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Contact Information

3056 Natural History Building

Research Areas

Professor

Biography

Dr. Zhuo Wang's research interests are primarily in the fields of tropical meteorology and climate dynamics, including tropical cyclones, intraseasonal variability, tropical-extratropical interaction, subseasonal to decadal prediction and predictability, and extreme events. Her research objective is to better understand the fundamental dynamics and physics governing atmospheric motions and to improve the prediction skills.

Education

  • Ph.D. Meteorology, University of Hawaii, 2004
  • M.S. Meteorology, University of Hawaii, 2000
  • B.S. Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, 1997

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Recent Publications

Di Girolamo, L., Zhao, G., Zhang, G., Wang, Z., Loveridge, J., & Mitra, A. (2025). Decadal changes in atmospheric circulation detected in cloud motion vectors. Nature, 643(8073), 983-987. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09242-1

Graber, M., Wang, Z., & Trapp, R. J. (2025). Linking weather regimes to the variability of warm-season tornado activity over the United States. Weather and Climate Dynamics, 6(3), 807-816. https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-807-2025

Moon, M., Min, S. K., Chu, J. E., An, S. I., Son, S. W., Ramsay, H., & Wang, Z. (2025). Tropical cyclone response to ambitious decarbonization scenarios. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8(1), Article 228. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01122-9

Yan, Z., Wang, Z., & Peng, M. (2025). Impacts of climate trends on the heavy precipitation event associated with Typhoon Doksuri in Northern China. Atmospheric Research, 314, Article 107816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2024.107816

Yang, M., Wang, Z., Walsh, J. E., Doyle, J. D., & Fearon, M. G. (2025). Contribution of Arctic Cyclones of Different Origins to Poleward Heat Transport to the Arctic. Journal of Climate, 38(9), 2129-2138. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0445.1

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