Rong Zhang is a Chinese-American physicist and climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
She was elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2018 and appointed their Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer in 2020.
[1] Zhang joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral fellow in the program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS).
[4] Zhang showed that the sea in the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than 99% of the global ocean,[5] which results in changes in the distribution and species composition.
[5] She showed that warming in the Northwest Atlantic increases salinity because of a change in water mass distribution (the Labrador Current retreats and the Gulf Stream shifts northerly).