The University of Texas at Austin

Sep 2016 - Aug 2021

Ph.D., Jackson School of Geosciences

Advancing The Application of Remote Sensing to Improve Land Surface Modeling

Supervisor: Dr. Zong-Liang Yang

National Taiwan University

Jun 2015

M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences

Analyzed land water storage and land-atmosphere interactions

Supervisor: Dr. Min-Hui Lo

Aug 2013

B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences

Defined height of mixing layer over Taiwan with sounding data

LLNL Research SLAM finalist

2023

AGU Fall Meeting Student Travel Grant

2020

NASA Data Visualization & Storytelling Contest- Grand Prize

2019

Best Teaching Assistant, JSG, UT-Austin

2019

Dean’s Award, College of Science, National Taiwan University

2015 selected as one of the best master thesis

DAAD/MOST Summer Institute Fellowship

2014

Journal Article

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang (2022), Aridity-dependent Land Surface Temperature bias in CMIP models. Geophys. Res. Lett., DOI:10.1029/2022GL098952

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, L. Zhao, P. Lin (2022), Joint Multi-sensor Data Assimilation for Constraining Water Storages and its Impact on Global Discharge Estimation. Remote Sensing of Environment,279, 113138. DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2022.113138

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, M. Barlage (2021), The Impact of Noah-MP Physical Parameterizations on Modeling Water Availability during Droughts in the Texas-Gulf Region. Journal of Hydrometerology, DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-20-0189.1

Fei W., H. Zheng, Z. Xu, W.-Y. Wu, et al. (2021). Ensemble skill gains obtained from the multi-physics versus multi-model approaches for continental-scale hydrological simulations, Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028846. DOI:1029/2020WR028846

Kim Y. K., W.-Y. Wu, E. Kutanoglu, Z.-L. Yang, J. Hasenbein (2021), Hurricane Scenario Generation for Uncertainty Modeling of Coastal and Inland Flooding. Frontiers in Climate, 3, 16, DOI:10.3389/fclim.2021.610680

Wu, W.-Y., M.-H. Lo, Y. Wada, J. T. Reager, J. S. Famiglietti , P. Yeh, A. Ducharne, and Z.L. Yang (2020), Contrary effects of climate change on future groundwater availability in key mid-latitude aquifers Nature Communications , 11, 3710

Lo, M., Wu, W.-Y., Tang, L. I., Ryu, D., Rashid, M., & Wu, R. (2020). Temporal Changes in Land-Surface Coupling Strength: An Example in A Semi-Arid Region of Australia, Journal of Climate, 1-40.

Zheng, H., Yang, Z.‐L., Lin, P., Wu, W.‐Y., Li, L., Xu, Z., et al. (2020). Falsification‐oriented signature‐based evaluation for guiding the development of land surface models and the enhancement of observations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002132.

Zheng, Hui, Z.-L. Yang, P. Lin, J. Wei, W.-Y. Wu, L. Li, L. Zhao, S. Wang (2019), On the sensitivity of the precipitation partition into evapotranspiration and runoff in land surface parameterizations. Water Resour. Res. , 55, 95–111

Yoon, J.-H., S.-Y. Wang, M.-H. Lo, W.-Y. Wu (2018), Concurrent increases in wet and dry extremes projected in Texas and combined effects on groundwater. Environ. Res. Lett., 13

Wu, W.-Y., C.-W. Lan, M.-H. Lo, J. T. Reager, and J. S. Famiglietti (2015), Increases in the annual range of soil water storage at northern middle and high latitudes under global warming. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 3903–3910

Book Chapters

Lo, M.-H., J. Famiglietti, J. T. Reager, M. Rodell, S. Swenson, and W.-Y. Wu (2016), GRACE-based Estimates of Global Groundwater Depletion, Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change: Natural and Human-Induced Impacts, AGU Geophysical Monograph Series

Selected Conference Presentation

Wu, W.-Y. et al.(2022), Cohntributions of Storm-Associated Precipitation and its Extreme using Observations, 2022 AGU Annual Meeting

Wu, W.-Y. et al. (2021), Incoporating Hurricane Forecasts into WRF-Hydro for Ensemable Generation, 2021 AGU Annual Meeting

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang (2020), Evaluation of hydrometeorological forecast skill during Hurricane Harvey (2017), 2020 AGU Annual Meeting

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, L. Zhao, P. Lin (2019), What can we expect from multi-sensor data assimilation for hydrological simulation?, 2019 AGU Annual Meeting

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, L. Zhao, P. Lin (2018), The Role of Multi-sensor Land Data Assimilation in Runoff and Streamflow Estimation, 2018 AGU Annual Meeting

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, P. Lin (2018), Towards a Better Understanding of Hydrological Extremes Using an Integrated Hydrological Modeling Framework, 2018 AOGS Annual Meeting (oral talk)

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, P. Lin, D. Maidment (2018), Assessment of the Simulations of Global-scale River Flows from an Integrated Hydrological Modeling Framework, 2018 AMS Annual Meeting (oral talk)

Wu, W.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, P. Lin, D. Maidment (2017), Towards Developing a Framework for Predicting River Flows on Global Scales, Texas Weather Conference

Lo, M.-H., W. -Y. Wu, and D. Ryu (2015), Temporal Changes in Land-Surface Coupling Strength: an Example in a Semi-Arid Region of Australia, AGU Fall Meeting

Wu, W.-Y., M.-H. Lo, Y. Wada, J. Reager, J. S. Famiglietti , P. Yeh, and A. Ducharne (2015), Impacts of Climate Changes on the Future Groundwater Storage, AGU Fall Meeting

Wu, W.-Y., C.-W. Lan, M.-H. Lo, J. Reager, and J. Famiglietti (2014), Changes in Soil Water Storage under Global Warming in CMIP5 models, AGU Fall Meeting

Wu, W.-Y., M.-H. Lo, J. Famiglietti, J. Reager, and C. De Linage (2013), Trends and Interannual Variability in Terrestrial Water Storage and Atmospheric Water Vapor Transport from GRACE and Multiple Atmospheric Reanalysis Datasets, EGU General Assembly