCM Simulations of Warm Season Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation over the United States and Northern Mexico (2005)

Myong-in Lee, Siegfried D. Schubert, Max J. Suarez, Isaac M. Held, Arun Kumar, Thomas L. Bell, ...

This study examines the sensitivity of the North American warm season diurnal cycle of precipitation to changes in horizontal resolution in three atmospheric general circulation models, with a...

4508 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 19 ENSO Modulation of the Interannual and Intraseasonal Variability of the East Asian Monsoon—A Model Study (2005)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Jo Nath

The impacts of ENSO on the evolution of the East Asian monsoon have been studied using output from a general circulation model experiment. Observed monthly variations of the sea surface temperature...

Attribution of Atmospheric Variations in the 1997–2003 Period to SST Anomalies in the Pacific and Indian Ocean Basins (2005)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Ants Leetmaa, Jo Nath

The individual impacts of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the deep tropical eastern–central Pacific (DTEP) and Indo-western–central Pacific (IWP) on the evolution of the observed...

2922 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 18 Influences of ENSO-Induced Indo–Western Pacific SST Anomalies on Extratropical Atmospheric Variability during the Boreal Summer (2004)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Ants Leetmaa, Jo Nath, Hai-lan Wang

The causes for the observed occurrence of anomalous zonally symmetric upper-level pressure ridges in the midlatitude belts of both hemispheres during the year after warm El Niño–Southern...

1902 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 18 The Impact of ENSO on Atmospheric Intraseasonal Variability as Inferred from Observations and GCM Simulations (2004)

Chi-yung Tam, Ngar-cheung Lau

The impact of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the atmospheric intraseasonal variability in the North Pacific is assessed, with emphasis on how ENSO modulates midlatitude circulation...

698 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 19 GFDL’s CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part III: Tropical Pacific Climate and ENSO (2004)

Andrew T. Wittenberg, Anthony Rosati, Ngar-cheung Lau, J. Ploshay

Multicentury integrations from two global coupled ocean–atmosphere–land–ice models [Climate Model versions 2.0 (CM2.0) and 2.1 (CM2.1), developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory]...

Coupled GCM Simulation of Atmosphere–Ocean Variability Associated with Zonally Asymmetric SST Changes in the Tropical Indian Ocean (2003)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Jo Nath

The nature of a recurrent pattern of variability in the tropical Indian Ocean (IO) during the boreal autumn has been investigated using a 900-yr experiment with a coupled atmosphere–ocean general...

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE The Effect of Changes in Observational Coverage on the Association between Surface Temperature and the Arctic Oscillation (2000)

Anthony J. Broccoli, Thomas L. Delworth, Ngar-cheung Lau

The effect of changes in observational coverage on the association between the Arctic oscillation (AO) and extratropical Northern Hemisphere surface temperature is examined. A coupled...

2846 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 14 Impact of ENSO on SST Variability in the North Pacific and North Atlantic: Seasonal Dependence and Role of Extratropical Sea–Air Coupling (2000)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Jo Nath

The influences of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events in the tropical Pacific on interannual variability of the coupled ocean–atmosphere systems in the North Pacific and North Atlantic...

Remote sea surface temperature variations during ENSO: Evidence for a tropical atmospheric bridge (1999)

Stephen A. Klein, Brian J. Soden, Ngar-cheung Lau

In an El Niño event, positive SST anomalies usually appear in remote ocean basins such as the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the tropical North Atlantic approximately 3 to 6 months after SST...

2324 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW VOLUME 127 Observed and GCM-Simulated Westward-Propagating, Planetary-Scale Fluctuations with Approximately Three-Week Periods (1998)

Ngar-cheung Lau, Jo Nath

The structural characteristics and vorticity dynamics of westward-traveling patterns (WTP) in the troposphere are examined using the National Centers for Environmental Prediction–National Center...

The cold ocean-warm land pattern: Model simulation and relevance to climate change detection (1998)

Anthony J. Broccoli, Ngar-cheung Lau, Jo Nath

Surface air temperatures from a 1000-yr integration of a coupled atmosphere–ocean model with constant forcing are analyzed by using a method that decomposes temperature variations into a component...

Interactions between global SST anomalies and the midlatitude atmospheric circulation (1997)

Ngar-cheung Lau

A review is given of the processes contributing to variability of the atmosphere–ocean system on interannual timescales. Particular emphasis is placed on the relationships between midlatitude...

3172 MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW VOLUME 125 Comparing Satellite and Surface Observations of Cloud Patterns in Synoptic-Scale Circulation Systems (1996)

Ngar-cheung Lau, W. Crane

The propagation characteristics and spatial distributions of cloud cover associated with synoptic-scale circulation systems are studied using both satellite data processed by the International...