Samuel S.P. Shen
McCalla Professor at the
and US NRC Senior Fellow at
NASA
E-mail: shen@sciences.sdsu.edu
http://www.math.sdsu.edu/Shen.htm
Papers in Journals
1.
Q.C. Zeng, X.D. Zeng, A. Wang, R. E. Dickinson, X.B. Zeng,
S.S.P. Shen, Some studies of the hydrological intereactions in the atmosphere-soil system, Chinese J. Atmospheric
Sciences 29, 7-19 (2005).
2.
X.D. Zeng, X.B. Zeng, S.S.P. Shen, R.E. Dickenson,
and Q.C. Zeng, Vegetation-soil water interaction
within a dynamical ecosystem model of grassland in semi-arid areas, Tellus,
48 manuscript pages, accepted for publication (2005).
3.
S.S.P. Shen, H. Yin, K. Cannon, A.
Howard, S. Chetner, and T.R. Karl, Temporal and
spatial changes of agroclimate in Alberta during
1901-2002, J. Appl. Meteo.
, 42 manuscript pages, accepted for publication (2004).
4.
Y. Zhou, S. Gao,
and S.S.P. Shen, A diagnostic study of formation
and structures of the Meiyu front system over
5.
H.
Lu, S.S.P. Shen and J. Huang, Characteristics
of the 500hPa signal field for the rainstorms over the Middle Reaches of Yangtze
River, China, Acta Meteorologica,
28 manuscript pages, accepted for publication (2004).
6.
D. Mwale, T.Y. Gan,
and S.S.P. Shen, A new analysis on variability and
predictability of seasonal rainfall of central southern Africa, Int. J.
Climatology 24, 1509-1530 (2004).
7.
M. Mei, J. So, M.Y. Li, and S.S.P.
Shen, Asymptotic stability of traveling waves for
Nicholson’s blowflies equation with diffusion. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of
8.
X.D. Zeng, S.S.P. Shen, X. Zeng, and R. E. Dickinson,
Multiple equilibrium states and the abrupt transitions in a dynamical system
of soil water interacting with vegetation, Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L05501-4 (2004).
9.
X.D. Zeng, A. Wang, G. Zhao, S.S.P.
Shen, X. Zeng, Q.-C. Zeng,
Ecological dynamic model of grassland and its practical verification, Science
in China C34, 481-486 (2004).
10. S.S.P.
Shen, A.N. Basist, G.
Li, C. Williams, and T.R. Karl, Prediction of sea surface temperature from
the Global Historical Climatology Network data, Environmetrics 15, 233-249
(2004).
11. Q.
Zheng, S. S. P. Shen,
Y. Yuan, N.E. Huang, V. Klemas, X-.H. Yan, F. Shi, X. Zhang, Z. Zhao, X. Li and P. Clemente-Colon, Evidence of the coexistence of upstream and
downstream solitary wavetrains in the real atmosphere,
International Journal of Remote Sensing 25, 4433-4440 (2004).
(Also the cover page of the International Journal of Remote Sensing
25, No. 21, 4431 (2004)).
12. N.E.
Huang, M.L. Wu, W. Qu, S.R. Long, and S.S.P. Shen, Applications of Hilbert-Huang transform to non-stationary
financial time series analysis, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and
Industry 19, 245-268 (2003).
13. N.E.
Huang, M.L. Wu, S.R. Long, S.S.P. Shen, W. Qu, P. Gloersen, and K.L. Fan, A
confidence limit for the empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert spectral
analysis, Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. A 459,
2317-2345 (2003).
14. Y. He, Y. Lin, S.S.P. Shen, and R. Tait, Finite element approximation for viscoelastic
fluid motion problem, J. Computational and Appl.
Math. 155, 201-222 (2003).
15. Y.D.
Shen, L.Y. Yuan, J. You, S.S.P. Shen,
and Q. Yang, A dynamic approach to characterizing termination of general logic
programs. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 4, 417-430 (2003).
16. W.K.M.
Lau, K.M. Kim and S.S.P. Shen, Potential predictability
of seasonal precipitation over the
17. S.S.P.
Shen, K.M. Lau, K-.M. Kim, G. Li and A. Basist, Formulation of the canonical ensemble correlation
prediction for seasonal precipitation, Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sci. 26, 114-140 (2002).
18. Y. He, Y. Lin, S.S.P. Shen, and R. Tait, On the convergence of viscoelastic fluid flows to a steady state, Advances in
Differential Equations 7, 717-742 (2002).
19. G.R.
North, S.S.P. Shen and A. Basist,
Global warming, in Encyclopedia of Environmentrics, John Wiley, New York (2002), pp. 928-933.
20. G.R.
North and S.S.P. Shen, Global circulation, in Encyclopedia of Environmentrics,
John Wiley, New York (2002), pp. 906-920.
21. A.
Basist, C. Williams, N. Grody,
T. Ross and S.S.P. Shen, Soil wetness index, in
Encyclopedia of Environmentrics,
John Wiley,
22. S.S.P.
Shen, B. Shen, C.T. Ong, and Z.T. Xu, Collision of uniform
soliton trains in asymmetric systems, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems B9, 131-138 (2002).
23. S.S.P.
Shen, P. Dzikowski, G.
Li and D. Griffith, Interpolation of 1961-1997 daily climate data onto
24. A.
Basist, C. Williams, N. Grody,
T. Ross, S.S.P. Shen, A. Chang, R. Ferraro and M.
Menne, Using
the Special Sensor Microwave Imager to monitor surface wetness, J. Hydrometeorology
2, 297-308 (2001).
25. C.K.
Folland, N.A. Rayner,
S.J. Brown, T.M. Smith, S.S.P. Shen, D.E. Parker,
I. Macadam, P.D. Jones, R.N. Jones, N. Nicholls, and D.M.H. Sexton, Global
temperature change and its uncertainties since 1861, Geophys. Res. Lett. 28, 2621-2624 (2001).
26. S.S.P.
Shen, T.B. Moodie, and
B. Shen, Interpretation of stability and instability of the solitary
waves in a forced Korteweg-de Vries system, Canadian
Appl. Math. Quarterly 8, 293-303 (2000).
27. Z.
Xu, H. Xu and S.S.P. Shen, Tailing wavetrain generation
in precursor soliton generation in single-layer
flow, Progress in Natural Science
10, 350-356 (2000).
28. X.
Wang and S.S.P. Shen, Estimation of spatial degrees
of freedom of a climate field, J. Climate
12, 1280-1291 (1999).
29. S.S.P.
Shen and G.R. North, A simple proof of the slope
stability theorem for energy balance climate model, Canadian Appl. Math. Quarterly 7, 203-215 (1999).
30. S.S.P.
Shen, T.M. Smith, C.F. Ropelewski
and R.E. Livezey, An optimal regional averaging
method with error estimates and a test using tropical Pacific SST data, J. Climate 11, 2340-2350 (1998).
31. T.M.
Smith, R.E. Livezey and S.S.P. Shen,
An improved method for interpolating sparse and irregularly distributed data
onto a regular grid, J. Climate
11, 1717-1729 (1998).
32. S.S.P.
Shen and
33. F.W.
Zwiers and S.S.P. Shen,
Errors in estimating spherical harmonic coefficients from partially sampled
GCM output, Climate Dyn.13, 703-716 (1997).
34. S.S.P.
Shen and X. Wang, Optimal average of regional temperature
with sampling error estimation, Atmosphere
and Ocean 35, 147-160 (1997).
35. T.-H.
Li, G.R. North and S.S.P. Shen, Aliased power of
a stochastic temperature field on a sphere,
J. Geophys. Res. 102, 4475-4486 (1997).
36. Z.
Xu and S.S.P. Shen, Physical
universals in problem of precursor soliton generation,
Science in China 40, 306-314 (1997).
37. S.S.P.
Shen, Energy distribution for waves in transcritical flows over a bump, Wave Motion 23, 39-48 (1996).
38. K.-Y.
Kim, G.R. North and S.S.P. Shen, Optimal estimation
of spherical harmonic components from a sample with spatially nonuniform covariance statistics, J. Climate 9,
635-645 (1996).
39. S.S.P.
Shen, G.R. North and K.-Y. Kim, Optimal estimation
of the spherical harmonic components of the surface air temperature, Environmetrics 7,
261-276 (1996).
40. S.S.P.
Shen, R.P. Manohar and
L. Gong, Stability of the lower cusped solitary waves, Phys. Fluids A 7, 2507-2509 (1995).
41. G.R.
North, K.Y. Kim, S.S.P. Shen and J.W. Hardin, Detection
of forced climate signals, Part I: theory, J. Climate 8, 401-408 (1995).
42. S.S.P.
Shen, On the accuracy of
the stationary forced Korteweg-de Vries
equation as a model equation for flows over a bump, Quarterly Appl. Math. 53, 701-719 (1995).
43. S.S.P.
Shen, X. Wang, Y. Liang,
and R. Li, Optimal weight scheme for averaging regional temperature I: Theoretical
analysis,
44. A.P.
Mazzoleni and S.S.P. Shen,
The product of chord lengths of a circle, Mathematics Magazine 68,
59-60 (1995).
45. S.S.P.
Shen, G.R. North and K.Y. Kim, Spectral approach
to optimal estimation of the global average temperature, J. Climate 7, 1999-2007
(1994).
46. S.S.P.
Shen, A simple model of reproductive mass spreading,
Canadian Appl. Math.
Quarterly 2, 395-412 (1994).
47. G.R.
North, J.B. Valdes, E. Ha and S.S.P. Shen, The ground
truth problem for satellite estimates of rain rate,
48. L.
Gong and S.S.P. Shen, Multiple supercritical solitary
wave solutions of the stationary forced Korteweg-de
Vries equation and their stability,
49. Y.
Wang, S.S.P. Shen and H. Cheng, Evolution of the
plastic zone near a hydraulic fracture: a numerical simulation and its implications,
Canadian Geotech. J. 31,
779-787 (1994).
50. S.S.P.
Shen and L. Gong, Solitary waves on a shelf, Phys. Fluids
A 5, 1071-1073 (1993).
51. G.R.
North, S.S.P. Shen and R.B. Upson, Sampling errors
in rainfall measurements by multiple satellites, J. Appl. Meteor. 32, 399-410 (1993).
52. C.E.
Graves, J.B. Valdes, S.S.P. Shen and G.R. North,
Evaluation of sampling errors of precipitation from space-borne and ground
sensors, J. Appl.
Meteor. 32, 374-385 (1993).
53. S.S.P.
Shen, Forced solitary waves and hydraulic falls
in two-layer flows, J. Fluid Mech.
234, 583-612 (1992).
54. G.R.
North, S.S.P. Shen and J.W. Hardin, Estimation of
the global mean temperature with point gauges, Environmetrics 3, 1-14 (1992).
55. J.W.
Hardin, G.R. North and S.S.P. Shen, Minimum error
estimates of global mean temperature through optimal arrangement of gauges,
Environmetrics 3, 15-27 (1992).
56. G.R.
North, S.S.P. Shen and R.B. Upson, Combining raingages with satellite measurements for optimal estimates
of area-time averaged rainrates, Water Resources Res. 27,
2785-2790 (1991).
57. S.S.P.
Shen,
Locally forced critical surface waves in channels of arbitrary cross section,
J. Appl. Math. Phys.
ZAMP 42, 122-138 (1991).
58. S.S.P.
Shen, Blocking of solitary pulses in a nonlinear
fiber, Wave Motion 12, 551-557 (1990).
59. S.S.P.
Shen and M.C. Shen, On a limit of subcritical free-surface
flow over an obstruction, Acta Mechanica 82,
225-230 (1990).
60. S.S.P.
Shen and W.L. Perry, An example of toxic mass spreading,
Appl. Sci. Res. 47, 323-339 (1990).
61. J.
Valdes, S. Nakamoto, S.S.P. Shen
and G.R. North, Estimation of multidimensional precipitation parameters by
areal estimates of oceanic rainfall, J. Geophys. Res. 95, 2101-2111 (1990)
62. S.S.P. Shen and M.C.
Shen, A new equilibrium of subcritical
flow over an obstruction in a channel of arbitrary cross section, Eur. J. Mech. (B/Fluids) 9, 59-74 (1990).
63.
63. S.S.P.
Shen, Disturbed critical surface waves in a channel
of arbitrary cross section, ZAMP J.
Appl. Math. Phys. 40,
216-229 (1989).
64. S.S.P. Shen, M.C. Shen and S.M. Sun, A model equation for steady surface waves
over a bump, J. Engr.
Math. 23, 315-323 (1989).
65. S.S.P.
Shen, A note on the paper “a table of the special
solutions of plane elasticity problems in polar coordinates” by Pan Lizhou, Mechanics and Its Practices 20, 43-44
(1987).
66. S.S.P.
Shen and M.C. Shen, On
a Korteweg-de Vries equation with
variable coefficients in cylindrical coordinates, Phys. Fluids 29, 1759-1760 (1986).
67. S.S.P. Shen, A simple
derivation of rigid-rotation formula, Euro. J. Phys. 6, 96-97 (1985).
68. S.S.P.
Shen, Some characteristics of the distribution of
velocity and acceleration vectors of a rigid body, J. East China Engineering
Institute 19, 53-59 (1981).
69. S.S.P.
Shen, A new derivation of the equilibrium equations
of elasticity in curvilinear coordinates, J. East China Engineering Institute
18, 189-212 (1980).
70. K.M.
Lau, S.S.P. Shen, K.-M. Kim, and H. Wang, A Multi-model
Study of the 20th Century Simulations of
71. S.S.P.
Shen, J.-Y. Lee, and K.M. Lau, A Bayesian Approach
to the Confidence Interval of the Optimal Blend of Satellite and Ground Observations,
SIAM J. Appl. Math. (submitted).
72. S.S.P.
Shen, H. Yin, and T.M. Smith, An estimate of the
error variance of the GHCN monthly surface air temperature data, Journal
of Climate (submitted).
73. S.S.P.
Shen, T. Shu, T.R. Karl,
and D.R. Easterling, Defining nonlinear and non-stationary
annual cycle using Empirical Mode Decomposition, Geophys. Res. Lett.
(submitted).
74. S.S.P.
Shen, H. Yin, T.R. Karl, and A. Howard, PPCI as
a drought indicator in Alberta, Canada, Geophys.
Res. Lett. (to be submitted).
75. S.S.P.
Shen, T. Shu, N.E. Huang,
T.R. Karl, and D.R. Easterling, Analysis of climate
trend and nonlinear and non-stationary annual cycle using EMD method, Proc.
Royal Soc. Lond. A (to be submitted).
76. K.M.
Lau, K.M. Kim, S.S.P. Shen, and G. Li, Error estimate
of seasonal precipitation forecasting over the
77. S.S.P.
Shen, Parameter estimation on a sphere, SIAM Review (to be submitted).
78. S.S.P.
Shen, Forced solitary waves and solitons,
SIAM Review (to be submitted).
Monographs
1.
S.S.P. Shen, A
Course on Nonlinear Waves, Kluwer Academic Publishers
(1993), 327pp.
2.
S.S.P. Shen, Climate Sampling Errors,
Lecture Notes at
3.
S. Chetner and the Agroclimatic Atlas Working Group, Agroclimatic
Atlas of
4.
N.E. Huang and S.S.P. Shen, Hilbert-Huang
Transform and Its Applications, World Scientific (2005), 360pp.
Papers in Conference Proceedings/Book Chapters
1.
S.S.P. Shen, T. Shu, N.E. Huang, Z. Wu, T.R. Karl, and D.R. Easterling, HHT analysis of the nonlinear and non-stationary
annual cycle of daily surface air temperature data, in the book entitled “Hilbert-Huang
Transform and Its Applications,” edited by N.E. Huang and S.S.P. Shen,
World Scientific, accepted for publication, 32 manuscript pages, 2004.
2.
S.S.P.
Shen, A recipe for estimation and detection of climate
changes. Proceedings of the 3rd International Ocean-Atmosphere Conference,
3.
S.S.P.
Shen, Q. Zheng, S. Gao, Z. Xu, and C.T. Ong, Wu’s mass postulate and approximate solutions of the
fKdV equation. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on
Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, Vancouver, 10 print pages, 2004.
4.
B. Shen, D. Koval,
and S.S.P. Shen, Modelling
extreme-weather-related transmission line outages, in Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering, May 1999,
5.
S.S.P. Shen, Optimal estimation of
climate parameters and climate data reconstruction, in Proceedings of the Section on Statistics and the Environment, American
Statistical Association, 1998, 28-32 (1998).
6.
S.S.P. Shen, Forced evolution equations
and detection of climate change. In Differential Equations and Control Theory: Proceedings of the International
Conference on Differential Equations and Control Theory, May 1994, Wuhan,
China, ed. by Z. Deng, Z. Liang, G. Lu and S. Ruan, 255-270
(1996).
7.
S.S.P. Shen, G.R. North and J.W.
Hardin, Estimation of the global average temperature, in Mathematics, Climate and Environment: Proceedings of the Summer Course
on Mathematics, Climate and Environment, August 1991,
8.
S.S.P. Shen, Forced long critical surface waves in channels, In Free Boundary Problems in Fluid Flow with Applications:
Proceedings of Vth International Conference on Free
Boundary Problems, June 1990,
9.
S.S.P. Shen, G.R. North and J.W.
Hardin, Sampling errors in estimating the global temperature with point gauges:
data analysis and network planning, In Using
Hydrometric Data to Detect & Monitor Climatic Change: Proceedings of the
NHRI Workshop on Using Hydrometric Data to Detect & Monitor Climatic Change,
April 1992, Saskatoon, ed. by G.W. Kite and K.D. Harvey, 33-42 (1992).
10. S.S.P.
Shen, M.C. Shen and S.M.
Sun, Supercritical and subcritical solutions of
a model equation for steady surface waves over a bump, In Continuum Mechanics and Its Applications: Proceedings of the IXth Annual Meeting of Canadian Applied Mathematics Society,
June 1988, Burnaby, ed. by G.A.C. Graham and S.K. Malik,
399-410 (1989).
Technical Reports For
Government
1.
S.S.P. Shen, Conceptual design of
the AAFC national agroclimate data system, Agriculture
and Agri-Food Canada/National Agroclimate
Information Service, 2004.
2.
S.S.P. Shen, H. Yin, K. Cannon, A.
Howard, S. Chetner, and T.R. Karl, Temporal and
spatial changes of the Algroclimate in Alberta from
1901-2002, Alberta Agriculture, Food
and Rural Development, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2004
3.
S.S.P. Shen, A. Howard, H. Yin, F.
Khurshed, and M. Akbar,
Statistical analysis of drought indices and Alberta drought monitoring, Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2003.
4.
S.S.P. Shen, K.M. Lau, K.M. Kim and
G. Li, A canonical ensemble correlation prediction model for seasonal precipitation
anomaly, NASA Technical Memorandum, NASA-TM-2001-209989, 2001.
5.
S.S.P. Shen and K. Cannon,
6.
S.S.P. Shen, P. Dzikowski, and G. Li, Interpolation of 1961-1997 daily climate
data onto Alberta polygons of ecodistrict and soil
landscape of Canada, Alberta Agriculture,
Food and Rural Development, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2000.
7.
S.S.P. Shen, An optimal assessment
of
8.
S.S.P. Shen, Methods of spatial interpolation
of climatic data onto ecodistrict and SLC polygons,
Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural
Development, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1999.
9.
S.S.P. Shen, An optimal program for
averaging regional temperature anomalies,
Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview,
Ontario, Canada, 1994.