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Ziming Chen is a Post Doctorate in the Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, working with Prof. L. Ruby Leung. His research includes climate dynamics, modeling and analysis of water cycle and extreme events, ocean-atmosphere interactions, combining physical-based model with machine learning. His research has been published in Nature, Nature Communications, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Earth’s Future, Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Climate and many major journals.

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/zimingchen

• Earth System Science
• Stationary Waves and Global Monsoon
• Observational Constraint and Future Projection
• Hybrid Model and Machine Learning

• Numerically Idealized Modeling: Design idealized numerical experiments by prescribing a zonally asymmetric basic state and forcing to quantify the contribution of regional heating to heat-dome stationary waves over the North America
• E3SM and NeuralGCM: 
  • Conduct future projection simulation under high-emission scenario using E3SM-2-0
  • Design idealized warming experiments using NeuralGCM
• Combining Dynamical Model with Machine Learning
• Uncertainty Quantification and Observationally Constraint for Climate Projections

• Meteorology (Ph.D.), Supervisor: Prof. Tianjun Zhou - Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China P. R.
• Marine Science (B.S) - Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China P. R.

American Geophysical Union

American Meteorological Society

Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF) Proposal

Reviewer for peer-reviewed journals: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Atmospheric Research, Journal of Climate, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Outstanding Doctoral Thesis of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2023

Special Prize of President Scholarship in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2022

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Key Publications

Chen, Z., T. Zhou, L. Zhang, X. Chen, W. Zhang, and J. Jiang, 2020: Global Land Monsoon Precipitation Changes in CMIP6 Projections. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086902. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

Chen, Z., T. Zhou, W. Zhang, P. Li, and S. Zhao, 2020: Projected Changes in the Annual Range of Precipitation Under Stabilized 1.5°C and 2.0°C Warming Futures. Earth’s Future., 8, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001435.

Chen, Z., T. Zhou, X. Chen, W. Zhang, L. Zhang, M. Wu, and L. Zou, 2022: Observationally constrained projection of Afro-Asian monsoon precipitation. Nature Communications, 13, 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30106-z. (Featured Papers by Nature Communications)

Chen, Z., J. Lu, C.C. Change, S. W. Lubis, and L. R. Leung, 2023: Projected increase in summer heat-dome-like stationary waves over Northwestern North America. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 194, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00511-2.

Chen, Z., T. Zhou, X. Chen, W. Zhang, M. Zuo, W. Man, and Y. Qian, 2023: Emergent Constrained Projections of Mean and Extreme Warming in China. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102124. (Highlighted by AGU)

Chen, Z., T. Zhou, X. Chen, L. Zhang, Y. Qian, Z. Wang, L. He, and L. R. Leung, 2024: Understanding the biases in global monsoon simulations from the perspective of atmospheric energy transport. J. Clim., 4647–4666, https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-23-0444.1. 

Lubis, S. W., Z. Chen, J. Lu, S. Hagos, and C. Chang, 2024: Enhanced Pacific Northwest Heat Extremes and Wildfire Risks Induced by the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 7, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00766-3. 

Jiang, J., T. Zhou, Y. Qian, L. Chao, F. Song, H. Li, X. Chen, W. Zhang, & Z. Chen, 2023: Precipitation regime changes in High Mountain Asia driven by cleaner air. Nature, 623, 544–549. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06619-y. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

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2025

Chang, C., M. Zhao, S. Lubis, Z. Chen, K. Balaguru, S. Hagos, L. Leung, W. Zhou:  Are North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Modulated by the Madden-Julian Oscillation in HighResMIP AGCMs? J. Clim. (Accepted)

2024

Chen, Z., T. Zhou, X. Chen, L. Zhang, Y. Qian, Z. Wang, L. He, and L. R. Leung, 2024: Understanding the biases in global monsoon simulations from the perspective of atmospheric energy transport. J. Clim., 4647–4666, https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-23-0444.1. 

Lubis, S. W., Z. Chen, J. Lu, S. Hagos, and C. Chang, 2024: Enhanced Pacific Northwest Heat Extremes and Wildfire Risks Induced by the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 7, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00766-3. 

Akinsanola, A. A., Z. Chen, G. J. Kooperman, and V. Bobde, 2024: Robust future intensification of winter precipitation over the United States. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 7, 1–11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00761-8.

Tang, L., R. Lu, Z. Lin, J. Lu, and Z. Chen, 2024: Concurrent inter-¬model spread of boreal winter westerly jet meridional positions between the Northern and Southern hemispheres in CMIP6 models. Int. J. Climatol., 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8647. 

2023

Chen, Z., J. Lu, C.C. Change, S. W. Lubis, and L. R. Leung, 2023: Projected increase in summer heat-dome-like stationary waves over Northwestern North America. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00511-2. (In press)

Chen, Z., T. Zhou, X. Chen, W. Zhang, M. Zuo, W. Man, and Y. Qian, 2023: Emergent Constrained Projections of Mean and Extreme Warming in China. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102124.

Jiang, J., T. Zhou, Y. Qian, L. Chao, F. Song, H. Li, X. Chen, W. Zhang, & Z. Chen, 2023: Precipitation regime changes in High Mountain Asia driven by cleaner air. Nature, 623, 544–549. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06619-y.

Huang, X., T. Zhou, J. C. L. Chan, R. Zhan, Z. Chen, and J. Zhao, 2023: Understanding uncertainties in projections of western North Pacific tropical cyclogenesis. Environ. Res. Lett., 18, 4037, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad02ad.

2022

Chen, Z., T. Zhou, X. Chen, W. Zhang, L. Zhang, M. Wu, and L. Zou, 2022: Observationally constrained projection of Afro-Asian monsoon precipitation. Nature Communications, 13, 1–12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30106-z.

2021

Zhang, L., Z. Chen, and T. Zhou, 2021: Human Influence on the Increasing Drought Risk Over Southeast Asian Monsoon Region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, 1–9, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093777.

Zhou, T., Z. Chen, X. Chen, et al., 2021: Interpreting IPCC AR6: future global climate based on projection under scenarios and on near-term information. Climate Change Research, 2021, 17 (6): 652-663, https://doi.org/10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.