Shineng Hu

Education

• Ph.D. Yale University, 2018

Positions

• Assistant Professor of Physical Oceanography
• Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Courses Taught

• EOS 617: Advanced Climate Dynamics: Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
• EOS 212S: Exploring Climate Sciences: Data-driven investigations
• EOS 202: Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics
• ENVIRON 899: Master's Project
• ENVIRON 593: Independent Studies and Projects
• ECS 791: Independent Study
• ECS 617: Advanced Climate Dynamics: Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
• ECS 393: Research Independent Study
• ECS 212S: Exploring Climate Sciences: Data-driven investigations
• ECS 202: Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics

Publications

• Yang N, Xia Y, Zhao C, Xie F, Hu S. Correction to: Emission reductions during COVID-19 enhance marine heatwave over the North Pacific in spring 2020 (Climate Dynamics, (2024), 62, 12, (10865-10880), 10.1007/s00382-024-07426-5). Climate Dynamics. 2024 Dec 1;62(12):10881.
• Yang N, Xia Y, Zhao C, Xie F, Hu S. Emission reductions during COVID-19 enhance marine heatwave over the North Pacific in spring 2020. Climate Dynamics. 2024 Dec 1;62(12):10865–80.
• Wang H, Hu S, Guan C, Li X. The role of sea surface salinity in ENSO forecasting in the 21st century. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 2024 Dec 1;7(1).
• Liu S, Hu S, Seager R. The West Pacific Teleconnection Drives the Interannual Variability of Autumn Wildfire Weather in the Western United States After 2000. Earth’s Future. 2024 Nov 1;12(11).
• Li X, Hu S, Hu Y, Cai W, Jin Y, Lu Z, et al. Persistently active El Niño-Southern Oscillation since the Mesozoic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2024 Nov;121(45):e2404758121.
• Fu S, Hu S, Zheng XT. Collaborative role of warm pool edge and ocean heat content in El Niño development: implications for the 1982/83 extreme El Niño. Climate Dynamics. 2024 Aug 1;62(8):7701–16.
• Zhang Y, Chen C, Hu S, Wang G, McMonigal K, Larson SM. Summer Westerly Wind Intensification Weakens Southern Ocean Seasonal Cycle Under Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 2024 Jul 28;51(14).
• Liu S, Hu S. A 21st century shift in the mechanisms of the early-winter United States snowfall variability. Environmental Research Letters. 2024 Jul 1;19(7).
• Byrne MP, Boos WR, Hu S. Elevation-dependent warming: observations, models, and energetic mechanisms. Weather and Climate Dynamics. 2024 May 22;5(2):763–77.
• Fu S, Hu S, Zheng X-T, McMonigal K, Larson S, Tian Y. Author Correction: Historical changes in wind-driven ocean circulation drive pattern of Pacific warming. Nature communications. 2024 May;15(1):4190.
• Fu S, Hu S, Zheng X-T, McMonigal K, Larson S, Tian Y. Historical changes in wind-driven ocean circulation drive pattern of Pacific warming. Nature communications. 2024 Feb;15(1):1562.
• Hu S, Xie SP, Seager R, Cane MA. Spatial and Seasonal Variations of Sea Surface Temperature Threshold for Tropical Convection. Journal of Climate. 2023 Aug 1;36(15):4899–910.
• Tian Y, Hu S, Deser C. Critical role of biomass burning aerosols in enhanced historical Indian Ocean warming. Nature communications. 2023 Jun;14(1):3508.
• Kang SM, Shin Y, Kim H, Xie S-P, Hu S. Disentangling the mechanisms of equatorial Pacific climate change. Science advances. 2023 May;9(19):eadf5059.
• McMonigal K, Larson S, Hu S, Kramer R. Historical Changes in Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation Can Accelerate Global Warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 2023 Feb 28;50(4).
• Li X, Hu Y, Yang J, Wei M, Guo J, Lan J, et al. Climate Variations in the Past 250 Million Years and Contributing Factors. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 2023 Feb 1;38(2).
• Wang H, Hu S, Li X. An Interpretable Deep Learning ENSO Forecasting Model. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research. 2023 Jan 1;2.
• Hu S, Xie SP, Kang SM. Global Warming Pattern Formation: The Role of Ocean Heat Uptake. Journal of Climate. 2022 Mar 15;35(6):1885–99.
• Hu S. Refining El Niño projections. Nature Climate Change. 2021 Sep 1;11(9):724–5.
• Hu S, Fedorov AV. Indian Ocean warming as a driver of the North Atlantic warming hole. Nature communications. 2020 Sep;11(1):4785.
• Shi J, Fedorov AV, Hu S. A sea surface height perspective on El Niño diversity, ocean energetics, and energy damping rates. Geophysical Research Letters. 2020;47(7):e2019GL086742.
• Liu W, Fedorov AV, Xie S, Hu S. Climate impacts of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a warming climate. Science advances. 2020;6(26):eaaz4876.
• Hu S, Xie S, Liu W. Global pattern formation of net ocean surface heat flux response to greenhouse warming. Journal of Climate. 2020;33(17):7503–22.
• Hu S, Fedorov AV. Indian Ocean warming as a driver of the North Atlantic warming hole. Nature communications. 2020;11(1):1–11.
• Fedorov AV, Hu S, Wittenberg AT, Levine AFZ, Deser C. ENSO Low‐Frequency Modulation and Mean State Interactions. El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate. 2020;173–98.
• Peng Q, Xie S, Wang D, Kamae Y, Zhang H, Hu S, et al. Eastern Pacific wind effect on the evolution of El Niño: implications for ENSO diversity. Journal of Climate. 2020;33(8):3197–212.
• Shi J, Fedorov AV, Hu S. North Pacific temperature and precipitation response to El Niño-like equatorial heating: sensitivity to forcing location. Climate Dynamics. 2019 Sep 13;53(5–6):2731–41.
• Hu S, Fedorov AV. The extreme El Niño of 2015–2016: The role of westerly and easterly wind bursts, and preconditioning by the failed 2014 event. Climate Dynamics. 2019;52(12):7339–57.
• Hu S, Vallis GK. Meridional structure and future changes of tropopause height and temperature. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 2019;145(723):2698–717.
• Hu S, Fedorov AV. Indian Ocean warming can strengthen the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Nature climate change. 2019;9(10):747–51.
• Shi J, Fedorov AV, Hu S. North Pacific temperature and precipitation response to El Niño-like equatorial heating: sensitivity to forcing location. Climate Dynamics. 2019;53(5):2731–41.
• Nie J, Xia Y, Hu S, Yuan W, Yang J, Ma D. Similarity Among Atmospheric Thermal Stratifications Over Elevated Surfaces Under Radiative‐Convective Equilibrium. Geophysical Research Letters. 2019;46(6):3512–22.
• Hu S, Fedorov AV. Cross-equatorial winds control El Niño diversity and change. Nature Climate Change. 2018;8(9):798–802.
• Hu S, Boos WR. The physics of orographic elevated heating in radiative–convective equilibrium. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 2017;74(9):2949–65.
• Hu S, Fedorov AV. The extreme El Niño of 2015–2016 and the end of global warming hiatus. Geophysical Research Letters. 2017;44(8):3816–24.
• Hu S, Boos WR. Competing effects of surface albedo and orographic elevated heating on regional climate. Geophysical Research Letters. 2017;44(13):6966–73.
• Hu S, Fedorov AV. Exceptionally strong easterly wind burst stalling El Niño of 2014. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016;113(8):2005–10.
• Williams RH, McGee D, Kinsley CW, Ridley DA, Hu S, Fedorov A, et al. Glacial to Holocene changes in trans-Atlantic Saharan dust transport and dust-climate feedbacks. Science Advances. 2016;2(11):e1600445.
• Fedorov AV, Hu S, Lengaigne M, Guilyardi E. The impact of westerly wind bursts and ocean initial state on the development, and diversity of El Niño events. Climate Dynamics. 2015;44(5–6):1381–401.
• Hu S, Fedorov AV, Lengaigne M, Guilyardi E. The impact of westerly wind bursts on the diversity and predictability of El Niño events: An ocean energetics perspective. Geophysical research letters. 2014;41(13):4654–63.