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A little bit about yourself, Tell us why you think you fit the job? Since I graduated from east china normal university with a master degree of meteorology in 2018, I have been working at the Meteorological Bureau as a climate analysis scientist, with a particular focus on the detection and attribution of near-surface wind speed, I have been engaged in scientific research from then on. I've always wanted to work in the wind field because I have a passion for it and I think it has a lot of potential. That's why I focused on near-surface wind speed and got to revealed the changes in the past and some potential physical mechainsms in it. The reason why I'm wanting to conduct a PhD is that I feel like while I was working I worked for almost 4 years, for me to stay in a job I have to feel like I'm contributing and also learning something, so then I think that is was at the time off the balance I was contributing more and but then I was not gain more in the experience, so I feel that it would be a nice opportunity for me to take on the next step or to learn more so I contribute more. I feel like I'm ready to take on the next step,I believe I have all the knowledge and skills needed to do well in the PhD position. Why Sweden, Why us? Firstly, as far as I know, Swedish society and citizens have three core values: freedom, equality and sustainability, these values are reflected in all aspects of life, including work, education, the natural environment, etc. I think Swedes will do as much as they can to provide me with the support and resources I need to achieve my academic and personal goals. Secondly, Sweden is one of those wonderful places where I don't have to worry about being different or not fitting in. English is widely spoken in Sweden, which makes it super easy to interact with people. Lastly, I want to study at the regional climate group, because my background matches all the requirements of the position.In RCG, I know Lorenzo, Zhang gangfeng, Cesar, Deng Kaiqiang, their research interest is wind. I had a collaboration with a faculty member Cesar in RCG in the past 3 three years, he is a talented scientist in wind. This experience of collaboration impressed me a lot. And Deliang Chen is the one I want to learn and study under his supervison, he is a renowned expert in the field of climate change, One of my publications was reviewed by him, That time, he gave me a lot of effective suggestions, and finally, the manuscript was accepted by the Journal of Climate, This research is my first time publishing my result in a top Q1 journal, and this inspiration gives an early-career scientist confidence in research. So I thought that it would be a great thing to follow him doing academic studies and contribute more to the wind community, and it's about time now to take to the next step. The research project is about ???. Tell us if you have any experiences, knowledge, or ideas relating to the planned work) Based on reanalysis and climate models we revealed the historical decadal variation of the terrestrial wind and evaluated the ability of reanalysis in simulating wind in China and the globe. We found that due to the lack of fully consideration of surface friction in the reanalysis and the coarse resolution of the GCMs, both of them consistently underestimate the magnitude of wind speed trends, so evaluating the model’s ability in reproducing wind changes is an essential step before using GCMs for prediction. If I have the chance to design the work flow, we can follow 2 steps. Firstly, to detect three main external forcings(green gas, aerosols, and natural forcing) to the changes on NSWS, we can use DAMIP Project to isolate different external forcing impacts. Secondly, different climate models may include different implementations of the forcings, and the models also differ in dynamical cores and physical packages. LE is one model that contains a lot of different members, so it enables us to better quantify the internal variability by using the inter-member spread and calculating the all member mean to get the all external forcings' impact. Statistical techniques, GIS, and Remote sensing are key skills needed for this project. What are your experiences in these? Doing Climate research requires us to master several statistical analysis skills, and all my work on statistics and visualization is done in a Python environment. prior to this, I selected MATLAB to calculate, and NCL to draw figures. I found that switching between multiple software is a waste of time. After a period of learning, Python has been able to complete most of the data processing work, including reanalysis, observation and model data. In particular, I have rich experience in climate model data processing and can run a lot of large data through a parallel with CDO in Linux system. I have participated in 2 projects on wind speed, specifically focused on climate model outputs, especially dynamic downscaling and regional climate models. My previous studies are based on observation, reanalysis and climate model data, so my skill in programming, statistical data analysis, and data processing is solid. This allowed me to get hands-on experience about what works and what doesn't, putting what I learned in school into practice. Meanwhile, this project is an extension of my current work in China, which perfectly fits my aspects of the future research plan. some preliminary results have been accepted in academic journals. I often update Python meteorological tutorials on my Wechat blog. At present, more than 6,000 people have subscribed to my channel. Many people have learned a lot of practical skills from the articles I shared. Research is not just about doing, but also communicating what you’ve done. What is your experience with writing? Which journals do you think are most adapted for this project and why? What about presenting at international conferences? OK, I have participated in about 15 studies on wind speed, and I wrote the original MS of about 10 articles, before the interview, 8 of them have been published in some Climate journals. If the project is not led by me, it means that I made collaboration with others in the style of co-authorship, I will contribute to revising the manuscript to complete the final version. In the past year, I have participated in 5 academic conferences, and all conferences are held in China. This is due to the restriction to go abroad from China because of the pandemic. when I have the opportunity to get this PhD position to present our research in future, I think I will join in some international conferences, such as EGU, AGU, etc. If the results are relevant to the work on external forcing and external variability, they can be submitted to the Journals in Climatology, Like, as Journal of Climate, GRL, ERL and other geosciences, if the results are very innovative and the conclusion is robust, we can submit the MS to Journals in Nature or Science publishing Group, such as NCC, NC, NGEO, SC, etc. If the results are relevant to the development and implementation of wind energy from energy prediction to climate change mitigation, like estimating wind energy or offshore wind energy based on the new reconstructed grid data, they can be considered for submission to energy journals, such as Nature Energy, Applied Energy, Energies, etc. What is your personal plan with the project and beyond the project (e.g., regarding your career development)? Personal plan with the project The relative role of external forcings and internal variabily played in the wind changes is a big question that’s being asked in the wind field. And this is sth that hasn’t been explored before and this is exactly what we’re going to go into. My personal plan for the project are reflected in two aspects. Firstly, after evaluating the performance of state-of-the-art climate models in simulating the historical change of wind, I want to select excellent performance models to do a projection in 21 century. In the projection part, I can use the reconstructed dataset in the first step to do bias correct on the climate model, It can be considered that I want to get the future wind speed changes under observational constraints. The Second aspect, I would like to apply the conclusions of wind speed to wind energy forecasting based on some preminilary results, to focus on the changes of wind energy under different global warming levels, especially the changes in offshore wind energy, because onshore wind energy has now tended to saturation. regarding your career development I haven’t thought about that, I don’t think that one should have goals that are too long-term or specific. It’s not good if research is only about competing. My goal is to do my best – and if things don’t turn out the way I wanted them to, then that’s okay too. If I have to say something, I would say that I want to be trained in a foreign institution, to improve my skills, to be independent , to be a well rounded person, and create my own research group in the future, because I am passioned about what I am doing and I hope to make some contribution in the filed of wind speed and drive this filed forward, based on my qualification I want to find a tenure track in Europe, but I still has a lot to learn, so the plans for the future depends on the situation for me in this respect. You have any questions to us? Are there any qualifications that you think I'm missing?