Zheng is a Research Scientist who joined the Polar Science Center as a post-doctoral research associate in 2013. He received his PhD in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 2012, supervised by Dr. Thomas Ackerman. His PhD work focused on the analysis of observations of high-level clouds in the tropics and the mid-latitudes, and the evaluation of their representation in cloud resolving model. His current work focuses on the interactions between cloud and sea ice through various processes, using an atmospheric regional model (Polar WRF) and a cloud resolving model (System for Atmospheric Modeling).
Zheng Liu
In The News
Low‐Level and Surface Wind Jets Near Sea Ice Edge in the Beaufort Sea in Late Autumn
The latest paper authored by Zheng Liu and Axel Schweiger has been published in JGR Atmospheres. Read how dropsonde observations made from Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Survey flights were used to examine low‐level and surface “ice edge jets” in the Beaufort Sea.
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Selected Publications
Liu, Z., & Schweiger, A., 2019. Low-level and surface wind jets near sea ice edge in the Beaufort Sea in late autumn. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 6873– 6891. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029770
Liu, Z., Schweiger, A. (2017), Synoptic conditions, clouds, and sea ice melt-onset in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seasonal Ice Zone, J. Climate, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0887.1 .
Liu, Z., A. Muhlbauer, and T. Ackerman (2015), ‘Evaluation of high-level clouds in cloud resolving model smulations with ARM and KWAJEX observations’, J. Adv. Model. Earth. Syst., 7, doi: 10.1002/2015MS000478.
Liu, Z., A. Schweiger, and R. Lindsay (2015), Observations and Modeling of Atmospheric Profiles in the Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone, Monthly Weather Review, 143(1), 39-53.