Year:      1980-1985     1986-1990     1991-1995     1996-2000    2001-present

Papers in Journals:

1.      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.,  16 manuscript pages, accepted for publication (2004).[PDF]

2.      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, 49 manuscript pages, accepted for publication (2003).[PDF]

3.      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 upstream solitons and downstream solitary wavetrains coexistence in the real atmosphere, Int. J. Remote Sensing, 13 manuscript pages, accepted for publication (2003).[PDF]

4.      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).[PDF]

5.      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).

6.      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).[PDF]

7.      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).[PDF]

8.      W.K.M. Lau, K.M. Kim and S.S.P. Shen, Potential predictability of seasonal precipitation over the United States from canonical ensemble correlation predictions, Geophys. Res. Lett.  29, 10.1029 (2002).[PDF]

9.      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).[PDF]

10.  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).[PDF]

11.  G.R. North, S.S.P. Shen and A. Basist, Global warming, in Encyclopedia of Environmentrics, John Wiley, New York (2002), pp. 928-933.[PDF]

12.  G.R. North and S.S.P. Shen, Global circulation, in Encyclopedia of Environmentrics, John Wiley, New York (2002), pp. 906-920.[PDF]

13.  A. Basist, C. Williams, N. Grody, T. Ross and S.S.P. Shen, Soil wetness index, in Encyclopedia of Environmentrics, John Wiley, New York (2002), pp. 2029-2033.[PDF]

14.  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).[PDF]

15.  S.S.P. Shen, P. Dzikowski, G. Li and D. Griffith, Interpolation of 1961-1997 daily temperature and precipitation data onto Alberta polygons of ecodistrict and soil landscape of Canada, J. Applied Meteo. 40, 2162-2177 (2001).[PDF]

16.  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).[PDF]

17.  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).[PDF]

18.  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).[PDF]

19.  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).[PDF]

20.  X. Wang and S.S.P. Shen, Estimation of spatial degrees of freedom of a climate field, J. Climate 12, 1280-1291 (1999).[PDF]

21.  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).[PDF]

22.  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).[PDF]

23.  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).[PDF]

24.  S.S.P. Shen and S. Zhang, A quantitative study on the stability of quadratic delay difference systems, Computers and Mathematics with Applications 35, 1-16 (1998).[PDF]

25.  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).[PDF]

26.  S.S.P. Shen and X. Wang, Optimal average of regional temperature with sampling error estimation, Atmosphere and Ocean 35, 147-160 (1997).[PDF]

27.  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).[PDF]

28.  Z. Xu and S.S.P. Shen, Physical universals in problem of precursor soliton generation, Science in China 40, 306-314 (1997).[PDF]

29.  S.S.P. Shen, Energy distribution for waves in transcritical flows over a bump, Wave Motion 23, 39-48 (1996).[PDF]

30.  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).[PDF]

31.  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).

32.  S.S.P. Shen, R.P. Manohar and L. Gong, Stability of the lower cusped solitary waves, Phys. Fluids A 7, 2507-2509 (1995).[PDF] 

33.  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).[PDF]

34.  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).[PDF]

35.  S.S.P. Shen, X. Wang, Y. Liang, and R. Li, Optimal weight scheme for averaging regional temperature I: Theoretical analysis, China Science Bulletin A 40, 1351-1356 (1995).

36.  A.P. Mazzoleni and S.S.P. Shen, The product of chord lengths of a circle, Mathematics Magazine 68, 59-60 (1995).[PDF]

37.  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).[PDF]

38.  S.S.P. Shen, A simple model of reproductive mass spreading, Canadian Appl. Math. Quarterly 2, 395-412 (1994).[PDF]

39.  G.R. North, J.B. Valdes, E. Ha and S.S.P. Shen, The ground truth problem for satellite estimates of rain rate, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech 11, 1035-1041 (1994).[PDF]

40.  L. Gong and S.S.P. Shen, Multiple supercritical solitary wave solutions of the stationary forced Korteweg-de Vries equation and their stability, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 54, 1268-1290 (1994).[PDF]

41.  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).

42.  S.S.P. Shen and L. Gong, Solitary waves on a shelf, Phys.  Fluids A 5, 1071-1073 (1993).[PDF]

43.  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).

44.  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).[PDF]

45.  S.S.P. Shen, Forced solitary waves and hydraulic falls in two-layer flows, J. Fluid Mech. 234, 583-612 (1992).[PDF]

46.  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).[PDF]

47.  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).

48.  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).[PDF]

49.  S.S.P. Shen, Locally forced critical surface waves in channels of arbitrary cross section, J. Appl. Math. Phys.  ZAMP 42, 122-138 (1991).[PDF]

50.  S.S.P. Shen, Blocking of solitary pulses in a nonlinear fiber, Wave Motion 12, 551-557 (1990).[PDF]

51.  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).[PDF]

52.  S.S.P. Shen and W.L. Perry, An example of nonlinear toxic mass spreading, Appl. Sci. Res. 47, 323-339 (1990).[PDF]

53.  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).[PDF]

54.   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).[PDF]

55.  S.S.P. Shen, Disturbed critical surface waves in a channel of arbitrary cross section, ZAMP J. Appl. Math. Phys. 40, 216-229 (1989).[PDF]

56.   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).[PDF]

57.  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).[PDF]

58.  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).

59.   S.S.P. Shen, A simple derivation of rigid-rotation formula, Euro. J. Phys. 6, 96-97 (1985).[PDF]

60.  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).[PDF]

61.  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).[PDF]

62.  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).

63.  S.S.P. Shen, K. Cannon, A. Howard, S. Chetner, and T.R. Karl, Temporal and spatial changes of agroclimate in Alberta during 1901-2002, J. Appl. Meteo. (submitted).

64.  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 (submitted).

65.  A.N. Basist, S.S.P. Shen, C. Williams, and G. Li, Error assessment of the Global Historical Climatological Network data. J. Clim. (submitted).

66.  M. Mei, J. So, M.Y. Li, and S.S.P. Shen, Asymptotic stability of traveling waves for the Nicholson’s blowflies equation with diffusion. SIAM J. Math. Analysis (submitted)

67.  S.S.P. Shen, Searching for points on a unit sphere with maximal sum of mutual distances, Computers and Mathematics with Applications (submitted).

68.  K.M. Lau, K.M. Kim, S.S.P. Shen, and G. Li, Error estimate of seasonal precipitation forecasting over the United States by the canonical correlation method, Mon. Wea. Rev. (to be submitted).

69.  S.S.P. Shen, B. Shen and R. Wong, An assessment of the change of Alberta temperature and precipitation in 1884-1996, Atmosphere-Ocean (to be submitted).

70.  S.S.P. Shen, Parameter estimation on a sphere, SIAM Review (to be submitted).

71.  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 University of Tokyo (1995), 74pp.

3.      S. Chetner and the Agroclimatic Atlas Working Group, Agroclimatic Atlas of Alberta, 1971 to 2000. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Agdex071-1, Edmonton, Alberta (2003), 89pp. (S.S.P. Shen is included in the Working Group.)

 

 

 

Papers in Conference Proceedings

1.      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, Edmonton, 1271-1276 (1999).[PDF]

2.      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).

3.      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). 

4.      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, Madrid, ed. by J.-I. Diaz and J.-L. Lions, 307-315 (1993).

5.      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, Montreal, ed. by J.M. Chadam and H. Rasmusen, 388-394 (1993).

6.      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).

7.      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, 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.

2.      S.S.P. Shen, Using informatics to expedite the development of cross-disciplinary sciences. Second Symposium on the New Century Science and Technology in China, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Beijing, China, 2003.

3.      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.

4.      S.S.P. Shen and K. Cannon, Alberta 1961-1997 climate data on EDP and SLC polygons: data derivatives and data formation for soil quality models, Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2000.

5.      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.

6.      S.S.P. Shen, An optimal assessment of Alberta climate change, Alberta Environment, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1999.

7.      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.

8.      S.S.P. Shen, An optimal program for averaging regional temperature anomalies, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada, 1994.