Publications

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In preparation or submitted

Risi, C. et al. including Bao, J. Amplification of temperature changes with altitude in the tropics and subtropics (in prep)

Wang, J., Tett, S., Bao, J., Sun Y., Wang, X. & Ge, Q. Anthropogenically inequitable risks of sequential extreme precipitation-humid heat events between tropical and extratropical regions (in prep)

He, Y., Wang, J., Feng, J. Bao, J. & Nie, J. Anthropogenic warming intensified the July 2023 North China extreme rainfall through enhancing moisture transport and convective organization(in review)

Bao, J., Muller, C. & Singh, M. Understanding the role of land and convective organization in determining the free-tropospheric temperature in the tropics (in review)

2026

Takasuka, D., Becker, T. & Bao, J. (2026) Precipitation Characteristics and Thermodynamic-Convection Coupling in Global Kilometer-Scale Simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (equal first authors)

Yoon, A., Hohenegger C., Bao, J. & Brunner, L. (2026) Extreme events in the Amazon after deforestation. Earth System Dynamics.

2025

Bao, J., Bony, S., Takasuka, D. & Muller, C. (2025) Tropics-wide intraseasonal oscillations. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

Segura H. et al. including Bao, J. (2025) nextGEMS: entering the era of kilometer-scale Earth system modeling. Geoscientific Model Development.

Gnanaraj A., Bao, J. & Schmidt H. (2025) The impact of the rotation rate on an aquaplanet’s radiant energy budget: Insights from experiments varying the Coriolis parameter. Weather and Climate Dynamics.

2024

Schmidt, H. et al. including Bao, J. (2024) Effects of vertical grid spacing on the climate simulated in a global storm-resolving model. Geoscientific Model Development.

Bao, J., Stevens B., Kluft, L., & Muller, C. (2024) Intensification of daily tropical precipitation extremes from more organized convection. Science Advances.

2023

Hu, Y., Lin Y., Deng Y., & Bao, J. (2023) Summer Extreme Rainfall over the Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River: Role of Synoptic Patterns in Historical Changes and Future Projection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Windmiller, J. M., Bao, J.. Sherwood, S., Schanzer, T. & Fuchs, D.(2023) Predicting Convective Downdrafts From Updrafts and Environmental Conditions in a Global Storm Resolving Simulation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Hohenegger, C. et al. including Bao, J. (2023) ICON-Sapphire: simulating the components of the Earth System and their interactions at kilometer and subkilometer scales. Geoscientific Model Development.

2022

Bao, J., Dixit, V. & Sherwood, S. C. (2022) Zonal temperature gradients in the tropical free troposphere. Journal of Climate.

2021

Keil, P., Schmidt, H, Stevens, B. & Bao, J. (2021) Variations of tropical lapse rates in climate models and their implications for the upper tropospheric warming. Journal of Climate.

Bao, J., Stevens, B. Kluft, L. & Jimenez-de-la-Cuesta, D. (2021) Changes in the tropical lapse rate due to entrainment and their impact on climate sensitivity. Geophysical Research Letters.

Bao, J. & Windmiller, J. M. (2021) Impact of microphysics on tropical precipitation extremes in a global storm-resolving model. Geophysical Research Letters

Bao, J. & Stevens, B. (2021) The elements of the thermodynamic structure of the tropical atmosphere. Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan.  

2020

2019

Bao, J. & Sherwood, S. C. (2019). The role of convective self-aggregation in extreme instantaneous vs. daily precipitation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

2018

Bao, J., Sherwood, S. C., Alexander, L. V., & Evans, J. P. (2018). Comments on ‘Temperature-extreme precipitation scaling: a two-way causality?’ International Journal of Climatology.

2017

Bao, J., Sherwood, S. C., Colin, M., & Dixit, V. (2017). The robust relationship between extreme precipitation and convective organization in idealized numerical modeling simulationsJournal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

Bao, J., Sherwood, S. C., Alexander, L. V., & Evans, J. P. (2017). Future increases in extreme precipitation exceed observed scaling rates. Nature Climate Change.

Before 2017

Bao, J., & Feng, J. (2016). Intercomparison of CMIP5 simulations of summer precipitation, evaporation, and water vapor transport over Yellow and Yangtze River basinsTheoretical and applied climatology.

Bao, J., Feng, J., & Wang, Y. (2015). Dynamical downscaling simulation and future projection of precipitation over ChinaJournal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.