Richard Zhuang

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hz542 at uw.edu

Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science
University of Washington

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Hi there!

My name is Haoyu (Richard) Zhuang, a second-year graduate student studying tropical weather at the University of Washington under the advisory of Shuyi Chen.

I am broadly interested in tropical weather and climate, weather-climate continuum, and machine learning.

I am currently working on the multiscale variability of the Atlantic ITCZ.

Education

  • Ph.D. Student at the University of Washington, 2023 - current
    Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science
    Advisor: Shuyi Chen

  • B.S. at Cornell University, 2019 - 2023
    Double major in Atmospheric Science and Information Science
    Advisors: Arthur DeGaetano, Flavio Lehner

Publications

  1. Zhuang, H., Lehner, F., & DeGaetano, A. T. (2024). Improved Diagnosis of Precipitation Type with LightGBM Machine Learning. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 63, 437–453, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-23-0117.1.
  2. Zhuang, H., DeGaetano, A. T., & Lehner, F. (2024). Internal climate variability obscures future freezing rain changes despite global warming trend. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL111741. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111741.

Presentations

  1. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2023 Dec, "Improved Prediction of Precipitation Type With Random Forest", eLightning.
  2. AGU Fall Meeting, D.C., USA, 2024 Dec, "Internal Variability Obscures Future Freezing Rain Changes Despite Clear Temperature Trend", Oral.
  3. AGU Fall Meeting, D.C., USA, 2024 Dec, "Multiscale Variability of Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone and Its Interaction with Easterly Waves", Poster.