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
- Coupled model initialization for climate prediction
- Seasonal to decadal scale climate predictability and variability
- Climate extremes: Attribution and prediction
- Eddy-mean flow interactions and storm track dynamics
Selected papers
- 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
- Park, J.-Y., C. A. Stock, John P. Dunne, X. Yang, A. Rosati, 2019: Seasonal to multi-annual marine ecosystem prediction with a global Earth system model, Science, 365(6450), DOI:10.1126/science.aav6634.
- Yang, X.,10.1007/s00382-018-4109-3 western United States El Niño precipitation during the 2015/16 winter, Climate Dynamics, DOI:
- Kapnick SB, Yang X, Vecchi GA, Delworth TL, Gudgel R, Malyshev S, Milly PCD, Shevliakova E, Underwood S, Margulis S, 2018: Potential for Western United States Seasonal Snowpack Prediction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas1716760115
- Jia, L., X. Yang, G. A. Vecchi, R. Gudgel, T. Delworth, S. Fueglistaler, P. Lin, A. Scaife, S. Underwood, S.-J. Lin, 2017: Seasonal Prediction Skill of Northern Extratropical Surface Temperature Driven by the Stratosphere, J. Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0475.1
- Jia, Liwei, G. A. Vecchi, X. Yang, R. G. Gudgel, T. L. Delworth, W. F. Stern, K. Paffendorf, S. D. Underwood, and F. Zeng, 2016: The Roles of Radiative Forcing, Sea Surface Temperatures, and Atmospheric and Land Initial Conditions in U.S. Summer Warming Episodes. Journal of Climate, 29(11), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0471.1
- Yang, Xiaosong, Gabriel A Vecchi, Thomas L Delworth, Karen Paffendorf, Richard G Gudgel, Liwei Jia, Seth D Underwood, and Fanrong Zeng, December 2015: Extreme North America Winter Storm Season of 2013/14: Roles of Radiative Forcing and the Global Warming Hiatus. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 96(12), DOI:10.1175/BAMS-EEE_2014_ch6.1
- Yang, X. et al., 2015: Seasonal predictability of extratropical storm tracks in GFDL’s high-resolution climate prediction model, J. Climate, 28, 3592-3611,doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00517.1
- Jia, L., X. Yang, et al., 2015: Improved Seasonal Prediction of Temperature and Precipitation over Land in a High-resolution GFDL Climate Model, J. Climate, 28, 2044-2062, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00112.1
- Yang, X. et al., 2013: A predictable AMO-like pattern in GFDL’s fully-coupled ensemble initialization and decadal forecasting system, Journal of Climate., 26(2), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00231.1
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