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Fuqing Zhang
- Professor of Meteorology
- E. Willard & Ruby S. Miller Faculty Fellow
- Joint Appointment with the Department of Statistics
601A Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
University Park, PA 16802
Email:
fzhang@psu.edu
Phone:
(814) 865-0470
Education:
- PhD -- North Carolina State University (2000)
- MS/BS -- Nanjing University (1994/1991)
Biography:
Websites for List of My Journal Publications or My Google Scholar (ID: E-652202010)
Website for Our Realtime Hurricane Prediction System (http://hfip.psu.edu)
Website for My Research Team (http://www.met.psu.edu/people/fuz4/ResearchTeam)
Research Interests
- Dynamic and mesoscale meteorology, tropical cyclones and hurricanes
- Gravity wave, sea breeze, mountain-plains circulation, diurnal cycle
- Numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, atmospheric predictability
- Regional scale climate, air pollution meteorology
- Spatial covariance, Kalman filtering, parameter estimation
Experience
- 2008-present Professor, Department of Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University
- 2009-present Professor, Department of Statistics, 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
Selected Awards
- 2012 Paul F. Robertson Award for the EMS Breakthrough of the Year, Penn State
- 2011 E. Willard & Ruby S. Miller Faculty Fellowship, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State
- 2009 The Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society (link to press release)
- 2007 Outstanding Publication Award, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- 2006 Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty Research, College of Geosciences, Texas A&M
- 2004 Young Investigator Award, Office of Navy Research, Department of Navy
Editorship
- 2008- Editor, Monthly Weather Review
- 2010- Editor, Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences
- 2012- Editor, Acta Meteorologica Sinica
- 2012- Editorial board member, Science China
- 2011- Editorial board member, Scientia Meteorologica Sinica
- 2011-12 Co-chief editor, Atmospheric Science Letters
- 2009-11 Guest editor, Computing in Science & Engineering
- 2008 Associate editor, Weather and Forecasting
Selected News Coverage of our Research
- 2012 NSF/White House Joint Press Release: NSF Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data
- 2012 Science Magazine News Focus: Weather Forecasts Slowly Clearing Up
- 2012 Homeland Security Today: Hurricane Season 2012: Forecasting The Fury
- 2011 TACC press release: Upgrading the Hurricane Forecast
- 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer: Better tools on the way for hurricane forecasters
- 2011 InsideHPC.com: TACC Ranger Super Helps Upgrade Hurricane Forecasts
- 2011 Phys.org: Real-time hurricane tracking available online
- 2011 PlantSave.com: Scientists across the US Tracking and Monitoring Hurricane Irene
- 2011 China Meteorology Daily (中国气象报): Severe Weather Prediction: A problem remains to be solved
- 2010 UCAR news release: Hurricanes in the Making
- 2010 UCAR news release: DID FORECASTERS NAIL THE BIG NORTHEAST SNOW?
- 2009 Penn State Press Release: Penn State meteorologist to receive research award
- 2009 Houston Chronicle: What’s the theoretical limit of hurricane forecast accuracy?
- 2009 American Physics Society press release: Supercomputers Simulate Stars, Cars, Hurricanes, and Blood
- 2009 PrimuerMagazine: TACC's "Ranger" supercomputer surpasses 1 million jobs in less than two years
- 2009 High Beam Research: ZHANG RECEIVES AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY MEISINGER AWARD
- 2008 High Beam Research: MORE TO SCIENCE THAN MEETS THE EYE
- Ensemble Data Assimilation 2006
- Gravity Waves Retreat 2006
- Ensemble Data Assimilation 2008
- 4DVar vs. EnKF 2008
- PSU Gravity Wave Workshop 2009
- Ensemble Data Assimilation 2010
- PSU and UMD Joint Data Assimilation Workshop, College Park, MD, 11/2010
- Summer School on Severe and Convective Weather, Nanjing, China, 07/2011
- International Workshop on Severe, Hazardous and Extreme Weather, Beijing, China 07/2011
- Pre-HFIP Hurricane Science Workshop, Miami, FL, 11/2011
- PSU and UMD Joint Data Assimilation Workshop, web-based, 12/2011
- Ensemble Data Assimilation 2012, Albany, NY
- NSF EarthCube Workshop on "Shaping the Development of EarthCube to Enable Advances in Data Assimilation and Ensemble Prediction", Boulder, CO, 2012.
