Global climate change, Large-scale ocean circulation, Paleoclimate simulation

2014.09-2020.01          Ph.D. in Climatology (Physical Oceanography)   Peking University  

2018.01-2019.08          Visiting scholar   The Ohio State University                                     

2017.09-2018.01          Visiting scholar   University of Wisconsin-Madison   

2010.09-2014.07          B.S. in Atmospheric Science   Ocean University of China                              

Work experiences

2023.10-Present             Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS          Associate Professor

2020.07 to 2022.10             POL, Ocean University of China                     Postdoc

Services

2021.07-Present,  Reviewer for: Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Science Advances and others

First/Corresponding author:

10. Zhu, C.*, Cheng, L., Liu, Z., & Clark, P. U. (2025). Increase in deglacial ocean heat content linked to contrasts in extratropical warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115538. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115538

9. Zhu, C., Sanchez, S., Liu, Z.*, Clark, P.U.*, He, C., Wan, L., Lu, J., Zhu, C., Li, L., Zhang, S., Cheng, L. (2024). Enhanced ocean heat storage efficiency during the last deglaciation. Science Advances, 10,eadp5156. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp5156

8. Zhu, C.* and Cheng, L.* (2024). Sensitivity of AMOC fingerprints under future anthropogenic warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107170. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107170

7. Zhu, C.*, Liu, Z.*, Zhang, S.*, Wu, L. (2023). Likely accelerated weakening of Atlantic Overturning Circulation Emerges in Optimal Salinity Fingerprint. Nature Communications, 14, 1245. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36288-4

6. Zhu, C.* (2023). Deglacial change of Antarctic Bottom Water in transient simulations. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 16, 100333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aosl.2023.100333

5. Zhu, C.*, Zhang, J.*, Liu, Z. et al. (2022). Antarctic warming during Heinrich Stadial 1 in a transient isotope-enabled deglacial simulation. Journal of Climate, 35:3753-3765. http://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0094.1

4. Zhu, C.*, Liu, Z.*, Zhang, S., Wu, L. (2021). Global oceanic overturning circulation forced by the competition between greenhouse gases and continental ice sheets during the last deglaciation. Journal of Climate, 34(18):7555-7570. http://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0125.1

3. Zhu, C. and Liu, Z.* (2020). Weakening Atlantic overturning circulation causes South Atlantic salinity pileup. Nature Climate Change, 10: 998-1003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0897-7

2. Zhu, C.*, Liu, Z. & Gu, S. (2018). Model bias for South Atlantic Antarctic intermediate water in CMIP5. Climate Dynamics, 50: 3613-3624. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-017-3828-1

1. 朱晨玉，黄菲*，石运昊，党振中，张玉轩 (2014). 中国近50年寒潮冷空气的时空特征及其与北极海冰的关系. 中国海洋大学学报, 44(12):12-20. http://doi.org/10.16441/j.cnki.hdxb.2014.12.002

Co-author:

19. Clark, P. U.*, Shakun, J. D., Rosenthal, Y., Pollard, D., Hostetler, S. W., Köhler, P., Bartlein, P. J., Gregory, J. M., Zhu, C., Schrag, D. P., Liu, Z., Pisias, N. G. (2025). Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years. Science. 390,eadv8389. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv8389

18. Wan, L., Li, D.*, Zhu, C. et al. (2025). Antarctic circumpolar current evolution and its relation to southern hemisphere westerly winds during the holocene. Clim. Dyn. 63, 331.

17. Lu, W., Oppo, D.W., Liu, Z., Zhu, C., et al. Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation. Nat. Geosci. 18, 787–792 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01751-y

16. Clark, P. U.*, Shakun, J. D., Rosenthal, Y., Zhu, C., Bartlein, P. J., Gregory, J. M., Köhler, P., Liu, Z., and Schrag, D. P. (2025). Mean ocean temperature change and decomposition of the benthic δ¹⁸O record over the past 4.5 million years. Clim. Past, 21, 973–1000. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-973-2025.

15. Zhu, C.*, Zhang, J.*, Zhu, C., Gai, C., &Wang, C. (2025). Changes of poleward oceanic heat and salt transport associated with the Central Eurasian seaway during the early Paleogene. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115476. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115476.

14. Zheng, H., Cheng, L.*, Li, F., Pan, Y., & Zhu, C. (2024). An observation-based estimate of Atlantic meridional freshwater transport. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110021.

13. Wang, K., Zhang, S.*, Jin, Y., Zhu, C., Song, Z., Gao, Y., & Yang, G. (2024). Improved atmosphere-ocean coupled simulation by parameterizing sub-diurnal scale air-sea interactions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16,e2023MS003903.

12. Wen, Q., Zhu, C., Chen, D., Liu, M., Ning, L., Yan, M., Liu, J.*, Liu, Z.* (2023).Separating direct heat flux forcing and freshwater feedback on AMOC change under global warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL105478.

11. Zhu, C.*, Zhang, Z.*, Zhu, C., & Zhang, J. (2023). Potential role of mid-latitude seaway on early Paleogene Atlantic overturning circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL102794.

10. Lv, L., Zhang, S.*, …Zhu, C., … (2023). An Improved Coupled Data Assimilation System with a CGCM Using Multi-Timescale High Efficiency EnOI-Like Filtering. Journal of Climate. 36(17): 6045-6067.

9. Yang, G., Li, M.*, Zhang, S.*, Jin, Y., Zhu, C., Wang, Z., Yu, X., Wang, H., and Chen, Y. (2023). An Assessment of the Simulation of East-Asia Precipitation in the High-Resolution Community Earth System Model. Climate Dynamics, 61: 745-763.

8. Du, X.*, Russell, J. M., Liu, Z., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Oppo, D. W., Mohtadi, M., Zhu, C., Galy, V. V., Schefuß, E.,Yan, Y., Rosenthal, Y., Dubois, N., Arbuszewski, J., and Gao, Y. (2023). North Atlantic cooling triggered a zonal mode over the Indian Ocean during Heinrich Stadial 1. Science Advances, 9, eadd490.

7. He, C., Liu, Z.*, Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Brady, E. C., Zhu, C., Tomas, R., Clark, P. U., Zhu, J., Jahn, A., Gu, S., Zhang,J., Nusbaumer, J., Noone, D., Cheng, H., Wang, Y., Yan, M. & Bao, Y. (2021). Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation. Science Advances, 7(4): eabe2611.

6. He, C., Liu, Z.*, Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Brady, E. C., Zhu, C., Tomas, R., Buizert, C., Severinghaus, I. P. (2021). Abrupt Heinrich Stadial 1 cooling missing in Greenland oxygen isotopes. Science Advances, 7(25): eabh1007.

5. He, C.*, Liu, Z., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Brady, E. C., Zhu, C., Tomas, R., Gu, S., Han, J., Jin, Y. (2021). Deglacial variability of South China hydroclimate heavily contributed by autumn rainfall. Nature Communications, 12, 5875.

4. Wen, Q.*, Zhu, C., Han, Z., Liu, Z., & Yang, H.* (2021). Can the topography of Tibetan Plateau affect the Antarctic bottom water? Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092448.

3. Li, L. *, Liu, Z. *, Zhu, C., He, C., Otto-Bliesner, B. L. (2021). Shallowing Glacial Antarctic Intermediate Water by Changes in Sea Ice and Hydrological Cycle. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094317.

2. Du, X.*, Russell, J. M., Liu, Z., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Gao, Y., Zhu, C., Oppo, D. W., Mohtadi, M., Yan, Y., Galy, V. V., He, C. (2021). Deglacial trends in Indo-Pacific warm pool hydroclimate in an isotope-enabled Earth system model and implications for isotope-based paleoclimate reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 270:107188.

1. He, C.*, Liu, Z.*, Zhu, J., Zhang, J., Gu, S., Otto-Bliesner, B. L., Brady, E., Zhu, C., Jin, Y. & Sun, J. (2020). North Atlantic subsurface temperature response controlled by effective freshwater input in“Heinrich”events. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 539: 116247.

2017                        Outstanding Student                   Peking University

2012, 2017              China National Scholarship          MOE of China