Gan Zhang

About

Gan Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the field of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences. His research focuses on key subjects such as tropical cyclone activity, extratropical phenomena, Rossby wave breaking, sea surface temperature, and Hadley circulation. He employs a hybrid approach combining machine learning and physics-based climate models to advance the understanding and seasonal prediction of tropical cyclone activity. His work also addresses amplified summer wind stilling and land warming, which contribute to compound energy risks in Northern Midlatitudes. Zhang's research outputs include contributions to peer-reviewed journals where he explores topics like tropospheric circulation, surface temperature differences, wave trains, and sources of bias in climate models. His collaborative research extends to atmospheric circulation changes detected through cloud motion vectors and the human influence on trends in extratropical low-level wind speed. Overall, Gan Zhang's scholarship integrates advanced climate modeling techniques with observational data to enhance the predictive capabilities and understanding of atmospheric and climate dynamics.

Research topics

• Environmental chemistry
• Chemistry
• Environmental science
• Materials science
• Biology
• Ecology
• Chromatography
• Organic chemistry
• Geology

Selected publications

• Human influence on recent trends in extratropical low-level wind speed

  Research Square · 2025-09-01

  preprintOpen accessSenior author
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Supplementary material to "Constraining urban biogenic CO ₂ fluxes: Composition, seasonality and drivers from radiocarbon and inventory analysis"

  2025-09-29

  articleOpen accessSenior author
  PublisherDOI

• Supplementary material to "Marine-Derived Water-Soluble Organic Nitrogen in Coastal Air: Influence of Ocean Productivity on Atmospheric Nitrogen Cycling"

  2025-12-16

  articleOpen accessSenior author
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Jun Li

  1689 shared

• Chunling Luo

  Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry

  517 shared

• Chongguo Tian

  Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research

  427 shared

• Yingjun Chen

  Binzhou University

  339 shared

• Guangcai Zhong

  Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry

  293 shared

• Shizhen Zhao

  Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry

  282 shared

• Kevin C. Jones

  Lancaster University

  281 shared

• Zhineng Cheng

  Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry

  264 shared

Labs

• Gan Zhang Climate Modeling, Prediction, and ApplicationsPI

Education

• PhD in Organic Geochemistry, with Professor Fu Jiamo 傅家谟, State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, SKLOG

  Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry

  1995

• MSc in Geochemistry, with Professor Liu Yingjun 刘英俊, Department of Geosciences

  Nanjing University

  1990

• BSc in Geochemistry, Department of Geosciences

  Nanjing University

  1987

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