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Wenxia Zhang

Professor

wenxiazhang@nju.edu.cn
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8614-8070

Education

•	2013-2018: Ph.D. in Meteorology, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
•	2009-2013: B.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.

Employment

•	2025-present: Professor, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University.
•	2022-2025: Associate Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
•	2019-2020: Visiting Scientist, Met Office, UK.
•	2018-2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Research Interests

My research interests include climate variability and change, with a focus on weather and climate extremes, monsoons and water cycle. At the heart of my research is to understand their changes from the past to the future, including detection and attribution, physical mechanisms, improving reliability of future projections and assessing future climate risks.

Selected Publications

Published over 60 research papers (cited by over 3000 times). Selected publications:

1.	Zhang, W., Zhou, T., Wu, P. 2024. Anthropogenic amplification of precipitation variability over the past century. Science 385, 427-432. (ESI Hot Paper)
2.	Zhang, W., Furtado, K., Zhou, T. et al. 2022. Constraining extreme precipitation projections using past precipitation variability. Nature Communications 13, 6319.
3.	Zhang, W., Furtado, K., Wu, P. et al. 2021. Increasing precipitation variability on daily-to-multiyear timescales in a warmer world, *Science Advances* 7(31): eabf8021.(ESI Highly Cited Paper)
4.	Zhang W., T. Zhou, L. Zou, et al. 2018. Reduced exposure to extreme precipitation from 0.5°C less warming in global land monsoon regions. *Nature Communications*, 9, 3153.(ESI Highly Cited Paper)
5.	Zhang W., Zhou T. 2020. Increasing impacts from extreme precipitation on population over China with global warming. *Science Bulletin*, 65, 243-252.(ESI Highly Cited Paper)
6.	Zhang, W., Li, W., Zhu, L. et al. 2020. Anthropogenic influence on 2018 summer persistent heavy rainfall in central western China. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(1).
7.	Zhang, W., Zhou, T., Zhang, L., et al. 2019. Future intensification of the water cycle with an enhanced annual cycle over global land monsoon regions. Journal of Climate, 32(17), 5437-5452.
8.	Zhang, W., Zhou, T. 2019. Significant increases in extreme precipitation and the associations with global warming over the global land monsoon regions. Journal of Climate, 32(24): 8465-8488.
9.	Zhang, W., Clark, R., Zhou, T. et al. 2024. 2023: Weather and Climate Extremes Hitting the Globe with Emerging Features. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 41, 1001–1016.
10.	Zhang, W., Zhou, T., Ye, W. et al. 2025. A Year Marked by Extreme Precipitation and Floods: Weather and Climate Extremes in 2024. Adv. Atmos. Sci.
11.	Zhang, W., T. Zhou, and L. Zhang. 2017. Wetting and greening Tibetan Plateau in early summer in recent decades, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 5808-5822. (Research Highlight by AGU)
12.	Zhang, W., Zhou T. 2021. The Effect of Modeling Strategies on Assessments of Differential Warming Impacts of 0.5°C. Earth's Future, 9, e2020EF001640.

Awards, honors, positions and services