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Guang Zhang's Selected Publications

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Zhang, G. J., M. Cai, and A. Hu, 2013: Energy consumption and the unexplained winter warming over northern Asia and North America. Nature Climate Change, 3 , 466-470, DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1803.
Cai, Q., G. J. Zhang, and T. Zhou, 2013: Impacts of shallow convection on MJO simulation: A moist static energy and moisture budget analysis. J. Climate, 26, 2417-2431, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00127.1.
Song, X., G. J. Zhang, and F. Li, 2012: Evaluation of microphysics parameterization for convective clouds in the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model CAM5. J. Climate, 25, 8568-8590, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00563.1.
Song, X., and G. J. Zhang, 2011: Microphysics parameterization for convective clouds in a global climate model: Description and single-column model tests. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D02201, doi:10.1029/2010JD014833.
Zhang, G. J., A. M. Vogelmann, M. P. Jensen, W. D. Collins, and E. Luke, 2010: Relating satellite observed cloud properties from MODIS to meteorological conditions for marine boundary layer clouds. J. Climate, 23, 1374-1391.
Song, X., D. Lubin, and G. J. Zhang, 2010: Increased Greenhouse Gases Enhance Regional Climate Response to a Maunder Minimum, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L01703, doi:10.1029/2009GL041290.
Zhang, G. J., and X. Song, 2010: Convection parameterization, tropical Pacific double ITCZ, and upper ocean biases in the NCAR CCSM3. Part II: Coupled Feedback and the Role of Ocean Heat Transport. J. Climate, 23, 800-812.
Song, X. and G. J. Zhang, 2009: Convection parameterization, tropical Pacific double ITCZ, and upper ocean biases in the NCAR CCSM3. Part I: Climatology and atmospheric feedback. J. Climate, 22, 4299-4315.
Zhang, G. J. and X. Song, 2009: Interaction of deep and shallow convection is key to Madden-Julian Oscillation simulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L09708, doi:10.1029/2009GL03740.
Zhang, G. J., 2009: Effects of entrainment on convective available potential energy and closure assumptions in convection parameterization. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D07109, doi:10.1029/2008JD010976.
Collier, J. C., and G. J. Zhang, 2009: Aerosol direct forcing of the summer Indian monsoon as simulated by the NCAR CAM3. Clim. Dyn., 32,,313-332, DOI 10.1007/s00382-008-0464-9.
Li, G. and G. J. Zhang, 2008: Understanding biases in shortwave cloud radiative forcing in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmosphere Model (CAM3) during El Nino. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D02103, doi:10.1029/2007JD08963.
Song, X., X. Wu, G. J. Zhang, and R. W. Arritt, 2008: Dynamic effects of Convective momentum transports on global climate simulations. J. Climate, 21, 180-194.
Wu, X., L. Deng, X. Song, G. Vettoretti, W. R. Peltier, and G. J. Zhang, 2007: Impact of a modified convective scheme on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and El Nino-Southern Oscillation in a coupled climate model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL030637.
Wu, X., L. Deng, X. Song, and G. J. Zhang, 2007: Coupling of convective momentum transport with convective heating in global climate simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1334-1349.
Mu, M., and G. J. Zhang, 2006: Energetics of Madden-Julian oscillations in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmosphere Model version 3 (NCAR CAM3). J. Geophys. Res., 111, D24112, doi:10.1029/2005JD007003.
Collier, J.C. and G. J. Zhang, 2006: Simulation of the North American Monsoon by the NCAR CCM3 and its Sensitivity to Convection Parameterization. J. Climate, 19, 2851-2866.
Zhang, G. J., and H. Wang, 2006: Toward mitigating the double ITCZ problem in NCAR CCSM3. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L06709, doi:10.1029/2005GL025229.
Zhang, G. J., and M. Mu, 2005: Simulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the NCAR CCM3 using a revised Zhang-McFarlane convection parameterization scheme. J. Climate, 18, 4046-4064.
Zhang, G. J., and M. Mu, 2005: 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. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D09109, doi:10.1029/2004JD005617.
Chung, C. E., and G. J. Zhang, 2004: Impact of absorbing aerosol on precipitation: Dynamic aspects in association with CAPE and convective parameterization closure, and dependence on aerosol heating profile. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D22103, doi:10.1029/2004JD004726.
Zhang, G. J., 2003: Convective quasi-equilibrium in the tropical western Pacific: Comparison with midlatitude continental environment. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D19), 4592, doi:10.1029/2003JD003520.
Wu, X., X.-Z. Liang, and G. J. Zhang, 2003: Seasonal migration of ITCZ precipitation across the equator: Why can't GCMs simulate it? Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1824, doi:10.1029/2003GL017198.
Zhang, G. J., 2003: Lagrangian study of cloud properties and their relationships to meteorological parameters over the U. S. Southern Great Plains J. Climate, 16, 2700-2716.
Zurovac-Jevtic, D., and G. J. Zhang, 2003: Development and test of a cirrus parameterization scheme using NCAR CCM3. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1325-1344.
Zhang, G. J., and X. Wu, 2003: Convective momentum transport and perturbation pressure field from a cloud-resolving model simulation. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1120-1139.
Zhang, G. J., 2002: Convective quasi-equilibrium in midlatitude continental environment and its effect on convective parameterization. J. Geophys. Res., 107(D14), doi:10.1029/2001JD001005.
Zhang, G. J., J. T. Kiehl, and P. J. Rasch, 1998: Re sponse of climate simulation to a new convective parameterization in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model (CCM 3). J. Climate, 11, 2097-2115.
Zhang, G. J. and N. A. McFarlane, 1995: Sensitivity of climate simulations to the parameterization of cumulus convection in the Canadian Climate Centre general circulation model. Atmosphere-Ocean, 33, 407-446.
Zhang, G. J., Ramanathan, V., and McPhaden, M. J., 1995: Convection-evaporization feedb ack in the equatorial Pacific. J. Climate, 8, 3040-3051.
Zhang, G. J., and H. R. Cho, 1991: Parameterization of the vertical transport of momentum by cumulus clouds. Part 1: Theory. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 1483-1492.

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Guang Zhang, Ph.D. · Center for Clouds Chemistry, and Climate
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