Zhang Zhengtai, male, PhD, young researcher, master supervisor. In 2021, he received a doctorate degree in global environmental change from Beijing Normal University. He is mainly engaged in research on climate change and its impact on land surface elements. His related research results have been published in journals such as Jounal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.
Research direction:
Land-atmosphere interaction, climate change and its impact on land surface elements
Educational experience:
2016/09-2021/06 Beijing Normal University College Global Change and Earth System Science Global Environmental Change (Undergraduate Direct Ph.D)
2012/09-2016/06 Lanzhou University College of Atmospheric Sciences Atmospheric Science (Bachelor)
Contact：
E-mail: zhangzt@lzu.edu.cn
Representative papers：
1. Zhang Zhengtai, Xiaodan Guan, and Ning Jiang, 2025: Extreme Strong Winds over China: Spatial–Temporal Variations and Driving Factors. Journal of Climate, 38, 2917-2929.
2. Zhang Zhengtai, and Chang-Ai Xu, 2024: Reliability ensemble averaging reduces surface wind speed projection uncertainties in the 21st century over China. Advances in Climate Change Research, 15, 222-229.
3. Zhang Zhengtai, and Kaicun Wang, 2024: Quantify uncertainty in historical simulation and future projection of surface wind speed over global land and ocean. Environmental Research Letters, 19, 054029.
4. Zhang Zhengtai, Wenchao Han, and Tian Xian, 2024: Contributions of changes in atmospheric circulation and thermodynamic factors to trends in spring gale events in northern China from 1973 to 2020. Climatic Change, 177, 88.
5. Zhang Zhengtai, Tian Xian, and Shun Qin, 2024: Synoptic conditions linked to different Eurasian blockings modulate the anomalous surface wind speed over China. Atmospheric Research, 310, 107658.
6. Zhang Zhengtai, and Kaicun Wang, 2023: Homogenization of Observed Surface Wind Speed Based on Geostrophic Wind Theory over China from 1970 to 2017. Journal of Climate, 36, 3667-3679.
7. Zhang Zhengtai, and Kaicun Wang 2021: Quantifying and adjusting the impact of urbanization on the observed surface wind speed over China from 1985 to 2017. Fundamental Research, 1, 785-791.
8. Zhang Zhengtai, and Kaicun Wang, 2021: The Synoptic to Decadal Variability in the Winter Surface Wind Speed Over China by the Weather Regime View. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091994.
9. Zhang Zhengtai, and Kaicun Wang, 2020: Stilling and Recovery of the Surface Wind Speed Based on Observation, Reanalysis, and Geostrophic Wind Theory over China from 1960 to 2017. Journal of Climate, 33, 3989-4008.
10. Zhang Zhengtai, Kaicun Wang, Deliang Chen, Jianping Li, Robert Dickinson, 2019: Increase in Surface Friction Dominates the Observed Surface Wind Speed Decline during 1973–2014 in the Northern Hemisphere Lands. Journal of Climate, 32, 7421-7435.
Research projects hosted or participated in:
[1] The young talent project of Beijing Normal University's College of Global Change and Earth System Science 'Research on China's Surface Wind Speed Homogenization and Its Response to Global Changes' (2017-2018), project leader.
[2] Lanzhou University National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program 'Numerical Experimental Research on the Generation and Development Mechanism of Southwest Vortex' (2014-2015), project leader.
[3] The key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China 'The Gradual Inhomogeneity of China's Land Surface Climate Observation Data' (2020-2024), the backbone of the project.
[4] National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 'Surface Energy Balance and Climate Change' (2016-2020), participated.
[5] Participated in the National Key R&D Program Project 'The Interaction and Regional Performance of Land Surface Natural and Human Elements Driven by Global Change' (2017-2022).
