Yongqi Gao

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Research Leader/Senior Researcher
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Academic Degree:

Doctor in Physical Oceanography, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 2002

Research interests

Main research interest is

  • Tracer simulation using OGCMs;
  • Variability of North Atlantic Meridional Overturning;
  • Climate Teleconnection between high and mid-latitudes
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Project leader of the following projects

  1. INES: Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System modelling (INES)
  2. Blue-Action: Arctic Impact on Weather and Climate
  3. InterDec: InterDec - The potential of seasonal-to-decadal-scale inter-regional linkages to advance climate predictions
  4. ARCPATH: Arctic Climate Predictions: Pathways to Resilient, Sustainable Societies
  5. EuraArc: Impact of Arctic sea ice decline on Eurasian Climate
  6. EastAMOC: Response of East Asian climate to reduced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
  7. BlueArc: Impact of ‘Blue Arctic’ on Climate at High Latitudes

NERSC Principal Investigator of the following projects

  1. CONNECTED: Chinese-Norwegian partnership in climate teleconnection and prediction
  2. SNOWGLACE: The Changing Arctic Cryosphere: Snow and Sea Ice Impact On Prediction and Climate Over Europe and Asia
  3. ORGANIC: Overturning ciRculation and its implications for Global cArboN cycle In Coupled models
  4. GREENICE: NordForsk Impact of Future Cryospheric Changes on Northern Hemisphere Climate
  5. NACLIM: North Atlantic Climate: Predictability of the climate in the North Atlantic/European sector
  6. DecCen: Exploring Decadal to Century Scale Variability and Changes in the East Asian Climate during the last Millennium

Project deputy leader of the following projects

  1. EVA: Earth system modelling of climate Variations in the Anthropocene

Peer Review Publications and Books

103 total publications.

2020

  1. Lü Z, Li F, Orsolini Y, Gao Y, He S. Understanding of European cold extremes, sudden stratospheric warming, and Siberian snow accumulation in the winter of 2017/18. Journal of Climate. 2020;33.
  2. Luo F, Wilcox LJ, Dong B, Su Q, Chen W, Dunstone NJ, et al. Projected near-term changes of temperature extremes in Europe and China under different aerosol emissions. Environmental Research Letters. 2020;15.
  3. Liang Y-C, Kwon Y-O, Frankignoul C, Danabasoglu G, Yeager SG, Cherchi A, et al. Quantification of the Arctic Sea Ice‐Driven Atmospheric Circulation Variability in Coordinated Large Ensemble Simulations. Geophysical Research Letters. 2020;47.
  4. Xu X, He S, Furevik T, Gao Y, Wang H, Li F, et al. Oceanic forcing of the global warming slowdown in multi-model simulations. International Journal of Climatology. 2020;
  5. Dai P, Gao Y, Counillon F, Wang Y, Kimmritz M, Langehaug HR. Seasonal to decadal predictions of regional Arctic sea ice by assimilating sea surface temperature in the Norwegian Climate Prediction Model. Climate Dynamics. 2020;
  6. Li F, Wang H, Orsolini YJ, Cong Z, Gao Y, Kang S. Arctic sea-ice loss intensifies aerosol transport to the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Climate Change. 2020;

2019

  1. Xu X, He S, Gao Y, Furevik T, Wang H, Li F, et al. Strengthened linkage between midlatitudes and Arctic in boreal winter. Climate Dynamics. 2019;53(7-8).
  2. Wang Y, Counillon F, Keenlyside N, Svendsen L, Gleixner S, Kimmritz M, et al. Seasonal predictions initialised by assimilating sea surface temperature observations with the EnKF. Climate Dynamics. 2019;19(9-10).
  3. Chen F, Gao Y, Wang Y, Li X. A downscaling-merging method for high-resolution daily precipitation estimation. Journal of Hydrology. 2019;581.
  4. Chen F, Dong G, Chen J, Gao Y, Huang W, Wang T, et al. Climate Change and Silk Road Civilization Evolution in Arid Central Asia: Progress and Issues. Advances in Earth Science. 2019;34(6).

2018

  1. He S, Gao Y, Furevik T, Wang H, Li F. Teleconnection between sea ice in the Barents Sea in June and the Silk Road, Pacific–Japan and East Asian rainfall patterns in August. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 2018;35(1).
  2. Kimmritz M, Counillon F, Bitz CM, Massonnet F, Bethke I, Gao Y. Optimising assimilation of sea ice concentration in an Earth system model with a multicategory sea ice model. Tellus. Series A, Dynamic meteorology and oceanography. 2018;70:1435945.
  3. He Y-C, Tjiputra J, Langehaug HR, Jeansson E, Gao Y, Schwinger J, et al. A model-based evaluation of the Inverse Gaussian transit-time distribution method for inferring anthropogenic carbon storage in the ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans. 2018;123(3).
  4. Li F, Orsolini Y, Wang H, Gao Y, He S. Atlantic multidecadal oscillation modulates the impacts of Arctic sea ice decline. Geophysical Research Letters. 2018;45(5).
  5. Chen F, Gao Y. Evaluation of precipitation trends from high-resolution satellite precipitation products over Mainland China. Climate Dynamics. 2018;51(9-10).
  6. He S, Wang H, Gao Y, Li F. Recent intensified impact of December Arctic Oscillation on subsequent January temperature in Eurasia and North Africa. Climate Dynamics. 2018;
  7. Ogawa F, Keenlyside N, Gao Y, Koenigk T, Yang S, Suo L, et al. Evaluating Impacts of Recent Arctic Sea Ice Loss on the Northern Hemisphere Winter Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters. 2018;45(7).
  8. He S, Wang H-J, Gao Y, Li F, Li H, Wang C. Influence of solar wind energy flux on the interannual variability of ENSO in the subsequent year. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 2018;11(2).
  9. Svendsen L, Keenlyside N, Bethke I, Gao Y, Omrani N-E. Pacific contribution to the early twentieth-century warming in the Arctic. Nature Climate Change. 2018;8.
  10. Köenigk T, Gao Y, Gastineau G, Keenlyside N, Nakamura T, Ogawa F, et al. Impact of Arctic sea ice variations on winter temperature anomalies in northern hemispheric land areas. Climate Dynamics. 2018;

Other Publications

2016

  1. Svendsen L. Impact of Atlantic multi-decadal variability on the Indo-Pacific and Northern Hemisphere climate. 2016.

2015

  1. Langehaug HR, Matei D, Eldevik T, Lohmann K, Gao Y, Årthun M. Ocean advection – a source for predictability in the Nordic Seas (poster). CLIVAR-ICTP Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability and Predictability: Challenge and Opportunity. 2015;
  2. Langehaug HR, Matei D, Eldevik T, Lohmann K, Gao Y. Winter SST predictability in the Nordic Seas (talk). European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015. 2015;

2014

  1. Langehaug HR, Lohmann K, Eldevik T, Matei D, Gao Y. Decadal predictability of winter SST in the Nordic Seas and the Barents Sea in three CMIP5 models (talk). Annual Meeting NACLIM. 2014;
  2. Langehaug HR, Lohmann K, Eldevik T, Matei D, Gao Y. Decadal predictability of SST in the North Atlantic sector in three CMIP5 models (talk). Workshop on predictability of climate in the North Atlantic Sector. 2014;

2012

  1. Langehaug HR, Geyer F, Smedsrud LH, Gao Y. Arctic sea ice decline and ice export in the CMIP5 historical simulations (talk). Bjerknes Centre 10-years anniversary conference. 2012;
  2. Langehaug HR, Geyer F, Smedsrud LH, Gao Y. Arctic sea ice decline and ice export in the CMIP5 historical simulations (poster). Summer School Monsoon Variability and Climate Teleconnection. 2012;

2011

  1. Yu L, Gao Y. Simulated spatiotemporal response of ocean heat transport to freshwater enhancement in North Atlantic and associated mechanisms. Acta Meteorologica Sinica. 2011;25(3):364 - 375.
  2. Gong D-Y, Yang J, Kim S-J, Gao Y, Guo D, Zhou T, et al. Spring Arctic Oscillation-East Asian summer monsoon connection through circulation changes over the western North Pacific. Climate Dynamics. 2011;37(11-12):2199 - 2216.
  3. Langehaug HR. Circulation and transformation of Atlantic and Arctic water masses in climate models [Internet]. 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1956/5282

2010

  1. Johannessen OM, Volkov VA, Pettersson LH, Maderich VS, Zheleznyak M, Gao Y, et al. Radioactivity and pollution in the Nordic Seas and Arctic region: Observations, Modelling and Simulations [Internet]. 2010. Available from: http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/book/978-3-540-24232-1

2009

  1. Yu L, Gao Y, Wang H-J, Guo DD, Li SL. The responses of East Asian Summer monsoon to the weakened North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in an enhanced freshwater input simulation. Chinese Science Bulletin [Internet]. 2009;54. Available from: http://www.springerlink.com.pva.uib.no/content/p82186k34q41x760/
  2. Yu L, Gao Y, Wang H, Drange H. Mechanism for the transient response of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to the enhanced freshwater forcing and its mechanism. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 2009;33.
  3. Wang H-J, Gao Y, Ma Z, Jiang DD. Two climate change issues deserving intense attention in China. Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2009;23.

2008

  1. Orre S, Gao Y, Drange H, Deleersnijder E. Diagnosing Ocean Tracer Transport from Sellafield and Dounreay by Equivalent Diffusion and Age. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences [Internet]. 2008;25:805-814. Available from: http://www.springerlink.com.pva.uib.no/content/p8163h4jr8405mv3/
  2. Su J, Wang H, Yang H, Drange H, Gao Y, Bentsen M. Role of the atmospheric and oceanic circulation in the tropical Pacific SST changes. Journal of Climate. 2008;21:2019-2034.

2007

  1. Gong DY, Drange H, Gao Y. Reconstruction of northern hemisphere 500 hPa geopotential heights back to the late 19th century. Theor. Applied Climat. 2007;
  2. Gao Y, Gao D. Water Environmental Evolution on the Northern Slope of Mt. Qomolangma since 1975. Plateau Meteorology. 2007;26.
  3. Risebrobakken B, Dokken T, Otterå OH, Jansen E, Gao Y, Drange H. Inception of the Northern European ice sheet due to contrasting ocean and insolation forcing. Quaternary Research. 2007;67:128-135.

2006

  1. Zhou TJ, Yu RC, Gao Y, Drange H. Ocean - atmosphere coupled model simulation of North Atlantic interannual variability II:Tropical tele-connection. Acta Meteorologica Sinica (Chinese journal with English abstract). 2006;64:18-64.
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