Shuyi Chen

Professor, Atmospheric and Climate Science

Shuyi Chen

(206) 685-1736

ATG 606

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Areas of Expertise
  • Role of air-sea interaction in high-impact weather
  • Tropical cyclones, Madden-Julian Oscillation, ENSO
  • Coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean modeling and Earth system prediction
  • Coastal environments and climate extremes
Courses
  • ATMOS 103: Hurricanes and Thunderstorms: Their Science and Impact
  • ATMOS 301: Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences
  • ATMOS 575: Tropical Meteorology and Large-Scale Dynamics
Awards
  • Jacob Bjerknes Lecture, American Geophysical Union (2024)
  • Sverdrup Gold Medal, American Meteorological Society (2022)
  • National Associate of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2020)
  • Tarbell Lecture, Penn State University (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (2012)
  • A.P. Sloan Foundation Leadership Award for Advancing Underrepresented Minority Students in Mathematics, Science and Engineering (2007)
  • NASA Group Achievement Award for Tropical Cloud System Processes (2006)
Service
  •  Chair, UCAR Board of Trustees (2023-present)
  • Co-Chair, the National Academies Committee on the Future Use of NASA Airborne Platforms to Advance Earth Science Priorities (2020-2022)
  • Vice Chair, the National Academies Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) (2016-2019, member 2011-2016)
  • Steering Committee, the National Academies, the 2017-2027 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space (ESAS2017) (2015-2018)
  • Chair, The National Academies BASC Committee for Future Boundary Layer Observing Workshop (2017)
  • Chair, AGU AS FM and Secretary for Physics, Dynamics and Climate (2014-2018)
  • Councilor, American Meteorological Society (2021-2024)
  • Editor, Weather and Forecasting, AMS (2004-2006
Selected publications

  • Jauregui, Y. R., and S. S. Chen, 2024: MJO-induced Warm Pool Eastward Extension Prior to the Onset of El Niño: Observations from 1998-2019, J. Clim, 37, 855-873, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0234.1

  • Kerns, B. W., and S. S. Chen, 2023: Inland Flooding and Rainfall from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee (2011): Coupled Atmosphere-Wave-Ocean Model Simulations and Remote Sensing and in-Situ Observations with a Machine Learning Tool, Wea. and Forecasting, 38, 677–697, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-22-0100.1.

  • Barr, B. W., S. S. Chen, and C. W. Fairall, 2023: Sea-State-Dependent Sea Spray and Air–Sea Heat Fluxes in Tropical Cyclones: A New Parameterization for Fully Coupled Atmosphere–Wave–Ocean Models, J. Atmos. Sci., 80, 933 – 960, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0126.1.

  • Mazza, E., and S. S. Chen, 2023: Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Climatology, Extremes and Flooding Potential Over the Continental U.S., Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0199.1.

  • Savarin, A., and S. S. Chen, 2022: Pathways to Better Prediction of the MJO – Part II: Impacts of Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling on the Upper Ocean and MJO propagation, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2021MS002929. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002929.

  • Kerns, B. W., and S. S. Chen, 2020: A 20-Year Climatology of Madden-Julian Oscillation Convection: Large-Scale Precipitation Tracking From TRMM-GPM Rainfall. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres, 125, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD032142

  • Chen, S. S., B. W. Kerns, N. Guy, D. P. Jorgensen, J. Delanoë, N. Viltard, C. Zappa, F. Judt, C.-Y. Lee, and A. Savarin, 2016: Aircraft observations of dry air, ITCZ, convective cloud systems and cold pools in MJO during DYNAMO: Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 97, 405-423. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00196.1

  • Chen, S. S., and M. Curcic, 2016: Coupled Modeling and Observations of Ocean Surface Waves in Hurricane Ike (2008) and Superstorm Sandy (2012), Ocean Modeling, 103, 161-176. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2015.08.005

  • Judt, F., S. S. Chen, and J. Berner, 2016: Predictability of tropical cyclone intensity: Scale-dependent forecast error growth in high-resolution stochastic kinetic-energy backscatter ensembles, Quat. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 142, 43-57. DOI:10.1002/qj.2626

  • Lee, C.-Y., and S. S. Chen, 2014: Stable boundary layer and its impact on tropical cyclone structure in a coupled atmosphere-ocean model, Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 1927-1944.

  • Chen, S. S., W. Zhao, M. A. Donelan, and H. L. Tolman, 2013: Directional wind-wave coupling in fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean models: Results from CBLAST-Hurricane, J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 3198-3215. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-12-0157.1