Dr. Ming Zhao Project Scientist III University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory / NOAA  Princeton University Forrestal Campus / US Route 1 201 Forrestal Rd, Princeton, NJ 08540

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Parameterization of atmospheric moist convection in global climate models
• Global atmospheric model development with emphasis on the representations of convection, clouds, atmospheric boundary layer turbulence, and their interactions with radiation, surface processes, circulation and climate
• Cloud feedback and climate sensitivity and their connections to atmospheric convection
• Simulation of global hurricane climatology, variability and future change using global high resolution climate models.
• Weather and climate extremes in a changing climate
• Numerical simulations and numerical methods

Education

• 11/2003: Doctor of Philosophy in Atmospheric Science, University of British Columbia, Canada
• 06/1993: Master of Science in Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China
• 07/1990: Bachelor of Science in Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China

Professional Employment/Experience/Responsibilities

• Co-lead of GFDL MDT (Model Development Team) Coupled Working Group (CWG) for developing GFDL CM4 (2013-present).
• Lead of GFDL MDT (Model Development Team) Atmospheric Working Group (AWG) for developing GFDL AM4 (2013-present).
• Lead of GFDL Cloud and Climate Initiative (CCI) for improving understanding of the connections among convection, clouds and climate sensitivity (2012-present). 
• Member of NOAA CPO MAPP Climate Model Development Task Force
• Member of NOAA CPO MAPP Climate Prediction Task Force 
• Member of NOAA CPO MAPP Model Diagnostics Task Force
• Member of NOAA CPO MAPP CMIP5 Task Force
• Member of U.S CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group (2011-2014)
• Co-organizer, Global High-Resolution Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean, European Geosciences Union, General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, April 27 – May 2, 2014
• Session chair, Climate III, 31st AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, USA, March 30 – April 04, 2014
• Session chair, Precipitation in a Changing Climate, CFMIP/EUCLIPSE Meeting on Cloud Processes and Climate Feedbacks, Hamburg, Germany, 10-14th June, 2013
• Project scientist III (02/2013-present)
• Project scientist II (11/2007-02/2013), GFDL/UCAR, core member of Global Atmospheric Model Development Team (GAMDT) for developing GFDL HIgh Resolution Atmospheric Model (HIRAM) and AM3.
• Associate research scholar (2006-2007),
  GFDL/Princeton University, core member of GAMDT for developing GFDL HIRAM and AM3.

• Research associate (2004-2006), GFDL/Princeton University, GFDL liaison scientist for the atmospheric CPT project and also working on idealized radiative convective equilibrium with and without ambient rotation using GCM physics.
• Post doctoral fellow (2003-2004), Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, Canada, work on large-eddy simulation of convection and clouds for a project entitled Modelling Clouds and Climate (MOC2).
• Meteorologist and head of short-range weather forecast branch (1993-1998), Shanghai Meteorological Center, Shanghai, China.

Grant and Journal Review Experiences

• NASA Grant Proposal and Review Panelist 
• DOE Grant Proposal and Review Panelist
• National Science Foundation Grant Proposal
• NOAA Climate Program Funding Proposal
• Nature Climate Change
• Nature Communications
• Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
• Journal of Climate
• Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
• Journal of Geophysical Research
• Geophysical Research Letters
• Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
• Climate Dynamics
• Climate Change
• Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan
• Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
• International Journal of Climatology
• Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 

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