Wenju Cai
Ocean University of China
291 Papers
1.5K Citations
Wenju Cai is an academic researcher from Ocean University of China. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sea surface temperature & Indian Ocean Dipole. The author has an hindex of 65, co-authored 259 publications. Previous affiliations of Wenju Cai include Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation & Flinders University.
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Papers
Positive Indian Ocean Dipole events precondition southeast Australia bushfires
TL;DR: This paper showed that out of 21 significant bushfire seasons since 1950, 11 were preceded by a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) event, which contributes to lower rainfall and higher temperatures exacerbating the dry conditions and increasing the fuel load leading into summer.
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Projected response of the Indian Ocean Dipole to greenhouse warming
Wenju Cai,Wenju Cai,Xiao-Tong Zheng,Evan Weller,Mat Collins,Tim Cowan,Matthieu Lengaigne,Weidong Yu,Toshio Yamagata +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a review suggests that in response to greenhouse warming, mean conditions of the Indian Ocean will shift toward a positive dipole state, but with no overall shift in the frequency of positive and negative events as defined relative to the mean climate state.
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Introduction to El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate
TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial and temporal asymmetry of El Niño and La Niña has been investigated and the importance of nonlinear dynamics and/or stochastic forcing has been discussed.
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Global Meteorological Drought: A Synthesis of Current Understanding with a Focus on SST Drivers of Precipitation Deficits
Siegfried D. Schubert,Ronald E. Stewart,Hailan Wang,Mathew Barlow,Ernesto Hugo Berbery,Wenju Cai,Martin P. Hoerling,Krishna Kumar Kanikicharla,Randal D. Koster,Bradfield Lyon,Annarita Mariotti,Carlos R. Mechoso,Omar V. Müller,Belén Rodríguez-Fonseca,Richard Seager,Sonia I. Seneviratne,Lixia Zhang,Lixia Zhang,Tianjun Zhou +18 more
TL;DR: This article presented a synthesis of current understanding of meteorological drought, with a focus on the large-scale controls on precipitation afforded by sea surface temperature (SST anomalies), land surface feedbacks, and radiative forcings.
More extreme swings of the South Pacific convergence zone due to greenhouse warming
Wenju Cai,Matthieu Lengaigne,Simon Borlace,Matthew Collins,Matthew Collins,Tim Cowan,Michael J. McPhaden,Axel Timmermann,Scott B. Power,Josephine R. Brown,Christophe E. Menkès,Arona Ngari,Emmanuel M. Vincent,Matthew J. Widlansky +13 more
TL;DR: Climate modelling evidence is presented for a near doubling in the occurrences of zonal SPCZ events between the periods 1891–1990 and 1991–2090 in response to greenhouse warming, even in the absence of a consensus on how ENSO will change.