Ning Cao (曹宁), Ph.D.

College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University

Phone: +86-13215697916; E-mail: ncao@gdou.edu.cn

Address: No. 1 Haida Road, Zhanjiang 524088, Guangdong, China

EDUCATION

2006.09-2010.07, B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.

Major: Atmospheric Science

2010.09-2016.06, Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Major: Geophysics

WORK EXPERIENCES

July 2024 - Present, Deputy Director of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University.

March 2024 - Present, Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University.

December 2021 - December 2022, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Visiting Scholar sponsored by the State Scholarship Fund of China Scholarship Council.

July 2016 - February 2024, Lecturer, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• Advanced Atmospheric Physics (2024-present)

• Dynamic Meteorology (2024-present)

• Methods of Mathematical Physics (2017-present)

• Fluid Mechanics (2021-present)

• Agricultural Meteorology (2018-2019)

• Air-Sea Interactions (2018)

• Principle of Meteorological Statistics (2018)

• Fortran Programming Language (2017)

• Emergency Management of Sudden Meteorological Disasters (2017)

  
  

  RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  Research focus

• Ocean and climate change/variability: understanding the multi-centennial climate variability in paleo proxies as well as climate model simulations.

• Paleo climate modelling: performing paleo climate simulations with EC-Earth model.

• Earth’s energy budget: understanding the Earth’s energy flow, ocean heat content (OHC) change and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation variability (AMOC).

  
  

  Scientific Papers

  Corresponding author ( * )

  Published/Accepted:

1. Cao N., Z. Zheng, C.-L. Liu, 2024: The Intensity of Kuroshio Intrusion through the Luzon Strait under the Influence of Super Typhoon Chanthu (2021). Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 2024, 40(2): 237-247. [In Chinese]

2. Jin L, Liu C*, Cao N*, et al. 2024: Tracking the variability of the western Pacific warm pool heat content over 1980–2020. Frontiers in Earth Science 12:1377715.

3. Zhou, H., N. Cao*, L. Yang*, J. Xu, 2024: Multi-Dimensional Impacts of Climate Change on China’s Food Security during 2002-2021. Sustainability. 16(7):2744.

4. Jiang, W., N. Cao*, R. Aze, J. Xu, 2024: Multi-decadal Changes of the Impact of El Niño Events on Tibetan Plateau Summer Precipitation. Journal of Atmospheric Science Research, 7(1), 90–105.

5. Cao, N., Q. Zhang*, K. E. Power, F. Schenk, K. Wyser, and H. Yang, 2023: The role of internal feedbacks in sustaining multi-centennial variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation revealed by EC-Earth3-LR simulations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 621, 118372, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118372

6. Cao, N., Z. Zheng, C.-L. Liu*. Influence of Super Typhoon Chanthu(2021) on Kuroshio invasion of Luzon Strait [In Chinese]. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 2023, accepted.

7. Liu, C.*, R. Zheng, L. Jin, R. Bao*, N. Cao*, X. Liao, Y. Xue, H. Chen, K. Yang and Q. Su. Long-range prediction of the tropical cyclone frequency landfalling in China using thermocline temperature anomalies at different longitude, Frontiers in Earth Science. 2023, In press.

8. Yang K., C. Liu*, J. Cai*, N. Cao*, X. Liao, Q. Su, L. Jin, R. Zheng, Q. Zhang, L. Wang. The north-south shift of the ridge location of the western Pacific subtropical high and its influence on the July precipitation in the Jianghuai region from 1978 to 2021. Frontiers in Earth Science. 2023, 11, 1251294. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1251294

9. Yang, Y., C. Liu*, N. Ou*, N. Cao*, N. Chen, L. Jin, R. Zheng, K. Yang, Q. Su. Moisture Transport and Contribution to the Continental Precipitation. Atmosphere. 2022, 13, 1694. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13101694

10. Liu, C. *, N. Chen, J. Long*, N. Cao*, X. Liao, Y. Yang, N. Ou, L. Jin, R. Zheng, K. Yang, Q. Su. Review of the Observed Energy Flow in the Earth System. Atmosphere. 2022, 13, 1738. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13101738

11. Cao, N., R. Li, Y. Ye, Z. Zheng, C. Liu*. Variations of Ocean Heat Transport through the Luzon Strait Based on Global Ocean Ensemble Reanalysis[In Chinese]. Journal of Guangdong Ocean University, 2022, 42(05):72-81.

12. Liu, C.-L., Y. Yang, X. Liao, N. Cao*, J. Liu, N. Ou, L. Jin, and N. Chen, 2022: Discrepancy and uncertainty in simulated ocean net surface heat fluxes over North Atlantic. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 39, 1941–1955. DOI: 10.1007/s00376-022-1360-7

13. Cao, N., G. Li*, M.-Y. Rong, J.-Y. Yang, F. Xu, 2021: Large future increase in exposure risks of extreme heat over Southern China under warming scenario, Frontiers in Earth Science,9:686865.

14. Liu, C.-L., X.-Q. Liao, J.-L. Qiu, Y.-Z. Yang, X.-L. Feng, R. P. Allan, N. Cao, J.-C. Long, J.-J. Xu, 2020: Observed Variability of Intertropical Convergence Zone over 1998-2018. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10):104011.

15. Cao, N., B.-H. Ren*,2019: Regime shift of global oceanic evaporation in the late 1990s using OAFlux dataset. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 136(3-4):1407-1417.

16. Cao, N., B.-H. Ren*, J.-Q. Zheng,D. Xu, 2016: Evaluation of the surface heat budget over the tropical Indian Ocean in two versions of FGOALS. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 9(5):343-351.

17. Cao, N., B.-H. Ren*, J.-Q. Zheng, 2015: Evaluation of CMIP5 climate models in simulating 1979-2005 oceanic latent heat flux over the Pacific. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 32(12):1603-1616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-015-5016-8.

    
    

    Projects

    2019.11-2024.10: The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program (grant no. 2019QZKK0105): “Study on the Atmospheric Moisture Transport and Data Assimilation in the Key Region of the Asian Water Tower on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau”, Total funding: 73,8000 RMB.

    2023.01-2027.12: National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on Modeling and Application of Complex Climate-Economic Systems (grant no. 72293604), Topic-2: Study on Climate Models Suitable for Comprehensive Assessment of Climate Change, Subtopic-1: Development of Climate Data Processing Methods for Comprehensive Assessment Modeling, Total funding: 25,0000 RMB.

    
    

    Visit/Seminar

    2023.7.4 - 8.29, Guest researcher, International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm (IMI), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;

    2021.7.20 - 8.19, Guest researcher, Hohai University, Nanjing, China;

    2020.12.21 - 2021.1.22, Guest researcher, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.

    
    

    Scientific Presentation

    Oral. FUJIAN, XIAMEN | CHINA | 17-20 MAY 2024. The 9th Youth Forum on Geosciences. Cao, N.*: Theme 1, Quaternary Geology and Global Change, Mechanisms of Multi-centennial Climate Variability and Its Response to Global Warming, https://www.qndxlt.com/presentation/321.html

    Oral. VIENNA | AUSTRIA | 14-19 APRIL 2024. EGU General Assembly 2024. Cao, N., Zhang, Q., and Power, K. (2024): Multi-centennial variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: underlying mechanisms and its response to elevated CO2 levels,,  https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-4605

    Poster. HEFEI, ANHUI | CHINA | 18-20 OCTOBER 2023. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2023. Cao, N., Q. Zhang, K.-E. Power: Investigating the mechanism of multi-centennial climate variability basing on EC-Earth3-LR climate model simulations. https://ccsc.scimeeting.cn/cn/contribute/preview2/17858?abstractid=2649242

    Oral. BERLIN | GERMAN | 11-20 JULY 2023. XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023). Cao, N., Zhang, Q., Wang, Z., Power, K. E., Liu, C. (2023): Potential uncertainties induced by multi-centennial climate variability when estimating equilibrium climate change. https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-1831

    Poster. LEEDS | UNITED KINGDOM | 23–26 AUGUST 2022. The warm Pliocene: Bridging the geological data and modelling communities. Cao, N., Power, K., and Zhang, Q.: Suppressed multi-centennial climate variability in EC-Earth3 high CO2 simulations, The warm Pliocene: Bridging the geological data and modelling communities, GC10-Pliocene-28, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-gc10-pliocene-28

    
    

    Services/Committees

    Expert, Guangdong Science and Technology Consulting Expert Database, September 2024 to present.

    Expert, Communication Review of China Scholarship Council, July 2024 to present.

    Member, Europe’s Geosciences Union (EGU), 2023-present.

    Member, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 2022-present.

    Peer Reviewer for: Climatic Change, Remote Sensing, Journal of Atmospheric Science Research, Analytics, Atmosphere, Sustainability