Ka-Ming Lau

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Ka-Ming Lau is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ka-Ming Lau has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ka-Ming Lau's work include Climate variability and models (21 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (12 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Ka-Ming Lau is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (21 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (12 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (11 papers). Ka-Ming Lau collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Ka-Ming Lau's co-authors include Paul H. Chan, Ngar‐Cheung Lau, Thomas J. Phillips, Hock Lim, Chung‐Hsiung Sui, Chung-Kyu Park, David M. Straus, Daoyi Gong, Chang-Hoi Ho and Kyu‐Myong Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Climate, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences and Monthly Weather Review.

In The Last Decade

Ka-Ming Lau

22 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Aspects of the 40–50 Day Oscillation during the Northern Summer as Inferred from Outgoing Longwave Radiation

1986 618 citations Ka-Ming Lau, Paul H. Chan Monthly Weather Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ka-Ming Lau United States	18	2.1k	1.9k	956	51	32	23	2.2k
K-M. Lau United States	20	2.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.2×	977 1.0×	48 0.9×	58 1.8×	22	2.6k
William F. Stern United States	17	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	736 0.8×	24 0.5×	22 0.7×	24	1.8k
Tsing-Chang Chen United States	30	2.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.2×	879 0.9×	39 0.8×	24 0.8×	107	2.6k
James S. Boyle United States	16	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	434 0.5×	72 1.4×	23 0.7×	21	2.1k
Robert M. Chervin United States	18	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	902 0.9×	56 1.1×	46 1.4×	43	1.6k
Kazuyoshi Kikuchi United States	22	2.4k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	48 0.9×	38 1.2×	34	2.6k
P. V. Joseph India	24	2.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	840 0.9×	45 0.9×	44 1.4×	45	2.4k
Takio Murakami United States	25	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	894 0.9×	38 0.7×	16 0.5×	87	2.1k
C-P. Chang United States	25	2.8k 1.4×	2.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	39 0.8×	67 2.1×	38	3.1k
Guðrún Magnúsdóttir United States	30	3.2k 1.6×	3.3k 1.7×	1.3k 1.3×	51 1.0×	51 1.6×	93	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Ka-Ming Lau

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ka-Ming Lau

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ka-Ming Lau. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ka-Ming Lau based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ka-Ming Lau. Ka-Ming Lau is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Yuen, Man-Ching, et al.. (2022). Design an Intelligence System for Early Identification on Developmental Dyslexia of Chinese Language. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 46–52. 3 indexed citations

Ho, Chang-Hoi, et al.. (2005). Interdecadal Changes in Heavy Rainfall in China during the Northern Summer. Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. 16(5). 1163–1163. 20 indexed citations

Sui, Chung‐Hsiung, Xiaofan Li, Michele M. Rienecker, et al.. (2003). The Role of Daily Surface Forcing in the Upper Ocean over the Tropical Pacific: A Numerical Study. Journal of Climate. 16(4). 756–766. 14 indexed citations

Chanson, Samuel T., et al.. (2002). BALANCE-a flexible parallel load balancing system for heterogeneous computing systems and networks. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 2. 896–903. 1 indexed citations

Sui, Chung‐Hsiung, Chang-Hoi Ho, Ming‐Dah Chou, et al.. (2000). Effect of Radiative Cooling on Cloud-SST Relationship within the Tropical Pacific Region. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA).

Sui, Chung‐Hsiung, et al.. (1998). INTERANNUAL TO INTERDECADAL VARIATIONS OF THE REGIONALIZED SURFACE CLIMATE OF THE UNITED STATES AND RELATIONSHIPS TO GENERALIZED FLOW PARAMETERS. Physical Geography. 19(4). 271–291. 21 indexed citations

Park, Chung-Kyu, David M. Straus, & Ka-Ming Lau. (1990). An Evaluation of the Structure of Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations in Three General Circulation Models. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 68(4). 403–417. 31 indexed citations

Lau, Ka-Ming & Paul H. Chan. (1988). Intraseasonal and interannual variations of tropical convection - A possible link between the 40-50 day oscillation and ENSO?. [El Nino/Southern Oscillation. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations

Lau, Ka-Ming & Paul H. Chan. (1986). Aspects of the 40–50 Day Oscillation during the Northern Summer as Inferred from Outgoing Longwave Radiation. Monthly Weather Review. 114(7). 1354–1367. 618 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lau, Ka-Ming & Thomas J. Phillips. (1986). Coherent Fluctuations of Fxtratropical Geopotential Height and Tropical Convection in Intraseasonal Time Scales. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 43(11). 1164–1181. 117 indexed citations

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Lau, Ngar‐Cheung & Ka-Ming Lau. (1986). The Structure and Propagation of Intraseasonal Oscillations Appearing in a GFDL General Circulation Model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 43(19). 2023–2047. 67 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming & Paul H. Chan. (1985). Aspects of the 40–50 Day Oscillation during the Northern Winter as Inferred from Outgoing Longwave Radiation. Monthly Weather Review. 113(11). 1889–1909. 181 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming. (1985). Elements of a Stochastic-Dynamical Theory of the Long-Term Variability of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 42(14). 1552–1558. 54 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming & Hock Lim. (1984). On the Dynamics of Equatorial Forcing of Climate Teleconnections. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 41(2). 161–176. 46 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming, et al.. (1984). The Monsoon of East Asia and its Global Associations—A Survey. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 65(2). 114–125. 387 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming & Paul H. Chan. (1983). Short-Term Climate Variability and Atmospheric Teleconnections from Satellite-Observed Outgoing Longwave Radiation. Part I: Simultaneous Relationships. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 40(12). 2735–2750. 119 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming & Paul H. Chan. (1983). Short-Term Climate Variability and Atmospheric Teleconnections from Satellite-Observed Outgoing Longwave Radiation. Part II: Lagged Correlations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 40(12). 2751–2767. 56 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming. (1982). Equatorial Response to Northeasterly Cold Surges as Inferred from Satellite Cloud Imagery. Monthly Weather Review. 110(9). 1306–1313. 17 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming & Hock Lim. (1982). Thermally Driven Motions in an Equatorial β-Plane: Hadley and Walker Circulations During the Winter Monsoon. Monthly Weather Review. 110(5). 336–353. 48 indexed citations

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Lau, Ka-Ming. (1981). Oscillations in a Simple Equatorial Climate System. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 38(2). 248–261. 42 indexed citations

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