Welcome to my personal webpage! I am interested in the dynamics, predictability, and multiscale interactions of weather and climate systems, with a primary focus on tropical cyclones. I received my PhD from the Pennsylvania State University, where I worked with Prof. Fuqing Zhang on the dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclones under different environmental conditions. I then continued this line of research as a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State and later as a research scientist at Colorado State University, working with Prof. Michael Bell and Prof. Peter Jan van Leeuwen on tropical cyclone ensemble prediction, rapid intensification, and vortex structure. I subsequently joined the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, where I worked with Prof. Camille Li on atmospheric jet-stream variability and the thermodynamic characteristics of Arctic cyclones. I am now an Associate Professor in the School of Atmospheric Sciences at Nanjing University. My current research focuses on tropical cyclone wind structure, rapid intensification, and the physical connections among storm intensity, size, structure, and environmental conditions.
Contact me by email: ddantao@gmail.com
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