Since 2015, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) has been presenting annual Esteemed Paper Prize to the papers for their exceptional contribution to the development of the journal. These papers are selected based on their download statistics from SpringerLink and their ISI citations.

2023

2023 Esteemed News & Views Paper Prize

• The 2020/21 Extremely Cold Winter in China Influenced by the Synergistic Effect of La Niña and Warm Arctic
  Fei Zheng, Yuan Yuan, Yihui Ding, Kexin Li, Xianghui Fang, Yuheng Zhao, Yue Sun, Jiang Zhu, Zongjian Ke, Ji Wang & Xiaolong Jia
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-1033-y 

• Upper Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High in 2020 Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Ricardo Locarnini, Bin Zhang, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Michael E. Mann, Franco Reseghetti, Simona Simoncelli, Viktor Gouretski, Gengxin Chen, Alexey Mishonov, Jim Reagan & Jiang Zhu https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-0447-x

• FY-3E: The First Operational Meteorological Satellite Mission in an Early Morning Orbit
  Peng Zhang, Xiuqing Hu, Qifeng Lu, Aijun Zhu, Manyun Lin, Ling Sun, Lin Chen & Na Xu
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-1304-7

2023 Esteemed Data Description Paper Prize

• Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Database Created by the China Meteorological Administration
  Xiaoqin Lu, Hui Yu, Ming Ying, Bingke Zhao, Shuai Zhang, Limin Lin, Lina Bai & Rijin Wan
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-020-0211-7

2023 Esteemed Original Paper Prize

• The Record-breaking Mei-yu in 2020 and Associated Atmospheric Circulation and Tropical SST Anomalies
  Yihui Ding, Yunyun Liu & Zeng-Zhen Hu
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-0361-2

• CMIP6 Evaluation and Projection of Temperature and Precipitation over China
  Xiaoling Yang, Botao Zhou, Ying Xu & Zhenyu Han
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-0351-4

• A Deep Learning Method for Bias Correction of ECMWF 24–240 h Forecasts

• Lei Han, Mingxuan Chen, Kangkai Chen, Haonan Chen, Yanbiao Zhang, Bing Lu, Linye Song & Rui Qin
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-0215-y

• Future Changes in Extreme High Temperature over China at 1.5°C–5°C Global Warming Based on CMIP6 Simulations
  Guwei Zhang, Gang Zeng, Xiaoye Yang & Zhihong Jiang
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-020-0182-8

• Cause of Extreme Heavy and Persistent Rainfall over Yangtze River in Summer 2020
  Xiao Pan, Tim Li, Ying Sun & Zhiwei Zhu
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-021-0433-3
  

2022

2022 Esteemed Original Paper Prize

• Does CMIP6 Inspire More Confidence in Simulating Climate Extremes over China?
  Zhu, Huanhuan; Jiang, Zhihong; Li, Juan; Li, Wei; Sun, Cenxiao; Li, Laurent
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9289-1

• Differences between CMIP6 and CMIP5 Models in Simulating Climate over China and the East Asian Monsoon
  Jiang, Dabang; Hu, Dan; Tian, Zhiping; Lang, Xianmei
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-2034-y

• Recent Near-surface Temperature Trends in the Antarctic Peninsula from Observed, Reanalysis and Regional Climate Model Data
  Bozkurt, Deniz; Bromwich, David H.; Carrasco, Jorge; Hines, Keith M.; Maureira, Juan Carlos; Rondanelli, Roberto
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9183-x

• Atmospheric River Signatures in Radiosonde Profiles and Reanalyses at the Dronning Maud Land Coast, East Antarctica
  Gorodetskaya, Irina, V; Silva, Tiago; Schmithuesen, Holger; Hirasawa, Naohiko
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9221-8

• Impacts of Urbanization on the Precipitation Characteristics in Guangdong Province, China
  Yan, Meng; Chan, Johnny C. L.; Zhao, Kun
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9218-3

2022 Esteemed Perspective Paper Prize

• Reducing Uncertainties in Climate Projections with Emergent Constraints: Concepts, Examples and Prospects
  Brient, Florent
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-019-9140-8

2022 Esteemed News & Views Paper Prize

• Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019
  Cheng, Lijing; Abraham, John; Zhu, Jiang; Trenberth, Kevin E.; Fasullo, John; Boyer, Tim; Locarnini, Ricardo; Zhang, Bin; Yu, Fujiang; Wan, Liying; Chen, Xingrong; Song, Xiangzhou; Liu, Yulong; Mann, Michael E.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9283-7

• Advanced Radiative Transfer Modeling System (ARMS): A New-Generation Satellite Observation Operator Developed for Numerical Weather Prediction and Remote Sensing Applications
  Weng, Fuzhong; Yu, Xinwen; Duan, Yihong; Yang, Jun; Wang, Jianjie
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-019-9170-2

2022 Esteemed Data Description Paper Prize

• LICOM Model Datasets for the CMIP6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project
  Lin, Pengfei; Yu, Zhipeng; Liu, Hailong; Yu, Yongqiang; Li, Yiwen; Jiang, Jirong; Xue, Wei; Chen, Kangjun; Yang, Qian; Zhao, Bowen; Wei, Jilin; Ding, Mengrong; Sun, Zhikuo; Wang, Yaqi; Meng, Yao; Zheng, Weipeng; Ma, Jinfeng
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-019-9208-5

• Homogenized Daily Relative Humidity Series in China during 1960-2017
  Li, Zhen; Yan, Zhongwei; Zhu, Yani; Freychet, Nicolas; Tett, Simon
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9180-0

2021

2021 Esteemed Original Paper Prize

• Predictability of South China Sea Summer Monsoon Onset
  Gill M. MARTIN, Amulya CHEVUTURI, Ruth E. COMER, Nick J. DUNSTONE, Adam A. SCAIFE, Daquan ZHANG
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-8100-z

• Seasonal Variations of Observed Raindrop Size Distribution in East China
  Long Wen, Kun Zhao, Mengyao Wang, Guifu Zhang
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-8107-5

• Anthropogenic Aerosol Pollution over the Eastern Slope of the Tibetan Plateau
  Rui JIA, Min LUO, Yuzhi LIU, Qingzhe ZHU, Shan HUA, Chuqiao WU, Tianbin SHAO
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-019-8212-0

• Simulated Influence of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on Summer Eurasian Nonuniform Warming since the Mid-1990s
  Xueqian SUN, Shuanglin LI, Xiaowei HONG, Riyu LU
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-019-8169-z

2021 Esteemed Review Paper Prize

• Current Status and Future Challenges of Weather Radar Polarimetry: Bridging the Gap between Radar Meteorology/Hydrology/Engineering and Numerical Weather Prediction
  Guifu ZHANG, Vivek N. MAHALE, Bryan J. PUTNAM, Youcun QI, Qing CAO, Andrew D. BYRD, Petar BUKOVCIC, Dusan S. ZRNIC, Jidong GAO, Ming XUE, Youngsun JUNG, Heather D. REEVES, Pamela L. HEINSELMAN, Alexander RYZHKOV, Robert D. PALMER, Pengfei ZHANG, Mark WEBER, Greg M. MCFARQUHAR, Berrien MOORE III, Yan ZHANG, Jian ZHANG, J. VIVEKANANDAN, Yasser AL-RASHID, Richard L. ICE, Daniel S. BERKOWITZ, Chong-chi TONG, Caleb FULTON, Richard J. DOVIAK
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-019-8172-4

• Latest Progress of the Chinese Meteorological Satellite Program and Core Data Processing Technologies
  Peng ZHANG, Qifeng LU, Xiuqing HU, Songyan GU, Lei YANG, Min MIN, Lin CHEN, Na XU, Ling Sun, Wenguang BAI, Gang MA, Di XIAN
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-019-8215-x

• Pathways of Influence of the Northern Hemisphere Mid-high Latitudes on East Asian Climate: A Review
  Jianping LI, Fei ZHENG, Cheng SUN, Juan FENG, Jing WANG
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-019-8236-5

• Progress in Semi-arid Climate Change Studies in China
  Jianping HUANG, Jieru MA, Xiaodan GUAN, Yue LI, Yongli HE
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-018-8200-9

2021 Esteemed News & Views Paper Prize

• 2018 Continues Record Global Ocean Warming
  Lijing CHENG, Jiang ZHU, John ABRAHAM, Kevin E. TRENBERTH, John T. FASULLO, Bin ZHANG, Fujiang YU, Liying WAN, Xingrong CHEN, Xiangzhou SONG
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-019-8276-x

2021 Esteemed Data Description Paper Prize

• CAS FGOALS-f3-L Model Datasets for CMIP6 Historical Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project Simulation
  Bian HE, Qing BAO*, Xiaocong WANG, Linjiong ZHOU, Xiaofei WU, Yimin LIU, Guoxiong WU, Kangjun CHEN, Sicheng HE, Wenting HU, Jiandong LI, Jinxiao LI, Guokui NIAN, Lei WANG, Jing YANG, Minghua ZHANG, Xiaoqi ZHANG
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-019-9027-8

2020

2020 AAS Esteemed News&Views Paper Prize

• First Global Carbon Dioxide Maps Produced from TanSat Measurements
  Yang, Dongxu; Liu, Yi; Cai, Zhaonan; Chen, Xi; Yao, Lu; Lu, Daren
  http://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-018-7312-6  

2020 AAS Esteemed Original Paper Prize

• Teleconnection between sea ice in the Barents Sea in June and the Silk Road, Pacific-Japan and East Asian rainfall patterns in AugustHe, Shengping; Gao, Yongqi; Furevik, Tore; Wang, Huijun; Li, Fei
  http://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-017-7029-y

• ENSO Frequency Asymmetry and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation in Observations and 19 CMIP5 Models
  Lin, Renping; Zheng, Fei; Dong, Xiao
  http://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-017-7133-z

• Seasonal Forecasts of the Summer 2016 Yangtze River Basin Rainfall
  Bett, Philip E.; Scaife, Adam A.; Li, Chaofan; Hewitt, Chris; Golding, Nicola; Zhang, Peiqun; Dunstone, Nick; Smith, Doug M.; Thornton, Hazel E.; Lu, Riyu; Ren, Hong-Li
  http://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-018-7210-y 

• Projected Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Extremes over China as Measured by 50-yr Return Values and Periods Based on a CMIP5 Ensemble
  Xu, Ying; Gao, Xuejie; Giorgi, Filippo; Zhou, Botao; Shi, Ying; Wu, Jie; Zhang, Yongxiang
  http://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-017-6269-1

• Impacts of Anthropogenic Forcings and El Nio on Chinese Extreme Temperatures
  Freychet, N.; Sparrow, S.; Tett, S. F. B.; Mineter, M. J.; Hegerl, G. C.; Wallom, D. C. H.
  http://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-018-7258-8 

• Growth rates of fine aerosol particles at a site near Beijing in June 2013
  Zhao, Chuanfeng; Li, Yanan; Zhang, Fang; Sun, Yele; Wang, Pucai
  http://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-017-7069-3 

2019

2019 AAS Esteemed Review Paper Prize

• Relationship between Indian and East Asian summer rainfall variations
  Wu, Renguang
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-6216-6 

2019 Esteemed Original Paper Prize

• Increased Light, Moderate, and Severe Clear-Air Turbulence in Response to Climate Change
  Williams, Paul
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-017-6268-2

• Atmospheric circulation and dynamic mechanism for persistent haze events in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region
  Wu, Ping; Ding, Yihui; Liu, Yanju
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-6158-z

• Performance of RegCM4 over major river basins in China
  Gao, Xuejie; Shi, Ying; Han, Zhenyu; Wang, Meili; Wu, Jia; Zhang, Dongfeng; Xu, Ying; Giorgi, Filippo
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-6179-7

• Changes in Mean and Extreme Temperature and Precipitation over the Arid Region of Northwestern China: Observation and Projection
  Wang, Yujie; Zhou, Botao; Qin, Dahe; Wu, Jia; Gao, Rong; Song, Lianchun
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-6160-5 

2018

2018 AAS Esteemed Review Paper Prize

• Indo-western Pacific ocean capacitor and coherent climate anomalies in post-ENSO summer: A review
  Shang-Ping Xie, Yu Kosaka, Yan Du, Kaiming Hu, Jasti S. Chowdary, Gang Huang
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-015-5192-6

• The reliability of global and hemispheric surface temperature records
  Philip Jones
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-015-5194-4

2018 Esteemed Original Paper Prize

• Distinctive precursory air–sea signals between regular and super El Ni?os
  Lin Chen, Tim Li, Swadhin K. Behera, Takeshi Doi
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-5250-8

• Abrupt summer warming and changes in temperature extremes over Northeast Asia since the mid-1990s: Drivers and physical processes
  Buwen Dong, Rowan T. Sutton, Wei Chen, Xiaodong Liu, Riyu Lu, Ying Sun
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-5247-3

2018 Esteemed News&Views Prize

• Recent significant tornadoes in China
  Ming Xue, Kun Zhao, Mingjung Wang, Zhaohui Li, Yongguang Zheng
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-016-6005-2 

2017
2017 Esteemed Review Paper Prize

• Light-absorbing particles in snow and ice: Measurement and modeling of climatic and hydrological impact
  Yun Qian, Teppei J. Yasunari Sarah J. Doherty, Mark G. Flanner, William K. M. Lau, Jing Ming, Hailong Wang, Mo Wang, Stephen G. Warren, Rudong Zhang
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-014-0010-0

• On the radiative properties of ice clouds: Light scattering, remote sensing, and radiation parameterization
  Ping Yang, Kuo-Nan Liou, Lei Bi, Chao Liu, Bingqi Yi, Bryan A. Baum
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-014-0011-z

• Arctic sea ice and Eurasian climate: A review
  Yongqi Gao, Jianqi Sun, Fei Li, Shengping He, Stein Sandven, Qing Yan, Zhongshi Zhang, Katja Lohmann, Noel Keenlyside, Tore Furevik, Lingling Suo
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-014-0009-6 

2017 Esteemed Original Paper Prize

• Trends of extreme precipitation in eastern China and their possible causes
  Run Liu, Shaw Chen Liu, Ralph J. Cicerone, Chein-Jung Shiu, Jun Li, Jingli Wang, Yuanhang Zhang
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-015-5002-1

• Future changes and uncertainties in temperature and precipitation over China based on CMIP5 models
  Di Tian, Yan Guo, Wenjie Dong
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-014-4102-7

• The impact of AIRS atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles on hurricane forecasts: Ike (2008) and Irene (2011)
  Jing Zheng, Jun Li, Timothy J. Schmit, Jinlong Li, Zhiquan Liu
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-014-3162-z 

2016

2016 Esteemed Original Paper Prize

• Using Hourly Measurements to Explore the Role of Secondary Inorganic Aerosol in PM2.5 during Haze and Fog in Hangzhou, China
  Roeland Cornelis JANSEN, SHI Yang, CHEN Jianmin, HU YunJie, XU Chang, HONG Shengmao, LI Jiao, ZHANG Min
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-014-4042-2

• Assessment of Future Drought in Southwest China Based on CMIP5 Multimodel Projections
  WANG Lin, CHEN Wen, ZHOU Wen
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-014-3223-3

• Greenland Ice Sheet Contribution to Future Global Sea Level Rise based on CMIP5 Models
  YAN Qing, WANG Huijun, Ola M. JOHANNESSEN, and ZHANG Zhongshi
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-013-3002-6

• Decadal Variations of Intense Tropical Cyclones over the Western North Pacific during 1948–2010
  ZHAO Haikun, WU Liguang, and WANG Ruifang
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-013-3011-5 

2015

• The Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land system model, Spectral Version 2: FGOALS-s2
  Qing Bao, Pengfei Lin, Tianjun Zhou, Yimin Liu, Yongqiang Yu, Guoxiong Wu, Bian He, Jie He, Lijuan Li, Jiandong Li, Yangchun Li, Hailong Liu, Fangli Qiao, Zhenya Song, Bin Wang, Jun Wang, Pengfei Wang, Xiaocong Wang, Zaizhi Wang, Bo Wu, Tongwen Wu, Yongfu Xu, Haiyang Yu, Wei Zhao, Weipeng Zheng, Linjiong Zhou
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-012-2113-9

• Enhancements of major aerosol components due to additional HONO sources in the North China Plain and implications for visibility and haze
  Junling An, Ying Li, Yong Chen, Jian Li, Yu Qu, Yujia Tang
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-012-2016-9

• Poleward expansion of the Hadley Circulation in CMIP5 simulations
  Yongyun Hu, Lijun Tao, and Jiping Liu
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-012-2187-4

• Revisiting the climatology of atmospheric blocking in the Northern Hemisphere
  Ho Nam Cheung, Wen Zhou, Hing Yim Mok, Man Chi Wu, Yaping Shao
  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-012-2006-y