Research Interests:

climate model development, aerosol-cloud interactions, wildfires

Research Experience:

2022-present, Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric, Earth, and Energy Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, U.S.

 

2019-2022, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Atmosheric Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.

 

2018-2019, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Atmosheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, U.S.

 

2018, Ph.D. Earth and Atmospheric Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

2010, M.Sc., Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

2007, M.Sc., Physical Oceanography, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2004, B.Sc., Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of Qingdao, China

Lu, Z., Liu, X., Ke, Z., Zhang, K., Ma, P.-L., & Fan, J. (2024). Incorporating an Interactive Fire Plume-Rise Model in the DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model Version 1 (E3SMv1) and Examining Aerosol Radiative Effect. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16(1), e2023MS003818. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003818

 

Shan, Y., Liu, X., Lin, L., Ke, Z., Lu, Z., Tilmes, S., et al. (2023). The role of in‐cloud wet removal in simulating aerosol vertical profiles and cloud radiative forcing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, e2023JD038564.

 

Ke, Z., Liu, X., Wu, M., Shan, Y., & Shi, Y. (2022). Improved Dust Representation and Impacts on Dust Transport and Radiative Effect in CAM5. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(7), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002845.

 

 

Shi, Y., Liu, X., Wu, M., Zhao, X., Ke, Z., & Brown, H. (2022). Relative importance of high-latitude local and long-range-transported dust for Arctic ice-nucleating particles and impacts on Arctic mixed-phase clouds. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(4), 2909–2935. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2909-2022

 

Wu, M., Wang, H., Easter, R. C., Lu, Z., Liu, X., Singh, B., Ma, P., Tang Q., Zaveri, R., Ke, Z., et al. (2022). Development and Evaluation of E3SM‐MOSAIC: Spatial Distributions and Radiative Effects of Nitrate Aerosol. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(11), e2022MS003157.

 

Ke, Z., Wang, Y., Zou, Y., Song, Y., & Liu, Y. (2021). Global Wildfire Plume-Rise Data Set and Parameterizations for Climate Model Applications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(6), e2020JD033085. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033085

 

Liu, Y., Liu, Y., Fu, J., Yang, C.-E., Dong, X., Tian, H., Tao, B., Yang, J., Wang, Y., Zou, Y., Ke Z. (2021). Projection of future wildfire emissions in western USA under climate change: contributions from changes in wildfire, fuel loading and fuel moisture. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF20190

 

 

Shan, Y., Liu, X., Lin, L., Ke, Z., & Lu, Z. (2021). An improved representation of aerosol wet removal by deep convection and impacts on simulated aerosol vertical profiles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(13), e2020JD034173.

 

Wu, M., Liu, X., Yu, H., Wang, H., Shi, Y., Yang, K., Darmenov, A., Wu, C., Wang, Z., Luo T., Feng, Y., Ke, Z. (2020). Understanding Processes that Control Dust Spatial Distributions with Global Climate Models and Satellite Observations (preprint). Aerosols/Atmospheric Modelling/Troposphere/Physics (physical properties and processes). https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-160

 

 

Zhang, A., Wang, Y., Zhang, Y., Weber, R. J., Song, Y., Ke, Z., & Zou, Y. (2019). Modeling global radiative effect of brown carbon: A larger heating source in the tropical free troposphere than black carbon (preprint). Aerosols/Atmospheric Modelling/Troposphere/Physics (physical properties and processes). https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-594

 

Zou, Y., Wang, Y., Ke, Z., Tian, H., Yang, J., & Liu, Y. (2019). Development of a REgion-Specific Ecosystem Feedback Fire (RESFire) Model in the Community Earth System Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11(2), 417–445. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001368

 

 

Ke, Z., & E. Yankovsky, A. (2011). Relative role of subinertial and superinertial modes in the coastal long wave response forced by the landfall of a tropical cyclone. Continental Shelf Research, 31(9), 929–938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2011.02.015

 

Ke, Z., & Yankovsky, A. E. (2010). The Hybrid Kelvin–Edge Wave and Its Role in Tidal Dynamics. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40(12), 2757–2767. https://doi.org/10.1175/2010JPO4430.1

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