Bor-Ting Jong

Associate Research Scholar
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL),  Seasonal-to-Decadal Variability and Predictability Division
Contact: bor-ting.jong [at] noaa.gov

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Large-scale climate variability and regional hydroclimate variability
• Predictability and prediction of hydroclimate variability on subseasonal-to-seasonal time scales
• Extreme events such as droughts and floods on different time scales

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

• Increases in Extreme Precipitation over the Northeast United States using High-resolution Climate Model Simulations

EDUCATION

• Ph.D.,   Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, 2014 – 2019
• M.S.,     National Taiwan University, Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, 2011 – 2013
• B.S.,      National Taiwan University, Atmospheric Sciences (Highest honor), Taipei, Taiwan, 2007 – 2011

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Associate Research Scholar, 09/2023 – present
  Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University &
  NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2021 – 2023
  Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University &
  NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ
• National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2019 – 2021
  NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO
• Graduate Research Fellow, 2014 – 2019
  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
• Research Assistant, 2013 – 2014
  Research Center of Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  

PUBLICATIONS

• Jong, B.-T., T. L. Delworth, W. F. Cooke, K.-C. Tseng, and H. Murakami (2023): Increases in extreme precipitation over the Northeast United States using high-resolution climate model simulations. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 6, 18. doi: 10.1038/s41612-023-00347-w
• Jong, B.-T., M. Newman, and A. Hoell (2022): Subseasonal meteorological drought development over the central United States during spring. J. Clim., 35, 2525-2547. http://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0435.1
• Jong, B.-T., M. Ting, and R. Seager (2021): Assessing ENSO summer teleconnections, impacts, and predictability in North America. J. Clim., 34, 3629-3643. http://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0761.1
• Jong, B.-T., M. Ting, R. Seager, and W. B. Anderson (2020): ENSO teleconnections and impacts on US summertime temperature during multi-year La Niña life-cycle. J. Clim., 33, 6009-6024. http://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0701.1
• Jong, B.-T., M. Ting, R. Seager, N. Henderson, and D.-E. Lee (2018): Role of equatorial Pacific SST forecast error in the late winter California precipitation forecast for the 2015/16 El Niño. J. Clim., 31, 839-852. http://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0145.1

• Jong, B.-T., M. Ting and R. Seager (2016): El Niño’s impact on California precipitation: seasonality, regionality, and El Niño intensity. Environ. Res. Lett., 11.http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/5/054021