Publications - HydroClimatology Group

Peer-reviewed papers and book chapters:

2023

Y. Fan, E.-S. Im, C.-W. Lan, M.-H. Lo (2023), An increase in precipitation driven by irrigation over the North China Plain based on RegCM and WRF simulations, Journal of Hydrometeorology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0131.1
Y.-T. Wu, Y.-C. Liang, Y.-N. Kuo, F. Lehner, M. Previdi, L.-M. Polvani, M.-H. Lo, C.-W. Lan (2023), Exploiting SMILEs and the CMIP5 archive to understand Arctic climate change seasonality and uncertainty. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (2) e2022GL100745, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100745

2022

Lan, Chia-Wei, Yen-Ting Hwang, Rong-You Chien, Agnès Ducharne, and Min-Hui Lo (2022) Responses of Global Atmospheric Energy Transport to Idealized Groundwater Conditions in a General Circulation Model, Journal of Climate, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0753.1
Xiao, H.-M., M-H. Lo, and J.-Y. Yu (2022) The Increased Frequency of Combined El Nino and Positive IOD events since 1965s and Its Impacts on Maritime Continent Hydroclimates, Scientific Reports, 12, 7532, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11663-1
Hsin-Ju Li, Min-Hui Lo, Jehn-Yih Juang, Jonathan Wang, Cho-ying Huang (2022) Assessment of spatiotemporal dynamics of diurnal fog occurrence in subtropical montane cloud forests, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 317, 108899, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108899
Yi-Shin Jang, Sheng-Feng Shen, Jehn-Yih Juang, Cho-ying Huang, Min-Hui Lo (2022) Discontinuity of diurnal temperature range along elevated regions, Geophysical Research Letters, e2021GL097551, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097551
Yuwen Fan, Liao Pei-Syuan, Eun-Soon Im, Min-Hui Lo (2022) Regional disparities in the exposure to heat-related mortality risk under 1.5° C and 2° C global warming, Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5adf

2021

Kuo, Y.-N., Lo, M.-H., Liang, Y.-C., Tseng, Y.-H., & Hsu, C.-W. (2021). Terrestrial water storage anomalies emphasize interannual variations in global mean sea level during 1997–1998 and 2015–2016 El Nino events. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094104. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094104
Rong-Yu Gu, Min-Hui Lo, Chi-Ya Liao, Yi-Shin Jang, Jehn-Yih Juang, Cho-Ying Huang, Shih-Chieh Chang, Cheng-I Hsieh, Yi-Ying Chen, Housen Chu, and Kuang-Yu Chang (2021) Early Peak of Latent Heat Fluxes Regulates Diurnal Temperature Range in Montane Cloud Forests, J. Hydrometerology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-21-0005.1
Ren-Jie Wu, Min-Hui Lo, and Bridget R. Scanlon (2021), The annual cycle of terrestrial water storage anomalies in CMIP6 models evaluated against GRACE data, J. Climate, 34, 10, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0021.1
Min-Hui Lo, Hao-Wei Wey, Eun-Soon Im, Lois Iping Tang, Ray G Anderson, Ren-Jie Wu, Rong-You Chien, Jiangfeng Wei, Amir AghaKouchak, and Yoshihide Wada (2021), Intense agricultural irrigation induced contrasting precipitation changes in Saudi Arabia, Environ. Res. Lett., 16 064049, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac002e
Ting-Hui Lee and Min-Hui Lo (2021) The role of El Niño in modulating the effects of deforestation in the Maritime Continent, Environ. Res. Lett. 16 054056 , https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abe88e
Min-Hui Lo, Wen-Ying Wu, Lois Iping Tang, Dongryeol Ryu, Mehnaz Rashid, Ren-Jie Wu (2021) Temporal Changes in Land-Surface Coupling Strength: An Example in A Semi-Arid Region of Australia, Journal of Climate, 34, 4, 1503–1513, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0250.1

2020

Yu-Chiao Liang, Min-Hui Lo, Chia-Wei Lan, Hyodae Seo, Caroline C. Ummenhofer, Stephen Yeager, Ren-Jie Wu & John D. Steffen (2020) Amplified seasonal cycle in hydroclimate over the Amazon river basin and its plume region. Nature Communications 11, 4390. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18187-0
Wen-Ying Wu, Min-Hui Lo, Yoshihide Wada, James S. Famiglietti, John T. Reager, Pat J.-F. Yeh, Agnès Ducharne & Zong-Liang Yang (2020) Divergent effects of climate change on future groundwater availability in key mid-latitude aquifers. Nature Communications 11, 3710. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17581-y
Boysen, L. R., Brovkin, V., Pongratz, J., Lawrence, D. M., Lawrence, P., Vuichard, N., Peylin, P., Liddicoat, S., Hajima, T., Zhang, Y., Rocher, M., Delire, C., Séférian, R., Arora, V. K., Nieradzik, L., Anthoni, P., Thiery, W., Laguë, M. M., Lawrence, D., and Lo, M.-H. (2020), Global climate response to idealized deforestation in CMIP6 models, Biogeosciences, 17, 5615–5638, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5615-2020
Kumar, S., Newman, M., Lawrence, D. M., Lo, M.-H., Akula, S., Lan, C.-W., … Lombardozzi, D. (2020). The GLACE-Hydrology Experiment: Effects of Land-Atmosphere Coupling on Soil Moisture Variability and Predictability. Journal of Climate. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-19-0598.1
Chen, Chia-Jeng, Chen, Chu-Chun, Lo, Min-Hui, Juang, Jehn-Yih, Chang, Che-Min. (2020). Central Taiwan’s hydroclimate in response to land use/cover change. Environmental Research Letters. 10.1088/1748-9326/ab68aa.

2019

Mark O. Cuthbert, Richard G. Taylor, Guillaume Favreau, Martin C. Todd, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Karen G. Villholth, Alan M. MacDonald, Bridget R. Scanlon, D. O. Valerie Kotchoni, Jean-Michel Vouillamoz, Fabrice M. A. Lawson, Philippe Armand Adjomayi, Japhet Kashaigili, David Seddon, James P. R. Sorensen, Girma Yimer Ebrahim, Michael Owor, Philip M. Nyenje, Yahaya Nazoumou, Ibrahim Goni, Boukari Issoufou Ousmane, Tenant Sibanda, Matthew J. Ascott, David M. J. Macdonald, William Agyekum, Youssouf Koussoubé, Heike Wanke, Hyungjun Kim, Yoshihide Wada, Min-Hui Lo, Taikan Oki, Neno Kukuric (2019), Observed controls on resilience of groundwater to climate variability in sub-Saharan Africa, Nature, 572, pages230–234. https://org/10.1038/s41586-019-1441-7
Chia‑Wei Lan, Min‑Hui Lo, Chao‑An Chen, Jia‑Yuh Yu (2019), The mechanisms behind changes in the seasonality of global precipitation found in reanalysis products and CMIP5 simulations, Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04781-6
Chen, C.-C., M.-H. Lo, E.-S. Im, J.-Y. Yu, Y.-C. Liang, W.-T. Chen, I. Tang, C.-W. Lan, R.-J. Wu, R.-Y. Chien (2019),Thermodynamic and dynamic responses to deforestation in the Maritime Continent: A modeling study, Journal of Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0310.1
B. R. Scanlon, Z. Zhang, A. Rateb, A. Sun, D. Wiese, H. Save, H. Beaudoing, M. H. Lo, H. Müller‐Schmied, P. Döll ,R. van Beek, S. Swenson, D. Lawrence, M. Croteau, and R. C. Reedy (2019). Tracking seasonal fluctuations in land water storage using global models and GRACE satellites. Geophysical Research Letters, 46. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081836
Tseng, K.H., Kuo, C.Y., Lo, M.H., Shum, C.K., Rahman, M.M., Jia, Y., Yang, T.Y., and Shih, P.H. (2019). Using MODIS/Terra and Landsat Imageries to Improve Surface Water Quantification in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 30(1), 1-16.
Rashid, Mehnaz, Rong-You Chien, Agnès Ducharne, Hyungjun Kim, Pat J.-F. Yeh, Christophe Peugeot, Aaron Boone, Xiaogang He, Luc Séguis, Yutaro Yabu, Moussa Boukari, M-H. Lo (2019) Evaluation of groundwater simulations in Benin from the ALMIP2 project, J. Hydrometerology, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-18-0025.1
Huang Z, Tang Q, Lo M‐H, Xingcai Liu, Hui Lu, Xuejun Zhang, Guoyong Leng (2019) The influence of groundwater representation on hydrological simulation and its assessment using satellite‐based water storagevariation. Hydrological Processes. 2019;1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13393

2018

Chou, C., D. Ryu, M.-H. Lo, H. Wey, and H. Malano, 2018: Irrigation Induced Land-Atmosphere Feedback and Their Impacts on Indian Summer Monsoon. J. Climate. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0762.1
M. Rodell, J. S. Famiglietti, D. N. Wiese, J. T. Reager, H. K. Beaudoing, F. W. Landerer, M.-H. Lo (2018) Emerging trends in global freshwater availability. Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0123-1
Chen, W.-T.; Huang, K.-T.; Lo, M.-H.; LinHo, L.H., 2018: Post-Monsoon Season Precipitation Reduction over South Asia: Impacts of Anthropogenic Aerosols and Irrigation. Atmosphere, 9, 311.
Jin-Ho Yoon, S-Y Simon Wang, Min-Hui Lo, Wen-Ying Wu (2018) Concurrent increases in wet and dry extremes projected in Texas and combined effects on groundwater. Environ. Res. Lett. 13, doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aab96b
Wang F, Ducharne A, Cheruy F, Lo MH, Grandpeix JL (2018). Impact of a shallow groundwater table on the global water cycle in the IPSL land-atmosphere coupled model, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3820-9

2017

Hsu, H., M-H. Lo, B. P. Guillod, D. G. Miralles, S. Kumar (2017) Relation between precipitation location and antecedent/subsequent soil moisture spatial patterns. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 6319–6328, doi:10.1002/2016JD026042.
Hamlington, B., J. T. Reager, M.-H. Lo, K. Karnauskas, R. Leben (2017) Separating decadal global water cycle variability from sea level rise, Sci. Rep. 7, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00875-5
Wada, Y., J.T. Reager, B.F. Chao, J. Wang, M.-H. Lo, C. Song, Y. Li, and A.S. Gardner, 2017: Recent changes in land water storage and its contribution to sea level variations. Surv. Geophys., 38, no. 1, 131-152, doi:10.1007/s10712-016-9399-6.
Lo, M.-H., T.-H. Kuo, H.-W. Wey, C.-W. Lan, J.-P. Chen (2017), Land processes as the forcing of extremes, Book Chapter in Climate Extremes: Patterns and Mechanisms, Wang, S.-Y., Jin-Ho Yoon, Chris Funk, and R. R. Gillies (Ed.), AGU Geophysical Monograph Series.

2016

Chen, C.-C., H.-W. Lin, J.-Y. Yu, and M.-H. Lo (2016), The 2015 Borneo fires: what have we learned from the 1997 and 2006 El Ninos? Environmental Research Letters, 11, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/104003. (monthly highlights collection of Environmental Research Letters (ERL) for Oct 2016)
Li, J.-L. F., W.-L. Lee, Y.-H. Wang, M. Richardson, J.-Y. Yu, E. Suhas, E. Fetzer, M.-H. Lo, and Q. Yue (2016), Assessing the radiative impacts of precipitating clouds on winter surface air temperatures and land surface properties in general circulation models using observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 11,536–11,555, doi:10.1002/2016JD025175.
Lo, M.-H., J. Famiglietti, J. T. Reager, M. Rodell, S. Swenson, and W.-Y. Wu (2016), GRACE-based Estimates of Global Groundwater Depletion, Book Chapter in The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes, Tang, Qiuhong (Ed.), AGU Geophysical Monograph Series.
J. T. Reager, A. S. Gardner, J. S. Famiglietti, D. N. Wiese, A. Eicker, M.-H. Lo (2016), A decade of sea level rise slowed by climate-driven hydrology. Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8386
Lan, C.-W., M.-H. Lo, C. Chou, and S. Kumar (2016), Terrestrial water flux responses to global warming in tropical rainforest areas, Earth’s Future, 4, 210–224, doi:10.1002/2015EF000350.
Lin, Y.-H., M.-H. Lo, C. Chou (2016), Potential Negative Effects of Groundwater Dynamics on Dry Season Convection in the Amazon River Basin, Clim. Dyn., 46:1001-1013, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2628-8.
Wada, Y., M.-H. Lo, P. J.-F. Yeh, J. T. Reager, J. S. Famiglietti, R.-J. Wu, and Y.-H. Tseng (2016), Fate of water pumped from underground and contributions to sea-level rise. Nature Clim. Change, doi:10.1038/nclimate3001.
Tseng, Y.-H. and Lin, Y.-H. and Lo, M.-H. and Yang, S.-C. (2016), Diagnosing the possible dynamics controlling Sahel precipitation in the short-range ensemble community atmospheric model hindcasts . Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-2995-9
Castle, S. L., J. T. Reager, B. F. Thomas, A. J. Purdy, M.-H. Lo, J. S. Famiglietti, and Q. Tang (2016), Remote detection of water management impacts on evapotranspiration in the Colorado River Basin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 5089–5097, doi:10.1002/2016GL068675.
Liang, Y-C, C-C Chou, J-Y Yu, and M.-H. Lo, 2016: Mapping the Locations of Asymmetric and Symmetric Discharge Responses in Global Rivers to the Two Types of El Nino, Environmental Research Letters, 11, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/044012.

2015

Ma, H.-Y., C. C. Chuang, S. A. Klein, M.-H. Lo, Y. Zhang, S. Xie, X. Zheng, P.-L. Ma, Y. Zhang, and T. J. Phillips (2015), An improved hindcast approach for evaluation and diagnosis of physical processes in global climate models, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 07, doi:10.1002/2015MS000490.
Wey, H.-W., M.-H. Lo, S.-Y. Lee, J.-Y. Yu, H.-H. Hsu (2015), Potential impacts of wintertime soil-moisture anomalies from agricultural irrigation at low latitudes on regional and global climates, Geophys. Res. Lett. doi: 10.1002/2015GL065883.
Anderson, R. G., Lo, M.-H., Swenson, S., Famiglietti, J. S., Tang, Q., Skaggs, T. H., Lin, Y.-H., and Wu, R.-J. (2015), Using satellite-based estimates of evapotranspiration and groundwater changes to determine anthropogenic water fluxes in land surface models, Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 3021-3031, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-3021-2015.
Richey, A. S., B. F. Thomas, M.-H. Lo, J. T. Reager, J. S. Famiglietti, K. Voss, S. Swenson, and M. Rodell (2015), Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE, Water Resour. Res., 51, 5217–5238, doi:10.1002/2015WR017349.
Richey, A. S., B. F. Thomas, M.-H. Lo, J. S. Famiglietti, S. Swenson, and M. Rodell (2015), Uncertainty in global groundwater storage estimates in a Total Groundwater Stress framework, Water Resour. Res., 51, 5198–5216, doi:10.1002/2015WR017351.
Liang, Y.-C., J.-Y. Yu, M.-H. Lo, and C. Wang (2015), The Changing Influence of El Nino on the Great Plains Low-Level Jet, Atmospheric Science Letters, DOI: 10.1002/asl.590.
Wu, W.-Y., C.-W. Lan, M.-H. Lo, J. T. Reager, and J. S. Famiglietti (2015), Increases in the annual range of soil water storage at northern middle and high latitudes under global warming, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064110
Wu, C.-M., M.-H. Lo, W.-T. Chen, and C.-T. Lu (2015), The impacts of Heterogeneous Land Surface Fluxes on the Diurnal Cycle Precipitation – A Framework for Improving the GCM Representation of Land-Atmosphere Interactions J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. DOI: 10.1002/2014JD023030

2014

Liang, Y.-C., M.-H. Lo, and J.-Y. Yu (2014), Asymmetric responses of land hydroclimatology to two types of El Niño in the Mississippi River Basin, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 582–588, doi:10.1002/2013GL058828.

2013

Lo, M.-H., C.-M. Wu, H.-Y. Ma, and J. S. Famiglietti (2013), The response of coastal stratocumulus clouds to agricultural irrigation in California, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 6044–6051, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50516.
Pun, I.-F., I.-I. Lin, and M.-H. Lo (2013), Recent increase in high tropical cyclone heat potential area in the Western North Pacific Ocean, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50548.
Lo, M.-H., and J. S. Famiglietti (2013), Irrigation in California’s Central Valley strengthens the southwestern U.S. water cycle, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, doi:10.1002/grl.50108.
Voss, K. A., J. S. Famiglietti, M.-H. Lo, C. de Linage, M. Rodell, and S. C. Swenson (2013), Groundwater depletion in the Middle East from GRACE with implications for transboundary water management in the Tigris-Euphrates-Western Iran region, Water Resour. Res., 49, doi:10.1002/wrcr.20078.

2012

Anderson, R. G., M.-H. Lo, and J. S. Famiglietti (2012), Assessing surface water consumption using remotely-sensed groundwater, evapotranspiration, and precipitation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L16401,doi:10.1029/2012GL052400.

before 2012

Lo, M.-H., and J. S. Famiglietti (2011), Precipitation response to land subsurface hydrologic processes in atmospheric general circulation model simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D05107,doi:10.1029/2010JD015134.
Famiglietti, J. S., M.-H. Lo, S. L. Ho, J. Bethune, K. J. Anderson, T. H. Syed, S. C. Swenson, C. R. de Linage, and M. Rodell (2011), Satellites Measure Recent Rates of Groundwater Depletion in California’s Central Valley, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L03403, doi:10.1029/2010GL046442.
Lo, M.-H., and J. S. Famiglietti (2010), The Effect of Water Table Dynamics on Land Surface Hydrologic Memory. J. Gephys. Res., 115, D22118, doi:10.1029/2010JD014191.
Lo, M.-H., J. S. Famiglietti, P. J.-F. Yeh, and T. H. Syed (2010), Improving Parameter Estimation and Water Table Depth Simulation in a Land Surface Model Using GRACE Water Storage and Estimated Baseflow Data, Water Resour. Res., 46, W05517, doi:10.1029/2009WR007855.
Lo, M.-H., P. J.-F. Yeh, and J. S. Famiglietti (2008), Constraining water table depth simulations in a land surface model using estimated baseflow, Adv. Water Resour., doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.06.007.
Chou, C., and M.-H. Lo (2007), Asymmetric responses of tropical precipitation during ENSO, J Climate, 20(14) 3411-3433.