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Dr. Xiaosong Yang

Meteorologist, Seasonal to Decadal Variability and Predictability Division

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA

Princeton University Forrestal Campus

201 Forrestal Road, Princeton, NJ 08540

Phone: 609-452-5311, Fax: 609-987-5063, Email: Xiaosong.Yang@noaa.gov

Education

  • Ph.D. in Marine and Atmospheric Science, Stony Brook University,  Stony Brook, 2006
  • M.S. in Atmospheric Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2000
  • B.S. in Meteorology, Ocean University of Qingdao, China, 1995

Research Interests

  • Seasonal to decadal scale climate prediction and predictability
  • Attribution and prediction of extratropical cyclones and their impacts
  • Coupled model initialization for climate prediction
  • Eddy-mean flow interactions and storm track dynamics

Selected recent papers

  1. Lee, J., X. Yang, E. K. M. Chang, H. Murakami, and W. F. Cooke, 2025: Sensitivity of Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Cyclone Properties to Atmospheric Resolution in the GFDL SPEAR Model. J. Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0770.1, in press.
  2. Gu, Qinxue, L. Jia, L. Zhang, T. L. Delworth, X. Yang, N. C. Johnson, F. Lu, C. McHugh, and W. F. Cooke, 2025: Bridging large-scale and coastal variability to improve seasonal sea level predictions along the U.S. and Canadian West Coast. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8, 295, DOI:10.1038/s41612-025-01182-x.
  3. Yang, X., Delworth, T.L., Jia, L. et al., 2024: Skillful seasonal prediction of wind energy resources in the contiguous United States. Commun Earth Environ 5, 313. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01457-w
  4. Jia, L., Delworth, T.L., Yang, X. et al. Seasonal predictions of summer compound humid heat extremes in the southeastern United States driven by sea surface temperatures. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 180 (2024). DOI:10.1038/s41612-024-00723-0
  5. Jia, L., T. L. Delworth, X. Yang, W. F. Cooke, N. C. Johnson, C. McHugh, and F. Lu, 2023: Seasonal prediction of North American wintertime cold extremes in the GFDL SPEAR forecast system. Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-022-06655-w.
  6. Zhang, L., T. L. Delworth, X. Yang, F. Zeng, F. Lu, Y. Morioka, and M. Bushuk, 2022: The relative role of the subsurface Southern Ocean in driving negative Antarctic Sea ice extent anomalies in 2016–2021. Communications Earth and Environment, 3, 302, DOI:10.1038/s43247-022-00624-1.
  7. Yang, X., T. L., Delworth, L. Jia, N. C. Johnson, F. Lu and C. McHugh, 2022: On the seasonal prediction and predictability of surface temperature swing index over North America, Frontiers in Climate. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2022.972119. 
  8. Yang, X., T. L. Delworth, F. Zeng, L. Zhang, W. F. Cooke, M. J. Harrison, A. Rosati, S. Underwood, G. P. Compo, C. McColl, 2021: On the Development of GFDL’s decadal prediction system: initialization approaches and retrospective forecast assessment, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, e2021MS002529. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002529

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