Journal Publications of Fuqing Zhang


2008

  • Meng, Z., and F. Zhang, 2008a: Test of an ensemble Kalman filter for mesoscale and regional-scale data assimilation. Part III: Comparison with 3DVar in a real-data case study. Monthly Weather Review, 136, 522-540.

  • Morss, R. E. and F. Zhang, 2008: Linking meteorological education to reality: A prototype undergraduate research study of public response to Hurricane Rita forecasts. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 89, 497-504.

  • Tan, Z., F. Zhang, R. Rotunno and C. Snyder, 2008: Corrigendum for Tan et al. (2004), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 1479-1479.

  • Sippel, J. A. and F. Zhang, 2008: A probabilistic analysis of the dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclogenesis. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, in press.

  • Lin, Y. and F. Zhang, 2008: Tracing mesoscale gravity waves in baroclinic jet-front systems. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, in press.

  • Meng, Z., and F. Zhang, 2008b: Test of an ensemble Kalman filter for mesoscale and regional-scale data assimilation. Part IV: Comparison with 3DVar in a month-long experiment. Monthly Weather Review, in press.

  • Zhang, F., M. Zhang and J. A. Hansen, 2008: Coupling ensemble Kalman filter with four-dimensional variational data assimilation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences , in review.

  • Zhang, F. and J. A. Sippel, 2008: Effects of moist convection on hurricane predictability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, submitted.

  • Wang, S., F. Zhang, and C. Snyder, 2008: Generation and Propagation of Inertial Gravity Waves from Vortex Dipoles and Jets. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, submitted.

  • Zhang, F., Y. Weng, Z. Meng, J. A. Sippel and C. H. Bishop, 2008: Cloud-resolving Hurricane Initialization and Prediction through Assimilation of Doppler Radar Observations with an Ensemble Kalman Filter: Humberto (2007). Monthly Weather Review, submitted.

    2007
  • Zhang, F., N. Bei, R. Rotunno, C. Snyder, and C. C. Epifanio, 2007: Mesoscale Predictability of Moist Baroclinic Waves: Convection-Permitting Experiments and Multistage Error Growth Dynamics. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 3579-3594.

  • Zhang, F., R. E. Morss, J. A. Sippel, T. K. Beckman, N. C. Clements, N. L. Hampshire, J. N. Harvey, J. M. Hernandez, Z. C. Morgan, R. M. Mosier, S. Wang and S. D. Winkley, 2007: An In-person Survey Investigating Public Perceptions of and Response to Hurricane Rita Forecasts along the Texas Coast. Weather and Forecasting, 22, 1177-1190.

  • Wang, S. and F. Zhang, 2007: Sensitivity of Mesoscale Gravity Waves to the Baroclinicity of Jet-front Systems Monthly Weather Review, 135, 670-688.

  • Plougonven, R. and F. Zhang, 2007: On the forcing of inertia-gravity waves by synoptic-scale flows. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 1737-1742.

  • Snyder, C., D. J. Muraki, R. Plougonven, and F. Zhang, 2007: Intertia-gravity waves generated within a dipole vortex. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 64, 4417-4431.

  • Zhang, F., and C. Snyder, 2007: Ensemble-based data assimilation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88,565-568.

  • Meng, Z., and F. Zhang, 2007a: Test of an ensemble Kalman filter for mesoscale and regional-scale data assimilation. Part II: Imperfect model experiments. Monthly Weather Review, 135, 1403-1423.

  • Zhang, M., Y. Ni, and F. Zhang, 2007: Variational assimilation of GPS precipitable water vapor and hourly rainfall observations for a meso-beta-scale heavy precipitation event during the 2002 Mei-Yu season. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 24, 509-526.

  • Zhang, F., N. Bei, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, G. Li, R. Zhang, A. L. Stuart and A. Aksoy, 2007: Impacts of meteorological uncertainties on ozone pollution predictability estimated through meteorological and photochemical ensemble forecasts. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D04304, doi:10.1029/2006JD007429.

  • Bei, N., and F. Zhang, 2007: Impacts of Initial Error Scale and Amplitude on the Mesoscale Predictability of Heavy Precipitation along the Mei-Yu Front of China. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133, 83-99.

  • Hawblitzel, D. P., F. Zhang, Z. Meng, and C. A. Davis, 2007: Probabilistic Evaluation of the Dynamics and Predictability of the Mesoscale Convective Vortex of 10-13 June 2003. Monthly Weather Review, 135, 1544-1563.

  • Stuar, A. L., Aksoy A., F. Zhang, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2007: Ensemble-based data assimilation and targeted observation of a chemical tracer in a sea breeze model. Atmospheric Environment, 41, 3082-3094.

  • Schultz, D. M., and F. Zhang, 2007: Baroclinic development within zonally varying flows. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133, 1101-1112.

  • Richter, J. H., M. A. Geller, R. R. Garcia, H.-L. Liu and F. Zhang, 2007: Report on the gravity wave retreat. SPARC newsletter, 28, 26-27 [non-referred].

    2006

  • Zhang, F., Z. Meng and A. Aksoy, 2006: Test of an ensemble Kalman filter for mesoscale and regional-scale data assimilation. Part I: perfect model experiments. Monthly Weather Review, 134, 722-736.

  • Zhang, F., A. Odins, and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2006: Mesoscale predictability of an extreme warm-season rainfall event. Weather and Forecasting, 21, 149-166.

  • Zhang, F., N. Bei, R. Rotunno, C. Snyder, and C. C. Epifanio, 2006: A multistage error-growth conceptual model for mesoscale predictability. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 287-288 [non-referred].

  • Aksoy A., F. Zhang, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2006: Ensemble-based simultaneous state and parameter estimation with MM5. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L12801, doi:10.1029/2006GL026186, 2006.

  • Aksoy A., F. Zhang, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2006: Ensemble-based simultaneous state and parameter estimation in a two-dimensional sea breeze model. Monthly Weather Review, 134,2951-2970.

    2005
  • Zhang, F., 2005: Dynamics and structure of mesoscale error covariance of a winter cyclone estimated through short-range ensemble forecasts. Monthly Weather Review, 133, 2876-2893.

  • Aksoy A., F. Zhang, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, and C. C. Epifanio, 2005: Ensemble-based data assimilation for thermally forced circulations. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 110, D16105, doi:10.1029/2004JD005718.

  • Nielsen-Gammon J., F. Zhang , A. Odins and B. Myoung, 2005: Extreme rainfall in Texas: Patterns and predictability. Physical Geography, 26, 340-364.

    2004
  • Zhang, F., 2004: Generation of mesoscale gravity waves in the upper-tropospheric jet-front systems. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 440-457.

  • Zhang, F., C. Snyder, and J. Sun, 2004: Impacts of initial estimate and observation availability on convective-scale data assimilation with an ensemble Kalman filter. Monthly Weather Review, 132, 1238-1253.

  • Zhang, F., S. Wang, and R. Plougonven, 2004: Uncertainties in using the hodograph method to retrieve gravity wave characteristics from individual soundings. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L11110, doi:10.1029/2004GL019841.

  • Tan Z., F. Zhang, R. Rotunno, and C. Snyder 2004: Mesoscale predictability of moist baroclinic waves: Experiments with parameterized convection. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 61, 1794-1804. (Please also read Corrigendum of this paper published in 2008.)

  • Dowell, D. C., F. Zhang, L. J. Wicker, C. Snyder, and N. A. Crook, 2004: Wind and thermodynamic retrievals in the 17 May 1981 Arcadia, Oklahoma supercell: Ensemble Kalman filter experiments. Monthly Weather Review, 132,1982-2005.

  • Wu, D. L., and F. Zhang , 2004: A study of mesoscale gravity waves over North Atlantic with satellite observations and a mesoscale model. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 109, D22104, doi:10.1029/2004JD005090.

  • Lu, H., F. Zhang, X. Liu, and R. A. Duce, 2004: Periodicities of palaeoclimatic variations recorded by loess-paleosol sequences in China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23, 1891-1900.

    2003
  • Zhang, F., C. Snyder, and R. Rotunno, 2003: Effects of moist convection on mesoscale predictability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, 1173-1185.

  • Snyder, C., and F. Zhang, 2003: Assimilation of simulated Doppler radar observations with an ensemble Kalman filter. Monthly Weather Review, 131, 1663-1677.

  • Zhang, F., S. E. Koch, and M. L. Kaplan, 2003: Numerical simulations of a large-amplitude gravity wave event. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics,, 84, 199-216.

  • Lu, H., F. Zhang, X. Liu, 2003: Patterns and frequencies of the East Asian winter monsoon variations revealed by wavelet and spectral analysis.   Global and Planetary Change, 35, 67-74.

    • 2002
  • Zhang, F., C. Snyder, and R. Rotunno, 2002: Mesoscale predictability of the 'surprise' snowstorm of 24-25 January 2000. Monthly Weather Review, 130, 1617-1632.

    2001
  • Zhang, F., S. E. Koch, C. A. Davis, and M. L. Kaplan, 2001: Wavelet analysis and the governing dynamics of a large-amplitude gravity wave event along the East Coast of the United States. Quarterly Journal of Royal Meteorological Society, 127, 2209-2245.

  • Koch, S., F. Zhang, M. L. Kaplan, Y.-L. Lin, R. Weglarz, and C. M. Trexler, 2001: Numerical simulation of a gravity wave event observed during CCOPE. Part 3: Mountain-plain solenoids in the generation of the second wave episode. Monthly Weather Review, 129, 909 -932.

    2000
  • Zhang, F., and S. E. Koch, 2000: Numerical simulation of a gravity wave event observed during CCOPE. Part 2: Wave generation by an orographic density current. Monthly Weather Review, 128, 2777-2796.

  • Zhang, F., S. E. Koch, C. A. Davis, and M. L. Kaplan, 2000: A survey of unbalanced flow diagnostics and their application. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 17, 165-183.

    1993-1999

  • Lu, H., X. Liu, F. Zhang, Z. An, and J. Dodson, 1999: Astronomical calibration of loess-palaeol deposit in Luchuan of Central Chinese Loess Plateau. Palaeo-geography, Palaeo-climatology and Palaeo-ecology. 154, 237-246.

  • Wang, L., F. Zhang and H. Lu, 1997:  Features of storm surge disasters along Jiangsu coastal zone of China. Journal of Catastrophy, 12(3),  39-43.

  • Zhang, F., Q. Jiang and R. Dang, 1996:  Numerical simulation of a landing typhoon and its unusually heavy rain. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 12(3), 156-161.

  • Zhang, F., H. Du and Q. Jiang, 1994:  A numerical study of the boundary layer effect on mature tropical cyclone. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 10(2), 107-114.

  • Zhang, F., Z. Lin and Q. Jiang, 1994:  The fractal dimension distribution of the short-term climate system and its connection with the monsoon climate in China. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 11, 459-463.

  • Lin, Z. and F. Zhang, 1993:  The distribution of predictable time scale of local climate system in China. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences,  17,  Special Issue,  89-92.

  • Lin, Z. L. Jian, X.Hua, and F. Zhang, 1993:  Lyapunov Exponent model of long term forecast. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals,  3,  431-437.

  • Zhang, F., Z. Lin and Q. Jiang 1993:  The fractal dimension distribution of the short-range climate attractors of China. Journal of Nanjing University,  29, Geoscience Issue, 138-145.