Science - Water and Carbon Cycles: People: Xianan Jiang

Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology (Nov. 2006 - present)
- Research Associate in Science Section
Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (Oct. 2004 - Oct. 2006)
- Visiting Scientist
International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa (May 2004 - Oct. 2004)
- Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Aug. 1999 - May 2004)
- Graduate Research Assistant
Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China (Jul. 1996-Aug. 1999)
- Assistant Researcher in the Division of Numerical Weather Prediction

Jiang, X., D. E. Waliser, M. Wheeler, C. Jones, M.-I. Lee, and S. Schubert, 2007: Assessing the skill of an all-season statistical forecast model for the Madden-Julian Oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev.,in press.
Jiang, X., and N.-C. Lau, 2007: Intraseasonal teleconnection between the North American and western North Pacific Monsoons with a 20-day time scale. J. Climate, in press.
Jiang, X., N.-C. Lau, I. M. Held and J. J. Ploshay, 2007: Mechanisms of the Great-Plains low-level jet as simulated in an AGCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 532-547.
Jiang, X., N.-C. Lau, and S. A. Klein, 2006: Role of the eastward propagating convective episodes on the diurnal cycle and seasonal mean of the summertime rainfall over the U.S. Great-Plains. Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/ 2006GL027022.
Klein, S. A., X. Jiang, J. Boyle, S. Malyshev and S. Xie, 2006: Diagnosis of the summertime warm and dry bias over the U. S. Southern Great Plains in the GFDL climate model using a weather forecasting approach. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18805, doi:10.1029/ 2006GL027567.
Jiang, X. and T. Li, 2005: Reinitiation of the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation in the tropical Indian Ocean. J. Climate, 18, 3777-3795.
Jiang, X. 2004: The boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation over the South Asian monsoon region. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 153pp.
Jiang, X., T. Li and B. Wang, 2004: Structures and mechanisms of the northward propagating boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation. J. Climate, 17, 1022-1039.
Gu, J., X. Jiang, H. Yin, and Y. Xu, 2000: The operational prediction results of the East China tropical cyclone model and improvement of the model. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 16, 55-61 (in Chinese with English abstract).
Gu, J., H. Yin, Y. Xu, X. Jiang, and X. Liang, 2000: The improvement and application of MM5 in numerical prediction of Shanghai Regional Meteorological Center. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 11, 189-198 (in Chinese with English abstract).
Jiang, X. and Y. Zhu, 1998: A numerical study on factors affecting unusual motion of TC 9414 (Doug). Journal of Applied Meteorology, 9, 36-47 (in Chinese with English abstract).
Zhang, Q., X. Jiang and J. He, 1996: Air-sea coupling modes of tropical Pacific SSTA and wind stress fields. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 2 (in English).
Zhang, Q., X. Jiang and J. He, 1996: Air-sea coupling modes of tropical Pacific SSTA and wind stress fields. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 1, (in Chinese with English abstract).