Xiangdong Zhang Research Associate Professor phone: 907-474-2675 email: xdziarc.uaf.edu office: Akasofu 406A 6 International Arctic Research Center 930 Koyukuk Drive P.O. Box 757340 Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7340

IARC Programs

Arctic Climate Study

Links

• Monthly Cyclone Activity Index (CAI) from Jan. 1948 - Dec. 2002

Animations of Arctic Sea Ice Coverage Simulated and Projected by the IPCC AR4 Climate Models

• Arctic Sea Ice Coverage simulated and projected by the IPCC Climate Models From 1900-2100: Part A: Summer Minimum Sea Ice Cover
• Arctic Sea Ice Coverage simulated and projected by the IPCC Climate Models From 1900-2100: Part B: Winter Maximum Sea Ice Cover

Arctic Rapid change Pattern (ARP) and ARP Index

• The loading pattern of ARP
• The ARP index graphic and data

Education

Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University

Research Interests

• Weather extremes in the present and projected future climate
• Arctic freshwater and sea ice and their roles in global climate
• Development of climate model and improvement of physical treatments

IARC Publications

published or accepted, refereed publications and books

• Polyakov, I.V., V.A. Alexeev, U.S. Bhatt, E.I. Polyakova, X. Zhang (2009), North Atlantic warming: patterns of long-term trend and multi-decadal variability, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0522-3.
• Zhao, P., X. Zhang (2009), Remotely modulated tropical-North Pacific ocean-atmosphere interactions, Atmospheric Research, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2009.01.018.
• Zhang, X., M. Ikeda, J.E. Walsh (2008), Arctic sea ice and freshwater fluxes driven by the atmospheric leading mode in a coupled sea ice/ocean model, Journal of Climate, 16.
• Zhang, X., A. Sorteberg, J. Zhang, R. Gerdes, J. Comiso (2008), Recent radical shifts in atmospheric circulations and rapid changes in Arctic climate system, Geophysical Research Letters, 35(L22701), doi:10.1029/2008GL035607.
• Zhang, J., X. Zhang (2008), A thermodynamically consistent soil moisture assimilation scheme using satellite-retrieved skin temperature in the mesoscale modeling system MM5/NOAH-LSM, Atmospheric Research, accepted.
• Kattsov, V.M., J.E. Walsh, W.L. Chapman, V.A. Govorkova, T. Pavlova, X. Zhang (2007), Simulation and projection of arctic freshwater budget components by the IPCC AR4 Global Climate Models, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8(3), 571-589.
• Kattsov, V., J.E. Walsh, V.A. Govorkova, T. Pavlova, X. Zhang (2007), Arctic Ocean freshwater budget components in simulations with the IPCC AR4 AOGCMs, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 8, 571-589.
• Wang, M., J.E. Overland, V.M. Kattsov, J.E. Walsh, X. Zhang, T. Pavlova (2007), Intrinsic versus forced variation in coupled climate model simulations over the Arctic during the 20th Century, Journal of Climate, 20, 1084-1098.
• Zhang, X., J.E. Walsh (2006), Toward seasonally ice-covered Arctic Ocean: Scenarios from the IPCC AR4 model simulations, Journal of Climate, 19, 1730-1747.
• Komori, N., K. Takahashi, K. Komine, T. Motoi, X. Zhang, G. Sagawa (2005), Description of sea-ice component of coupled ocean/sea-ice model for the Earth Simulator (OIFES), Journal of the Earth Simulator, 4, 31-45.
• Polyakov, I.V., U.S. Bhatt, H.L. Simmons, D. Walsh, J.E. Walsh, X. Zhang (2005), Multidecadal variability of North Atlantic temperature and salinity during the Twentieth Century, Journal of Climate, 18(21), 4562-4581.
• Zhang, X., J.E. Walsh, J. Zhang, U.S. Bhatt, M. Ikeda (2004), Climatology and Interannual Variability of Arctic Cyclone Activity, 1948-2002, Journal of Climate, 17, 2300-2317.
• Zhang, X., J.E. Walsh, J. Zhang, U.S. Bhatt, M. Ikeda (2004), Intensifying Arctic cylone activity, Bulletin of the American Meteorlological Society, 85, 949-950, summary in Papers of Note, invited.
• Zhao, P., X. Zhang, X. Zhou, M. Ikeda, Y. Yin (2004), Sea ice extent anomaly in the North Pacific and its impact on the East Asian summer monsoon rainfall, Journal of Climate, 17(17), 3434-3447.
• Bian, L., R.L. Colony, X. Zhang (2003), Observational estimate of energy budgeton drifting ice and open water over the Arctic Ocean, Science in China (series D), 33(2), 139-147.
• Zhang, X., M. Ikeda, J.E. Walsh (2003), Coordinated changes of sea ice over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas: regional and seasonal perspectives, Polar Research, 22, 83-90.
• Zhang, X., M. Ikeda, J.E. Walsh (2003), Arctic sea ice and freshwater changes driven by the atmospheric leading mode in a coupled sea ice/ocean model, Journal of Climate, 16, 2159-2177.
• Wang, J., M. Ikeda, R.L. Colony, X. Zhang (2002), Quasi-decadal variability of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, Kaiyo (The Ocean) Monthly, 34(2), 865-849, in Japanese.
• Yang, D., D.L. Kane, L. Hinzman, X. Zhang, T. Zhang (2002), Siberian Lena River hydrologic regime and recent change, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(D23), 4694, doi:10.1029/2002JD002542, 2002..
• Zhu, J., S. Wang, X. Zhang (2002), Global Warming Model of Atmospheric Circulation, Atmospheric Research Letters, 3(1), 1-13, doi:10.1006/Asle.2002.0052.
• Zhang, X., J. Zhang (2001), Heat and Freshwater Budgets and Pathways in the Arctic Mediterranean in a Coupled Ocean/Sea-ice Model., Journal of Oceanography, 57, 207-234.

Other Selected Publications

• Zhang, X., S. Huang, and J. Zhang. 1998. Analysis of dynamic structures of 1982/83 El Noni. Chinese J. Atmos. Sci. 21: 659-669.
• Zhang, X., S. Huang, and J. Zhang. 1996. Characteristic mode model of tropical Pacific basin and dynamic mechanisms of El Niño. Acta Oceanogr. Sinica 14: 485-498.
• Zhang, J., T. Wei, and X. Zhang. 1995. Moist potential vorticity diagnosis of a Meiyu frontal heavy rain process simulation during summer 1991. Acta Meteor. Sinica 9: 466-479.
• Zhang, X. 1992. Study of characteristic modes in simple tropical coupled air-sea model. Acta Meteor. Sinica 6: 287-298.
• Zhang, X., Z. Yu, and H. Lu. 1991. An energetic study on the interaction between meso-scale systems and between large and meso-scale motions in the Meiyu front processes. J. Trop. Meteor. 7: 72-82.