Dr. Ming Zhao
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Curriculum Vitae |
Research Interests
- Moist convection, clouds, atmospheric boundary layer turbulence and their parameterizations in global climate models
- Tropical cyclone and climate
- Convection-cloud-climate feedback
- Weather and climate extremes in a changing climate
- 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 Experiences
- Member of the U.S CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group.
- Project scientist II (2007-present), GFDL/UCAR, core member of Global Atmospheric Model Development Team (GAMDT) working on GFDL HIgh Resolution Atmospheric Model (HIRAM) and AM3 model development.
- Associate research scholar (2006-2007),
GFDL/Princeton University, core member of Global Atmospheric Model Development Team (GAMDT) 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 working 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, work on 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.
Grant and Journal Review Experiences
- National Science Foundation Grant Proposal
- NOAA Climate Program Funding Proposal
- Nature Climate Change
- Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- Journal of Climate
- Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
- Journal of Geophysical Research
- Climate Dynamics
- Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
- International Journal of Climatology
- Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Publications
Invited presentations
- The 4th PAN GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) meeting on: Advances in Modeling and Observing Clouds and Convection, June 2-6 2008, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France.
- Two invited talks at American Geophysical Union 2010 Fall Meeting, 13-17 December, 2010, San Francisco, USA.
- School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) Colloquium In Climate Science, Columbia University, April 7, 2011.
- Atmospheric, Ocean and Space Sciences (AOSS) Department Seminar, University of Michigan, March 15, 2012.
AWARDS
- University Graduate Fellowship. University of B.C., Canada. 1998 - 2001.
- Lee Scholarship. University of B.C., Canada. Nov. 1998.
- Second-class Award for Advancing Sciences and Technologies by China Meteorological Administration. 1996.
- First-class Award for Advancing Sciences and Technologies by National Meteorological Center of China. 1996.
- Outstanding Paper Award, Shanghai Meteorological Center, China. 1994, 1995.
