Publications

Submitted papers are available upon request.

  1. Zhang, K., Ma, H-Y, Xie, S., Fu, R., Klein, S., Tang, S., 2017: Process-level understanding of dry biases over Southern Amazonia in climate models through the hindcast approach, In preparation.
  2. Zhang, K., Fu, R., Shaikh, M., Ghan, S., Wang, M., Ruby, R.L., Dickinson, R.E., Marengo, M., 2017: Influence of super-parameterization and a higher-order turbulence closure on rainfall bias over Amazonia in Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5), J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026576, [PDF].
  3. Zhang, K., Randel, W.J., Fu, R., 2016: Relationships between outgoing longwave radiation and diabatic heating in reanalyses., Climate Dynamics, [PDF][SI].
  4. Lin, P., Wei, J., Yang, Z.-L., Zhang, Y.-F., Zhang, K., 2016. Snow data assimilation-constrained land initialization improves seasonal temperature prediction. Geophysical Research Letter, [PDF][JSG news][NASA news].
  5. Zhang, K., R. Fu, T. Wang, and Y. Liu, 2016: Impact of geographic variations of the convective and dehydration center on stratospheric water vapor over the Asian monsoon region, Atmos. Chem. Phys.,16(12), 7825–7835, doi:10.5194/acp-16-7825-2016. [PDF]
  6. Fernando, D. N. et al., 2016: What caused the spring intensification and winter demise of the 2011 drought over Texas?, Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3014-x. [PDF]
  7. Randel, W. J., Zhang, K., and Fu, R., 2015: What controls stratospheric water vapor in the NH summer monsoon regions?, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120(15), 7988–8001, doi:10.1002/2015jd023622. [PDF]