Seminar
Title: Rapid Urbanization and Heavy Rainfall in East China
Speaker: Dr. Da-Lin Zhang
Time: Monday, May 22nd
Recording
Brief Bio
Prof. Da-Lin Zhang received his undergraduate education from the University of Science and Technology of China during 1973-1976. He came to the USA in 1980,
and earned his M.S. in 1981 and Ph.D. in 1985, both from the Pennsylvania State University. After spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and one year as a research associate at the University of Toronto, he took a faculty position in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University in 1989. He joined the University of Maryland in September 1996. Prof. Zhang works on the modeling and understanding of heavy-rain-producing mesoscale convective storms, tropical cyclones, and urban-induced circulations. His research interests also include the development and improvement of the planetary boundary layer and cumulus parameterizations as well as cloud representations in mesoscale numerical models. In 1991, he received the prestigious Clarence Meisinger award of the AMS, and in 2006, he was elected Fellow of the AMS. He has also served as President of the COAA during 2002-2003.
