Zhong Wu, Ph.D.

Senior Meteorologist

E-mail: zwu@trcsolutions.com
Phone: (978) 656-3667

Ph.D. Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S. Meteorology, Nanjing University, China

Dr. Zhong Wu is a Project Scientist with over twenty-five years experience in meteorological data analyses and modeling. He has applied MM5, CALMET, CALPUFF, CALPGRID, and ISC to many air quality projects both in and outside of the U.S. He recently accomplished automatic real-time forecast systems for air quality monitoring and controls for ALCOA in the U.S. and the nickel smelter plant in Canada using the CALPUFF system and ETA model products. He has developed many software packages to use MM5, ETA, MRF, AVN, and RAMS model outputs as initial fields in the CALMET/CALPUFF system, and as data sources for other software, such as GrADS, NetCDF, and Vis5D. Dr. Wu has actively participated in MM5 modeling activities, including investigations of the sea breeze circulation and fire weather simulations, MM5 workshops, preparing papers, presenting model and research results at conferences. He also implemented a series of UAM model runs on the New York City SIP domain in a Monte Carlo simulation experiment to assess the model's sensitivity to uncertainty in the input variables. Dr. Wu has developed a semi-spectral model for the tropical regions to study air-sea interactions. He has participated in the NASA Pacific Exploratory Mission-West A and B to study the long-range transport of air pollutants in order to estimate the magnitude of the human impact on trace gases and aerosols over the northwestern Pacific Ocean.