Shengping He

Researcher

Geophysical Institute

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E-mailshengping.he@uib.no
Phone48 38 30 10
Visitor Address
Jahnebakken 5

5007 Bergen

Room
West Wing, 3004
Postal Address
Postboks 7803

5020 Bergen

Research Interest

Causes and impacts of Arctic surface warming and warming aloft
Roles of Arctic sea ice and/or Arctic Open Water in climate variability, change and prediction
Effects of forcing factors and atmospheric dynamics on extreme weather events and climate
East Asian winter monsoon
Teleconnections especially their roles in climate impacts and predictability
Machine Learning for climate prediction (guided by the knowledge obtained from the above topics).

Five (of ~50) selected peer-reviewed papers:

Zhao Jiazhen [PhD student], Shengping He, and Huijun Wang, 2022: Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy. Environmental Research Letters, 024015.
Li Hua, Shengping He, Ke Fan, et al., 2021: Recent Intensified Influence of the Winter North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature on the Mei-Yu Withdrawal Date. Journal of Climate 34(10), 3869-3887.
He Shengping, Xinping Xu, Tore Furevik, and Yongqi Gao, 2020: Eurasian cooling linked to the vertical distribution of Arctic warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(10), e2020GL087212.
He Shengping, Yongqi Gao, ...., 2017: Impact of Arctic Oscillation on the East Asian climate: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 164, 48-62.
He Shengping, and Huijun Wang [PhD supervisor], 2013: Oscillating relationship between the East Asian winter monsoon and ENSO. Journal of Climate, 9819-9838.

Teaching experience at University-level:

Teaching assistant

2018- 2018 Teaching Assistant – Models and Methods in Numerical Weather Prediction, University of Bergen/Geophysical Institute/Norway
2017- 2017 Teaching Assistant – Causes of Climate Change, University of Bergen/Geophysical Institute/Norway

Lecturer

30 June-6 July 2018, Norheimsund, Norway. Lecturer and committee for summer shcool - “ARCPATH/CONNECTED Summer School - Climate Teleconnections and Predictions: Past, Present and Future”, organized by University of Bergen and Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center; PhD level, 7 students from Norway, 6 from other European countries, 2 from Russia, and 12 from China. I have given two lectures: (1) Climate Teleconnection: Linkage the Arctic warming to lower latitudes and (2) Climate Change Research, Operation and Service in China. Language: English

Co-Suprevision of PhD and Master degree students

Total: eight (7 PhD degree students and 1 Master degree student),

Six graduated PhD degree stduents,

1. 2016-2020, Xinping Xu (MD-PhD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; selected papers:

Xu X., Shengping He, Yongqi Gao, Tore Furevik, et al., 2019: Strengthened linkage between midlatitudes and Arctic in boreal winter. Climate Dynamics, 53(7), 3971-3983.
Xu Xingping, Shengping He, et al., 2018: Impact of northern Eurasian snow cover in autumn on the warm Arctic–cold Eurasia pattern during the following January and its linkage to stationary planetary waves. Climate dynamics, 50(5), 1993-2006.

2. 2015-2020, Lianlian Xu (MD-PhD), University of Chinese Academy of Science; selected papers:

Xu Lianlian, Shengping He, et al., 2018: Numerical simulation on the southern flood and northern drought in summer 2014 over Eastern China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 134(3), 1287-1299.

3. 2014-2019, Hua Li (MD-PhD), University of Chinese Academy of Science; selected papers:

Li Hua, Shengping He, et al., 2019: Relationship between the onset date of the Meiyu and the South Asian anticyclone in April and the related mechanisms. Climate Dynamics, 52(1), 209-226.

4. 2014-2019, Yang Liu (MD-PhD), University of Chinese Academy of Science; selected papers:

Liu Yang and Shengping He, 2020: Strengthened Linkage between November/December North Atlantic Oscillation and Subsequent January European Precipitation after the Late 1980s. Journal of Climate 33.19 (2020): 8281-8300.
Liu Yang, Shengping He, et al., 2017: Interdecadal change between the Arctic Oscillation and East Asian climate during 1900–2015 winters. International Journal of Climatology, 37(14), 4791-4802.

5. 2012-2018, Xin Hao (MD-PhD), University of Chinese Academy of Science; selected papers:

Hao Xin, Shengping He, et al., 2019: Quantifying the contribution of anthropogenic influence to the East Asian winter monsoon in 1960–2012. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(15), 9903-9911.
Hao Xin, and Shengping He., 2017: Combined effect of ENSO-like and Atlantic multidecadal oscillation SSTAs on the interannual variability of the East Asian winter monsoon. Journal of Climate 30.7: 2697-2716.
Hao Xin, Shengping He, and Huijun Wang, 2016: Asymmetry in the response of central Eurasian winter temperature to AMO. Climate Dynamics 47.7: 2139-2154.

6. 2012-2017, Tingting Han (MD-PhD), University of Chinese Academy of Science; selected papers:

Han Tingting, Shengping He, et al., 2019: Variation in principal modes of midsummer precipitation over Northeast China and its associated atmospheric circulation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 36(1): 55-64.
Han Tingting, Shengping He, et al., 2018: Enhanced influence of early-spring tropical Indian Ocean SST on the following early-summer precipitation over Northeast China. Climate dynamics, 51(11): 4065-4076.

One graduated Master degree stduents

1. 2015-2018, Shuo LI, University of Chinese Academy of Science; selected papers:

LI Shuo, Shengping He, et al., 2020: Precursor in Arctic oscillation for the East Asian January temperature and its relationship with stationary planetary waves: Results from CMIP5 models. International Journal of Climatology, 40(3), 1492-1511.
LI Shuo, Shengping He, et al. 2018: Simulated and projected relationship between the East Asian winter monsoon and winter Arctic Oscillation in CMIP5 models. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 11(5), 417-424.

One on going PhD degree student

1. 2021-, Jiazhen Zhao, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; selected papers:

Zhao Jiazhen, Shengping He, and Huijun Wang, 2022: Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy. Environmental Research Letters 17.2 (2022): 024015.

Academic article

Show author(s) (2024). Thermodynamic and dynamic contributions to the abrupt increased winter Arctic sea ice growth since 2008. Environmental Research Letters.
Show author(s) (2024). The contrast responses of August precipitation over Northeast China to strong and moderate developing El Niño. Atmospheric research.
Show author(s) (2024). Relative impacts of sea ice loss and atmospheric internal variability on winter Arctic to East Asian surface air temperature based on large-ensemble simulations with NorESM2. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.
Show author(s) (2024). Projecting Wintertime Newly Formed Arctic Sea Ice through Weighting CMIP6 Model Performance and Independence. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 1-18.
Show author(s) (2024). Projecting Spring Consecutive Rainfall Events in the Three Gorges Reservoir Based on Triple-Nested Dynamical Downscaling. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.

Show author(s) (2023). Reconciling conflicting evidence for the cause of the observed early 21st century Eurasian cooling. Weather and Climate Dynamics (WCD). 95-114.
Show author(s) (2023). Interdecadal Changes in the Linkage Between North Pacific Oscillation During May and Northeast China Precipitation During Mid-Summer: The Influence of North Atlantic Oscillation. Earth's Future. 16 pages.
Show author(s) (2023). Impacts of the extratropical North Pacific on boreal summer Arctic circulation. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 8 pages.
Show author(s) (2023). Arctic Warming and Eurasian Cooling: Weakening and Reemergence. Geophysical Research Letters. 10 pages.

Show author(s) (2022). The extreme Arctic warm anomaly in November 2020. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 6 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). The Role of Mid-latitude Westerly Jet in the Impacts of November Ural Blocking on Early-Winter Warmer Arctic-Colder Eurasia Pattern. Geophysical Research Letters. 8 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). Role of Atmosphere–Ocean–Ice Interaction in the Linkage between December Bering Sea Ice and Subsequent February Surface Air Temperature over North America. Journal of Climate. 1679-1696.
Show author(s) (2022). Hydroclimatic intensity change in China during the past decades and its future trend based on CMIP5/6. Journal of Hydrology. 16 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). Historical and future runoff changes in the Yangtze River Basin from CMIP6 models constrained by a weighting strategy. Environmental Research Letters.
Show author(s) (2022). Constraining CMIP6 Projections of an Ice-Free Arctic Using a Weighting Scheme. Earth's Future. 19 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). Atmospheric Contributions to the Reversal of Surface Temperature Anomalies Between Early and Late Winter Over Eurasia. Earth's Future. 14 pages.

Show author(s) (2021). The Atlantic Multidecadal Variability phase-dependence of teleconnection between the North Atlantic Oscillation in February and the Tibetan Plateau in March. Journal of Climate. 4227-4242.
Show author(s) (2021). Recent Intensified Influence of the Winter North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature on the Mei-Yu Withdrawal Date. Journal of Climate. 3869-3887.
Show author(s) (2021). Principle of Machine Learning and Its Potential Application in Climate Prediction. Journal of Autonomous Intelligence. 13-28.
Show author(s) (2021). Machine learning and its potential application to climate prediction. Transactions of Atmospheric Sciences.
Show author(s) (2021). Intensified Impacts of Central Pacific ENSO on the Reversal of December and January Surface Air Temperature Anomaly over China since 1997. Journal of Climate. 1601-1618.
Show author(s) (2021). Contributors to linkage between Arctic warming and East Asian winter climate. Climate Dynamics. 2543-2555.
Show author(s) (2021). 2020/21 record-breaking cold waves in east of China enhanced by the 'Warm Arctic-Cold Siberia' pattern. Environmental Research Letters. 10 pages.

Show author(s) (2020). Understanding of European cold extremes, sudden stratospheric warming, and Siberian snow accumulation in the winter of 2017/18. Journal of Climate. 527-545.
Show author(s) (2020). Subsea permafrost carbon stocks and climate change sensitivity estimated by expert assessment. Environmental Research Letters. 14 pages.
Show author(s) (2020). Strengthened linkage between November/December North Atlantic Oscillation and subsequent January european precipitation after the late 1980s. Journal of Climate. 8281-8300.
Show author(s) (2020). Solar-wind-magnetosphere energy influences the interannual variability of the northern-hemispheric winter climate. National Science Review. 141-148.
Show author(s) (2020). Relationship between Solar Wind—Magnetosphere Energy and Eurasian Winter Cold Events. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 652-661.
Show author(s) (2020). Oceanic forcing of the global warming slowdown in multi-model simulations . International Journal of Climatology.
Show author(s) (2020). North Atlantic Modulation of Interdecadal Variations in Hot Drought Events over Northeastern China. Journal of Climate. 4315-4332.
Show author(s) (2020). Impact of late spring Siberian snow on summer rainfall in South-Central China. Climate Dynamics. 3803-3818.
Show author(s) (2020). Eurasia Cooling Linked to the Vertical Distribution of Arctic Warming. Geophysical Research Letters.

Show author(s) (2019). Variation in Principal Modes of Midsummer Precipitation over Northeast China and Its Associated Atmospheric Circulation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 55-64.
Show author(s) (2019). Strengthened linkage between midlatitudes and Arctic in boreal winter. Climate Dynamics. 3971-3983.
Show author(s) (2019). Quantifying the contribution of anthropogenic influence to the East Asian winter monsoon in 1960-2012. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). 9903-9911.
Show author(s) (2019). Precursor in Arctic oscillation for the East Asian January temperature and its relationship with stationary planetary waves: Results from CMIP5 models. International Journal of Climatology. 1-20.
Show author(s) (2019). Influence of December snow cover over North America on January surface air temperature over the midlatitude Asia. International Journal of Climatology. 572-584.
Show author(s) (2019). Effect of summer Arctic sea ice on the reverse August precipitation anomaly in Eastern China between 1998 and 2016. Journal of Climate. 3389-3407.

Show author(s) (2018). Teleconnection between sea ice in the Barents Sea in June and the Silk Road, Pacific–Japan and East Asian rainfall patterns in August. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 52-64.
Show author(s) (2018). Subseasonal reversal of East Asian surface temperature variability in winter 2014/15. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 737-752.
Show author(s) (2018). Simulated and projected relationship between the East Asian winter monsoon and winter Arctic Oscillation in CMIP5 models. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 417-424.
Show author(s) (2018). Relationship between the onset date of the Meiyu and the South Asian anticyclone in April and the related mechanisms. Climate Dynamics. 1-18.
Show author(s) (2018). Recent intensified impact of December Arctic Oscillation on subsequent January temperature in Eurasia and North Africa. Climate Dynamics. 1-18.
Show author(s) (2018). Influence of solar wind energy flux on the interannual variability of ENSO in the subsequent year. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. 165-172.
Show author(s) (2018). Impacts of the autumn Arctic sea ice on the intraseasonal reversal of the winter Siberian high. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 173-188.
Show author(s) (2018). Impact of Global Oceanic Warming on Winter Eurasian Climate. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 1254-1264.
Show author(s) (2018). Evidence for Predictive Skill of High-Latitude Climate Due to Midsummer Sea Ice Extent Anomalies. Geophysical Research Letters. 9114-9122.
Show author(s) (2018). Decadal shift in West China autumn precipitation and its association with sea surface temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR). 835-847.
Show author(s) (2018). Atlantic multidecadal oscillation modulates the impacts of Arctic sea ice decline. Geophysical Research Letters. 2497-2506.

Show author(s) (2017). Unstable relationship between the Arctic Oscillation and East Asian jet stream in winter and possible mechanisms. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 1-15.
Show author(s) (2017). The impact of long-term oceanic warming on the Antarctic Oscillation in austral winter. Scientific Reports. 1-6.
Show author(s) (2017). Perspective on the northwestward shift of autumn tropical cyclogenesis locations over the western North Pacific from shifting ENSO. Climate Dynamics. 1-11.
Show author(s) (2017). Numerical simulation on the southern flood and northern drought in summer 2014 over Eastern China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 1287-1299.
Show author(s) (2017). Modulation of the Aleutian–Icelandic low seesaw and its surface impacts by the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 95-105.
Show author(s) (2017). Interdecadal change between the Arctic Oscillation and East Asian climate during 1900-2015 winters. International Journal of Climatology. 4791-4802.
Show author(s) (2017). Impact of northern Eurasian snow cover in autumn on the warm Arctic - cold Eurasia pattern during the following January and its linkage to stationary planetary waves. Climate Dynamics. 1993-2006.
Show author(s) (2017). Enhanced influence of early-spring tropical Indian Ocean SST on the following early-summer precipitation over Northeast China. Climate Dynamics. 1-12.
Show author(s) (2017). Combined effect of ENSO-like and Atlantic multidecadal oscillation SSTAs on the interannual variability of the East Asian winter monsoon. Journal of Climate. 2697-2716.
Show author(s) (2017). Change in the relationship between the Australian summer monsoon circulation and boreal summer precipitation over Central China in the late 1990s. Meteorology and atmospheric physics (Print). 1-9.

Report

Show author(s) (2019). Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. .

Lecture

Show author(s) (2020). 'Hot topics and advances in the Arctic climate change and its impacts'; (Virtual) Seminar on Paleoclimate and mid-high latitude climate change; Organized by Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology; 17 April 2020.

Show author(s) (2018). Climate Teleconnection: Linkage the Arctic warming to lower latitudes; ARCPATH/CONNECTED Summer School. June-July, 2018, Bergen.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2023). The thermodynamic differences between winter cyclones from midlatitudes and high latitudes.
Show author(s) (2023). Session CL2.5: Extreme Climate Events: Variability, Mechanisms, and Prediction.
Show author(s) (2023). Relative impacts of sea ice loss and atmospheric internal variability on winter Arctic to East Asian surface air temperature based on large-ensemble simulations with NorESM2.
Show author(s) (2023). Impacts of Arctic Climate Change.
Show author(s) (2023). 20 years of successful Chinese-Norwegian climate collaboration .

Show author(s) (2022). Thermodynamics of winter cyclones entering the Barents Sea.
Show author(s) (2022). Internal and forced contributions to the record-breaking heat waves in Europe.

Show author(s) (2021). The AMV phase-dependence of the connection between February NAO and March surface air temperature over the Tibetan Plateau.

Show author(s) (2019). 'Contributions from extratropical North Pacific to Arctic summer atmospheric temperature and circulation'; Annual Meeting of Nansen–Zhu International Research Centre; 22-23 October 2019; Nanjing, China .

Show author(s) (2018). 'Teleconnection between Arctic warming and Eurasian cooling'; International Symposium: Nansen–Zhu International Research Centre (NZC) 15-Year Collaboration; 16-17 October 2018; Beijing, China.
Show author(s) (2018). 'New insights into the Arctic warming - Eurasian cooling teleconnection'; Symposium: The Nordic Universities role in the new Arctic organized by Umeå University; 26 April 2018.
Show author(s) (2018). 'Evidence for predictive skill of high‐latitude climate due to midsummer sea‐ice extent anomalies'; POLAR 2018; 19-23 June 2018; Davos,Switzerland.
Show author(s) (2018). 'Chapter Scientist for Chapter 3 - Polar Region'; IPCC authors meeting in China to develop IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate; organized by WMO and UNEP; 23-28 July 2018; Lanzhou, China.

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Show author(s) (2023). Refined weather prediction model based on convolutional neural networks. 7 pages.

Poster

Show author(s) (2019). Strengthened Linkage between Midlatitudes and Arctic in Boreal Winter.
Show author(s) (2019). Influence of December snow cover over North America on January surface air temperature over the midlatitude Asia.

Show author(s) (2018). Atlantic multidecadal oscillation modulates the impacts of Arctic sea ice decline.

Website (informational material)

Show author(s) (2018). Summer School: Climate Teleconnections and Predictions: Past, Present and Future.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

2021-2025: Climate response to a Bluer Arctic with increased newly-formed winter Sea ICe (BASIC)

Project information:

Project owner: University of Bergen,
Project leader: Shengping He (shengping.he@uib.no)
Project period: 22.11.2021-21.11.2025
Type: Researcher Project
Public funding: 12 mill. kroner, funded by the Research Council of Norway
Project no.: 325440
Partners:Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center; Norwegian Institute for Air Research; Meteorologisk Institutt; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Exeter;

Primary and secondary objectives of the project: The primary objective is to understand the Arctic and Eurasian climate response to the new Arctic characterized bymore open waters in summer and an increasing volume of newly-formed sea ice in winter. We will achieve this by accomplishing the following secondary objectives:

quantify the impacts of more open seawater in summer on the Arctic oceanic conditions
identify the influences of deep Arctic warming (extending from the interior of the ocean to the middle troposphere) on the Eurasian winter climate
determine the effects of increasing newly-formed wintertime Arctic sea ice on the freshwater and heat budget inthe Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean, and the accompanying impacts on the AMOC
elucidate the gradually vanishing climatic impacts of summer-to-autumn Arctic sea ice in the 21st century as the Arctic Ocean is turning to an ‘ice-free’ state
demonstrate the predominance of Arctic ocean temperature over sea ice as a dominant climatic factor, once a tipping point is reached in the future.

Project meetings: Updating

Publications: Updating

2017-2022: Chinese-Norwegian partnership in climate teleconnection and prediction (CONNECTED)

Project information:

Project owner: University of Bergen,
Project leader: Tore Furevik; Shengping is the Coordinator of summer schools and student mobility
Project period: 01.2017-12.2022
Type: UTFORSK 2016 - Long-term project funding
Public funding: 1.99 mill. kroner, funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills
Project no.: UTF-2016-long-term/10030
Main partner institution outside Norway: Institute of atmospheric physics, Chinese academy of sciences
Network partners: Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center; Norwegian Research Center; Peking University; Beijing Climate Center; Nanjing University; Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; China University of Geosciences (Wuhan);

Project summary:

The ChiNese NorwEgian partnership in Climate Teleonnection and prEDiction (CONNECTED) builds on an existing collaboration between three Norwegian institutions in Bergen and three Chinese institutions in Beijing and Nanjing. The activities are organized under the Nansen-Zhu International Research Centre located in Beijing, a joint venture established in November 2003. CONNECTED aims to capitalize on the existing cooperation, and further strengthen the research and research training activities by long termsupport for joint biennial summer schools with back-to-back workshops, PhD and Master students exchange visits between Norway and China with supervisors from both countries, and development of joint proposals to national and international funding agencies. The scientific focus is on better understanding of climate variability and climate trends using paleo (past)-climate data, instrumental data, and numerical models and theory to assess the importance of internal and external forcing of past, present and future climate. A central topic will be teleconnections in the climate system, i.e. how a change in climate in one part of the globe (e.g. temperatures in the Atlantic or shrinking sea ice cover in the Arctic) can influence climate on other parts of the globe (e.g. Eurasian winter temperatures), and how we can use this information to improve regional climate prediction and therefore regional climate service. The project will bring new partners into the Chinese-Norwegian cooperation in climate, increased research quality, more co-authorship in international peer reviewed journals, and more successful research funding applications to Chinese, Norwegian, or other international funding agencies.

Fields of competence

International cooperation

Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions

Research groups

Climate Dynamics