Summary
Xiyue (Sally) Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Research interests
- Climate dynamics
- Polar cloud dynamics and feedbacks
- Extratropical-tropical teleconnection
- Tracer transport
- Climate variability and change
Courses taught
- ATMS/GEOG 421/621: Climatology
Education
- Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2018
- M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2015
- B.S. in Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, 2012
Selected publications
- Kang, S. M., Yu, Y., Deser, C., Zhang, X., Kang, I.-S., Lee, S.-S., Rodgers, K. B., & Ceppi, P. (2023). Global impacts of recent Southern Ocean cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(30), e2300881120.
- Zhang, X., Waugh, D. W., & Orbe, C. (2023). Dependence of northern hemisphere tropospheric transport on the midlatitude jet under abrupt CO2 increase. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD038454.
- Zhang, X., Waugh, D. W., Kerr, G. H., and Miller, S. M. (2022). Surface ozone-temperature relationship: The meridional gradient ratio approximation. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098680.
- Zhang, X., Schneider, T., Shen, Z., Pressel, K. G., and Eisenman, I. (2022). Seasonal cycle of idealized polar clouds: large eddy simulations driven by a GCM. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2021MS002671.
- Amaya, D. J., Seltzer, A. M., Karnauskas, K. B., Lora, J. M., Zhang, X., and DiNezio, P. (2021). Air-sea feedbacks shape North American hydroclimate response to ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
- Singer, C. E., Lopez-Gomez, I., Zhang, X., and Schneider, T. (2021). Top-of-atmosphere albedo bias from neglecting three-dimensional cloud radiative effects. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences.
- Zhang, X., Deser, C., and Sun, L. (2021). Is there a tropical response to recent observed southern ocean cooling? Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL091235.
- Zhang, X., Schneider, T., and Kaul, C. M. (2020). Sensitivity of idealized mixedâphase stratocumulus to climate perturbations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146: 3285– 3305.