• 2006.9-2010.6, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, B. S.
• 2010.9-2013.6, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science, Atmospheric Science, M. S.
• 2013.9-2014.7, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Environment Science, M. S.
• 2014.9-2018.6, Unversité Paris-Saclay, Paleoclimatology, Ph.D.
• 2018.7-2020.12, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoc.
• 2021.1-present, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Special-term Associate Professor

I am working on the paleoclimate modeling. My research focuses on : 1) the climate response to different forcings under past warm periods; 2) Northern Hemisphere ice sheets onset; 3) the influences of seaways' changes on the climate; 4) paleo-monsoon system.

1. IDEX International Master Scholarship
2. IDEX International PhD Scholarship

1. 2020-2022, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2. 2019- 2020, Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China

1. Tan, N*., Li, H*., Zhang, Z., Wu, H., Ramstein, G., Sun, Y., He, Z., Su, B., Zhang, Zijian, Guo, Z., 2024. Closure of tropical seaways favors the climate and vegetation in tropical Africa and South America approaching their present conditions. Glob. Planet. Change 233, 104351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104351 
2. Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z., Tan, N., He, Z., Huang, C., Guo, Z., 2024. Resolving Cenozoic climate pattern debate in East Asia: Insights from orbital-scale oscillations. Glob. Planet. Change 232, 104346. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104346
3. He, Z., Zhang, Zhongshi, Guo, Z., Tan, N., Zhang, Zijian, Wu, Z., Zhang, C., Deng, C., 2023. The spatial–temporal evolution of the Asian summer monsoon during the late Miocene and potential CO₂ forcing: A data–model comparison. Glob. Planet. Change 221, 104052. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104052 
4. Xu, C., Wang, S.-Y.S., Borhara, K., Buckley, B., Tan, N., Zhao, Y., An, W., Sano, M., Nakatsuka, T., Guo, Z., 2023. Asian-Australian summer monsoons linkage to ENSO strengthened by global warming. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci. 6, 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00341-2
5. Zhou, X., Zhan, T., Tan, N., Tu, L., Smol, J.P., Jiang, S., Zeng, F., Liu, X., Li, X., Liu, G., Liu, Y., Zhang, R., Shen, Y., 2023. Inconsistent patterns of Holocene rainfall changes at the East Asian monsoon margin compared to the core monsoon region. Quat. Sci. Rev. 301, 107952. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107952
6. 谭宁, 张仲石, 郭正堂, 王会军. 上新世热带海道变化影响东亚气候的模拟研究[J]. 地学前缘, 2022, 29(5): 310-321.
7. Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z., He, Z., Tan, N., Guo, Z., Zhu, J., Steinig, S., Donnadieu, Y., Ladant, J.-B., Chan, W.-L., Abe-Ouchi, A., Niezgodzki, I., Knorr, G., Hutchinson, D.K., de Boer, A.M., 2022. Impact of Mountains in Southern China on the Eocene Climates of East Asia. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 127, e2022JD036510. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036510
8. Tan, N*., Zhang, Z., Guo, Z., Guo, C., Zhang, Z., He, Z., Ramstein, G., 2022. Recognizing the role of tropical seaways in modulating the Pacific circulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099674. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099674
9. Sun, Y., Wu, H., Kageyama, M., Ramstein, G., Li, L. Z. X., Tan, N., Lin, Y. T., Liu, B., Zheng, W. P., Zhang, W. C., Zou, L. W.& Zhou, T. J. (2021) .The contrasting effects of thermodynamic and dynamic processes on East Asian summer monsoon precipitation during the Last Glacial Maximum: a data-model comparison. Clim Dyn 56, 1303–1316. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05533-7
10. Zhang, Z., Li, X., Guo, C., Otter?, O. H., Nisancioglu, K. H., Tan, N., Contoux, C. et al., (2021). Mid-Pliocene Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation simulated in PlioMIP2, Clim. Past, 17, 529–543, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-529-2021, 2021.
11. Hopcroft, P. O., Ramstein, G., Pugh, T. A. M., Hunter, S. J., Murguia-Flores, F., Quiquet, A., Tan, N., Valdes, P. J. (2020). Polar amplification of Pliocene climate by elevated trace gas radiative forcing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(38), 23401–23407. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002320117
12. Tan, N*., Contoux, C., Ramstein, G., Sun, Y., Dumas, C., Sepulchre, P., Guo, Z., (2020). Modeling a modern-like pCO2 warm period (Marine Isotope Stage KM5c) with two versions of an Institut Pierre Simon Laplace atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model. Clim. Past 16, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1-2020
13. An, W. L., Xu, C. X., Liu, X. H., Tan, N., Sano, M., Li, M. Q., Shao, X. M., Nakatsuka, T., Guo, Z. T., 2019. Specific response of earlywood and latewood δ18O from the east and west of Mt. Qomolangma to the Indian summer monsoon. Sci. Total Environ. 689,99-108.
14. Tan, N*., Ladant, J.-B., Ramstein, G., Dumas, C., Bachem, P., Jansen, E., (2018). Dynamic Greenland ice sheet driven by pCO2 variations across the Pliocene Pleistocene transition. Nat. Commun. 9, 4755. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07206-w
15. Sun, Y., Ramstein, G., Li, L. Z. X., Contoux, C., Tan, N., & Zhou, T. (2018). Quantifying East Asian summer monsoon dynamics in the ECP4.5 scenario with reference to the mid‐Piacenzian warm period. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 12,523–12,533. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080061
16. Tan, N*., Ramstein, G., Dumas, C., Contoux, C., Ladant, J.-B., Sepulchre, P., Zhang, Z., De Schepper, S., (2017). Exploring the MIS M2 glaciation occurring during a warm and high atmospheric CO2 Pliocene background climate. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 472(2017), 266-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.050.
17. 谭宁,陈静,田华.2013.两种模式随机扰动方案比较及扰动传播分析,气象(2013):543-555.