Fangying Wu

Fudan University · Department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has experienced accelerated warming in recent decades, especially in winter. However, a comprehensive quantitative study of its long-term warming processes during daytime and nighttime is lacking. This study quantifies the different processes driving the acceleration of winter daytime and nighttime warming over the TP durin...

Based on the daily temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, sunshine hours and precipitation in Sichuan Province from 1961 to 2022, the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of tourism climate comfort in Sichuan Province were analysed using the temperature–humidity index (THI), precipitation index (P), sunshine duration index (SSD), wind chil...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) directly heats the middle tropospheric atmosphere, and accurate simulation of its surface temperature is of great concern for improving climatic prediction and projection capabilities, but climate models always exhibit a cold bias. Based on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) models and in-situ observa...

East Asia is undergoing significant climate changes and these changes are likely to grow in the future. It is urgent to characterize both the mechanisms controlling climate and the response of the East Asian climate system at global warming of 1.5 and 2 °C above pre-industrial levels (GW1.5 and GW2 hereafter). This study reviews recent studies on E...

Tourism is influenced by many drivers and is sensitive to global warming, making it important to investigate how tourism responds to climate change. However, comprehensive analysis on tourism climate over China is still limited. In this study, the tourism climate index (TCI hereafter) over China is constructed by the temperature-humidity index, pre...

As “the third pole”, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is sensitive to climate forcing and has experienced rapid warming in recent decades. This study analyzes annual and seasonal near-surface air temperature changes on the TP in response to transient and stabilized 2.0°C/1.5°C global warming targets based on simulations of the Community Earth System Model...

Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau, TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences. Arctic amplification (AA) and Tibetan amplification (TA) are the most significant characteristics of climate change patterns over the two Poles. In this study, trends, mecha...

The Arctic has experienced a warming rate higher than the global mean in the past decades, but previous studies show that there are large uncertainties associated with future Arctic temperature projections. In this study, near-surface mean temperatures in the Arctic are analyzed from 22 models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Proj...

The information on the projected climate changes over China is of great importance for preparing the nation’s societal adaptiveness to the future natural ecosystem. This study reports the surface mean temperature changes during 2014-2100 over China and its four sub-regions (Northern China, Northwestern China, Southern China, and the Tibetan Plateau...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP), also called the “Third pole”, is sensitive to climate change due to extensive areas at high elevation presently dominated by snow and ice. In this study, observed surface temperature trends at 150 stations over the TP during 1979–2018 are analyzed and compared with surface temperatures from multiple reanalyses (NCEP1, NCEP...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is also known as the “Third Pole”. Elevation dependent warming (EDW), the phenomenon that warming rate changes systematically with elevation, is of high significance for realistically estimating warming rates and their impacts over the TP. This review summarizes studies of characteristics and mechanisms behind EDW over the...

China has experienced rapid warming in recent decades and is projected to warm at similar rates throughout the remainder of this century. In this study, the projected changes and uncertainties of surface mean temperature over China and four subregions (Northern China, Northwestern China, Southern China, and Tibetan Plateau) are investigated under g...

Global warming may increase the frequency of climate extremes, but systematic examinations at different temperature thresholds are unknown over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Changes in surface temperature and precipitation extreme indices derived from a multi-model ensemble mean (MMEM) of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) model...

Snow water equivalent (SWE) is a critical parameter for characterizing snowpack which has a direct influence on the hydrological cycle, especially over high terrain. In this study, SWE from 18 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) model simulations is validated against the CanSISE SWE. The model simulations under RCP8.5 and RCP4.5 a...

The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is called the “third pole” and the “Asian water tower”, and climate change over the TP is evident in recent decades. However, the elevation dependency warming (EDW, larger temperature increases with higher elevation) over the TP under global warming of 1.5 °C and 2 °C is not well understood. In this study, future changes in...