current group
Jonathon Wright (乔纳森) studies water and energy cycling in the tropics, spanning roughly from the thermocline to the lower stratosphere. He has long-standing interests in monsoons and tropical climate dynamics, although the edges of those interests are now creeping toward the poles. He is also interested in climate data and analysis techniques, and has been a co-lead of the APARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (A-RIP) since 2020.
He received his PhD in atmospheric science from Georgia Tech, where he was supervised by Rong Fu, before completing postdoctoral appointments at Columbia University (with Adam Sobel) and the University of Cambridge (with Stephan Fueglistaler and Peter Haynes). He has worked in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing since January 2012.
Shenglong Zhang (张胜龙) is a fourth-year PhD candidate studying the composition and circulation of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere above the Asian monsoon. He received his undergraduate degree in atmospheric science from the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.
Publications while at Tsinghua:
Zhang, S., Wright, J. S., Guo, Z., Huang, W., and Peng, Y. (2024): Effects of Anthropogenic Aerosols on the East Asian Winter Monsoon, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 129, e2023JD040305, doi: 10.1029/2023JD040305.
Yuanrui Chen (陈元瑞) is a third-year PhD candidate studying the origins and influences of atmospheric waves above the South Pacific, including interactions between extratropical waves and the South Pacific Convergence Zone. He received his undergraduate degree in oceanography from Ocean University of China.
Publications while at Tsinghua:
Chen, Y. and J. S. Wright (2024): A Coupled Quadrupole Mode in the South Pacific. J. Climate, 37, 6109–6126, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0638.1.
Chen, Y., Chu, W., Wright, J. S., and Lin, Y. (2024): Wave-Convection Interactions Amplify Convective Parameterization Biases in the South Pacific Convergence Zone, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 16, e2024MS004334, doi: 10.1029/2024MS004334
Shenao Li (李申奥) is a second-year PhD student studying isotopic fractionation in clouds using cloud chamber experiments. She received her undergraduate degree in environmental engineering from Anhui Institute of Technology.
Ninghui Li (李凝慧) is a first-year PhD student studying the dynamics of the Asian monsoon anticyclone. After receiving his bachelors degree from Lanzhou Institute of Technology, he completed a masters in photogrammetry and remote sensing at Ocean University of China.
Publications while at Tsinghua:
N. Li, L. Guan and J. S. Wright (2024): Cloud Detection and Sea Surface Temperature Retrieval by HY-1C COCTS Observations, JSTARS, 17, 19853-19863, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3485890.
H. Gao, N. Li, T. Zhang, D. Romanic, J. S. Wright and L. Guan (2024): A Generalized Model of Sea Surface Slopes and its Application to Sun Glint Correction on HY-1C/COCTS Imagery, Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3510455.
Zhuoran Yu (余卓然) is an undergraduate student majoring in physics. For his graduation project, he is conducting simulations of subtropical stratocumulus clouds using an isotope-enabled large eddy model and validating the results against field measurements from the EUREC4A campaign.