E. Casas, D. Tao, and M. Bell, 2023:
An Intensity and Size Phase Space for Tropical Cyclone Structure and Evolution.
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 128, e2022JD037089.
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Tao, D., P.J. van Leeuwen, M. Bell, and Y. Ying, 2022:
Dynamics and Predictability of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification in Ensemble Simulations of Hurricane Patricia (2015).
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 127, e2021JD036079.
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Tao, D., R. Rotunno, and M. Bell, 2020:
Lilly’s Model for Steady-State Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Structure.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77, 3701–3720.
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Tao, D., M. Bell, R. Rotunno, and P.J. van Leeuwen, 2020:
Why do the maximum intensities in modeled tropical cyclones vary under the same environmental conditions?
Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL085980.
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Tao, D., K. Emanuel, F. Zhang, R. Rotunno, M. Bell, and R.G. Nystrom, 2019:
Evaluation of the assumptions in the steady-state tropical cyclone self-stratified outflow using three-dimensional convection-allowing simulations.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76, 2995-3009.
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Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2019:
Evolution of dynamic and thermodynamic structures before and during rapid intensification of tropical cyclones: sensitivity to vertical wind shear.
Monthly Weather Review, 147, 1171-1191.
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Liu, S., D. Tao, K. Zhao, M. Minamide, and F. Zhang, 2018:
Dynamics and Predictability of Rapid Intensification of Super Typhoon Usagi (2013).
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 123, 7462-7481.
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Cohen, Y., N. Hamik, E. Heifetz, D. S. Nolan, D. Tao, and F. Zhang, 2017:
On the Violation of Gradient Wind Balance at the top of Tropical Cyclones.
Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 8017-8026.
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Zhang, F., D. Tao, Y. Q. Sun, and J. D. Kepert, 2017:
Dynamics and predictability of secondary eyewall formation in sheared tropical cyclones.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, 89-112.
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Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2015:
Effects of vertical wind shear on the predictability of tropical cyclones: Practical versus intrinsic limit.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 7, 1534-1553.
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Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2014:
Effect of environmental shear, sea-surface temperature and ambient moisture on the formation and predictability of tropical cyclones: an ensemble-mean perspective.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 6, 384-404.
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Zhang, F., and D. Tao, 2013:
Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on the Predictability of Tropical Cyclones.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 975-983.
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Zhang, F., C. Melhauser, D. Tao, Y. Q. Sun, E. B. Munsell, Y. Weng, and J. A. Sippel, 2015:
Predictability of Severe Weather and Tropical Cyclones at the Mesoscales. Dynamics and Predictability of Large-scale, High-impact Weather and Climate Events (eds, J. Li, R. Swinbank, H. Volkert and R. Grotjahn). Cambridge University Press.