Address

Space and Remote Sensing Sciences Group, ISR-2, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D436, Los Alamos, NM 87545. Phone: 505-667-4829, Fax: 505-664-0362, Email: yongxin@lanl.gov

Education

• Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawaii, 2004
• M.S., Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 1992
• B.S., Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, 1989

Research Interests

• Mesoscale Meteorology and Modeling
• Regional Climate and Modeling
• Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
• Numerical Weather Prediction
• Air-sea Interaction

Experiences

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Space and Remote Sensing Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, July 2005 to Present
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, January to June 2005
• Research Assistant, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, July 1999 to December 2004
• System Administrator of a 12-node Linux Cluster, Dec AlphaServer ES40 and Dec Workstation XP1000, May 2001 to June 2005
• Weather Forecaster, Qinghai Weather Observatory, China, July 1996 to July 1999
• Research Scientist, Qinghai Institute for Meteorological Sciences, China, June 1992 to June 1996

Publications

• Zhang, Y., Y.-L. Chen, S.-Y. Hong, H.-M. H. Juang, and K. Kodama, 2005: Validation of the coupled NCEP Mesoscale Spectral Model and an advanced Land Surface Model over the Hawaiian Islands. Part I: Summer trade wind conditions and a heavy rainfall event. Wea. Forecasting. (In press)
• Zhang, Y., Y.-L. Chen, and K. Kodama, 2005: Validation of the coupled NCEP Mesoscale Spectral Model and an advanced Land Surface Model over the Hawaiian Islands. Part II: A high wind event. Wea. Forecasting. (In press)
• Zhang, Y., Y.-L. Chen, T. A. Schroeder, and K. Kodama, 2005: Numerical simulations of sea breeze circulations over northwest Hawaii. Wea. Forecasting. (In press)
• Juang, H.-M. H., C.-T. Lee, Y. Zhang, M.-C. Wu, Y.-L. Chen, K. Kodama, and S.-C. Chen, 2005: Applying horizontal diffusion on pressure surface to mesoscale models on terrain-following coordinates. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 1384-1402.
• Foster, J., M. Bevis, Y.-L. Chen, S. Businger, and Y. Zhang, 2003: The Ka'u Storm (November 2003): Imaging precipitable wather using GPS. J. Geophys. Res., 108, D184585.

Research Focuses at Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Applying the NCAR CCSM (Community Climate System Model) to study the effects of aerosol on climate and climate change primarily over the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean
• Employing the NCAR WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) mesoscale model to investigate climate and climate change in Greenland and its adjacent areas
• Using high-resolution satellite data to study the structure and evolution of atmospheric systems such as tropical cyclones over the Atlantic basin