
Tsai, I-Chun蔡宜君
Associate Research Fellow
Research Interests
Aerosol parameterization and modeling, Aerosol-cloud interactions, Climate-Chemistry interactions, Cloud Physics, Atmospheric Physical Chemistry
Representative Publications
Tsai, I-C., S.-W. Yang, C.-J. Shiu, Y.-Y. Chen, C.-A. Chen, W.-L. Lee, and H.-H. Hsu, 2024b: Aerosol Impacts on the East Asian Winter Monsoon: Insights from TaiESM1 and CMIP6 Simulations. International Journal of Climatology, 44(9), 2816–2832. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8483
Tsai, I-C., P.-R. Hsieh, H.-H. Hsu, Y.-S. Tung, Y.-M. Chen, and C.-T. Cheng, 2024a: Climate Change-induced Impact on PM2.5 in Taiwan under 2 and 4 °C Global Warming. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 15(6), 120106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2024.102106.
Wu, C.-H., S.-Y. Lee, I-C. Tsai, C.-J. Shiu, Y.-Y. Chen, 2023: Volcanic contribution to the 1990s North Pacific climate shift in winter. Scientific Reports, 13 (1), 5672.
Wu, C.-H., C.-J. Shiu, Y.-Y. Chen, I-C. Tsai, S.-Y. Lee, 2023: Climatological changes in East Asian winter monsoon circulation in a warmer future, Atmospheric Research, 284, 106593, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106593.
Tsai, I-C., L.-S. Shu, J.-P. Chen, P.-R. Hsieh, and C.-T. Cheng, 2022: Projecting ozone impact on crop yield in Taiwan under climate warming. Science of the Total Environment, 846(2022), 157437, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157437.
S.-Y. Lee, S.-C. C. Lung, P.-G. Chiu, W.-C. Wang, I-C. Tsai, T.-H. Lin, 2022: Northern hemisphere urban heat stress and associated labor hour hazard from ERA5 reanalysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 2022, 19, 8163. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138163
Tsai, I-C.*, P.-R. Hsieh, H. C. Cheung, and C. C.-K. Chou, 2021: Aerosol impacts on fog microphysics over the western side of Taiwan Strait in April from 2015 to 2017, Atmospheric Environment, 118523,
Tsai, I-C.*, C.-Y. Lee, S.-C. C. Lung, C.-W. Su, 2021: Characterization of the vehicle emissions in the Greater Taipei Area through vision-based traffic analysis system and its impacts on urban air quality, Science of the Total Environment, 782(2021), 146571, ISSN 0048-9697.
Lee, W.-L., Y.-C. Wang, C.-J. Shiu, I-C. Tsai, C.-Y. Tu, Y.-Y. Lan, J.-P. Chen, H.-L. Pan, and H.-H. Hsu, 2020: Taiwan Earth System Model Version 1: description and evaluation of mean state, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 3887–3904.
Zhang, L., T.-M. Fu, H. Tian, Y. Ma, J.-P. Chen, T.-C. Tsai, I-C. Tsai, Z. Meng, X. Yang. 2020: Anthropogenic Aerosols Significantly Reduce Mesoscale Convective System Occurrences and Precipitation over Southern China in April, Geophysical Research Letters. 47, e2019GL086204.
Wu, C.-H., I-C. Tsai, P.-C. Tsai and Y.-S. Tung, 2019: Large-Scale Seasonal Control of Air Quality in Taiwan, Atmospheric Environment, 214, 116868.
Huang C.-C., S.-H. Chen, Y.-C. Lin, K. Earl, T. Matsui, H.-H. Lee, I-C. Tsai, J.-P. Chen, C.-T. Cheng, 2019: Impacts of Dust-Radiation versus Dust-Cloud Interactions on the Development of a Modeled Mesoscale Convective System over North Africa. Monthly Weather Review, 147, 3301–3326.
Tsai, I-C.*, W.-Y. Chen, J.-P. Chen, and M.-C. Liang, 2019: Kinetic mass-transfer calculation of water isotope fractionation due to cloud microphysics in a regional meteorological model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 1753-1766.
Highlights
Lee et al. (2020) have successfully employed a homemade aerosol parameterization scheme within the Taiwan Earth System Model (TaiESM) to bolster Taiwan’s climate modeling capabilities. After thorough verification with reanalysis data and observations, TaiESM has proven its ability to accurately simulate large-scale circulations and precipitation, earning its place in the sixth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project due to its robust representation of climatological states and near-surface aerosol concentrations. In Tsai et al. (2024b), The effect of aerosols on winter Asian monsoons were investigated by improving and conducting TaiESM simulations. Anthropogenic aerosols were shown to weaken and strengthen the intensity of the Aleutian Low and the Siberian High, respectively, resulting in a weakened East Asia winter monsoon in the lower atmosphere over the extratropical areas. The tropical rain belt shifts southward for the southern area, representing the local Hadley circulation change, and the precipitation is decreased in southern Asia.