Suqin Duan

Journal articles

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[5] Duan, S. Q., Ahmed, F., & Neelin, J. D. (2024) Moist heatwaves intensified by entrainment of dry air that limits deep convection. Nature Geoscience,  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01498-y  [pdf] 

     - Research Briefing https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01507-0  [pdf]

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[4] Duan, S. Q., Mckinnon, K. A., & Simpson, I. R. (2024) Two perspectives on amplified warming over tropical land examined in CMIP6 models, JCLI, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0955.1

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[3] Duan, S. Q., Findell, K. L., & Fueglistaler, S. A. (2023) Coherent mechanistic patterns of land hydroclimatic changes, GRL, 50, e2022GL102285. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102285   

      - Editor's Highlight 

      - NOAA Climate Highlight​

 

[2] Duan, S. Q., Findell, K. L., & Wright, J. S. (2020) Three regimes of temperature distribution change over dry land, moist land, and oceanic surfaces, GRL, 47, e2020GL090997. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090997

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[1] Duan, S. Q., Wright, J. S., & Romps, D. M. (2018) On the utility (or futility) of using stable water isotopes to constrain the bulk properties of tropical convection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017MS001074

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Duan, S. Q., Mckinnon, K. A., & Simpson, I. R.  Quantifying the impact of atmospheric circulation and soil preconditioning using large ensembles of simulation with constrained circulation: a case study of the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave, Earth's Future, submitted. Preprint

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Tsai, W.-M., Duan, S. Q., ..., & Neelin, J. D. Co-occurring atmospheric features and their contributions to precipitation extremes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, accepted.

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Thesis

 

• Suqin Duan, 2019: On using stable water isotopes to better constrain convective simulation.  (PhD)

• Suqin Duan, 2013: Teleconnections between East Asian and North American Summer Monsoon.  (BS)

• Suqin Duan, 2011: An analysis of wind speed variation and urban wind energy potential in Guangdong Province. (Collection of Excellent Undergraduate Research of Sun Yat-sen U., in Chinese)

• Suqin Duan, 2013: Chinese university students’ interpretations of feminism in contemporary China. (Undergraduate Double major thesis)​
   

Others

• Co-translator (into Chinese) for two commissions on climate change and public health.

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health, Watts, Nick et al. The Lancet, Volume 386, Issue 10006, 1861–1914.

  • Safeguarding human health in the anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health, Whitmee, Sarah et al. The Lancet, Volume 386, Issue 10007,1973-202.

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Selected presentations

 

• Suqin Duan, Wei-Ming Tsai, Fiaz Ahmed, David Neelin: Precipitation probability distributions and extremes from a weather system perspective. (Talk, AGU Fall Meeting 2024, Washington D.C.)

• Suqin Duan, Fiaz Ahmed, David Neelin: Dry air in the lower free troposphere intensifies surface extreme moist heat waves. (Talk, AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco)

• Suqin Duan, Karen McKinnon, Isla Simpson: Quantifying the impact of atmospheric circulation and soil preconditioning using large ensembles with constrained circulation: a case study of the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave. (Talk, AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco)

• Suqin Duan, Karen McKinnon, Isla Simpson: Two perspectives on amplified warming over tropical land. (Talk, AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago)

• Suqin Duan, Kirsten Findell, Stephan Fueglistaler: Coherent mechanistic patterns of land hydroclimatic changes. (Invited Talk, LLNL Climate Section, 2022)

• Suqin Duan, Kirsten Findell, Stephan Fueglistaler: Emergence of coherent mechanistic patterns of land hydroclimatic changes. (CliMA Talk, Caltech, 2022)

• Suqin Duan, Kirsten Findell, Stephan Fueglistaler: The spatiotemporal distribution of land surface drying and its temperature feedback. (Talk, AGU Fall Meeting 2021)

• Suqin Duan, Kirsten Findell, Jonathon Wright, Stephan Fueglistaler: Three regimes of temperature distribution change over dry and wet surfaces. (Poster, AGU Fall Meeting 2020)

• Suqin Duan and David Romps: Warming warms the warmest worst. (Talk, AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington D.C.)

• Suqin Duan, David Romps, and Jonathon Wright: Sensitivity of atmospheric water isotopes to entrainment and precipitation efficiency. (Talk, AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco)

• Suqin Duan & Jonathon Wright, 2014: Variations of rapid and sustained rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in a changing climate. (Talk, Graduate Student Global Change Forum of China, Beijing; Poster, AOGS 11th Annual Meeting, Sapporo)

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