Research News and Highlights

• The paper by Pielke Sr., Shen, and Zeng (2024) was published in Physics Today, a prestigious journal of the American Institute of Physics.  

• Shen et al. (2024) was published as a Feature Paper in Atmosphere. "A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications."

• The article by Pielke Sr, Shen, and Zeng (2024) was highlighted by Weatherwise, with its title featured on the magazine's cover page.

• Shen (2023a) was an invited article that was subsequently published as a "Feature Article" in the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos.

• Shen et al. (2022c) was recognized as one of Editor Choice Articles by Atmosphere.

• Shen et al. (2022b) received the Encyclopedia 2022 Outstanding Contributor Award. 

• Shen et al. (2021a) has been published by The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS, IF:9.116) that is the flagship magazine of AMS.

• Shen (2019) was selected as one of IJBC featured articles of 2020; it was one of the top downloaded articles in 2021-2024. 

• Faghih-Naini and B.-W. Shen (2018) was selected as one of IJBC featured articles of 2018. 

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• Project CAMVis (PI: Shen) highlighted in 2014-2015 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS at SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY (pdf) (one page)

• Project CAMVis (PI: Shen) featured by Dr. Jack A. Kaye (Associate Director at NASA/HQs) at the 66th, 67th, and 68th Interdepartmental Hurricane Conferences in 2012, 2013, and 2014, respectively.  (2012)(2013)(2014)

• The talk entitled ``A View on the Predictability of Tropical Cyclogenesis with a Global Mesoscale Model'' by Bo-Wen Shen  was quoted in The Hindu on February 20, 2013. (jpg)

• Project CAMVis (PI: Shen) featured as one of three selected projects by Mr. Michael Seablom (program manager of AIST) in the talk entitled "Advanced Information Technology Investments at NASA's Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO)" at the AGU Fall Meeting, December 2012.

• Hurricane modeling results were featured by Dr. Rick Anthes in an opening talk entitled "Demons and Butterflies-Beating Predictability Theory" at the annual AMS meeting in Jan. 2012. (ppt) (recorded presentation) (recorded 2)

• Research results in a series of papers by Bo-Wen Shen and his colleagues are featured in a recent President's Corner article of UCAR Magazine by Dr. Rick Anthes, which was published on May 6, 2011. This article entitled Turning the Tables on Chaos: Is the atmosphere more predictable than we assume? (pdf) (In Chinese; 中文) (pdf)

• Project demonstration entitled "Coupling Advanced Modeling and Visualization to Improve High-impact Tropical Weather Prediction" at the NASA Booth (schedule) at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting (pdf).

• Project demonstrations on high-resolution global (multiscale) modeling were selected as one of NASA top demonstrations at the supercomputing conferences 2004 2008, 2009 and 2010 (SC04, SC08, SC09, SC10), respectively.

• NASA news story (November, 2010): Project demonstration entitled "Recent Advances in Global Hurricane Modeling after Katrina" has been selected as one of NASA top four demos at SC10 and featured in NASA News release entitled Supercomputing Conference Highlights NASA Earth, Space Missions. (pdf)

• NASA news story (November, 2010): Research results from Shen et al. (2006, 2010a,b,c) featured in the NASA news story entitled:"Getting to the Heart of the Storm." (an enhanced version)

• NASA news story (July, 2010): Bo-Wen Shen was featured in NASA News entitled Supercomputer Reproduces a Cyclone's Birth, May Boost Forecasting which is derived the study by Shen, Tao, Lau and Atlas 2010 (JGR). This story reported the advance in supercomputing and high-resolution global modeling at NASA. Follow-up stories appeared in MSNBC (link) (pdf), PhysOrg.com, National Geographic--Indonesia, ScienceDaily, EurekAlert, Yahoo News, TechNews Daily, Scientific Computing, HPCwire, Asian News International etc.(in Chinese; 中文). It was also translated in Chinese by Science and Technology Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (駐美國台北經濟文化代表處科技組).  (pdf)

• UMCP Research Breakthroughs (April 2010): A story entry derived from Shen et al. (2010, JGR) appeared in the April 2010 "Research Breakthroughs," to be disseminated by the Division of Research at the University of Maryland at College Park. (link)

• NASA news story (January, 2010): NASA AIST Project CAMVis (PI:Shen) was highlighted by Sciences and Exploration Directorate (600), NASA/GSFC (Jan. 2010). (pdf)

• NASA news story (January, 2010): NASA AIST Project CAMVis (PI:Shen) was highlighted by NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division, NASA/ARC (Jan. 2010): Concurrent Visualization to the Web - An Early Demonstration.

• News focus in Science Magazine: Bo-Wen Shen was featured in Science magazine in August 2006 (PDF download).

• Highlights by AGU (2006): High-resolution hurricane modeling research (e.g., Shen et al. , 2006a,b) has been selected as an AGU Journal Highlight. These two articles have been cited by the following (40) articles (as of January 23 2012)

• The global mesoscale modeling research has been cited as pioneering work in the Climate Science Weblog. (pdf)

• Featured by SAIC (2006): Bo-Wen Shen was featured in the 2006 SAIC annual report or (PDF download).

• Featured by NASA/GSFC Laborary for Atmosphere: High-resolution hurricane modeling research was highlighted in the 2006 annual report of Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA/GSFC or (PDF download).

• Featured by NASA/ARC NAS (2004/08/02): Initial Columbia Results Promising (pdf)