Yongqiang Sun
Associate Professor
Email: qiangsun@nju.edu.cn
Office: C508
Education
• Ph.D. in Meteorology – 2017 – The Pennsylvania State University
• M.Sc. in Meteorology – 2012 – Peking University
• B.Sc. in Atmospheric Science – 2009 – Peking University
Employment
Associate Professor, Nanjing University, 2026-
Research Scientist, University of Chicago, 2024-2026
Research Scientist, Rice University, 2021-2023
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton/GFDL, 2017-2021
Research Interests
Data-driven Weather Models,
Extreme Weather Events,
Mesoscale Dynamics,
Numerical Weather Prediction,
Gray Swans,
Selected Publications
| Sun Y.Q.*, P. Hassanzadeh*, M. Zand, A. Chattopadhyay, J. Weare, & D.S. Abbot, 2025: Can AI weather models predict out-of-distribution gray swan tropical cyclones? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (21) e2420914122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420914122 (2025). |
| Sun Y.Q., Hamid A. Pahlavan, Ashesh Chattopadhyay, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Sandro W. Lubis, M. Joan Alexander, Edwin Gerber, Aditi Sheshadri, Yifei Guan (2023). Data Imbalance, Uncertainty Quantification, and Transfer Learning in Data-driven Parameterizations: Lessons from the Emulation of Gravity Wave Momentum Transport in WACCM. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16, e2023MS004145. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004145 |
| Sun Y.Q., Hassanzadeh, P., Alexander, M. J., & Kruse, C. G. (2023). Quantifying 3D Gravity Wave Drag in a Library of Tropical Convection-Permitting Simulations for Data-Driven Parameterizations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15(5), e2022MS003585. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003585 |
| Ruppert, J. H., Jr., S. E. Koch, X. Chen, Y. Du, A. Seimon, Y.Q. Sun, J. Wei, and L. F. Bosart, 2022: Mesoscale gravity waves and midlatitude weather: A tribute to Fuqing Zhang, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0005.1 |
| Sun Y.Q.*, F. Zhang, 2020: A New Theoretical Framework for Understanding Multiscale Atmospheric Predictability. J. Atoms. Sci.77, 2297–2309. |
| Zhang, F., Y.Q. Sun*, L. Magnusson, R. Buizza, S.J, Lin, J.H. Chen, K. Emanuel, 2019: What is the Predictability Limit of Midlatitude Weather?. J. Atmos. Sci., 76, 1077-1091. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-18-0269.1, (***Featured in the Science news article: A 2-week weather forecast may be as good as it gets. Science, 363, 801, doi:10.1126/science.363.6429.801) |
| Sun, Y.Q., R. Rotunno, and F. Zhang, 2017: Contributions of moist convection and internal gravity waves to building the atmospheric "-5/3" kinetic energy spectra, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74, 185-201 |
| Sun, Y.Q., and F. Zhang, 2016: Intrinsic versus practical limits of atmospheric predictability and the significance of the butterfly effect. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 73, 1419-1438 |
| Sun, Y.Q., Y. Jiang, B. Tan and F. Zhang, 2013: The Governing Dynamics of the Secondary Eyewall Formation of Typhoon Sinlaku (2008). Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 3818-3837. |
Ph.D position(s) available, feel free to contact me😀