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L Ruby Leung
Battelle fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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The Role of Wind Speed in Prolonging Large Fire Durations in the Western US
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
28 april 2025
Sing-Chun Wang, L. Ruby Leung, Yun Qian

The duration of large wildfires in the western US has increased significantly from 1992 to 2020 in the two fire seasons, by 0.76 days yr&...

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Mesoscale Convective Systems Tracking Method Intercomparison (MCSMIP): Application to DYAMOND Global km‐Scale Simulations
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
12 april 2025
John Mejia, MANIKANDAN RAJAGOPAL, Vanessa Robledo,...

Global kilometer‐scale models represent the future of Earth system modeling, enabling explicit simulation of organized convective storms and ...

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A Scale‐Adaptive Urban Hydrologic Framework: Incorporating Network‐Level Storm Drainage Pipes Representation
WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
20 march 2025
taher chegini, Hong-Yi Li, Yi-Chen E. Yang, Guente...

Below‐ground urban stormwater networks (BUSNs) significantly influence urban flood dynamics, yet their representation at the watershed or lar...

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Reducing Long‐Standing Surface Ozone Overestimation in Earth System Modeling by High‐Resolution Simulation and Dry Deposition Improvement
JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
08 march 2025
Yang Gao, Wenbin Kou, Wenxuan Cheng, Xiuwen Guo, B...

The overestimation of surface ozone concentration in low‐resolution global atmospheric chemistry and climate models has been a long‐sta...

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How Flood Hazards in a Warming Climate Could Be Amplified by Changes in Spatiotemporal Patterns and Mechanisms of Water Available for Runoff
EARTH'S FUTURE
01 march 2025
Hongxiang Yan, Zhuoran Duan, Mark S. Wigmosta, Nin...

Prior research on climate change impacts on flooding has primarily focused on changes in extreme rainfall magnitudes, often neglecting snow process...

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Co‐Occurring Atmospheric Features and Their Contributions to Precipitation Extremes
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
28 february 2025
Suqin Duan, Wei-Ming Tsai, Suqin DUAN, Travis A. O...

Object‐based identification algorithms for atmospheric features are commonly utilized to attribute global precipitation. This study employs a...

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Relationships Between Mesoscale Convective System Properties and Midlevel Dynamic Perturbations
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
12 february 2025
James Marquis, Zhe Feng, Sandro W. Lubis, Zhixiao ...

Past studies implicate dynamic anomalies operating on subsynoptic scales as a possible initiation source of summertime (July–August) mesoscal...

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The Scaling of MCS, Non‐MCS, and Total Extreme Precipitation With Temperature Over the Central United States
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
08 february 2025
Huancui Hu, L. Ruby Leung, xiaoming Sun, Guiling W...

While extreme precipitation is expected to increase in a warming climate, its scaling with temperature at weather timescales often produces puzzlin...

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