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Pao-Shin Chu

Professor/ Graduate Chair and State Climatologist 

Department of Meteorology

School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology 

University of Hawaii at Monoa

Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 

Email: chu@hawaii.edu

Phone: (808)956-2567

Fax: (808)956-2877                 

Research Interests

• Climate Prediction and Predictability:

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P.-S. Chu, Zhao X., C.-T. Lee, and M.-Lu, 2007: Climate prediction of tropical cyclone activity in the vicinity of Taiwan using the multivariate least absolute deviation regression method.Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci., 18, 805-825.

P.-S. Chu, and Zhao X., 2007: A Bayesian regression approach for predicting seasonal tropical cyclone activity over the central North Pacific. J. Climate, 20, 4002-4012.

Chu, P.-S., 1998: Short-term climate prediction of Mei-Yu rainfall for Taiwan using CCA. Int. J. Climatol.,18, 215- 224.

Yu, Z.-P., P.-S, Chu and T.A. Schroeder, 1997: Predictive skills of seasonal to annual rainfall variations in the U.S. affiliated Pacific islands: Canonical correlation and multivariate principal component regression approaches. J. Climate, 10, 2586-2599.

Chu, P.-S., R.W. Katz, and P. Ding, 1995: Modeling and forecasting seasonal precipitation in Florida: A vector time-domain approach. Int. J. Climatol., 15, 53-64.

Chu, P.-S. and Y. He, 1994: Long-range prediction of Hawaiian Winter rainfall using canonical correlation analysis. Int. J. Climatol.,14, 659-669.

Chu, P.-S. and R.W. Katz, 1989: Spectral estimation from time series models with relevance to the Southern Oscillation. J. Climate, 2, 86-90.

Chu, P.-S. and R.W. Katz, 1987: Measures of predictability with application to the Southern Oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 115, 1542-1549.

Chu, P.-S. and R.W. Katz, 1985: Modeling and forecasting the Southern Oscillation: A time-domain approach. Mon. Wea. Rev., 113, 1876-1888.

• Climate Varibility and Tropical Cyclones:

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P.-S. Chu and Wu, P.2008: Climatic Atlas of Tropical Cyclone Tracks over the Central North Pacific. University of Hawaii, Department of Meteorology

Wu, P., and P.-S. Chu, 2007: Characteristics of tropical cyclone activity over the eastern North Pacific: The extremely active 1992 and the inactive 1977. Tellus A, 59, 444-454.

Zhao X., and P.-S. Chu. 2006: Bayesian Multiple Changepoint Analysis of Hurricane Activity in the Eastern North Pacific: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach. J. Climate, 19, 564-578.

Chu, P.-S., 2004: ENSO and tropical cyclone activity. Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Potential. R. J. Murnane and K.-B. Liu, Eds., Columbia University Press, 297-332.

Chu, P.-S., and X. Zhao, 2004: Bayesian change-point analysis of tropical cyclone activity: The Central North Pacific case. J. Climate, 17, 4893-4901.

Chu, P.-S. 2002: Large-scale circulation features associated with decadal variations of tropical cyclone activity over the central North Pacific. J. Climate, 15, 2678-2689. J. Climate, 17, 4893-4901.

Clark, J.D., and P.-S. Chu, 2002: Interannual variation of tropical cyclone activity in the central North Pacific. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 80-3,403-418. J. Climate, 17, 4893-4901.

Chu, P.-S., and J.D. Clark, 1999: Decadal variations of tropical cyclone activity over the central North Pacific.Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 1875-1881.

Chu, P.-S. and J. X.Wang, 1997: Tropical cyclone occurrences in the vicinity of Hawaii: Are the differences between El Nino and non-El Nino years significant? J. Climate, 10, 2683-2689.

 

• Climate Variability and Hawaii rainfall (drought):

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Maui_Drought_workshop_08.ppt

Chu, P.-S., and H. Chen, 2005: Interannual and interdecadal rainfall variations in the Hawaiian Islands. J. Climate, 18, 4796-4813.

Chu, P.-S., 1995: Hawaii rainfall anomalies and El Nino. J. Climate, 8, 1697-1703.

Chu, P.-S., A.J. Nash, and F. Porter, 1993: Diagnostic studies of two contrasting rainfall episodes in Hawaii: Dry 1981 and Wet 1982. J. Climate, 6, 1457-1462.

Chu, P.-S., 1989: Hawaiian drought and the Southern Oscillation.Int.J. Climatol., 9, 619-631.

 

• Climate Variability and Wildland fire:

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Dolling, K., P.-S. Chu, and F. Fujioka, 2008: Natural variability of Keetch/Byram drought index in the Hawaiian Islands. Int. J. Wildland Fire, in press.

Dolling, K., P.-S. Chu, and F. Fujioka, 2005: A climatological study of the Keetch/Byram drought index and fire activity in the Hawaiian Islands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 133, 17-27.

Chu, P.-S., W. Yan, and F. Fujioka, 2002: Fire-climate relationships and long-lead wildfire prediction for Hawaii. Int. J. Wildland Fire, 11, 25-31.

 

• Climate Change:

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Zveryaev, I.I., and Chu, P.-S., 2003: Recent climate changes in precipitable water in the global tropics as revealed in NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. J.Geophys. Res., 108, D10, 4311-4322.

Chu, P.-S. and J.-B. Wang, 1997: Recent climate change in the tropical western Pacific and Indian ocean regions as detected by outgoing longwave radiation records. J. Climate, 10, 636-646.

Chu, P.-S., Z.-P. Yu, and S. Hastenrath, 1994: Detecting climate change concurrent with deforestation in the Amazon basin: Which way has it gone? Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 579-583.

 

• Statistical analyses of extreme events:

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Chu, P.-S., X. Zhao, Y. Ruan, and M. Grubbs, 2008: Extreme rainfall events in the Hawaiian Islands. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., in press.

Chu, P.-S. and J.X. Wang, 1998: Modeling return periods of tropical cyclone intensities in the vicinity of Hawaii. J. Appl. Meteor., 37, 951-960.

 

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