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Overview

Guang J. Zhang is affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a substantial output in both areas.

Their work is focused on several key subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Mechanical Engineering. The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Zhang's frequent publication venues reflect a strong presence in interdisciplinary atmospheric and environmental science journals. These venues consist of:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Their recent published papers illustrate a focus on climate metrics, atmospheric physics, and earth system modeling. Selected publications include:

  • "Trends in surface equivalent potential temperature: A more comprehensive metric for global warming and weather extremes," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A Moist Physics Parameterization Based on Deep Learning," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Community Integrated Earth System Model (CIESM): Description and Evaluation," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Disproportionate control on aerosol burden by light rain," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Stable climate simulations using a realistic general circulation model with neural network parameterizations for atmospheric moist physics and radiation processes," 2022, Geoscientific Model Development

Guang J. Zhang has collaborated extensively with other researchers in related atmospheric and climate fields. Their frequent co-authors include Yong Wang, Yilun Han, Shaocheng Xie, Wuyin Lin, and Xiaoliang Song.

Best Publications

  • Sensitivity of climate simulations to the parameterization of cumulus convection in the Canadian climate centre general circulation model

    G.J. Zhang;Norman A. McFarlane

  • Warm Pool Heat Budget and Shortwave Cloud Forcing: A Missing Physics?

    V. Ramanathan;B. Subasilar;G. J. Zhang;W. Conant

  • Application of MJO Simulation Diagnostics to Climate Models

    D. Kim;K. Sperber;W. Stern;D. Waliser

  • Vertical structure and physical processes of the Madden-Julian oscillation: exploring key model physics in climate simulations

    Xianan Jiang;Xianan Jiang;Duane E. Waliser;Duane E. Waliser;Prince K. Xavier;Jon Petch

  • A Decomposition of Feedback Contributions to Polar Warming Amplification

    Patrick C. Taylor;Ming Cai;Aixue Hu;Jerry Meehl

  • The Relationship between Sea Surface Temperature and Latent Heat Flux in the Equatorial Pacific

    Guang Jun Zhang;Michael J. Mcphaden

  • Trends in surface equivalent potential temperature: A more comprehensive metric for global warming and weather extremes

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  • Convective quasi-equilibrium in midlatitude continental environment and its effect on convective parameterization

    Guang J. Zhang

  • Improved Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in E3SM With a Revised Convective Triggering Function

    Shaocheng Xie;Yi-Chi Wang;Wuyin Lin;Hsi-Yen Ma

  • Performance of the New NCAR CAM3.5 in East Asian Summer Monsoon Simulations: Sensitivity to Modifications of the Convection Scheme

    Haoming Chen;Tianjun Zhou;Richard B. Neale;Xiaoqing Wu

  • Effects of modifications to the Zhang-McFarlane convection parameterization on the simulation of the tropical precipitation in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model, version 3

    Guang J. Zhang;Mingquan Mu

  • Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parametrizations under summertime midlatitude continental conditions

    Shaocheng Xie;Kuan Man Xu;Richard T. Cederwall;Peter Bechtold

  • A Moist Physics Parameterization Based on Deep Learning

    Yilun Han;Guang J. Zhang;Xiaomeng Huang;Yong Wang

  • Energy consumption and the unexplained winter warming over northern Asia and North America

    Guang J. Zhang;Ming Cai;Aixue Hu

  • Uncertainty quantification and parameter tuning in the CAM5 Zhang‐McFarlane convection scheme and impact of improved convection on the global circulation and climate

    Ben Yang;Ben Yang;Yun Qian;Guang Lin;L. Ruby Leung

  • Microphysics parameterization for convective clouds in a global climate model: Description and single-column model tests

    Xiaoliang Song;Guang J. Zhang

  • Role of convective scale momentum transport in climate simulation

    Guang Jun Zhang;Norman A. McFarlane

  • Toward mitigating the double ITCZ problem in NCAR CCSM3

    Guang J. Zhang;Houjun Wang

  • Community Integrated Earth System Model (CIESM): Description and Evaluation

    Yanluan Lin;Xiaomeng Huang;Yishuang Liang;Yi Qin

  • Simulations of midlatitude frontal clouds by single-column and cloud--resolving models during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement March 2000 cloud intensive operational period

    Shaocheng Xie;Minghua H. Zhang;Mark Branson;Richard T. Cederwall

  • Interaction of deep and shallow convection is key to Madden-Julian Oscillation simulation

    Guang J. Zhang;Xiaoliang Song

  • Response of Climate Simulation to a New Convective Parameterization in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model (CCM3)

    Guang J. Zhang;Jeffrey T. Kiehl;Philip J. Rasch

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Wang
Bin Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jiwen Fan
Jiwen Fan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Kuan-Man Xu
Kuan-Man Xu Langley Research Center
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Shaocheng Xie
Shaocheng Xie Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Steven J. Ghan
Steven J. Ghan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Minghuai Wang
Minghuai Wang Nanjing University
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Daehyun Kim
Daehyun Kim University of Washington
Yun Qian
Yun Qian Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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