1999 - Ph.D., Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, China
1994 - M.Sc., Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, China
1991 - B.Sc., Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, China
Research Interests
Observations and modelling of the interaction between ocean and
atmosphere
General atmospheric circulation
Mid- & long-term weather forecasting and short-term climate
prediction
Scientific Work Experience
Postdoctoral fellow, International Pacific Research Center,
University of Hawaii, July 2001 - present
Associate Professor at Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing
Institute of Meteorology,1994 - 2001
Instructor of WMO Regional Meteorological Training Center, NIM,
1995 - to present.
Publications
Hamilton, K., and W. Zhu, 2003: Large perturbations to terrestrial
climate models and a simulated runaway greenhouse effect. Canadian
Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Bulletin, 31 (1),
6-10.
Zhu, W. and Z. Sun, 2000: Influence of Ageostrophic Geopotential
Eddy Fluxes on the Maintenance
of Northern Storm Tracks during winter. Chinese J. Atmos.
Sci., 501-512.
Zhu, W. and Z. Sun, 2000: The interannual variability of northern
winter storm track and its concurrent
relation to 500 hPa geopotential height and SST in the northen Pacific
ocean. Acata Meteorological
Sinica, 58(3), 309-320.
Zhu, W., Z. Sun, et al., 2000: Influence on northern Pacific storm
track of equatorial central and
eastern Pacific SSTA during winter. J. Trop. Meteor.,
6(1), 106-112 (in Chinese).
Zhu, W. and Z. Sun, 2000: Influence of winter Krushio SSTA on the
Pacific storm track. J. Applied Meteor., 11(2), 145-153 (in
Chinese).
Min, J., Z. Sun, and W. Zhu, 2000: Review of study on air-sea
coupled models and coupling method. J. Nanjing Inst. Met.,23(3), 449-458 (in
Chinese).
Zhu, W. and Z. Sun, 1999: Influence of ENSO event on the
maintenance of Pacific storm track in the
northern winter. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 16(4),
630-640.
Zhu, W. and Z. Sun, 1999: Effects of winter Pacific SSTA on the
storm track and jet stream. J. Nanjing
Inst. Met.,22(4), 575-581 (in Chinese).
Peng, J., Z. Sun and W. Zhu, 1999: The catastrophe of atmosphere
general circulation and China dry
and wet pattern in the late 1970s. J. Nanjing Inst. Met., 22(3), 300-304 (in Chinese).
Zhu, W. and Z. Sun, 1999: On storm tracks. J. Nanjing Met.,22(1), 121-127 (in Chinese).
Sun, Z. and W. Zhu, 1998: A possible mechanism for the maintenance
of northern winter storm
tracks. J. Nanjing Inst. Met., 21(3),
299-306.
Zhu, W. and Z. Sun, 1995: Numerical study on the effect of SSTA in
the northwest Pacific on storm
tracks in winter Pacific. J. Nanjing Inst. Met., 18(4),
478-485 (in Chinese).
Xu, J., J. He, W. Zhu, et. al., 1994: Analysis of seasonal and
intra-seasonal mean water vapor transport
during Asian Summer Monsoon, Acata Oceananica Sinica,
16(4), 48-54 (in Chinese).