Liwei Jia

Liwei Jia
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
201 Forrestal Road, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Phone: (301) 661-8426; Liwei.Jia@noaa.gov
Education
Ph.D. in Climate Dynamics, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences,
George Mason University/COLA, Fairfax, VA, USA, 2011
Dissertation: Robust Multi-Year Predictability on Continental Scales
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Timothy DelSole
M.S. in Atmospheric Science, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences/National Climate Center,
Beijing, China, 2006
B.S. in Atmospheric Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, 2002
Professional Experience
Associate Research Scholar, November 2014 - present
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, March 2013 - October 2014
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (Visiting Scientist Programs)/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, June 2011 - February 2013
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, USA
Graduate Research Assistant, September 2006 - May 2011
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Teaching Assistant, August 2010
Targeted Training Activity in “Statistical Methods in Seasonal Prediction”, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Graduate Research Assistant, September 2003 - July 2006
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences and National Climate Center of China, Beijing, China
Weather Forecaster, Assistant Engineer, July 2002 - August 2003
Harbin Meteorological Bureau, Harbin, China
Publications
1. Xiaosong Yang, Gabriel Vecchi, Rich G. Gudgel, Thomas L. Delworth, Shaoqing Zhang, Anthony
Rosati, Liwei Jia and Coauthors, 2014: Seasonal Predictability of Extratropical Storm Tracks in
GFDL’s High-resolution Climate Prediction Model, Journal of Climate, submitted.
2. Timothy DelSole, Michael K. Tippett and Liwei Jia, 2014: Multi-year Prediction and Predictability,
World Scientific Series on Weather and Climate, submitted.
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3. Liwei Jia, Xiaosong Yang, Gabriel Vecchi and Coauthors, 2014: Improved Seasonal Prediction of Temperature and Precipitation over Land in a High-resolution GFDL Climate Model, Journal of Climate,
in revision.
4. Gabriel A. Vecchi, Tom Delworth, Rich Gudgel, Sarah Kapnick, Anthony Rosati, Andrew Wittenberg,
Fanrong Zeng, Whit Anderson, Venkatramani Balaji, Keith Dixon, Liwei Jia and Coauthors, 2014:
On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity, Journal of Climate, accepted.
5. Liwei Jia, Timothy DelSole and Michael K. Tippett, 2014: Can Optimal Projection Improve Dynamical Model Forecasts?, Journal of Climate, 27, 2643-2655.
6. Timothy DelSole, Liwei Jia and Michael K. Tippett, 2013: Scale-selective Ridge Regression for Multimodel Forecasting, Journal of Climate, 26, 7957-7965..
7. Timothy DelSole, Liwei Jia and Michael K. Tippett, 2013: Decadal Prediction of Observed and
Simulated Sea Surface Temperatures, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 2773-2778.
8. Liwei Jia, Timothy DelSole, 2012: Multi-year Predictability of Temperature and Precipitation Identified in Climate Models, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, doi:10.1029/2012GL052778.
9. Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole, 2012: Optimal Determination of Time-Varying Climate Change
Signals, Journal of Climate, 25, 7122-7137.
10. Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole, 2011: The Limits of Detecting Forced Responses on Seasonal
and Continental Scales. Extended Summary, 36th NOAA Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Fort Worth, TX, NOAA‘s National Weather Service, 153-157, [Available online at
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ost/climate/STIP/36CDPW/36cdpw-ljia.pdf]
11. Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole, 2011: Diagnosis of Multiyear Predictability on Continental Scales,
Journal of Climate, 24, 5108-5124.
12. Liwei Jia, Weijing Li, Deliang Chen and Xiaocun An, 2006: A Monthly Atmospheric Circulation
Classification and Its Relationship with Climate in Harbin, Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 64, 236-245.
13. Liwei Jia and Weijing Li, 2006: Relationship Between Precipitation in Northeast China and the
Atmospheric Circulation, Journal of Applied Meteorological Science, 17, 557-566. (in Chinese)
Presentations
Liwei Jia, Xiaosong Yang, Gabriel Vecchi and Coauthors: “Improved Seasonal Prediction of Temperature and Precipitation over Land in a High-resolution GFDL Climate Model”, International Conference
on Subseasonal to seasonal Prediction, College Park, MD, February 2014. (poster)
Liwei Jia: “Climate Predictability and Predictions on Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales”, GFDL, Princeton, NJ, November 2013.
Liwei Jia, Timothy DelSole: “Decadal Climate Predictability and Predictions”, Invited talk, Ocean
University of China, Qingdao, China, September 2012.
Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole: “Decadal Climate Predictability and Predictions”, Invited talk, National
Climate Center of China, Beijing, China, September 2012.
Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole: “Multi-year Predictability of Temperature and Precipitation over
Land”, NTU International Science Conference on Climate Change: Multidecadal and Beyond, Taipei,
Taiwan, September 2012.
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Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole: “Robust Multiyear Predictability on Continental Scales”, WCRP Open
Science Conference, Denver, CO, October 2011. (Poster)
Timothy DelSole, Xiaosong Yang, Michael Tippett and Liwei Jia: “Is Unequal Weighting Significantly
Better than Equal Weighting for Multi-Model Forecasting?”, NOAA’s 36th Climate Diagnostics and
Prediction Workshop, Fort Worth, TX, October 2011.
Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole: “The Limits of Detecting Forced Responses on Seasonal and Continental
Scales”, NOAA’s 36th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, Fort Worth, TX, October 2011.
Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole: “The Limits of Detecting Forced Responses on Seasonal and Continental Scales”, Climate and Earth Systen Modeling Principal Investigators’ Meeting, Washington DC,
September 2011. (Poster)
Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole: “Detection of Multi-Year Predictability on Regional Scales”, Conference
on Decadal Predictability, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August 2010.
Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole: “Optimal Detection of Multi-Year Predictability over Land”, US-Korea
Workshop on Dynamical Seasonal Prediction, Busan, Korea, June 2010.
Liwei Jia and Timothy DelSole: “Optimal Detection of Multi-Year Predictability over Global Land”,
Department of Energy (DOE) Integrated Climate Change Modeling Science Team Meeting, Gaithersburg,
MD, March 2010. (Poster)
Professional Development
Bias Corrections in Subseasonal to Interannual Predictions, Climate Prediction Task Force Virtual Workshop, September 30 - October 2, 2014.
U.S. CLIVAR Hurricane Workshop,GFDL, NJ, June 5 - 7, 2013.
GFDL Science Symposium - “Frontiers in Climate and Earth System Modeling: Advancing the Science”,
GFDL, NJ, May 20, 2013.
Philander Symposium, Princeton University, NJ, September 6 - 7, 2012.
Targeted Training Activity: Statistical Methods in Seasonal Prediction, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, August
2010.
NOAA CFSv2 Evaluation Workshop, Riverdale, MD, April 30 - May 1, 2012
Advanced Study Program (ASP) summer colloquium on “Forecast Verification in the Atmospheric Sciences and Beyond”. NCAR, Boulder, CO, June 2010.
2010 APEC Climate Symposium on “Climate Prediction and Applications”. Busan, Korea, June 2010.
Atmosphere-Ocean Science Days: a conference for graduate students, University of Maryland, College
Park, MD, May 2010.
Professional Service
Reviewed manuscripts for: Journal of Climate; Climate Dynamics; Geophysical Research Letters.
Served as a reviewer for the U.S. Department of Energy Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program
Panel. Reviewed 8 project proposals.
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Professional Memberships
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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