Aiguo Dai (Chinese: 戴爱国) is a Chinese-American atmospheric scientist and professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University at Albany, SUNY.
[1] Before joining the University at Albany in 2012 as an associate professor, he worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which he first joined in 1999 as a project scientist.
[2] An ISI highly cited researcher, Dai's areas of research include climate variability and projecting future climate change, such as changes in the global water cycle and droughts.
[1][3][4] For example, he published a study in 2010 projecting that many heavily populated areas of the world (such as southern Europe and northern Africa) could see severe drought before 2100.
[5] He has also published a study showing that the difference between the global warming hiatus and model predictions was largely due to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation.