Weather and Climate Dynamics Laboratory
Dr. Lei Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Purdue University
Email: leiwang@purdue.edu
Publications
My Google Scholar page
Underlined = advised by Wang.
Submitted / Under Review:
Hu, Y. , Wang L.: Atmospheric Blocking as a Serendipitous Encounter Between Traveling Storms and Periodic Seeds.
Holder Z. , Hu Y. , Wang L., Chavas D., Feng Z., and Leung L. R.: Enhanced Occurrence of Extreme Precipitation Associated With Mesoscale Convective Systems Over the US by Baroclinic Annular Mode.
Ho, K., Wang, L., Gerber E., Ming Y.: The Recurrence of Atmospheric Blocking.
Published:
Mahendra, N., Chilukoti N., Liu X., Chowdary J.S., Wang L., Huber M. (2026): Missing summer westerly jet barotropic governor effect explains climate models - observation discrepancies in the Indian monsoon trends. AGU Advances, e2025AV002173. Link
Wang, L., Lu J., Breeden M., Chen G., Henderson S., Narinesingh V., Simpson I., Woollings T., Hu Y., Lubis S. (2026): Gaps and Ways Forward in Atmospheric Blocking and Extreme Weather Research. Nature Communications 17, 2873. Link
He, C., Zhang L.N., Leung L.R., and co-authors including Wang L. (2025): Harnessing land-atmosphere interactions to enhance subseasonal-to-seasonal predictability. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) Link
Mahendra, N., Huber M., Wang L., Hunt K.M., Chilukoti N., Chowdary J.S. (2025): Stagnation of atmospheric circulation leads to historically-prolonged extreme rainfall event over northwestern India in August 2024. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. JGRD70062. Link
Liu, X., Zhang Y. G., Huber M., Chang P., and Wang L. (2025): Connecting warming patterns of the paleo-ocean to our future. AGU Advances . Link
Liu, Z., Wang, L. (2025). Blocking diversity causes distinct roles of diabatic heating in the Northern Hemisphere. Nature Communications 16, 5613. Link
Yan, X., & Wang, L., E. Gerber, V. Castaneda, K. Ho (2024). Traffic Bottlenecks: Predicting Atmospheric Blocking with a Diminishing Flow Capacity. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL111035. Link
Liu, Z., & Wang, L. (2024). Enhanced occurrence of atmospheric blocking in the
Southern Hemisphere by Baroclinic Annular Mode. Geophysical Research Letters, 51,
e2023GL107343. Link
Castañeda, V. , & Wang, L. (2024). The role of climatological state in supporting US heat waves through Rossby waves packets. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2023JD039212. link
Liu, Z., & Wang, L. (2023). Regional features of the 20–30 Day periodic behavior in the Southern Hemisphere summer circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104256. Link
Kleiner, N., Chan, P. W., Wang, L., Ma, D., & Kuang, Z. (2021). Effects of climate model mean-state bias on blocking underestimation. Geophysical Research Letters. Link
Coumou, D., Di Capua, G., Vavrus, S., Wang, L., and Wang, S. (2018): The Influence of Arctic Amplification on Mid-Latitude Summer Circulation. Nature Communication. Link
Wang, L., Lu, J., and Kuang, Z. (2018): A robust increase of the intra-seasonal periodic behavior of the precipitation and eddy kinetic energy in a warming climate. Geophysical Research Letters. Link
Wang, L., and Nakamura, N. (2016): Covariation of finite-amplitude wave activity and the zonal mean flow in the mid-latitude troposphere. Part 2: Eddy forcing spectra and the periodic behavior in the Southern Hemisphere summer. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Link
Wang, L., and Lee, S. (2016): The role of fast eddies on poleward jet shift of non- advective mean flow. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Link
Wang, L., Jansen, M., and Abernathey, R. (2016): Eddy phase speeds in a two-layer model of quasigeostrophic baroclinic turbulence with applications to ocean observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography. Link
Wang, L., and Nakamura, N. (2015): Covariation of finite-amplitude wave activity and the zonal mean flow in the midlatitude troposphere. Part 1: Theory and application to the Southern Hemisphere summer, Geophysical Research Letters. Link
Nakamura, N., and Wang, L. (2013): On the Thickness Ratio in the Quasigeostrophic Two-Layer Model of Baroclinic Instability. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Link