@ucar.edu Feng Zhu


Ph.D. in Earth Sciences
  • Paleoclimate Data Assimilation
  • Paleoclimate Modeling
  • Proxy System Modeling
  • Climate Informatics



Research Repositories

cfr

cfr: a Python package for climate field reconstruction.

pseudo-PAGES2k

A pseudoproxy emulation of the PAGES 2k database using a hierarchy of proxy system models.

LMR Turbo

A lightweight implementation of the Last Millennium Reanalysis (LMR) paleoclimate data assimilation (PDA) framework.

Pyleoclim

Paleoclimate timeseries analysis and visualization with Python.

Publications

2023

Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Deborah Khider, Robert Tardif, Walter A. Perkins, 2023: cfr: a Python package for climate field reconstruction. Geoscientific Model Development. doi:https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2023/egusphere-2023-2098/.

Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Nicholas P. McKay, Samantha Stevenson, Zilu Meng, 2023: A pseudoproxy emulation of the PAGES 2k database using a hierarchy of proxy system models. Scientific Data. doi:10.1038/s41597-023-02489-1.

2022

Deborah Khider, Julien Emile-Geay, Feng Zhu, Alexander James, Jordan Landers, Varun Ratnakar, Yolanda Gil, 2022: Pyleoclim: Paleoclimate Timeseries Analysis and Visualization with Python. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. doi:10.1029/2022PA004509.

Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Gregory J. Hakim, Andrew Wittenberg, Mariano Morales, Matthew Toohey, and Johnathan M. King, 2022: A re-appraisal of the ENSO response to volcanism with paleoclimate data assimilation. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28210-1.

2021

Scott Power, Matthieu Lengaigne, Antonietta Capotondi, Myriam Khodri, Jérôme Vialard, Beyrem Jebri, Eric Guilyardi, Shayne McGregor, Jong-Seong Kug, Matthew Newman, Michael J. McPhaden, Gerald Meehl, Doug Smith, Julia Cole, Julien Emile-Geay, Daniel Vimont, Andrew T. Wittenberg, Mat Collins, Geon-Il Kim, Wenju Cai, Yuko Okumura, Christine Chung, Kim M. Cobb, François Delage, Yann Y. Planton, Aaron Levine, Feng Zhu, Janet Sprintall, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Xuebin Zhang, Jing-Jia Luo, Xiaopei Lin, Magdalena Balmaseda, Guojian Wang, Benjamin J. Henley, 2021: Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects. Science. doi:10.1126/science.aay9165.

Jonathan M. King, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Jessica E. Tierney, Gregory J. Hakim, Julien Emile-Geay, Feng Zhu, Robert Wilson, 2021: A data assimilation approach to last millennium temperature field reconstruction using a limited high-sensitivity proxy network. Journal of Climate. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0661.1.

2020

Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Gregory J. Hakim, Johnathan King, and Kevin J. Anchukaitis, 2020: Resolving the differences in the simulated and reconstructed climate response to volcanism over the last millennium. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2019GL086908.

Julien Emile-Geay, Kim M. Cobb, Julia E. Cole, Mary Elliot, and Feng Zhu, 2020: Past ENSO Variability: Obser-vations, Models, and Implications. In El Niño and Southern Oscillation in A Changing Climate, Book Chapter 5. American Geophysical Union. doi:10.1002/9781119548164.ch5.

2019

Feng Zhu, Julien Emile-Geay, Nicholas P. McKay, Gregory J. Hakim, Deborah Khider, Toby R. Ault, Eric J. Steig, Sylvia Dee, and James W. Kirchner, 2019: Climate models can correctly simulate the continuum of global-average temperature variability. PNAS. doi:10.1073/pnas.1809959116.

PAGES 2k Consortium (Raphael Neukom, Luis A. Barboza, Michael P. Erb, Feng Shi, Julien Emile-Geay, Michael N.Evans, Jörg Franke, Darrell S. Kaufman, Lucie Lücke, Kira Rehfeld, Andrew Schurer, Feng Zhu, Stefan Brön-nimann, Gregory J. Hakim, Benjamin J. Henley, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Nicholas McKay, VeronikaValler, and Lucien von Gunten), 2019: Consistent multidecadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the Common Era. Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0400-0.

Michael N. Evans, Hugo Goosse, Julien Emile-Geay, Feng Zhu, Sylvia Dee, Jörg Franke, Jena Jeong, Jeanne Rezsöhazy, Diane Thompson, Dan Amrhein, Mark A. Cane, Alexey Kaplan, Eugenia Kalnay, Vijay Tallapragada, Atsushi Okazaki, Allison Lawman, Sandy Herho, Gavin Schmidt, Marie-France Loutre, Luke Parsons, Jayaraju Nadimikeri, 2019: Toward community resources for paleoclimate data assimilation, reanalysis, and proxy system modeling. Past Global Changes Magazine. doi:10.22498/pages.27.2.88.

2015

Feng Zhu, Guoqiang Xu, Xiaohui Zheng, and Yuhong Wang, 2015: Superparameterization in GRAPES: the construction of SP-GRAPES and associated preliminary results. Journal of Meteorological Research. doi:10.1007/s13351-015-4074-2.

2014

Feng Zhu, Guoqiang Xu, Li Li, Xiaohui Zheng, and Shengjun Zhang, 2014: An Assessment of the Impact on Precipitation Prediction in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Made by Assimilating GPSPW Data in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (in Chinese). doi:10.3878/j.issn.1006-9895.2013.13117.