Pengfei Zhang
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Recent Publications
Regime shifts of AMOC-sea surface temperature relationship
Fan, Y., Chan, D., Danabasoglu, G., Kim, W. M., Zhang, P. & Li, L., Dec 2026, In: Nature communications. 17, 1, 9416.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Arctic sea ice decline, increasing successive sudden stratospheric warmings and cold northern hemisphere continents
Rao, J., Garfinkel, C. I., Cohen, J., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Ren, R. & Zhang, P., Dec 2026, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 7, 1, 601.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Recent equatorward shift of the summer North Atlantic jet dominated by internal climate variability
Sheng, C., Methven, J., Dong, B., He, B., Wu, G., Zhang, P. & Liu, Y., Jul 10 2026, In: Science Advances. 12, 28, p. 1-10 10 p., eaee8136.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Subpolar North Atlantic cooling reinforced by colder, drier atmosphere with a weakening Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Fan, Y., Chan, D., Clothiaux, E. E., Zhang, P. & Li, L., Jun 6 2025, In: Science Advances. 11, 23, eads1624.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Unraveling Arctic Sea Ice Response to Atmospheric Rivers—Insights From Sea Ice Modeling
Zhang, P., Taylor, P. C., Webster, M., Bailey, D. A., Ding, Q. & Li, L., Apr 28 2025, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 52, 8, e2025GL115152.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Disagreement on the North Atlantic Cold Blob Formation Mechanisms among Climate Models
Fan, Y., Chan, D., Zhang, P. & Li, L., Aug 2024, In: Journal of Climate. 37, 16, p. 4061-4078 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Contrasting physical mechanisms linking stratospheric polar vortex stretching events to cold Eurasia between autumn and late winter
Zou, C., Zhang, R., Zhang, P., Wang, L. & Zhang, R., Mar 2024, In: Climate Dynamics. 62, 3, p. 2399-2417 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Extreme stratospheric wave activity as harbingers of cold events over North America
Ding, X., Chen, G., Zhang, P., Domeisen, D. I. V. & Orbe, C., Dec 2023, In: Communications Earth and Environment. 4, 1, 187.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
North Atlantic Oscillation contributes to the subpolar North Atlantic cooling in the past century
Fan, Y., Liu, W., Zhang, P., Chen, R. & Li, L., Dec 2023, In: Climate Dynamics. 61, 11-12, p. 5199-5215 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
More frequent atmospheric rivers slow the seasonal recovery of Arctic sea ice
Zhang, P., Chen, G., Ting, M., Ruby Leung, L., Guan, B. & Li, L., Mar 2023, In: Nature Climate Change. 13, 3, p. 266-273 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Diverse Eurasian Temperature Responses to Arctic Sea Ice Loss in Models due to Varying Balance between Dynamic Cooling and Thermodynamic Warming
Zheng, C., Wu, Y., Ting, M., Screen, J. A. & Zhang, P., Dec 15 2023, In: Journal of Climate. 36, 24, p. 8347-8364 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Distinct North American Cooling Signatures Following the Zonally Symmetric and Asymmetric Modes of Winter Stratospheric Variability
Ding, X., Chen, G., Sun, L. & Zhang, P., Mar 28 2022, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 49, 6, e2021GL096076.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Roles of Atmospheric Variability and Arctic Sea Ice in the Asymmetric Arctic–Eurasia Temperature Connection on Subseasonal Time Scale
Nie, Y., Ren, H. L., Zhang, Y. & Zhang, P., Dec 1 2022, In: Journal of Climate. 35, 23, p. 3975-3994 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Transient Behavior of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone Associated With Eastward Eddy Shedding
Wang, X., Randel, W., Pan, L., Wu, Y. & Zhang, P., Mar 27 2022, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 127, 6, e2021JD036090.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Quantifying the mechanisms of atmospheric circulation response to greenhouse gas increases in a forcing–feedback framework
Zhang, P., Chen, G. & Ming, Y., Sep 1 2021, In: Journal of Climate. 34, 17, p. 7005-7022 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
