Education
Research Interest
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Climate dynamics
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Tropical meteorology
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Tropical intraseasonal oscillation
and monsoon variability
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Large-scale atmosphere-ocean
interaction
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Atmospheric GCM and coupled
GCM modeling
Research Experience
Assistant
researcher, Joint Institute for Regional
Earth System Science and Engineering,
University of California, Los Angeles, 2008-present
Postdoctoral scholar,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
California Institute of Technology,
2006-2008
Visiting
scientist, Program in Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences,
Princeton University,
2004-2006
Graduate research assistant and
postdoctoral fellow,
Department of Meteorology
and
International Pacific
Research Center,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1999-2004
Assistant researcher,
Shanghai Typhoon Institute,
Shanghai, China, 1996-1999
Awards
Visiting Scientist
Fellowship, AOS Program, Princeton University, October 2004.
Publications
- Jiang, X.,
D. E. Waliser, J.-L Li, and C. Woods, 2010: Vertical structures
of cloud water associated with the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation
based on CloudSat observations and ERA-Interim reanalysis. Climate Dynamics,
under review.
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Wang, S.-Y., L. E. Hipps, R. R. Gillies, X. Jiang, and A. L. Moller, 2010: Circum-global teleconnection and early summer rainfall in the US intermountain west. Theor. Appl. Climatol.,
doi: 10.1007/s00704-010-0260-4,
in press. (
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X., Duane E. Waliser, William S. Olson, Wei-Kuo
Tao, Tristan S. L'Ecuyer, Jui-Lin Li, Baijun Tian, Yuk L. Yung, Adrian M.
Tompkins, Stephen E. Lang, and Mircea Grecu, 2009: Vertical heating
structures associated with the MJO as characterized by TRMM estimates, ECMWF
Reanalyses and forecasts: A case study during 1998-99 winter. J. Climate,
22, 6001-6020.
(
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X., and D. E. Waliser, 2009: Two dominant
subseasonal variability modes of the eastern Pacific ITCZ, Geophys. Res.
Lett., 36, L04704, doi:10.1029/2008GL036820.
(
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X., and D. E. Waliser, 2008: Northward
propagation of the subseasonal variability over the Eastern Pacific Warm
Pool. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L09814, doi:10.1029/2008GL033723.
(
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X., D. E. Waliser, M. Wheeler, C. Jones, M.-I.
Lee, and S. Schubert, 2008: Assessing the skill of an all-season statistical
forecast model for the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136,
1940-1956. (
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X., and N.-C. Lau, 2008: Intraseasonal
teleconnection between the North American and western North Pacific Monsoons
with a 20-day time scale. J. Climate, 21, 2664–2679.
(
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X., N.-C. Lau, I. M. Held and J. J. Ploshay,
2008: Mechanisms of the Great-Plains low-level jet as simulated in an AGCM.
J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 532-547.
(
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X., N.-C. Lau, and S. A. Klein, 2006: Role of
the eastward propagating convective episodes on the diurnal cycle and
seasonal mean of the summertime rainfall over the U.S. Great-Plains. Geophys.
Res. Lett., 33, L19809, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL027022.
(
pdf
file)
- Klein, S. A., X. Jiang, J. Boyle, S. Malyshev and S.
Xie, 2006: Diagnosis of the summertime warm and dry bias over the U. S.
Southern Great Plains in the GFDL climate model using a weather forecasting
approach. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18805, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL027567.
(
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X. and T. Li, 2005: Reinitiation of the boreal
summer intraseasonal oscillation in the tropical Indian Ocean. J. Climate,
18, 3777-3795.
(
pdf
file)
- Jiang, X., T. Li and B. Wang, 2004: Structures and
mechanisms of the northward propagating boreal summer intraseasonal
oscillation. J. Climate, 17, 1022-1039.
(
pdf
file)
- Gu, J., X. Jiang, H. Yin, and Y. Xu, 2000: The
operational prediction results of the East China tropical cyclone model and
improvement of the model. J. Tropical Meteorology, 16, 55-61 (in Chinese).
- Gu, J., H. Yin, Y. Xu, X. Jiang, and X. Liang, 2000:
The improvement and application of MM5 in numerical prediction of Shanghai
Regional Meteorological Center. J. Applied Meteorology, 11, 189-198 (in
Chinese).
- Jiang, X. and Y. Zhu, 1998: A numerical study on
factors affecting unusual motion of TC 9414 (Doug). J. Applied Meteorology,
9, 36-47 (in Chinese).
- Zhang, Q., X. Jiang, and J. He, 1996: Air-sea
coupling modes of tropical Pacific SSTA and wind stress fields. J. Tropical
Meteorology, 2, 129-136 (in English).
- Zhang, Q., X. Jiang, and J. He, 1996: Air-sea
coupling modes of tropical Pacific SSTA and wind stress fields. J. Tropical
Meteorology, 1, 43-50 (in Chinese).
Note: Downloads of above PDF files
are courtesy of the American
Meteorological Society and
American Geophysical Union.
Manuscripts in Preparation
- Jiang, X., and coauthors, 2010:
Simulation of the intraseasonal
oscillation over the Eastern Pacific ITCZ in climate models,
Climate
Dynamics, in preparation.
Funded Projects
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NOAA/Climate Prediction Program of the Americas (CPPA): "Two
dominant modes of the subseasonal variability of the Eastern
Pacific ITCZ: Connections between extreme events, subseasonal
and interannual variability". PI: Xianan Jiang; Co-PI(I)s: Duane
Waliser, Stephen Lord, Augustin Vintzileos, and Ming Zhao,
08/01/2009-07/31/2012.
- National Science
Foundation/Climate and Large Scale Dynamics Program:
"Collaborative research: Vertical heating structure in
large-scale coupled tropical waves". PI: Xianan Jiang
Co-I: Duane Waliser; 10/01/2009-09/30/2012.
Professional Affiliation
Professional Service
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Peer
reviewer for journals: Journal of Climate, Journal
of the Atmospheric Sciences, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology,
International Journal of Climatology, Geophysical Research Letters, Advances in
Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Dynamics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal
Meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.
- Proposal reviewer for
US NSF,
NOAA.
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