Zhihong Tan
Zhihong Tan
Zhihong Tan has been working in the Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences program at Princeton University since January 2020. His research is focused on the planetary boundary layer turbulence and its coupling with moist convection, cloud physics, and surface processes.
- 2016 Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering at Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
Thesis: “Simulations and Mechanisms of Subtropical Low-cloud Response to Climate Change”
Advisor: Prof. Tapio Schneider (Co-advised by Dr. Joao Teixeira) - 2013 M.S. in Environmental Science and Engineering at Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
- 2009 B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Peking University, Beijing, China
Tan, Z. and Shaw, T. A., 2020: Quantifying the impact of wind and surface humidity-induced surface heat exchange on the circulation shift in response to increased CO2. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL088053.
Tan, Z., O. Lachmy, and T. A. Shaw, 2019: The sensitivity of the jet stream response to climate change to radiative assumptions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 934–956.
Tan, Z., C. M. Kaul, K. G. Pressel, Y. Cohen, T. Schneider, and J. Teixeira, 2018: An extended eddy-diffusivity mass-flux scheme for unified representation of subgrid-scale turbulence and convection. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10, 770–800.
Tan, Z., T. Schneider, J. Teixeira, and K. G. Pressel, 2017: Large-eddy simulation of subtropical cloud-topped boundary layers: 2. Cloud response to climate change. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, 19–38.
Tan, Z., T. Schneider, J. Teixeira, and K. G. Pressel, 2016: Large-eddy simulation of subtropical cloud-topped boundary layers: 1. A forcing framework with closed surface energy balance. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 8, 1565–1585.