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Publications (in Refereed Journals)
Zhang, Y., R. Fu, H. B. Yu, R. E. Dickinson, R. Negron Juarez, M. Chin, H. Wang, 2008: A Regional Climate Model Study of How Biomass Burning Aerosol Impacts Land-Atmosphere Interactions over the Amazon, J. Geophy. Res.- Special Issue for Yoram J. Kaufman Symposium on Aerosols, Clouds, and Climate. (accepted)
Fernandes, K., R. Fu, A. K. Betts, 2008: How well does the surface water budget in European Center for Medium Range Forecast 40-year Reanalysis compare to observation in the Amazon river basin? J. Geophys. Res. (in press)
Li, Y. D., Y. Wang, Y. Song, L. Hu, S. T. Gao, R. Fu, 2008: Characteristics of summer mobile mesoscale convective system initiated from Tibetan Plateau, Part I: origin, track, development and precipitation, J. Appl. Meteoro. & Climatology. (accepted)
Li, W. H., R. Fu, R. R. I. M Negrón Juárez, and K. Fernandes, 2008: Cause of recent changes in rainfall variability and implications to future climate in the Amazon region. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (invited), doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.0022.
Wang, H., R. Fu, J. K. Schemm, W. T. Liu, W. Q. Tang, 2008: Prediction of South American low-level jet using QuikSCAT ocean surface wind, International Journal of Remote Sensing, A Special Issue for PORSEC. (in press)
R. I. Negrón Juárez, M. Goulden, R. Myneni, R. Fu, S. Bernardes, H. Gao, 2007: An empirical approach to retrieve monthly evapotranspiration over Amazonia, Int. J. Rem. Sen. (accepted)
H. Gao, R. Fu, R. Dickinson, R. Negrón Juárez, 2007: A Practical Method for Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from AMSR-E over the Amazon Forest, IEEE Trans. Geos. Rem., 45, No. 12.
R. I. Negrón Juárez, M. G. Hodnett, R. Fu, M. L. G., C. von Randow, 2007: Control of Dry Season Evapotranspiration over Amazonian Forest as inferred from observations at a Southern Amazon Forest site, J. Climate, (in press). [Download PDF]
Liebmann, B., R. Fu, Camargo, A. Seth, J. Marengo, Carvalho, Allured, C. Vera, 2007: Onset and End of the Rainy Season in South America in Observations and the ECHAM 4.5 Atmospheric General Circulation Model, J. Climate, (in press).
Yu, H., R. Fu, R. Dickinson, Y. Zhang, M. Chen, H. Wang, 2007: Interannual variability of smoke and warm cloud relationships in the Amazon as inferred from MODIS retrievals, Rem. Sen. Envi., (in press). [Download PDF]
Myneni, R., W. Yang, R. Nemani, A. Huete, R. Dickinson, Y. Knyazikhin, K. Didan, R. Fu, R. Negrón Juárez, et al., 2007: Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests, PNAS, 4820-4823. [Download PDF]
Li, W., R. Dickinson, R. Fu, G. Niu, Z. Yang, and J. Canadell, 2007: Future precipitation changes and their implications for tropical peatlands, Geop. Res. Letters, 34 (1): Art. No. L01403. [Download PDF]
Wang, H., and R. Fu, 2007: The influence of Amazon rainfall on the Atlantic ITCZ through convectively coupled Kelvinwaves, J. Climate, 20, 1188-1201. [Download PDF]
Fu R., Hu Y., Wright J., et al., 2006: Short circuit of water vapor and polluted air to the global stratosphere by convective transport over the Tibetan Plateau, PNAS, 5664-5669. [Download PDF]
Petersen, W. A., R. Fu, M.X. Chen, and R. Blakslee, 2006: Intraseasonal Forcing ofConvection and Lightning Activity in the Southern Amazon as Function of Cross-Equatorial Flow, J. Climate, 19, 3180-3196. [Download PDF]
Li, W., R. Fu and R. E. Dickinson, 2006: Rainfall and its seasonality over the Amazon in the 21st century as assessed by the coupled models for the IPCC AR4, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D0211, doi:10.1029/2005JD006355. [Download PDF]
Li, W. and R. Fu, 2006: Influences of cold air intrusions on the wet season onset over Amazonia, J. Climate, 19, 257-275. [Download PDF]
Liu, Y. Q, R. Fu, and R. E. Dickinson, 2005: Smoke aerosols altering South American monsoon, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., August 2005, 1062-1063.
Fu, R. and W. Li, 2004: The influence of land surface on transition from dry to wet season in Amazonia, Theor. Appl. Climatol., special LBA edition, 78, 97-110, DOI 10.1007/s00704-004-0046-7. [Download PDF]
Li, W. and R. Fu, 2004: Transition of the large-scale atmospheric and land surface conditions from the dry to the wet season over Amazonia as diagnosed by the ECMWF Reanalysis, J. Climate, 17, 2637-2651. [Download PDF]
Wang, H., and R. Fu, 2004: Influence of cross-Andes flow on the South American low-level jets, J. Climate, 17, 1247-1262. [Download PDF]
Gash, J.H.C, Huntingford, C., Marengo, J.A., Betts, R.A., Cox, P.M., Fisch, G., Fu, R.., Gandu, A.W., Harris, P.P., Machado, L.A.T., von Randow, C. and Silva Dias, M.A. 2004: Amazonian Climate: Results and future research, J. Theor. Appl. Clim., 78, 123, 187-193, (invited).
Nogues-Paegle, J. C. Mechoso, R. Fu, and et al., 2002: Progress in Pan American CLIVAR research: understanding the South American monsoon, Meteorologica, 27, 3-32. [HTML]
Wang, H., and R. Fu, 2002: Cross-equatorial flow and seasonal cycle of precipitation over South America, J. Climate, 15, 1591-1608. [Download PDF]
R. Fu, R. E. Dickinson, M. X. Chen, and H. Wang, 2001: How do tropical sea surface temperatures influence the seasonal distribution of precipitation in the equatorial Amazon, J. Climate, 14, 4003-4026. [Download PDF]
McCormack, J., R. Fu, and W. B. Read, 2000: The impact of tropical deep convection on the upper tropospheric water vapor based on UARS MLS measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 525-528. [Download PDF]
Wang, H., and R. Fu, 2000: Winter monthly mean atmospheric anomalies over the North Pacific and North America associated with El Niño SSTs, J. Climate, 13, 3435-3447. [Download PDF]
Wang, H., and R. Fu, 2000: Influence of ENSO SST anomalies and water storm-tracks on the interannual variability of the upper tropospheric water vapor over the Northern Hemisphere extratropics, J. Climate, 13, 59-73. [Download PDF]
Fu, R., B. Zhu, R. E. Dickinson, 1999: How does the atmosphere and land surface influence seasonal changes of convection in the tropical Amazon? J. Climate, 12, 1306-1321. [Download PDF]
Fu, R., R.E. Dickinson & B. Newkirk, 1997: Response of the upper troposphere humidity and moisture transport to changes of tropical convection. A comparison between observations and a GCM over an ENSO cycle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2371-2374. [Download PDF]
Fu, R., W. T. Liu and R.E. Dickinson, 1996: Response of tropical clouds to the interannual variation of sea surface temperature, J. Climate, 9, 616-634. [Download PDF]
Soden, B.J. and R. Fu, 1995: A satellite analysis of deep convection, upper troposphere humidity and the greenhouse effect, J. Climate, 8, 2333-2351. [Download PDF]
Fu, R., A.D. Del Genio, and W.B. Rossow, 1994: Deep convection, vertical thermodynamic structure, and surface conditions in the tropical Pacific, J. Climate, 7, 1092-1108. [Download PDF]
Fu, R., W.T. Liu, A.D. Del Genio, and W.B. Rossow, 1993: Comments on 'A Thermostat in the Tropics?', Nature, 361-412. [Download PDF]
Fu, R., A.D. Del Genio, W.B. Rossow, and W.T. Liu, 1992: Cirrus-cloud thermostat for tropical sea-surface temperatures tested by using satellite data, Nature, 358, 394-397. [Download PDF]
Fu, R., A.D. Del Genio, and W.B. Rossow, 1990: Behavior of Deep Convective Clouds in the Tropical Pacific Deduced from ISCCP Radiances, J. Climate, 3, 1129-1152. [Download PDF]
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