Wenju Cai

Dados Biográficos

ID6819065
NOMEWenju Cai
PRENOMESWenju
SOBRENOMECai
ASSINATURACAI W
AFILIAÇÕESCSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
ORCID0000-0001-6520-0829
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS10
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Biases in Enso response to greenhouse warming induced by ensemble-mean detrending in large ensemble simulations

    Open AccessShuo Wu, Tao Geng et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Quantifying projected changes in the El Niño–southern oscillation (ENSO) requires an appropriate removal of greenhouse warming-induced trend in associated sea surface temperature (SST) field. Multi-member ensemble average over single-model large ensemble (LE) simulations is frequently used to isolate an externally-forced climate response from internal variability, but whether it can cleanly extract the forced ENSO response to greenhouse warming r…

  • Post-2000 greening of Kalahari Desert and southern African grasslands reduces food and economic insecurity in Africa

    Open AccessDebashis Nath, Reshmita Nath et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    The Kalahari high-pressure system that forms the Kalahari and Namib Deserts of Southern Africa is maintained by the sinking motion of the Hadley circulation. Despite projected desertification under the climate change, beginning in the early 21st century the Kalahari Desert and grasslands of South Africa, Lesotho–Drakensberg highland and Eswatini has experienced a trend of greening/Savannisation. Here, we find that the disparity is likely due to s…

  • More high-impact atmospheric river-induced extreme precipitation events under warming in a high-resolution model

    Open AccessXiuwen Guo, Yang Gao et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024

  • Role of external forcing in the time-varying trends of global-mean surface temperature under current and future climates

    Open AccessPingting Gu, Bolan Gan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The decadal-scale global-mean surface temperature (GMST) trend fluctuates between rapid-warming, slow-warming and cooling under the combined action of external forcing (EX) and internal variability. However, the principal contributors to the time-varying trends of GMST across decadal scales in current and future climates remain elusive. Here, by leveraging observations and initial-condition large ensembles, we unravel that historical GMST trend f…

  • Moderate Indian Ocean Dipole dominates spring fire weather conditions in southern Australia

    Open AccessXuya Ren, Li Zhang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Patterns of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) exhibit strong diversity, ranging from being dominated by the western tropical Indian ocean (WTIO) to by the eastern tropical Indian ocean. How the different types of the IOD variability patterns affect Australian fires differently is unknown, nor is it certain how the impacts may change under greenhouse warming. Here, we find that the moderate IOD, dominated by WTIO sea surface temperature (SST) variabil…

  • Mechanisms of model bias impacting responses of the Atlantic cold tongue to greenhouse warming

    Open AccessYun Yang, Xi Cheng et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    The Atlantic cold tongue, which typically peaks in boreal summer, exerts a pronounced regional and global impact on the climate and socio-economy. Projected future changes in the Atlantic cold tongue are full of uncertainty, mainly arising from a model bias in simulating its mean state, with less biased models projecting a stronger weakening in amplitude. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we find that model bias exerts its …

  • Mesoscale eddies inhibit intensification of the Subantarctic Front under global warming

    Open AccessDapeng Li, Zhao Jing et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Oceanic mesoscale eddies are important dynamical processes in the Southern Ocean. Using high-resolution (~0.1○ for the ocean) Community Earth System Model (CESM-HR) simulations under a high-carbon emission scenario, we investigate the role of mesoscale eddies in regulating the response of the Subantarctic Front (SAF) to global warming. The CESM-HR simulates more realistic oceanic fronts and mesoscale eddies in the Southern Ocean than a coarse-res…

  • West-warming East-cooling trend over Antarctica reversed since early 21 st century driven by large-scale circulation variation

    Open AccessMeijiao Xin, Kyle R Clem et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Antarctic climate changes prior to 2000 were characterized by a strong zonally asymmetric pattern. Over 90% of the land ice mass loss occurred around a limited area in West Antarctica, accompanied by a rapid surface warming rate about three times the global mean. In contrast, surface warming and glacier mass loss around East Antarctica are not significant, until the decades since 2000 when several individual stations show that the temperature tre…

  • Influence of tropical Atlantic meridional dipole of sea surface temperature anomalies on Antarctic autumn sea ice

    Open AccessXuya Ren, Li Zhang et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Antarctic sea ice plays an important role in polar ecosystems and global climate, while its variability is affected by many factors. Teleconnections between the tropical and high latitudes have profound impacts on Antarctic climate changes through the stationary Rossby wave mechanism. Recent studies have connected long-term Antarctic sea ice changes to multidecadal variabilities of the tropical ocean, including the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillati…

  • A surface temperature dipole pattern between Eurasia and North America triggered by the Barents–Kara sea-ice retreat in boreal winter

    Open AccessYurong Hou, Wenju Cai et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    The Arctic has experienced dramatic climate changes, characterized by rapid surface warming and sea-ice loss over the past four decades, with broad implications for climate variability over remote regions. Some studies report that Arctic warming may simultaneously induce a widespread cooling over Eurasia and frequent cold events over North America, especially during boreal winter. In contrast, other studies suggest a seesaw pattern of extreme tem…