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Dr. Ming Zhao

Curriculum Vitae
Project Scientist II
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory / NOAA
Princeton University Forrestal Campus / US Route 1
PO Box 308, Princeton, NJ 08542 		 

Research Interests

  • Moist convection, clouds, atmospheric boundary layer turbulence and their parameterizations in global climate models
  • Tropical cyclone and climate
  • Cloud-climate feedback
  • Numerical simulations and numerical methods

Education

  • Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada, 2003
  • M.Sc. in Atmospheric Remote Sensing, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China, 1993
  • B.Sc. in Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China, 1990

Professional Experience

  • Project scientist II (2007-present), GFDL/UCAR, work on GFDL HIgh Resolution Atmospheric Model (HIRAM) and AM3 model development
  • Associate research scholar (2006-2007), GFDL/Princeton University, work on GFDL HIgh Resolution Atmospheric Model (HIRAM) and AM3 model development
  • Research associate (2004-2006), GFDL/Princeton University, GFDL liaison scientist for the atmospheric CPT project and also work on idealized radiative convective equilibrium with and without ambient rotation using GCM physics.
  • Post doctoral fellow (2003-2004), Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, Canada, use large-eddy simulation of convection and clouds for a project entitled Modelling Clouds and Climate (MOC2).
  • Weather forecaster and head of severe weather division (1993-1998), Shanghai Meteorological Center, Shanghai, China.

Publications

  1. Zhao, M. and I. M. Held: Sensitivity of GCM Simulated Clouds to Cumulus Mixing, Convective Cloud Microphysics and Its Implications for Cloud Feedback to Climate Sensitivities. manuscript in preparation.
  2. Zhao, M., I.M. Held, G.A. Vecchi and S-J Lin, Seasonal Forecast of North Atlantic Hurricanes Using Persistent June SST Anomalies. manuscript in preparation.
  3. Zhao, M., I.M. Held, S-J. Lin, and G.A. Vecchi, (submitted 1/23/2009): Simulations of global hurricane climatology, interannual variability, and response to global warming using a 50km resolution GCM. J. Climate.
  4. Ming, Y., P. A. Ginoux, L. W. Horowitz, L. J. Donner, Zhao, M., J.-C. Golaz and S.-J. Lin (submitted, 2008): Modulation of Arctic Haze by Second Climate Mode. Nature.
  5. Mapes, B., J. Bacmeister, M. Kharoudinov, C. Hannay, and M. Zhao, 2009: Virtual Field Campaigns on Deep Tropical Convection in Climate Models. J. Climate, 22, 244-257.
  6. Held, I. M. and M. Zhao, 2008: Horizontally Homogeneous Rotating Radiative-Convective Equilibria at GCM Resolution. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 2003-2013.
  7. Medeiros, B., B. Stevens, I. M. Held, M. Zhao, D. L. Williamson, J. G. Olson and C. S. Bretherton, 2008: Aquaplanets, Climate Sensitivity, and Low Clouds. J. Climate, 21, 4974-4991 DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI1995.1
  8. Kang, S., I. M. Held, D. Frierson and M. Zhao, 2008: The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Thermal Forcing: Idealized Slab-Ocean Experiments with a GCM. J. Climate, 21, 3521-3532. DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2146.1
  9. Held, I. M., M. Zhao and B. Wyman, 2007: Dynamic Radiative-Convective Equilibria Using GCM Column Physics.  J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 228-238.
  10. Wyant, M. C., A. Chlond, H. Kitagawa, C-L Lappen, V. Larson, A. Lock, S. Park, J. Uchida, S. de Roode, M. Zhao and A. S. Ackerman, 2007: A Single Column Model Intercomparison of a Heavily Drizzling Stratocumulus Topped Boundary Layer. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24204. doi:10.1029/2007JD008536.
  11. Wyant, M. C., C. S. Bretherton, J. T. Bacmeister, J. T. Kiehl, I. M. Held, M. Zhao, S. A. Klein and B. J. Soden, 2006: A Comparison of Low-Latitude Cloud Properties and Their Response to Climate Change in Three US AGCMs Sorted into Regimes Using Mid-Tropospheric Vertical Velocity. Climate Dyn. 27, 261 - 279.
  12. Zhao, M. and P.H. Austin, 2005: Life Cycle of Numerically Simulated Shallow Cumulus Clouds. Part I: Transport. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 1269-1290.
  13. Zhao, M. and P.H. Austin, 2005: Life Cycle of Numerically Simulated Shallow Cumulus Clouds. Part II: Mixing Dynamics. J. Atmos. Sci. 62, 1291-1310.
  14. Zhao, M. and P.H. Austin, 2003: Episodic Mixing and Buoyancy-Sorting Representations of Shallow Convection: a Diagnostic Study. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 892-912.