Xiangdong Zhang

Biographic Data

ID6818743
NAMEXiangdong Zhang
GIVEN NAMESXiangdong
FAMILY NAMEZhang
SIGNATUREZHANG X
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alaska Fairbanks
ORCID0000-0001-5893-2888
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX0

  • How do intermittency and simultaneous processes obfuscate the Arctic influence on midlatitude winter extreme weather events

    Open AccessJames E Overland, Thomas J Ballinger et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Pronounced changes in the Arctic environment add a new potential driver of anomalous weather patterns in midlatitudes that affect billions of people. Recent studies of these Arctic/midlatitude weather linkages, however, state inconsistent conclusions. A source of uncertainty arises from the chaotic nature of the atmosphere. Thermodynamic forcing by a rapidly warming Arctic contributes to weather events through changing surface heat fluxes and lar…

  • Wind–sea surface temperature–sea ice relationship in the Chukchi–Beaufort Seas during autumn

    Open AccessJing Zhang, Steve T Stegall et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Dramatic climate changes, especially the largest sea ice retreat during September and October, in the Chukchi–Beaufort Seas could be a consequence of, and further enhance, complex air–ice–sea interactions. To detect these interaction signals, statistical relationships between surface wind speed, sea surface temperature (SST), and sea ice concentration (SIC) were analyzed. The results show a negative correlation between wind speed and SIC. The rel…

  • Quality Assessment of Meteorological Data for the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea Coastal Region using Automated Routines

    Open AccessMartha Shulski, Martha D Shulski et al.ARTICLEARCTIC2014

    Meteorological observations from more than 250 stations in the Beaufort and Chukchi Sea coastal, interior, and offshore regions were gathered and quality-controlled for the period 1979 through 2009. These stations represent many different observing networks that operate in the region for the purposes of aviation, fire weather, coastal weather, climate, surface radiation, and hydrology and report data hourly or sub-hourly. A unified data quality c…

  • Weakened cyclones, intensified anticyclones and recent extreme cold winter weather events in Eurasia

    Open AccessXiangdong Zhang, Chuhan Lu et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2012

    Extreme cold winter weather events over Eurasia have occurred more frequently in recent years in spite of a warming global climate. To gain further insight into this regional mismatch with the global mean warming trend, we analyzed winter cyclone and anticyclone activities, and their interplay with the regional atmospheric circulation pattern characterized by the semi-permanent Siberian high. We found a persistent weakening of both cyclones and a…

  • Diagnosis of the record discharge of Arctic-draining Eurasian rivers in 2007

    Open AccessM A Rawlins, Mark C Serreze et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2009

    Aggregate annual discharge from the six largest Arctic-draining Eurasian rivers achieved an all-time record high in 2007, accentuating a long-term upward trend that argues for intensification of the Arctic hydrologic cycle. This record discharge was due in part to strong positive anomalies in late winter snow water equivalent across much of northern Eurasia. These anomalies arose in response to an unusual pattern of atmospheric circulation in lat…