Nathanael Wong

Nathanael Wong Zhixin

Postdoctoral Researcher @ NYU

Hello! I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York University, currently working for Professor Sara Shamekh on investigating the shallow-to-deep transition (STDT) of convection using ARM observations, reanalysis datasets and deep learning techniques. I am also particularly interested in understanding the climatology of tropical islands and how they influence the large-scale tropical circulation using hierarchies of model complexity. On the side, I am also involved in developing packages in the Julia Programming Language to streamline my analysis of climate observational datasets and modelling output.

Feel free to reach out to me via email if you have any questions.

Interests

  • Tropical Meteorology and Climate
  • Dynamics of the Maritime Continent
  • High Resolution Climate Modelling
  • Observational Meteorology

Education

  • PhD in Climate Dynamics, 2025

    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard

  • BSc in Environmental Earth Systems Science, 2015

    Nanyang Technological University

Research Interests

Convection and Climate

How does Local Convection couple to the Large-Scale Tropical Dynamics?

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Island Dynamics Modelling

How do Tropical Islands drive Climate and Convection at different scales?

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GNSS in Meteorology

Can GNSS be used to study the Vertical Structure of the Tropics?

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Previous Research

Moderate Sumatran Earthquakes

Modelling and cataloguing moderate earthquakes in Sumatra using SuGAr

Bolaven Plateau Catastraloess

Investigating the sedimentology of the Bolaven Plateau

Isotopes in Convection

Understanding the Vertical Structure of Convection using Heavy-Water Isotopes