Fuqing Zhang

Experience

• 2009-present Professor, Departments of Meteorology and Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University
• 2008-present Professor, Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University
• 2006-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
• 2001-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
• 2000-2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Awards & Honors

• 2009 The Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society

• 2007 Outstanding Publication Award, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

• 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty Research, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University
• 2004 Young Investigator Award, Office of Navy Research, Department of Navy
• 2004 Certificate of Appreciation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Links

• Full list of publications

• Members of the research group
• Meetings and Workshops co-organized: 
• Ensemble Data Assimilation 2006 
• Gravity Waves Retreat 2006
• Ensemble Data Assimilation 2008
• 4DVar vs. EnKF 2008
• PSU Gravity Wave Workshop 2009

Selected Publications (Link to full list of publications)

• Zhang, F. and J. A. Sippel, 2009: Effects of moist convection on hurricane predictability. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 1944-1961.
• Zhang, F., M. Zhang and J. A. Hansen, 2009: Coupling ensemble Kalman filter with four-dimensional variational data assimilation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ,  26, 1-9.
• Wang, S., F. Zhang, and C. Snyder, 2009: Generation and Propagation of Inertial Gravity Waves from Vortex Dipoles and Jets. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 1294-1314.
• Zhang, F., Y. Weng, Z. Meng, J. A. Sippel and C. H. Bishop, 2009: Cloud-resolving Hurricane Initialization and Prediction through Assimilation of Doppler Radar Observations with an Ensemble Kalman Filter: Humberto (2007). Monthly Weather Review, in press.
• 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.
• 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, 136, 3671-3682.
• 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.
• Lin, Y. and F. Zhang, 2008: Tracing mesoscale gravity waves in baroclinic jet-front systems. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 2402-2415.
• Sippel, J. A. and F. Zhang, 2008: A probabilistic analysis of the dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclogenesis. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 65, 3440-3459.
• Zhang, F., M. Zhang and J. A. Hansen, 2008: Coupling ensemble Kalman filter with four-dimensional variational data assimilation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences , in press.
• 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, in review.
• 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.
• Zhang, F., and C. Snyder, 2007: Ensemble-based data assimilation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88,565-568.
• Meng, Z., and F. Zhang, 2007: 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, 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, 230, 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.
• Schultz, D. M., and F. Zhang, 2007: Baroclinic development within zonally varying flows. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133, 1101-1230.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. Kournal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, 109, D22104, doi:10.1029/2004JD005090.
• 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., C. Snyder, and R. Rotunno, 2002: Mesoscale predictability of the 'surprise' snowstorm of 24-25 January 2000. Monthly Weather Review, 130, 1617-1632.
• 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.
• 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.