Dandan Tao

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

2025

Tao, D., C. Li, R. Davy, S. He, T. Spengler, C. Michel, and A. Rosendahl, 2025:
Arctic-Atlantic cyclones: variability in thermodynamic characteristics, large-scale flow, and local impacts.
Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111769. Web link   PDF


Ito, K., Y. Miyamoto, C.-C. Wu, A. Didlake, J. Hlywiak, Y.-H. Huang, T. -K. Lai, L. Pattie, N. Qin, U. Shimada, D. Tao, Y. Yamada, J. A. Zhang, S. Kanada, and D. Herndon, 2025:
Recent research and operational tools for improved understanding and diagnosis of tropical cyclone inner core structure.
Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 103, 147-180. Web link   PDF


2024

Boljka, L., I. Bethke, D. Tao, and C. Li, 2024:
Upstream influence of midlatitude jet stream biases in boreal summer.
Atmospheric Science Letters, 25, e1272. Web link   PDF


2023

Tao, D., R. Nystrom, and M. Bell, 2023:
The Quasi‐Linear Absolute Angular Momentum Slope of Tropical Cyclones Under Rapid Intensification.
Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104583. Web link   PDF


Rios-Berrios, R., P. Finocchio, J. Alland, X. Chen, M. Fisher, S. Stevenson, and D. Tao, 2023:
A review of the Interactions between Tropical Cyclones and Environmental Vertical Wind Shear.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 81, 713–741. Web link   PDF


Nam, C.C., M. Bell, and D. Tao, 2023:
Bifurcation points for tropical cyclone genesis and intensification in sheared and dry environments.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, , . Web link   PDF


Chen, X., C.M. Rozoff, R.F. Rogers, K.L. Corbosiero, D. Tao, J.-F. Gu, F. Judt, F., E.A. Hendricks, Y. Wang, M.M. Bell, D.P. Stern, K.D. Musgrave, J.A. Knaff, J. Kaplan, 2023:
Research Advances on Internal Processes Affecting Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change from 2018–2022.
Tropical Cyclone Research and Review Web link   PDF


Casas, E., 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. Web link   PDF


2022

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. Web link   PDF


2020

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. Web link   PDF


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. Web link   PDF


2019

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. Web link   PDF


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. Web link   PDF


2018

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. Web link   PDF


2017

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. Web link   PDF


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. Web link   PDF


2015

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. Web link   PDF


2014

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. Web link   PDF


2013

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. Web link   PDF


Book chapter

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.