Congratulations to Dr. Wen-Shu Lin

September 2, 2025

CW3E congratulates Dr. Wen-Shu Lin on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, “Characteristics and Subseasonal Predictability of Atmospheric Rivers Over Western North America,” on June 10, 2025. Wen-Shu joined CW3E as a graduate student in 2019 after completing her B.S. in Atmospheric Science at National Taiwan University.

Her research at CW3E, co-advised by Dr. Joel Norris and Dr. Marty Ralph, focused on climate variability, precipitation, and atmospheric dynamics, with particular emphasis on the variability of atmospheric rivers and regional climate on subseasonal timescale. Building on her undergraduate work investigating sea surface temperature and precipitation relationships under global warming, Wen-Shu’s research explores how climate variability shapes extreme weather events and water availability in the western United States.

After completing her PhD program, Wen-Shu will continue her research at CW3E as a postdoctoral scholar, beginning in October 2025. She will work with Dr. Zhenhai Zhang and other CW3E colleagues to investigate the interaction between shortwave troughs and atmospheric rivers, as well as their impacts on the forecasts of landfalling atmospheric rivers along the U.S. West Coast. We celebrate Wen-Shu’s accomplishments and look forward to her continued contributions to the atmospheric science community.

Lin, W.-S., J.R. Norris, M.J. DeFlorio, J.J. Rutz, J.M. Cordeira, and F.M. Ralph, 2025: Characteristics of precipitation patterns in moisture-dominated versus wind-dominated atmospheric rivers over western North America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041966

Lin, W.-S., J.R. Norris, M.J. DeFlorio, and F.M. Ralph, 2024: Local and object-based perspectives on atmospheric rivers making landfall on the western North American coastline. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 25(5). https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0155.1