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66
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18192
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2062
National Ranking
841

Overview

Ming Zhao is affiliated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans a variety of subfields, most notably Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography, alongside contributions to Astronomy and Astrophysics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research focuses on several key scientific topics, including:

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

Ming Zhao has published multiple papers across a selection of prominent scientific venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Notable recent papers by Ming Zhao are:

  • The GFDL Earth System Model Version 4.1 (GFDL-ESM 4.1): Overall Coupled Model Description and Simulation Characteristics, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • SPEAR: The Next Generation GFDL Modeling System for Seasonal to Multidecadal Prediction and Projection, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Clouds and Convective Self-Aggregation in a Multimodel Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The GFDL Global Atmospheric Chemistry-Climate Model AM4.1: Model Description and Simulation Characteristics, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Ming Zhao has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Their main frequent co-authors include:

  • Zhihong Tan
  • Bosong Zhang
  • Paul Ginoux
  • Huan Guo
  • Wenhao Dong

Best Publications

  • Global Scale Attribution of Anthropogenic and Natural Dust Sources and their Emission Rates Based on MODIS Deep Blue Aerosol Products

    Paul Ginoux;Joseph M. Prospero;Thomas E. Gill;N. Christina Hsu

  • The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

    Leo J. Donner;Bruce L. Wyman;Richard S. Hemler;Larry W. Horowitz

  • Intercomparison of Bulk Aerodynamic Algorithms for the Computation of Sea Surface Fluxes Using TOGA COARE and TAO Data

    Xubin Zeng;Ming Zhao;Ming Zhao;Robert Earl Dickinson

  • The GFDL Earth System Model Version 4.1 (GFDL-ESM 4.1): Overall Coupled Model Description and Simulation Characteristics

    J. P. Dunne;L. W. Horowitz;A. J. Adcroft;P. Ginoux

  • Simulations of Global Hurricane Climatology, Interannual Variability, and Response to Global Warming Using a 50-km Resolution GCM

    Ming Zhao;Isaac M. Held;Shian Jiann Lin;Gabriel Andres Vecchi

  • The Response of the ITCZ to Extratropical Thermal Forcing: Idealized Slab-Ocean Experiments with a GCM

    Sarah M. Kang;Isaac M. Held;Dargan M. W. Frierson;Ming Zhao

  • Global Projections of Intense Tropical Cyclone Activity for the Late Twenty-First Century from Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP5/RCP4.5 Scenarios

    Thomas R. Knutson;Joseph J. Sirutis;Ming Zhao;Robert E. Tuleya

  • Structure and Performance of GFDL's CM4.0 Climate Model

    I. M. Held;H. Guo;A. Adcroft;J. P. Dunne

  • Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Twenty-First-Century Atlantic Hurricane Activity: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Model-Based Scenarios

    Thomas R. Knutson;Joseph J. Sirutis;Gabriel A. Vecchi;Stephen Garner

  • The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0: 2. Model Description, Sensitivity Studies, and Tuning Strategies

    M. Zhao;J.-C. Golaz;I. M. Held;H. Guo

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

    Eric D. Maloney;Suzana J. Camargo;Edmund Chang;Brian Colle

  • The GFDL Global Atmosphere and Land Model AM4.0/LM4.0: 1. Simulation Characteristics With Prescribed SSTs

    M. Zhao;J. C. Golaz;Isaac M. Held;H. Guo

  • SPEAR – the next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection

    Thomas L. Delworth;William F. Cooke;William F. Cooke;Alistair Adcroft;Alistair Adcroft;Mitchell Bushuk;Mitchell Bushuk

  • Tropical cyclone rainfall area controlled by relative sea surface temperature.

    Yanluan Lin;Ming Zhao;Minghua Zhang

  • Hurricanes and climate: The U.S. Clivar working group on hurricanes

    Kevin J. E. Walsh;Suzana J. Camargo;Gabriel A. Vecchi;Anne Sophie Daloz

  • Detected climatic change in global distribution of tropical cyclones.

    Hiroyuki Murakami;Hiroyuki Murakami;Thomas L. Delworth;William F. Cooke;Ming Zhao

  • Aquaplanets, Climate Sensitivity, and Low Clouds

    Brian Medeiros;Bjorn Stevens;Isaac M. Held;Ming Zhao

  • Increase of global monsoon area and precipitation under global warming: A robust signal?

    Pang-chi Hsu;Tim Li;Jing-Jia Luo;Hiroyuki Murakami

  • Clouds and Convective Self-Aggregation in a Multimodel Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations.

    Allison A. Wing;Catherine L. Stauffer;Tobias Becker;Kevin A. Reed

  • Statistical–Dynamical Predictions of Seasonal North Atlantic Hurricane Activity

    Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Ming Zhao;Ming Zhao;Hui Wang;Gabriele Villarini

  • The GFDL Global Atmospheric Chemistry-Climate Model AM4.1: Model Description and Simulation Characteristics

    Larry Wayne Horowitz;Vaishali Naik;Fabien Paulot;Paul A Ginoux

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability

    Justin Sheffield;Suzana J. Camargo;Rong Fu;Qi Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Suzana J. Camargo
Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Paul Ginoux
Paul Ginoux Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Hiroyuki Murakami
Hiroyuki Murakami National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Baoqiang Xiang
Baoqiang Xiang University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Yi Ming
Yi Ming Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Vaishali Naik
Vaishali Naik Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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