DANDAN TAO


Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dWc_O5UAAAAJ
Personal Website: https://taodandan.github.io/
Email: dandantao@nju.edu.cn

Education
 2010 - 2015Ph.D.
Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Pennsylvania State University (PSU), University Park, US
 2006 - 2010B.Sc.
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
Employment
 2025 - presentAssociate Professor, Nanjing University, China
 2021 - 2024Researcher, University of Bergen, Norway
 2018 - 2020Research scientist I, Colorado State University, US
 2015 - 2018Post-doctoral scholar, Pennsylvania State University, US
Research Interests
•Tropical cyclone axisymmetric theories on intensity and structure
•Inner core dynamics of tropical cyclones and its related mesoscale convective processes
•Environmental influence, e.g. vertical wind shear, sea surface temperature and dry air, on the structure and predictability of tropical cyclones
•Large-scale atmospheric circulation impact on extratropical cyclones
•Arctic cyclone genesis mechanisms
Publications
19.Ito, K., Y. Miyamoto, C.-C. Wu, A. Didlake, J. Hlywiak, Y.-H. Huang, T. -K. Lai, L. Pattie, N. Qin, U. Shimada, D. Tao, Y. Yamada, J. A. Zhang, S. Kanada, and D. Herndon, 2025: Recent research and operational tools for improved understanding and diagnosis of tropical cyclone inner core structure. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2025-008.
18.Tao, D., C. Li, R. Davy, S. He, T. Spengler, C. Michel, and A. Rosendahl, 2025: Arctic-Atlantic cyclones: variability in thermodynamic characteristics, large-scale flow, and local impacts. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL111769.
17.Boljka, L., I. Bethke, D. Tao, and C. Li, 2024: Upstream influence of midlatitude jet stream biases in boreal summer. Atmospheric Science Letters, 25, e1272.
16.Rios-Berrios, R., P. Finocchio, J. Alland, X. Chen, M. Fisher, S. Stevenson, and D. Tao, 2023: A review of the Interactions between Tropical Cyclones and Environmental Vertical Wind Shear. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 81, 713–741.
15.Tao, D., R. Nystrom, and M. Bell, 2023: The quasi-linear absolute angular momentum slope of tropical cyclones under rapid intensification. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104583.
14.Chen, X., C. M. Rozoff, R. F. Rogers, K. L. Corbosiero, D. Tao, J.-F. Gu, F. Judt, E. A. Hendricks, Y. Wang, M. M. Bell, D. P. Stern, K. D. Musgrave, J. A. Knaff, and J. Kaplan, 2023: Research advances on internal processes affecting tropical cyclone intensity change from 2018–2022. Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 12, 10-29.
13.Nam, C., M. Bell, and D. Tao, 2023: Bifurcation points for tropical cyclone genesis in sheared and dry environments. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 80, 2239–2259.
12.Casas, E., D. Tao, and M. Bell, 2023: A Simplified Intensity and Size Phase Space for Tropical Cyclone Evolution. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD037089.
11.Tao, D., P.J. van Leeuwen, M. Bell, and Y. Ying, 2022: Dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclone rapid intensification in ensemble simulations of Hurricane Patricia (2015). Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD036079.
10.Tao, D., R. Rotunno, and M. Bell, 2020: Lilly’s Model for Steady-State Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Structure. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77, 3701-3720.
9.Tao, D., M. Bell, R. Rotunno, and P.J. Van Leeuwen, 2020: Why do the maximum intensities in modeled tropical cyclones vary under the same environmental conditions? Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL085980.
8.Tao, D., K. Emanuel, F. Zhang, R. Rotunno, M. Bell, and R.G. Nystrom, 2019: Evaluation of the assumptions in the steady-state tropical cyclone self-stratified outflow using three-dimensional convection-allowing simulations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 76, 2995-3009.
7.Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2019: Evolution of dynamic and thermodynamic structures before and during rapid intensification of tropical cyclones: sensitivity to vertical wind shear. Monthly Weather Review, 147, 1171-1191.
6.Liu, S., D. Tao, K. Zhao, M. Minamide, and F. Zhang, 2018: Dynamics and Predictability of Rapid Intensification of Super Typhoon Usagi (2013). Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 123, 7462-7481.
5.Cohen, Y., N. Harnik, E. Heifetz, D. S. Nolan, D. Tao, and F. Zhang, 2017: On the Violation of Gradient Wind Balance at the top of Tropical Cyclones. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 8017-8026.
4.Zhang, F., D. Tao, Y. Q. Sun, and J. D. Kepert, 2017: Dynamics and predictability of secondary eyewall formation in sheared tropical cyclones. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, 89-112.
3.Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2015: Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on the Predictability of Tropical Cyclones: Practical versus Intrinsic Limit. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 7, 1534-1553.
2.Tao, D., and F. Zhang, 2014: Effect of environmental shear, sea-surface temperature and ambient moisture on the formation and predictability of tropical cyclones: an ensemble-mean perspective.  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 6, 384-404.
1.Zhang, F., and D. Tao, 2013: Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on the Predictability of Tropical Cyclones. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 70, 975-983.
Book chapters
1.Zhang, F., C. Melhauser, D. Tao, Y. Q. Sun, E. B. Munsell, Y. Weng and J. A. Sippel, 2016:  Predictability of Severe Weather and Tropical Cyclones at the Mesoscales. Dynamics and Predictability of Large-scale, High-impact Weather and Climate Events (eds, J. Li, R. Swinbank, H. Volkert and R. Grotjahn). Cambridge University Press.
Teaching and Training Experience
 2023 fall -
  2024 spring
Pedagogical training
MNPED660 Collegial Teaching and Learning in STEM Education, University of Bergen
 2021 fallCo-lecturer
GEOF213 Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean, Bachelor level, GFI, University of Bergen
 2017 springCo-lecturer
METEO521 Dynamic Meteorology, Ph.D. level, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, PSU
 2011 fallTeaching Assistant
METEO526 Numerical Weather Prediction, Ph.D. level, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, PSU
Professional Service
 2020 - presentAssociate Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
 2021 - presentReviewer of proposals for National Science Foundation (US)
 2012 - presentReviewer of research articles for Journal of Atmospheric Science, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Journal of Climate, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Journal of Meteorological Research, Atmospheric Research, Weather and Climate Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
2021/2022/2024Co-chair of the session ‘Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change in Moderate Vertical Wind Shear: Mechanisms, Observations, and Predictability’ in the AMS’s 34th / 35th / 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
 2021Committee member for Max A. Eaton Student Prize in the 34th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, US
 2016Coordinator of the 7th EnKF Data Assimilation workshop, State College, Pennsylvania, US
 2016Coordinator of Symposium on Advanced Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification in BigData Research for Weather, Climate and Earth System Monitoring and Prediction, State College, Pennsylvania, US
 2016Coordinator of 2016 SPARC Gravity Wave Symposium, State College, Pennsylvania, US
Research Highlights
 2016Earth & Space Science News: Wind Shear Measures Help Predict Tropical Cyclones (https://eos.org/research-spotlights/wind-shear-measures-help-predict-tropical-cyclones)


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