Ngar‐Cheung Lau

16.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
116 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

Ngar‐Cheung Lau is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ngar‐Cheung Lau has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 88 papers in Atmospheric Science and 52 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Ngar‐Cheung Lau's work include Climate variability and models (99 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (63 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (47 papers). Ngar‐Cheung Lau is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (99 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (63 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (47 papers). Ngar‐Cheung Lau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and China. Ngar‐Cheung Lau's co-authors include Mary Jo Nath, Ming Luo, Michael A. Alexander, James D. Scott, Matthew Newman, Ileana Bladé, John R. Lanzante, Arun Kumar, Kevin E. Trenberth and Grant Branstator and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Ngar‐Cheung Lau

116 papers receiving 12.2k citations

Hit Papers

The Atmospheric Bridge: T... 1988 2026 2000 2013 2002 1998 1988 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. The Atmospheric Bridge: The Influence of ENSO Teleconnections on Air–Sea Interaction over the Global Oceans
    2002 1.6k citations Ngar‐Cheung Lau et al. Journal of Climate profile →
  2. Progress during TOGA in understanding and modeling global teleconnections associated with tropical sea surface temperatures
    1998 1.4k citations Ngar‐Cheung Lau et al. profile →
  3. Variability of the Observed Midlatitude Storm Tracks in Relation to Low-Frequency Changes in the Circulation Pattern
    1988 526 citations Ngar‐Cheung Lau Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ngar‐Cheung Lau United States 57 11.6k 10.0k 5.8k 837 806 116 12.6k
John C. Fyfe Canada 49 7.5k 0.7× 7.0k 0.7× 2.6k 0.4× 484 0.6× 228 0.3× 129 9.5k
Wesley Ebisuzaki United States 15 11.6k 1.0× 10.7k 1.1× 3.8k 0.7× 316 0.4× 823 1.0× 24 13.9k
Renguang Wu China 59 15.8k 1.4× 14.7k 1.5× 8.0k 1.4× 221 0.3× 406 0.5× 412 17.0k
Jack Woollen United States 10 7.2k 0.6× 6.7k 0.7× 2.2k 0.4× 257 0.3× 605 0.8× 12 8.8k
Michael Fiorino United States 22 10.0k 0.9× 9.4k 0.9× 3.4k 0.6× 142 0.2× 449 0.6× 28 11.4k
Heini Wernli Switzerland 68 13.4k 1.2× 13.9k 1.4× 1.5k 0.3× 666 0.8× 649 0.8× 268 15.6k
Ming Zhao United States 50 7.6k 0.7× 7.7k 0.8× 2.5k 0.4× 520 0.6× 352 0.4× 171 8.7k
Masahiro Watanabe Japan 50 9.9k 0.9× 8.9k 0.9× 3.5k 0.6× 162 0.2× 266 0.3× 245 11.2k
Sang‐Wook Yeh South Korea 44 7.5k 0.6× 6.1k 0.6× 4.3k 0.7× 207 0.2× 213 0.3× 258 8.5k
Masao Kanamitsu United States 44 13.6k 1.2× 12.5k 1.2× 4.1k 0.7× 209 0.2× 825 1.0× 113 15.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ngar‐Cheung Lau

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Luo, Ming, Ngar‐Cheung Lau, Zhen Liu, Sijia Wu, & Xiaoyu Wang. (2022). An Observational Investigation of Spatiotemporally Contiguous Heatwaves in China From a 3D Perspective. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(6). 71 indexed citations
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Li, Zhenning, Chi‐Yung Tam, Yubin Li, et al.. (2022). How Does Air‐Sea Wave Interaction Affect Tropical Cyclone Intensity? An Atmosphere‐Wave‐Ocean Coupled Model Study Based on Super Typhoon Mangkhut (2018). Earth and Space Science. 9(3). 10 indexed citations
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Tam, Chi‐Yung, et al.. (2021). Forcing mechanism of the Silk Road pattern and the sensitivity of Rossby‐wave source hotspots to mean‐state winds. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 147(737). 2533–2546. 9 indexed citations
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Jiang, Xingwen, Tuantuan Zhang, Chi‐Yung Tam, et al.. (2019). Impacts of ENSO and IOD on Snow Depth Over the Tibetan Plateau: Roles of Convections Over the Western North Pacific and Indian Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(22). 11961–11975. 43 indexed citations
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Zhang, Tuantuan, Chi‐Yung Tam, Xingwen Jiang, et al.. (2019). Roles of land-surface properties and terrains on Maritime Continent rainfall and its seasonal evolution. Climate Dynamics. 53(11). 6681–6697. 4 indexed citations
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Lau, Ngar‐Cheung. (2017). The pioneering works of Professor Duzheng Ye on atmospheric dispersion, Tibetan Plateau meteorology, and air–sea interaction. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 34(10). 1137–1149. 2 indexed citations
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Chang, Chih-Pei, et al.. (2010). Bridging Weather and Climate in Research and Forecasts of the Global Monsoon System. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 92(3). 369–373. 2 indexed citations
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Lau, Ngar‐Cheung & Jeffrey J. Ploshay. (2008). Simulation of Synoptic- and Subsynoptic-Scale Phenomena Associated with the East Asian Summer Monsoon Using a High-Resolution GCM. Monthly Weather Review. 137(1). 137–160. 55 indexed citations
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Seager, Richard, Mingfang Ting, Isaac M. Held, et al.. (2007). Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in. 96 indexed citations
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Tam, Chi‐Yung & Ngar‐Cheung Lau. (2005). Modulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation by ENSO: Inferences from Observations and GCM Simulations. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 83(5). 727–743. 46 indexed citations
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Lau, Ngar‐Cheung, et al.. (2005). AGCM simulated Great Plains Low-level Jet and its mechanisms. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 1 indexed citations
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Lau, Ngar‐Cheung, Ants Leetmaa, Mary Jo Nath, & Hailan Wang. (2005). Influences of ENSO-Induced Indo–Western Pacific SST Anomalies on Extratropical Atmospheric Variability during the Boreal Summer. Journal of Climate. 18(15). 2922–2942. 99 indexed citations
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Lau, Ngar‐Cheung & Mary Jo Nath. (2004). Coupled GCM Simulation of Atmosphere–Ocean Variability Associated with Zonally Asymmetric SST Changes in the Tropical Indian Ocean. Journal of Climate. 17(2). 245–265. 133 indexed citations
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Broccoli, Anthony J., Thomas L. Delworth, & Ngar‐Cheung Lau. (2001). The Effect of Changes in Observational Coverage on the Association between Surface Temperature and the Arctic Oscillation. Journal of Climate. 14(11). 2481–2485. 3 indexed citations
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Philander, S. George, Ngar‐Cheung Lau, R. C. Pacanowski, & Mary Jo Nath. (1989). Two different simulations of the Southern Oscillation and El Niño with coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 329(1604). 167–178. 25 indexed citations
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Lau, Ngar‐Cheung. (1988). Variability of the Observed Midlatitude Storm Tracks in Relation to Low-Frequency Changes in the Circulation Pattern. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 45(19). 2718–2743. 526 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kang, In‐Sik & Ngar‐Cheung Lau. (1986). Principal Modes of Atmospheric Variability in Model Atmospheres with and without Anomalous Sea Surface Temperature Forcing in the Tropical Pacific. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 43(22). 2719–2735. 30 indexed citations

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