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, 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.
- Jia, L., T. L. Delworth, S.B. Kapnick, X. Yang, N.C. Johnson, W. F. Cooke, F. Lu, M. J. Harrison, A. Rosati, F. Zeng, C. McHugh, A. T. Wittenberg, L. Zhang, H. Murakami, and K.-C. Tseng, 2022: Skillful seasonal prediction of North American summertime heat extremes. J. Climate, 35(13), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0364.14331-4345.
- 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
- Lu, F., M. J. Harrison, A. Rosati, T. L. Delworth, X. Yang, W. F. Cooke, L. Jia, C. McHugh, N. C. Johnson, M. Bushuk, Y. Zhang, and A. Adcroft, 2020: GFDL’s SPEAR seasonal prediction system: initialization and ocean tendency adjustment (OTA) for coupled model predictions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(12), DOI:10.1029/2020MS002149.
- Delworth, T. L., W. F. Cooke, A. Adcroft, M. Bushuk, J.-H. Chen, K. A. Dunne, P. Ginoux, R. G. Gudgel, R. Hallberg, L. Harris, M. J. Harrison, N. C. Johnson, S. B. Kapnick, S.-J. Lin, F. Lu, S. Malyshev, P C D Milly, H. Murakami, V. Naik, S. Pascale, D. J. Paynter, A. Rosati, M. D. Schwarzkopf, E. Shevliakova, S. D. Underwood, A. T. Wittenberg, B. Xiang, X. Yang, F. Zeng, H. Zhang, L. Zhang, and M. Zhao, 2020: SPEAR – the next generation GFDL modeling system for seasonal to multidecadal prediction and projection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12(3), DOI:10.1029/2019MS001895.
- 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.
- Zhang, L., T. L. Delworth, W. F. Cooke, and X. Yang, 2019: Natural variability of Southern Ocean convection as a driver of observed climate trends. Nature Climate Change, 9(1), DOI:10.1038/s41558-018-0350-3.
- Yang, X., western United States El Niño precipitation during the 2015/16 winter, Climate Dynamics, DOI:10.1007/s00382-018-4109-3
- 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
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