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Xiyue (Sally) Zhang

Associate Director and Assistant Professor, Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Program She/her/hers

Summary

Xiyue (Sally) Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Βι¶ΉΣ³»­.

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). . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(30), e2300881120. 
  • Zhang, X., Waugh, D. W., & Orbe, C. (2023). . Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD038454. 
  • Zhang, X., Waugh, D. W., Kerr, G. H., and Miller, S. M. (2022). . Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL098680. 
  • Zhang, X., Schneider, T., Shen, Z., Pressel, K. G., and Eisenman, I. (2022). . 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). . Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 
  • Singer, C. E., Lopez-Gomez, I., Zhang, X., and Schneider, T. (2021). . Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 
  • Zhang, X., Deser, C., and Sun, L. (2021). Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL091235. 
  • Zhang, X., Schneider, T., and Kaul, C. M. (2020). . Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146: 3285– 3305.