About

I am a third-year PhD candidate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.

I studies about ice sheet-climate interactions, particularly the surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and am interested in improving ice sheet modeling and our understanding about ice sheet processes.

Curriculum vitae (updated January 2024)

Education

PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Colorado Boulder, in progress
Advisor: Dr. Aneesh Subramanian

MS in Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Climate

Stockholm University, 2020
Advisors: Dr. Inga Koszalka, Dr. Johan Nilsson

BS in Resources and Environmental Sciences

Beijing Normal University, 2018
Advisor: Dr. Xiaoyan Li

Publications

Schneider, D. P., Yin, Z., O’Connor, G. K., Blanchard-Wrigglesworth, E., Cast, Z. I., Espinosa, Z. I. (in review): Increasing Antarctic snowfall mitigates sea level rise less than projected due to meltwater influence on sea surface temperatures, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Yin, Z., Herrington, A. R., Datta, R. T., Subramanian, A., Lenaerts, J. T. M., and Gettelman, A. (in review): Improved Understanding of Multicentury Greenland Ice Sheet Response to Strong Warming in the Coupled CESM2-CISM2 with Regional Grid Refinement, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES).

Datta, R. T., Herrington, A., Lenaerts, J. T. M., Schneider, D. P., Trusel, L., Yin, Z., and Dunmire, D. (2023): Evaluating the impact of enhanced horizontal resolution over the Antarctic domain using a variable-resolution Earth system model, The Cryosphere. PDF