Meteorologisches Institut
Universität Hamburg
Grindelberg 5
D-20144 Hamburg
Germany
Room 407
phone: +49 (0)40 42838 5067
fax: +49 (0)40 42838 5066
e-mail: dan.zhang(at)zmaw.de
Research Interests
I am interested in Paleo-climate in the Asian monsoon areas. My PhD thesis is entitled "Climate variability in East Asia in simulations and reconstructions in the last 1200 years". In my thesis the temperature and precipitation variability in terms of trends and memory in East Asia is analyzed through the ensemble simulations carried out with the Earth System Model ECHAM5/MPIOM. The simulated climate forced by two different solar forcings is compared with various reconstructed data. Volcanoes are the dominant signal in the simulations and the land use change causes the rainfall deficits in China in the last century. The effects of volcanoes and ENSO are discussed at a global scale and the climate response in East Asia is compared with reconstructed temperature and PDSI. In addition, I created sensitivity runs with the "Planet Simulator", a complex General Circulation Model, developed at the University of Hamburg, which aimed to investigate the impacts of the land use change on the climate in East Asia.