Publications

2025

1. CP

   Multi-model assessment of the deglacial climatic evolution at high southern latitudes

   Takashi Obase, Laurie Menviel, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Tristan Vadsaria, Ruza Ivanovic, Brooke Snoll, Sam Sherriff-Tadano, Paul J Valdes, Lauren Gregoire, Chengfei He, and others

   Climate of the Past, 2025
2. Sci.Bull.

   How does globally accumulated tropical cyclone energy vary in response to a changing climate?

   Kaiyue Shan, Fengfei Song, Yanluan Lin, Wenchao Chu, Chengfei He, Pao-Shin Chu, Lixin Wu, and Xiping Yu

   Science Bulletin, 2025
3. OLAR

   Unraveling the Complexity of Global Climate Dynamics: Interactions among El Niño–Southern Oscillation, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and Tropical Basins Across Different Timescales

   Aixue Hu, Ingo Richter, Yuko Okumura, Natalie Burls, Noel Keenlyside, Rhys Parfitt, Katinka Bellomo, Alessio Bellucci, Riccardo Farneti, Chengfei He, and others

   Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research, 2025
4. GRL

   Fingerprints of AMOC decline are sensitive to external and mechanistic forcing

   Kay McMonigal, Sarah M Larson, Melissa Gervais, Jeremy M Klavans, Chengfei He, Mark A Cane, Susanna Corti, and Katinka Bellomo

   Geophysical Research Letters, 2025
5. Comm.Earth & Env.

   Precipitation oxygen isotope variability across timescales in East Asia records two sub-processes of summer monsoon system

   Zhaowei Jing, Zhengyu Liu, Shaoqing Zhang, Qin Wen, Chengfei He, Yuntao Bao, and Wusheng Yu

   Communications Earth & Environment, 2025
6. Nat.Commun.

   Reduced Antarctic Bottom Water overturning rate during the early last deglaciation inferred from radiocarbon records

   Sifan Gu, Zhengyu Liu, Ning Zhao, Tianyu Chen, Jimin Yu, Jiaxu Zhang, Sang Chen, Zhaoru Zhang, Chengfei He, and others

   Nature Communications, 2025

2024

1. PNAS

   The Greenland spatial fingerprint of Dansgaard–Oeschger events in observations and models

   Christo Buizert, Todd A Sowers, Kyle Niezgoda, Thomas Blunier, Vasileios Gkinis, Margaret Harlan, Chengfei He, Tyler R Jones, Helle A Kjaer, Jesper B Liisberg, and others

   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024
2. PNAS

   Open ocean convection drives enhanced eastern pathway of the Glacial Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

   Sifan Gu, Zhengyu Liu, Hong Chin Ng, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Jerry F McManus, Michael Spall, Alexandra Jahn, Chengfei He, Lingwei Li, Mi Yan, and others

   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024
3. Sci.Adv.

   Enhanced ocean heat storage efficiency during the last deglaciation

   Chenyu Zhu, Saray Sanchez, Zhengyu Liu, Peter U Clark, Chengfei He, Lingfeng Wan, Jiuyou Lu, Chenguang Zhu, Lingwei Li, Shaoqing Zhang, and others

   Science Advances, 2024

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4. CP

   A multi-model assessment of the early last deglaciation (PMIP4 LDv1): a meltwater perspective

   Brooke Snoll, Ruza Ivanovic, Lauren Gregoire, Sam Sherriff-Tadano, Laurie Menviel, Takashi Obase, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Nathaelle Bouttes, Chengfei He, Feng He, and others

   Climate of the Past, 2024

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5. QSR

   Changes in Indo-Pacific Warm Pool hydroclimate and vegetation during the last deglaciation

   Meredith Parish, James Russell, Bronwen Konecky, Xiaojing Du, Chengfei He, Satria Bijaksana, and Hendrik Vogel

   Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024
6. Comm.Earth & Env.

   Last Glacial Maximum cooling induced positive moisture balance and maintained stable human populations in Australia

   Haidee Cadd, Alan N Williams, Wanchese M Saktura, Tim J Cohen, Scott D Mooney, Chengfei He, Bette Otto-Bliesner, and Chris SM Turney

   Communications Earth & Environment, 2024
7. Nat.Geosci.

   Wind-steered Eastern Pathway of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

   Zhengyu Liu, Sifan Gu, Sijia Zou, Shaoqing Zhang, Yangyang Yu, and Chengfei He

   Nature Geoscience, 2024

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2023

1. Nature

   

   Tropical Atlantic multidecadal variability is dominated by external forcing

   Chengfei He, Amy Clement, Sydney Kramer, Mark Cane, Jeremy Klavans, Tyler Fenske, and Lisa Murphy

   Nature, 2023

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2. JCLI

   Dipole Response of Millennial Variability in Tropical South American Precipitation and δ18 O p During the Last Deglaciation: Part I: Rainfall Response

   Yuntao Bao, Zhengyu Liu, and Chengfei He

   Journal of Climate, 2023
3. JCLI

   Dipole Response of Millennial Variability in Tropical South American Precipitation and δ18 O p During the Last Deglaciation: Part II: δ18 O p response

   Yuntao Bao, Zhengyu Liu, and Chengfei He

   Journal of Climate, 2023
4. JCLI

   Reconstruction of past Antarctic temperature using present seasonal δ18 O-inversion layer temperature: Unified Slope Equations and Applications

   Z Liu, Chengfei He, M Yan, C Buizert, BL Otto-Bliesner, F Lu, and C Zeng

   Journal of Climate, 2023

2022

1. JCLI

   Antarctic Warming during Heinrich Stadial 1 in a Transient Isotope-Enabled Deglacial Simulation

   Chenyu Zhu, Jiaxu Zhang, Zhengyu Liu, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Chengfei He, Esther C Brady, Robert Tomas, Qin Wen, Qing Li, Chenguang Zhu, and others

   Journal of Climate, 2022
2. GRL

   A North Atlantic warming hole without ocean circulation

   Chengfei He, Amy C Clement, Mark A Cane, Lisa N Murphy, Jeremy M Klavans, and Tyler M Fenske

   Geophysical Research Letters, 2022

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3. GRL

   Termination 1 Millennial-scale Rainfall Events over the Sunda Shelf

   F Buckingham, SA Carolin, JW Partin, JF Adkins, KM Cobb, CC Day, Q Ding, Chengfei He, and others

   Geophysical Research Letters, 2022
4. GRL

   Local Insolation Drives Afro-Asian Monsoon at Orbital-Scale in Holocene

   Qin Wen, Zhengyu Liu, Jiang Zhu, Mi Yan, Chengfei He, Jing Han, Jian Liu, and Yishuang Liang

   Geophysical Research Letters, 2022

2021

1. JCLI

   On the formation mechanism of the seasonal persistence barrier

   Yishuai Jin, Zhengyu Liu, Chengfei He, and Yuchu Zhao

   Journal of Climate, 2021
2. Sci.Adv.

   

   Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation

   Chengfei He, Zhenyu Liu, BL Otto-Bliesner, EC Brady, C Zhu, R Tomas, PU Clark, J Zhu, A Jahn, S Gu, and others

   Science Advances, 2021

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3. Science

   

   Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

   Christo Buizert, TJ Fudge, William HG Roberts, Eric J Steig, Sam Sherriff-Tadano, Catherine Ritz, Eric Lefebvre, Jon Edwards, Kenji Kawamura, Ikumi Oyabu, Chengfei He, and others

   Science, 2021

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4. Sci.Adv.

   

   Abrupt Heinrich Stadial 1 cooling missing in Greenland oxygen isotopes

   Chengfei He, Zhengyu Liu, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Esther C Brady, Chenyu Zhu, Robert Tomas, Christo Buizert, and Jeffrey P Severinghaus

   Science Advances, 2021

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5. GRL

   Shallowing Glacial Antarctic Intermediate Water by Changes in Sea Ice and Hydrological Cycle

   Lingwei Li, Zhengyu Liu, Chenyu Zhu, Chengfei He, and Bette Otto-Bliesner

   Geophysical Research Letters, 2021
6. Nat.Commns.

   

   Deglacial variability of South China hydroclimate heavily contributed by autumn rainfall

   Chengfei He, Zhengyu Liu, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Esther C Brady, Chenyu Zhu, Robert Tomas, Sifan Gu, Jing Han, and Yishuai Jin

   Nature communications, 2021

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7. P&P

   Testing Methods for Reconstructing Glacial Antarctic Circumpolar Current Transport in an Isotope-Enabled Climate Model

   Lingwei Li, Zhengyu Liu, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Chengfei He, Sifan Gu, Jiaxu Zhang, and Bette Otto-Bliesner

   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2021
8. QSR

   Deglacial trends in Indo-Pacific warm pool hydroclimate in an isotope-enabled Earth system model and implications for isotope-based paleoclimate reconstructions

   Xiaojing Du, James M Russell, Zhengyu Liu, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Yu Gao, Chenyu Zhu, Delia W Oppo, Mahyar Mohtadi, Yan Yan, Valier V Galy, and Chengfei He

   Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021
9. QSR

   A mechanistic understanding of oxygen isotopic changes in the Western United States at the Last Glacial Maximum

   Clay Tabor, Marcus Lofverstrom, Jessica Oster, Barbara Wortham, Cameron Wet, Isabel Montañez, Alan Rhoades, Colin Zarzycki, Chengfei He, and others

   Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021

2020

1. EPSL

   North Atlantic subsurface temperature response controlled by effective freshwater input in “Heinrich” events

   Chengfei He, Zhengyu Liu, Jiang Zhu, Jiaxu Zhang, Sifan Gu, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Esther Brady, Chenyu Zhu, Yishuai Jin, and Jingzhe Sun

   Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020

2019

1. JMSJS

   Turbulent heat flux reconstruction in the North Pacific from 1921 to 2014

   Bin Song, Xiefei Zhi, Mengting Pan, Meiyi Hou, Chengfei He, and Klaus Fraedrich

   Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 2019
2. NCC

   

   The transient response of atmospheric and oceanic heat transports to anthropogenic warming

   Chengfei He, Zhengyu Liu, and Aixue Hu

   Nature Climate Change, 2019

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3. GRL

   Seasonal cycle of background in the tropical Pacific as a cause of ENSO spring persistence barrier

   Yishuai Jin, Zhengyu Liu, Zhengyao Lu, and Chengfei He

   Geophysical Research Letters, 2019

2018

1. JCLI

   Local and remote responses of atmospheric and oceanic heat transports to climate forcing: Compensation versus collaboration

   Zhengyu Liu, Chengfei He, and Feiyu Lu

   Journal of Climate, 2018

2016

1. JCLI

   A theory for Bjerknes compensation: The role of climate feedback

   Zhengyu Liu, Haijun Yang, Chengfei He, and Yingying Zhao

   Journal of Climate, 2016

2015

1. MAP

   Multi-model ensemble forecasts of tropical cyclones in 2010 and 2011 based on the Kalman Filter method

   Chengfei He, Xiefei Zhi, Qinglong You, Bin Song, and Klaus Fraedrich

   Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 2015