People
RSMAS/MPO
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Tel: 305.421.4042
czhang@rsmas.miami.edu
Thorncroft, C.D., H. Nguyen, C. Zhang, and P. Peyrillé, 2010: Annual Cycle of the West African Monsoon - Regional Circulations and Associated Water Vapor Transport. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., accepted.
Ling, J., and C. Zhang, 2010: Structural evolution in heating profiles of the MJO in global reanalyses and TRMM retrievals. J. Clim., accepted.
Zhang, C., J. Ling, S.M. Hagos, W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, Y.N. Takayabu, S. Shige, M. Katsumata, W.S. Olson, and T. L’Ecuyer, 2010: MJO Signals in Latent Heating: Results from TRMM Retrievals. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
Nolan, D.S., S.W. Powell, C. Zhang, and B.E. Mapes, 2010: Idealized Simulations of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and its Multi-level, Cross-Equatorial Flows. J. Atm. Sci., accepted.
Ray, P., C. Zhang, M.W. Moncrieff, J. Dudhia, J.M. Caron, L.R. Leung, and C. Bruyere, 2010: The Role of the Mean State on the Initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in a Nested Regional Climate Model. Clim. Dyn., accepted.
Huang, J., C. Zhang, and J. Prospero, 2010: African Dust Outbreaks: A satellite perspective of temporal and spatial variability over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D05202, doi:10.1029/2009JD012516.
Hagos, S., C. Zhang, 2010: Diabatic Heating, Divergent Circulation and Moisture Transport in The African Monsoon System. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 136(s1), 411-425.
Ray, P., and C. Zhang, 2010: A Case Study on the Mechanisms of Extratropical Influence on the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Atm. Sci., 67, 515-528.
Hagos, S., C. Zhang, W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, Y. N. Takayabu, S. Shige, M. Katsumata, W. Olson, and T. L’Ecuyer, 2010: Estimates of Tropical Latent Heating Profiles: Commonalities and Uncertainties. J. Climate, 23, 542-558.
Huang, H., A. Adams, C. Wang, C. Zhang, 2009: Aerosol and West African Monsoon Precipitation: Observations and Simulations. Annales Geophysicae, 27, 4171-4181.
Zhang, C., and S. Hagos, 2009: Bi-Modal Structure and Variability of Large-Scale Diabatic Heating in the Tropics. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 3621–3640.
Huang, J., C. Zhang, and J. Prospero, 2009: Aerosol-Induced Large-Scale Variability in Precipitation over the Tropical Atlantic. J. Clim, 22, 4970-4988.
US CLIVAR Madden-Julian Oscillation Working Group (D. Waliser, K. Sperber, H. Hendon, D. Kim, E. Maloney, M. Wheeler, K.Weickmann, C. Zhang, L. Donner, J. Gottschalck, W. Higgins, I. Kang, D. Legler, M.Moncrieff, S. Schubert, W. Stern, F. Vitart, B. Wang, W. Wang, S. Woolnough), 2009: MJO Simulation Diagnostics, J. Clim., 22, 3006-3030.
Huang, J., Zhang, C., Prospero, J.M. (2009), African aerosol and large-scale precipitation variability over West Africa, Environ. Res. Lett. 4 015006, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/01500
Huang, J., C. Zhang, and J. Prospero, 2009: Large-Scale Effect of Aerosol on Precipitation in the West African Monsoon Region. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 135, 581-594.
Ray, P., C. Zhang, J. Dudhia, S.S. Chen, 2009: A Numerical Case Study on the Initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation. J. Atm. Sci., 66, 310-331.
Li, C., X. Jia, J. Ling, W. Zhou, and C. Zhang, 2009: Sensitivity of MJO simulations to convective heating profiles. Clim. Dyn., 32, 167-187.
