Education
PhD in Climate Dynamics, 2012-2018 George Mason University
Advisor: Dr. Edwin K. Schneider Thesis title: Understanding the Role of Coupling in Climate Simulations
B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, 2011 Nanjing University
Publications
Wang, Z., Schneider, E. K., Burls, N. J. (2019). The Sensitivity of Climatological SST to Slab Ocean Model Thickness. Climate Dynamics. doi:10.1007/s00382-019-04892-0 (SharedIt link)
Zuidema, P., Chang, P., Medeiros, B., Kirtman, B. P., Mechoso, R., Schneider, E. K., … Wang, Z. & Brandt, P. (2016). Challenges and Prospects for Reducing Coupled Climate Model SST Biases in the eastern tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans: The US CLIVAR Eastern Tropical Oceans Synthesis Working Group. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00274.1
Dirmeyer, P. A., Wang, Z., Mbuh, M. J., Norton, H. E. (2014). Intensified land surface control on boundary layer growth in a changing climate. Geophysical Research Letters. doi: 10.1002/2013GL058826
Dirmeyer, P. A., Fang, G., Wang, Z., Yadav, P., Milton, A., (2014): Climate change and sectors of the surface water cycle In CMIP5 projections. Hydrol. Earth Sys. Sci., 11, 8537-8569, doi:10.5194/hessd-11-8537-2014
Presentations
Wang, Z. and Schneider, E. K. (2018, December). Effect of Shallowing Mixed Layer Depth in an AGCM-Slab Ocean Coupled Model. Poster at: AGU 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, DC.
Wang, Z. and Schneider, E. K. (2016, February). Influence of Ocean Surface Currents on the Atmospheric Circulation, 2016 NCAR Winter CVCWG Meeting, Boulder, CO.
Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer and TA for Introduction to Atmospheric Dynamics
Guest Lecturer and TA for Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation
Honors & Awards
George Mason University Presidential Scholarship (2012-2015)
George Mason University Dissertation Completion Grant (Spring 2018)