Wei Zhang

Publications | Books

Publications | Book Chapters

• Zhang, W., (2025). Attribution of impacts associated with tropical cyclones to climate change: Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts. Elsevier

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Zhang, W., LaPlante, M., (2025). A weather pattern responsible for increasing wildfires in the western United States.
• Gu, H., Zhang, W., Gillies, R.R, (2025). Remote Effects of Urbanization on Temperatures in Adjacent Cities: A Case Study in Utah. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
• Ratterman, C., Zhang, W., Affram, G., Bean, B., (2025). Improving CFSv2 Snow Water Equivalent Forecasts with Statistical Downscaling. Weather and Forecasting, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-23-0196.1
• P.P, Dutta, R., Zhang, W., Swain, B., Koppa, A., (2025). North Atlantic Forcing on the Post-monsoon Arabian Sea Cyclones. Earth Systems and Environment
• Wei, X., Gao, S., Zhang, W., (2025). Projected dipole changes in the Pacific meridional mode-induced tropical cyclone genesis over the Western North Pacific under global warming. Climate Dynamics
• Zhao, R., Zhao, Y., Zhang, W., Chen, B., (2025). Rapid Intensification of Persistent Extreme Precipitation Over the Eastern Periphery of the Tibetan Plateau After 2000: The Role of Southwest Vortices. Geophysical Research Letters
• Song, Y., Ga, S., Zhang, W., Xia, D., (2025). Delayed Typhoon Season in China over the Past Four Decades. Geophysical Research Letters
• Chen, B., Zhao, R., Zhang, W., (2025). Modulation of Anomalous Moisture Uptakes on Weather-type-based Daily Extreme Precipitation Events over the Southeastern Edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-24-0066.1
• Vernon, B., Zhang, W., Chikamoto, Y., (2025). Improving seasonal precipitation forecasts in the Western United States through statistical downscaling. Environmental Research Letters, 20, 064008. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/add02c
• Wang, Y., Hsu, P., Yuan, J., Zhang, W., Lei, L., Xie, ., (2025). Mechanisms of Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations Modulating Humid Heatwaves in the Asian Monsoon Region. Journal of Climate, doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0606.1
• Wu, S., Luo, M., Lau, G., Zhang, W., (2025). Rapid flips between warm and cold extremes in a warming world. Nature Communications, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58544-5
• Roberts, M., Reed, K., Bao, Q., Zhang, W., (2025). High-Resolution Model Intercomparison Project phase 2 (HighResMIP2) towards CMIP7. Geoscientific Model Development, 18:4, 1307-1332.
• Zhang, W., Jennings, K., Collins, M., Hatchett, ., (2025). Machine learning shows a limit to rain-snow partitioning accuracy when using near-surface meteorology. Nature Communications, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58234-2
• Affram, G., Zhang, W., (2025). Impacts of Changing Temperatures on the Water Budget in the Great Salt Lake Basin. Water
• Zhang, W., Wang, S., Chikamoto, Y., Gillies, R., LaPlante, ., (2024). A weather pattern responsible for increasing wildfires in the western United States. Environmental Research Letters
• Atoloye, I., Cappellazzi, S.B, Creech, J.E, Yost, M., Zhang, W., Jacobson, A., Reeve, J., (2024). Soil health benefits of compost persist two decades after single application to winter wheat. Agronomy Journal, 116:6, 2719-2734. doi: 10.1002/agj2.21716
• Zhang, W., (2024). Recent Enhanced Deep Troposphere-to-Stratosphere Air Mass Transport Accompanying the Weakening Asian Monsoon. Springer Nature
• Zhang, W., (2024). Revisiting the dry-to-wet shift of summer precipitation over the Three-River Headwaters region, hinterland of the Tibetan Plateau: a perspective of moisture sources changes. Climate Dynamics
• Gu, H., Zhang, W., (2024). Assessing the future probable maximum precipitation in Utah under global warming. International Journal of Climatology
• Zhang, W., (2024). Formation mechanisms of persistent extreme precipitation events over the eastern periphery of the Tibetan Plateau: Synoptic conditions, moisture transport and the effect of steep terrain. Atmospheric Research
• Gu, H., Zhang, W., Gillies, R.R, (2024). The Shrinking Great Salt Lake May Exacerbate Droughts by Reducing Local Precipitation: A Case Study.. Journal of Hydrometeorology
• Zhang, W., (2024). Precipitation seasonality amplifies as Earth warms. Geophysical Research Letters
• Zhang, W., (2024). Anthropogenic forcing has increased the risk of longer-traveling and slower-moving large contiguous heatwaves. Science Advances, 10:13, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adl1598
• Zhang, W., (2024). Uneven Rainfall Effects on Small-scale Economic Growth: Evidence from Chinese Counties. The Innovation Geoscience
• Affram, G., Zhang, W., C.R, Gillies, R.R, (2023). Modulation of the Pacific Meridional Mode on the Dipole Pattern of the CONUS Summertime Precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters
• Wright, T., Stuivenvolt-Allen, J., Affram, G., Hasan, N., Ratterman, C., Zhang, W., (2023). Responses of extreme discharge to changes in Surface Air and Dew Point Temperatures in Utah: Seasonality and Mechanisms. Water
• Ratterman, C., Zhang, W., Barth, N., Affram, G., (2022). Modulation of Weather Regime Transitions on Temperature and Precipitation across the Continental U.S..
• Zhang, W., Hari, V., Wang, S., LaPlante, M., Garfin, G., Affram, G., (2022). Fewer troughs, not more ridges, have led to a drying trend in the western United States. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2021GL097089

Professional Journal

• Giovando, J., Reis, W., Zhang, W., Barth, N., (2025). Hydrologic Mechanisms for 2022 Yellowstone River Flood and Comparisons to Recent Historic Floods. Hydrological Processes

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Technical Reports

Research Reports

• Kopp, K., Endter-Wada, J.L, Baker, M.A, Brahney, J., Chikamoto, Y., Kettenring, K., Neilson, B.T, Null, S., Rivers, E., Rosenberg, D.E, Schmidt, J.C, Shilton, R., Tarboton, D.G, Torres-Rua, A., Wang, S., Wheaton, J.M, Wurtsbaugh, W.A, Yost, M., Zhang, W., (2021). Utah State University 2021 Report to the Governor on Utah’s Land, Water, and Air.

Other Reports

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.