Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder NOAA ESRL

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1 Li Zhang Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder NOAA ESRL / Phone: / Mailing Address: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1111 Engineering Drive ECME 114 University of Colorado, Boulder Boulder, CO EDUCATION 2009, Ph.D. (Meteorology), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Beijing, China. 2006, M.S. (Meteorology), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Beijing, China. 2003, B.S. (Atmospheric Sciences), Chengdu University of Information Technology (CUIT). Chengdu, China. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Associate (June 2012 ~ present), University of Colorado Boulder (CUB) / NOAA ESRL, Boulder, U.S. Postdoctoral Researcher (May 2009 ~ May 2012), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, U.S. Research Assistant (Sep ~ April 2009), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China. RESEARCH INTERESTS FIM-Chem model development and evaluation: Add gas phase chemistry into FIM-Chem, evaluate the simulations of gas tracers and aerosol, real-time forecast of air pollution, improve dust scheme and investigate the dust emission sensitivity to resolution and aerosol feedback. Inverse modeling: Improve model representation of aerosol distributions, in particularly Black Carbon (BC) through data assimilation using GEOS-Chem adjoint and WRF-Chem adjoint. Constrain long-term dust emission using spectral data and quantify the dust climate forcing using FIM-Chem. Dust scheme improvement: Improve dust simulations by optimizing the particle size distribution and constraining dust emissions using MISR AOD in GEOS-Chem. Aerosol radiative forcing: Investigate radiative forcing and heating of dust using 1

2 3-D chemical transport model (GEOS-Chem) coupled with radiative transfer model (Fu-Liou-Gu), including the impact of aerosol vertical profiles and source regions on the radiative forcing and climate, etc. Tropospheric CO and ozone: Investigate the factors controlling tropospheric CO and ozone, including biomass burning, lightning, dynamic transport and anthropogenic activities, using satellite observations and GEOS-Chem. Air pollution transport: Investigate the long-range transport of black carbon (BC) and dust to the western U.S. and the relative contributions from different source regions; study the impacts of Asian summer monsoon on aerosols over Eastern China and the downwind areas as well as climate change effects on air quality. Asian summer monsoon and model evaluation: Investigate the seasonal rotation features of wind vectors and the wind onset and wind withdrawal of Asian summer monsoon; study twice wind onsets of monsoon over the Western North Pacific; evaluate Asian monsoon simulation of the IPCC AR4 AMIP model results by using statistical techniques. PROJECT Li Zhang (Co-I) with Jun Wang (PI), Daven Henze (Co-I), Xiaoguang Xu (Co-I). Sensitivity analysis and recovery of dust emissions from spectral climate signal. NASA Atmospheric Composition Spectral Climate Signal ( ). NUMERICAL MODELING AND COMPUTER SKILLS Scientific Modeling: FIM-Chem, WRF-Chem, GEOS-Chem and GEOS-Chem ajdoint, GSI, radiative transfer model (Fu-Liou-Gu). Computer skills: a). Operation Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS. b). Languages and graphical programs: Fortran, C, GrADS, IDL, NCL, Matlab. c). Softwares: Flash, FrontPage, Microsoft office, Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop. Data manipulation and analysis: Reanalysis data, aircraft data, ground-based data and satellite data (MLS, TES, MISR, OMI, MODIS, MOPITT, AIRS etc.), statistical techniques on data analysis and processing. AWARDS ZhuLiYueHua Prize of Excellent PhD Student (2009) - Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Excellent Graduate (2009) - Graduate University of CAS Merit Students (2008) - Graduate University of CAS Best Participant Presentation Award (2007) - The 4th KAGI-21 International Summer School on the Active Geosphere,Bandung,Indonesia Best Paper Award (2006) - Chinese Meteorology Society 2006 meeting Postgraduate Scholarship (2006) - Graduate University of CAS 2

3 Pivot of Merit Students (2006) - Graduate University of CAS Excellence in Student Leadership (2006) - Graduate University of CAS Postgraduate Scholarship (2005) - Graduate University of CAS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Member: American Geophysical Union (AGU). Reviewer: Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letter, Climate Dynamics, Atmospheric Environment, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Aeolian Research. PUBLICATIONS Zhang, L., D. K. Henze, G. A. Grell, O. Torres, H. Jethva, L. Lamsal, 2015: What factors control the trend of increasing AAOD over the United States in the last decade? Geophys. Res. Lett., to be submitted. Zhang, L., D. K. Henze, G. A. Grell, G. R. Carmichael, N. Bousserez, Q. Zhang, J. Cao, O. Torres, C. Ahn, Z. Lu, Y. Mao, 2015: Constraining black carbon aerosol over Asia using OMI aerosol absorption optical depth and the adjoint of GEOS-Chem, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, , doi: /acp Zang Z., Z. Hao, X. Pan, Z. Li, D. Chen, L. Zhang, Q. Li, 2015 Background error statistics for aerosol variables from WRF/Chem predictions in Southern California, Asia-Pac J. Atmos. Sci., 51 (2), , doi: /s Mao, Y. H., Q. B. Li, D. Chen, L. Zhang, W.-M. Hao, and K.-N. Liou, 2014: Top-down estimates of biomass burning emissions of black carbon in the Western United States, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, , doi: /acp Zhang, L., J. F. Kok, D. K. Henze, Q. B. Li, C. Zhao, 2013: Improving simulations of fine dust surface concentrations over the western United States by optimizing the particle size distributions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, , doi: /grl Zhang, L., Q. B., Li, Y., Gu, K. N., Liou, and B. Meland, 2013: Dust vertical profile impact on global radiative forcing estimation using a coupled chemical transport-radiative transfer model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, , doi: /acp Chen, D., Q. Li, J., Stutz, Y., Mao, L., Zhang, et al., 2013: Carsten Warneke, Ilana B. Pollack, WRF-Chem simulation of NOx and O3 in the L.A. basin during CalNex-2010, Atmos. Environ., 81, , DOI: /j.atmosenv

4 Zhang, L., Q. B. Li, L. T. Murray, M. Luo, H. Liu, J. H. Jiang, Y. Mao, D. Chen, M. Gao, and N. Livesey. 2012: A tropospheric ozone maximum over the equatorial Southern Indian Ocean, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, , doi: /acp Zhang, L., Q. B. Li, J. Jin, H. Liu, N. Livesey, J. H. Jiang, Y. Mao, D. Chen, and M. Luo, Y. Chen. 2011: Impacts of 2006 Indonesian fires and dynamics on tropical upper tropospheric carbon monoxide and ozone, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, , doi: /acp Mao, Y., Li, Q. B., L. Zhang, Y. Chen, J. T. Randerson, D. Chen, and K.-N., Liou, 2011: Biomass burning contribution to black carbon in the western United States mountain ranges, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, , doi: /acp Neelin, J. D., B. Lintner, B. Tian, Q. B. Li, L. Zhang, P. Patra, M. Chahine, and S. Stechmann. 2010: Long tails in deep columns of natural and anthropogenic tropospheric tracers, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L05804, doi: /2009gl Zhang L., H. Liao, J. Li, 2010: Impacts of Asian summer monsoon on seasonal and interannual variations of aerosols over Eastern China. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00K05, doi: /2009jd Zhang L., H. Liao, J. Li, 2010: Impact of the Southeast Asian summer monsoon strength on the outflow of aerosols from South Asia. Annales Geophysicae, 28, Zhang L., J. Li, 2010: Twice wind onsets of monsoon over the Western North Pacific and their simulations in AMIP models. International Journal of Climatology, 30, , DOI: /joc Li J., and L. Zhang, 2009: Wind onset and withdrawal of Asian summer monsoon and their simulated performance in AMIP models. Climate Dynamics, 32(7-8): , DOI: /s Zhang L., and J. Li, 2008: Seasonal rotation features of wind vectors and application to evaluate monsoon simulations in AMIP models. Climate Dynamics, 31(4): , DOI: /s Zhang L., and J. Li, 2008: The variation of wind direction and its application on evaluating monsoon simulation. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 32(1), Fang Z. F., and L. Zhang, 2006: NCAR-NCEP data quality and abrupt changes of East Asian low in 1970th during summer, Chinese Journal of Plateau Meteorology, 25(2), Fang Z. F., and L. Zhang, Y. J. Cheng, 2005: The eecrease of the Arctic sea ice and the abrupt changes of Sea ice in 1990th, Chinese Journal of Arid Meteorology, 23(3), BOOK CHAPTER: Li, J. P., and L. Zhang, 2011: Seasonal Rotation Features of Monsoon and the Association to Thermodynamic Contrast. In J. P. Li, G. X. Wu and D. X. Hu (eds.), 4

5 Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction over the Joining Area of Asia and Indian-Pacific Ocean and Its Impact on the Short-Term Climate Variation in China (Volume I). Beijing: China Meteorological Press, pp Li, J. P., and L. Zhang, 2011: Climatological Characteristics of Wind Onset and Withdrawal of Asian Summer Monsoon. In J. P. Li, G. X. Wu and D. X. Hu (eds.), Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction over the Joining Area of Asia and Indian-Pacific Ocean and Its Impact on the Short-Term Climate Variation in China (Volume I). Beijing: China Meteorological Press, pp Fang Z. F., and L. Zhang, 2003: Abrupt Changes of East Asia Low in 1970th during Summer. In China Meteorological Society (eds.), New Century Meteorological Technology Innovation and Atmospheric Sciences Progress, Beijing: China Meteorological Press, pp PRESENTATIONS Zhang, L., et al., (December 2014). Constraining Black Carbon Aerosol over Asia using the GEOS-Chem adjoint and the assessment the long term Trend of OMI Aerosol Absorption Optical Depth. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2014 fall meeting, San Francisco, United State. Zhang, L., et al., (May 2013). Constraining Black Carbon Aerosol over Asia using OMI Aerosol Absorption Optical Depth and the adjoint of GEOS-Chem. The 6 th International GEOS-Chem Meeting, Harvard University. Zhang, L., et al., (December 2012). Assessment of the Sources, Distribution and Climate Impacts of Black Carbon Aerosol over Asia using GEOS-Chem and WRF-Chem. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012 fall meeting, San Francisco, United State. Zhang, L., et al., (May 2011). Factors Controlling Tropical Tropospheric Ozone: Biomass Burning, Lightning, and Dynamics. LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Beijing, China (Invited talk). Zhang, L., et al., (May 2011). Lightning and Dynamics Impacts on Tropospheric Ozone over the Southern Tropical Indian Ocean. The 5 th International GEOS-Chem Meeting, Harvard University. Zhang, L., et al., (December 2009). Effects of the 2006 Indonesia Fires on Tropical Upper Tropospheric Composition. American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2009 fall meeting, San Francisco, United State. Zhang L. and J. P. Li (June 2008). Seasonal Rotation Features of Wind Vectors and Application to Evaluate Monsoon Simulations in AMIP Models. Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) 2008 meeting, Busan, Korea. Zhang L., H. Liao, J. P. Li (December 2007). Impact of Asian Summer Monsoon on Seasonal Variations of Aerosols over Eastern China. Paper presented at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2007 fall meeting, San Francisco, United State. Zhang L. and J. P. Li (July 2007). Seasonal Rotation Features of Wind Vectors 5

6 and Application to Evaluate Monsoon Simulations in AMIP Models. The 4th KAGI-21 International Summer School, Bandung, Indonesia. Zhang L. and J. P. Li (June 2007). Wind Onset and Withdrawal of Asian Summer Monsoon and Their Simulated Performance in AMIP Models. The 4th University Allied Workshop (UAW) for Climate and Environmental Modeling, Beijing, China. 6