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63
Citations
17213
World Ranking
2437
National Ranking
978

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Chidong Zhang is affiliated with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans primarily across Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions within several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's research focuses on a range of main topics, featuring Climate variability and models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Chidong Zhang has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Eos

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Zhang illustrate their focus on atmospheric and oceanic processes. These works include:

  • "Fifty Years of Research on the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Four Theories of the Madden-Julian Oscillation," 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "The influence of the quasi-biennial oscillation on the Madden-Julian oscillation," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Years of the Maritime Continent," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Measurements from the RV Ronald H. Brown and related platforms as part of the Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC)," 2021, Earth system science data

Zhang frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Dongxiao Zhang, Gregory R. Foltz, Christian Meinig, Calvin W. Mordy, and Edward D. Cokelet.

In 2020, Chidong Zhang was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), recognizing their contributions in this research domain.

Best Publications

  • Madden‐Julian Oscillation

    Chidong Zhang

  • Toward a unified view of the American monsoon systems

    Carolina Vera;W. Higgins;J. Amador;T. Ambrizzi

  • Impact of Aerosols on Convective Clouds and Precipitation

    Wei Kuo Tao;Jen Ping Chen;Zhanqing Li;Zhanqing Li;Chien Wang

  • Madden–Julian Oscillation: Bridging Weather and Climate

    Chidong Zhang

  • Tracking Pulses of the Madden–Julian Oscillation

    Kunio Yoneyama;Chidong Zhang;Charles N. Long

  • MJO Simulation Diagnostics

    D Waliser;K Sperber;H Hendon;D Kim

  • Interannual Variation of the Madden–Julian Oscillation during Austral Summer

    Harry H. Hendon;Chidong Zhang;John D. Glick

  • Seasonal Dependence of the MJO-ENSO Relationship

    Harry H. Hendon;Matthew C. Wheeler;Chidong Zhang

  • Large-Scale Variability of Atmospheric Deep Convection in Relation to Sea Surface Temperature in the Tropics

    Chidong Zhang

  • Seasonality in the Madden–Julian Oscillation

    Chidong Zhang;Min Dong

  • SST Anomalies of ENSO and the Madden–Julian Oscillation in the Equatorial Pacific*

    Chidong Zhang;Jonathan Gottschalck

  • Variability of midtropospheric moisture and its effect on cloud-top height distribution during TOGA COARE

    Randy G. Brown;Chidong Zhang

  • Dynamics of Breaks in the Indian Summer Monsoon

    R. Krishnan;R. Krishnan;C. Zhang;M. Sugi

  • Annual cycle of the West African monsoon: regional circulations and associated water vapour transport

    Chris D. Thorncroft;Hanh Nguyen;Chidong Zhang;Philippe Peyrillé

  • Barrier Effect of the Indo-Pacific Maritime Continent on the MJO: Perspectives from Tracking MJO Precipitation

    Chidong Zhang;Jian Ling

  • Fifty Years of Research on the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Recent Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Xianan Jiang;Xianan Jiang;Ángel F. Adames;Daehyun Kim;Eric D. Maloney

  • Simulations of the Madden–Julian oscillation in four pairs of coupled and uncoupled global models

    Chidong Zhang;Min Dong;Silvio Gualdi;Harry H. Hendon

  • EUREC 4 A

    Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony;David Farrell;Felix Ament

  • Cracking the MJO nut

    Chidong Zhang;Jon Gottschalck;Eric D. Maloney;Mitchell W. Moncrieff

  • Atmospheric Intraseasonal Variability at the Surface in the Tropical Western Pacific Ocean

    Chidong Zhang

  • Propagating and Standing Components of the Intraseasonal Oscillation in Tropical Convection

    Chidong Zhang;Harry H. Hendon

  • Large-Scale Atmospheric and Oceanic Conditions during the 2011-12 DYNAMO Field Campaign

    Jon Gottschalck;Paul E. Roundy;Carl J. Schreck;Augustin Vintzileos

  • Four Theories of the Madden‐Julian Oscillation

    C. Zhang;Á. F. Adames;B. Khouider;B. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric D. Maloney
Eric D. Maloney Colorado State University
Harry H. Hendon
Harry H. Hendon Bureau of Meteorology
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Zhanqing Li
Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park
Frederic Vitart
Frederic Vitart European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Wei-Kuo Tao
Wei-Kuo Tao Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert Pincus
Robert Pincus University of Colorado Boulder
Peter Bechtold
Peter Bechtold European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Mitchell W. Moncrieff
Mitchell W. Moncrieff National Center for Atmospheric Research

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