Xubin Zeng

Selected programs/projects:

• Global Land-Atmosphere-Ocean Interface Process Studies by Integrating the MERRA Reanalysis with Satellite and In situ Data (NASA project)
• Improving the Understanding and Modeling of Land Processes in the Community Earth System Model (NSF project)
• Development of Hybrid 3-D Hydrological Modeling for the Community Earth System Model (DOE project)

Selected publications:

• Yang, Z., Dominguez, F., Gupta, H., Zeng, X., and L.  Norman, 2016. Urban effects on regional climate: A case study in the Phoenix and Tucson “sun corridor”. Earth Interactions, 20(20), 1-25. doi: 10.1175/El-D-15-0027.1.  
• Snow, J.T,. X. Zeng, P.  Klein, S.E. Sarnat, J.M. Shepherd, and E.M. Stanley,  2012. NRC Report on Urban Meteorology: Forecasting, Monitoring, and Meeting Users' Needs. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
• Dabberdt, W.F., R. Carbone, S.S. Chen, G. Borfes, E.Foufoula-Georgiou, R. Morss, J.T. Snow, and X. Zeng, 2010. NRC Report on When Weather Matters: Science and Service to Meet Critical Societal Needs. National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
• Sakaguchi, K., X. Zeng, and M. Brunke, 2012. The Hindcast Skill of the CMIP Ensembles for the Surface Air Temperature Trend. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D16113, doi:10.1029/2012JD017765.

Employment highlights:

• Professor of Atmospheric Sciences since 2004
• Founding Director of UA Climate Dynamics and Hydrometeorology Center (CDHC) since 2008
• Agnese N. Haury Chair in Environment, University of Arizona, since 2014