• | Tao, D., C. Li, R. Davy, S. He, T. Spengler, C. Michel, and A. Rosendahl, 2025: Arctic-Atlantic cyclones: variability in thermodynamic characteristics, large-scale flow, and local impacts. Geophysical Research Letters, accepted. |
• | Tao, D., R. Nystrom, and M. Bell, 2023: The quasi-linear absolute angular momentum slope of tropical cyclones under rapid intensification. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104583. |
• | Tao, D., P.J. van Leeuwen, M. Bell, and Y. Ying, 2022: Dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclone rapid intensification in ensemble simulations of Hurricane Patricia (2015). Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD036079. |
• | Tao, D., R. Rotunno, and M. Bell, 2020: Lilly’s Model for Steady-State Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Structure. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77, 3701-3720. |
• | Tao, D., M. Bell, R. Rotunno, and P.J. Van Leeuwen, 2020: Why do the maximum intensities in modeled tropical cyclones vary under the same environmental conditions? Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL085980. |
• | Tao, D., K. Emanuel, F. Zhang, R. Rotunno, M. Bell, and R.G. Nystrom, 2019: Evaluation of the assumptions in the steady-state tropical cyclone self-stratified outflow using three-dimensional convection-allowing simulations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76, 2995-3009. |
• | Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2019: Evolution of dynamic and thermodynamic structures before and during rapid intensification of tropical cyclones: sensitivity to vertical wind shear. Monthly Weather Review, 147, 1171-1191. |
• | Zhang, F., D. Tao, Y. Q. Sun, and J. D. Kepert, 2017: Dynamics and predictability of secondary eyewall formation in sheared tropical cyclones. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, 89-112. |
• | Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2015: Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on the Predictability of Tropical Cyclones: Practical versus Intrinsic Limit. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 7, 1534-1553. |
• | Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2014: Effect of environmental shear, sea-surface temperature and ambient moisture on the formation and predictability of tropical cyclones: an ensemble-mean perspective. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 6, 384-404. |
• | Zhang, F., and D. Tao, 2013: Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on the Predictability of Tropical Cyclones. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 975-983. |