Rong Zhang

  Oceanographer

  Climate Change, Variability & Prediction Group

   NOAA/GFDL
   Email: Rong.Zhang@noaa.gov
   Tel: +1-609-987-5061
   Fax: +1-609-987-5063

Research Interests

• Ocean's role in modern/paleo climate change and global teleconnections of climate change

• Low frequency variability in coupled ocean-atmosphere system

• Mechanism and fingerprints of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) variability

Recent Work

• Sensitivity of the North Atlantic Ocean Circulation to an Abrupt Change in the Nordic Sea Overflow

• Northward intensification of anthropogenically forced changes in AMOC

• Latitudinal dependence of AMOC variations

• Sensitivity of climate change and variability to cloud radiative feedback

• Attributing climate variations over the Atlantic hurricane basin's Main Development Region (MDR)
  

• Observational fingerprints of the AMOC (1, 2)
  

• Global climate impact of AMOC/AMO (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Mechanism of the Gulf Stream separation and the formation of the Northern Recirculation Gyre (NRG) (1, 2)
  

Education

2001 Ph. D. Climate Physics and Chemistry
MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

1997 M. A. Physics
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

1995 B. E. Electronic Engineering
Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

Publications