Yuqing Wang

Associate Professor of Meteorology

International Pacific Research Center
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii  96822

Phone: (808) 956-5609
Fax: (808) 956-9425
Email:
Webpage: http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/~yqwang

Education

  • 1983 - B.S. (Meteorology), Zhongshan University, Guanzhou, China
  • 1988 - M.S. (Meteorology), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. Beijing, China
  • 1995 - Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Centre for Dynamical Meteorology and Oceanography, Monash University, Australia
    Dissertation title: Baroclinic Aspects of Tropical Cyclone Motion

Research Interests

  • Atmospheric dynamics
  • Physical meteorology
  • Tropical meteorology
  • Tropical cyclones
  • Development of high-resolution regional atmospheric and coupled ocean-atmospheric models
  • Regional climate modeling

Scientific Work Experience

  • Associate Professor, Department of Meteorology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, 2004–present
  • Associate Researcher, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, 2000–2004
  • Graduate Faculty, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, 2000–present
  • Senior Professional Officer, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia,
    1995–2000
  • Research Assistant, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 1993–1995
  • Visiting scientist, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 1991–1993
  • Assistant Professor, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China, 1988–1991
  • Lecturer, Shanghai Marine School, Shanghai, China, 1983–1985

Professional Service

  • Committee Member, The Second Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Monsoon System, March 4–6, 2003, Yokohama, Japan
  • Guest Professor, Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, (August 2002–present)
  • Invited Participant, Third US-Korea Joint Workshop on Storm Scale and Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Prediction, February 20–22, 2002, Boulder, Colorado
  • Committee Member, The organizing Committee of the First IPRC Regional Climate Modeling Workshop, October 10–12, 2001, East-West Center, Honolulu
  • Committee Member, Committee of the Max Eaton Award, 24th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, 29 May–2 June 2000, Fort Lauderdale, FL
  • Committee Member, The 9th BMRC Annual Modeling Workshop, 1997, Melbourne, Australia
  • Guest Instructor, WMO/COMET Workshop on Short-Range and Very Short Range Weather Predication, October 21–November 8, 1996, Boulder, Colorado
  • Referee, J. Atmos. Sci., Mon. Wea. Rev., Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., Aust. Meteor. Mag., Intl. J. Climate, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Review proposals for NSF, NASA

Publications

  • Ge, X., T. Li, Y. Wang, and M.S. Peng: Tropical cyclone energy dispersion in a three-dimensional primitive equation model: Upper tropospheric influence. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
  • Li, L., B. Wang, Y. Wang, and H. Wan: Improvements in Climate Simulation with Modifications to the Tiedtke Convective Parameterization in the Grid-point Atmospheric Model of IAP/LASG (GAMIL). Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, in press.
  • Ma, S., A. Qu, and Y. Wang: The performance of the new tropical cyclone track prediction system of the China National Meteorological Center. Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, in press.
  • Stowasser, M., Y. Wang, and K. Hamilton: Tropical cyclone changes in the western North Pacific in a global warming scenario. J. Climate, in press.
  • Wang, Y.: A multiply nested, movable mesh, fully compressible, nonhydrostatic tropical cyclone model - TCM4: Model description and development of asymmetries without explicit asymmetric forcing. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, in press.
  • Wang, Y.: Rapid filamentation in a numerically simulated tropical cyclone. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
  • Wang, Y.: Structure and formation of an annular hurricane simulated in a fully-compressible, nonhydrostatic model - TCM4. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
  • Wang, Y., L. Zhou, and K. Hamilton: Effect of convective entrainment/detrainment on simulation of tropical precipitation diurnal cycle. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.
  • Zhang, C.-X., Q.-H. Zhang, and Y. Wang: Climatology of hail in China: 1961-2005. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., in press.
  • Zhao, Y., B. Wang, and Y. Wang: Initialization and simulation of a landfalling typhoon using a variational bogus mapped data assimilation (BMDA). Meteor. Atmos. Phys., in press.
  • Xie, S.-P., T. Miyama, Y. Wang, H. Xu, S.P. de Szoeke, R.J. Small, K.J. Richards, T. Mochizuki, and T. Awaji, 2007: A regional ocean-atmosphere model for eastern Pacific climate: Towards reducing tropical biases. J. Climate, 20, 1504–1522.
  • Yang, B., Y. Wang, and B. Wang, 2007: The Effect of internally generated inner-core asymmetries on tropical cyclone potential intensity. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1165–1188.
  • de Szoeke, S.P., Y. Wang, S.-P. Xie, and T. Miyama, 2006: The effect of shallow cumulus convection on the eastern Pacific climate in a coupled model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17713.
  • Wu, C.-C., K.-H. Chou, Y. Wang, and Y.-H. Kuo, 2006: Tropical cyclone initialization and prediction based on four-dimensional variational data assimilation. J. Atmos. Sci., 63 (9), 2383–2395.
  • Xie, S.-P., H. Xu, N.H. Saji, Y. Wang, and W.T. Liu, 2006: Role of narrow mountains in large-scale organization of Asian monsoon convection. J. Climate, 19 (14) 3420–3429 DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3777.1.
  • Zeng, Z., Y. Wang, and C.-C. Wu, 2007: Environmental dynamical control of tropical cyclone intensity-An observational study. Mon. Wea. Rev., 135 (1), 38-59.
  • Zhou, L., and Y. Wang, 2006: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission observation and regional model study of precipitation diurnal cycle in the New Guinean region. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 111, D17104. 10.1029/2006JD007243.
  • Small, R.J., S.-P. Xie, Y. Wang, S.K. Esbensen, and D. Vickers, 2005: Numerical simulation of boundary layer structure and cross-equatorial flow in the Eastern Pacific. J. Atmos. Sci., 62 (6), 1812–1830.
  • Wang, Y., and L. Zhou, 2005: Observed trends in extreme precipitation events in China during 1961-2001 and the associated changes in large-scale circulation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL022574.
  • Wang, Y., S.-P. Xie, B. Wang, and H. Xu, 2005: Large-scale atmospheric forcing by Southeast Pacific boundary-layer clouds: A regional model study. J. Climate, 18, 934–951.
  • Xu, H., S.-P. Xie, and Y. Wang, 2005: Subseasonal variability of the Southeast Pacific stratus cloud deck. J. Climate, 18 (1), 131–142.
  • Xu, H., S.-P. Xie, Y. Wang, and J. Small, 2005: Effects of Central American mountains on the eastern Pacific winter ITCZ and moisture transport. J. Climate, 18 (18), 3856–3873.
  • Sen, O.L., B. Wang, and Y. Wang, 2004: Impacts of re-greening the desertified lands in northwestern China: Implications from a regional climate model experiment. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82 (6), 1679–1693.
  • Sen, O.L., Y. Wang, and B. Wang, 2004: Impact of Indochina deforestation on the East Asian summer monsoon. J. Climate, 17, 1366–1380.
  • Wang, Y., L.R. Leung, J.L. McGregor, D.-K. Lee, W.-C. Wang, Y. Ding, and F. Kimura, 2004: Regional climate modeling: Progress, challenges, and prospects. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 82 (6), 1599–1628.
  • Wang, Y., and C.-C. Wu, 2004: Current understanding of tropical cyclone structure and intensity changes-A review. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 87 (4), 257–278.
  • Wang, Y., S.-P. Xie, H. Xu, and B. Wang, 2004: Regional model simulations of marine boundary-layer clouds over the Southeast Pacific off South America. Part I: Control experiment. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132 (1), 274–296.
  • Wang, Y., H. Xu, and S.-P. Xie, 2004: Regional model simulations of marine boundary-layer clouds over the Southeast Pacific off South America. Part II: Sensitivity Experiments. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132 (11), 2650–2668.
  • Xu, H., Y. Wang, and S.-P. Xie, 2004: Effects of the Andes on eastern Pacific climate: A regional atmospheric model study. J. Climate, 17 (3), 589–602.
  • Small, R.J., S.-P. Xie, and Wang, Y., 2003: Numerical simulation of atmospheric response to Pacific Tropical Instability Waves. J. Climate, 16 (22), 3722–3740.
  • Wang, X., F.-F. Jin, and Y. Wang, 2003: A tropical ocean recharge mechanism for climate variability. Part I: Equatorial heat content changes induced by the off-equatorial wind. J. Climate, 16 (22), 3585–3598.
  • Wang, X., F.-F. Jin, and Y. Wang, 2003: A tropical ocean recharge mechanism for climate variability. Part II: A unified theory for decadal and ENSO modes. J. Climate, 16 (22), 3599–3616.
  • Wang, Y., O.L. Sen, and B. Wang, 2003: A highly resolved regional climate model (IPRC-RegCM) and its simulation of the 1998 severe precipitation event over China. Part I: Model description and verification of simulation. J. Climate, 16 (11), 1721–1738.
  • Wu, C.-C., K.-H. Chou, H.-J. Cheng, and Y. Wang, 2003: Eyewall contraction, breakdown and reformation in a landfalling typhoon. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (17), 1887, doi:10.1029/2003GL017653.
  • Wang, Y., 2002: An explicit simulation of tropical cyclones with a triply nested movable mesh primitive equations model-TCM3. Part II: Model refinements and sensitivity to cloud microphysics parameterization. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 3022–3036.
  • Wang, Y., 2002: Vortex Rossby waves in a numerically simulated tropical cyclone. Part I: Overall structure, potential vorticity and kinetic energy budgets. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1213–1238.
  • Wang, Y., 2002: Vortex Rossby waves in a numerically simulated tropical cyclone. Part II: The role in tropical cyclone structure and intensity changes. J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1239–1262.
  • Wang, Y., J.D. Kepert, and G.J. Holland, 2001:  The effect of sea spray evaporation on tropical cyclone boundary layer structure and intensity. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 2481–2500.
  • Kepert, J.D. and Y. Wang, 2001: The dynamics of boundary layer jets within the tropical cyclone core. Part II: Nonlinear enhancement. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 2485–2501.
  • Wang, Y., and B. Wang, 2001:  Toward a unified highly resolved regional climate modeling system.  In Present and Future of Modeling Global Environmental Change: Toward Integrated Modeling, Eds., T. Matsuno and H. Kida.  TERRAPUB, 29–48.  
  • Buckley, B.W., L.M. Leslie, and Y. Wang, 2001: The Sydney Hailstorm of April 14, 1999: Synoptic description and numerical simulation. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 76, 167–182.
  • Wang, Y., 2001: An explicit simulation of tropical cyclones with a triply nested movable mesh primitive equation model: TCM3. Part I: Model description and control experiment. Mon. Wea. Rev., 129, 1370–1394.
  • Qi, L., Y. Wang, and L.M. Leslie, 2000:  Numerical simulation of a cut-off low over southern Australia. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 74, 103–115.
  • Wang, B., and Y. Wang, 1999: Dynamics of the ITCZ-equatorial cold tongue complex and causes of the latitudinal asymmetry. J. Climate, 12, 1830–1847.
  • Wang, Y., 1999: A triply-nested movable mesh tropical cyclone model with explicit cloud microphysics-TCM3. BMRC Research Report No. 74, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia, (Ed., J.D. Jasper), 81pp.
  • Wang, Y., 1998: On the bogusing of tropical cyclones in numerical models: The influence of vertical structure. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 65, 153–170.
  • Wang, B., R. Elsberry, and Y. Wang, 1998: Dynamics in tropical cyclone motion: A review. Chinese J. Atmos. Sci., 22, 416–434.
  • Wang Y., 1996: On the forward-in-time upstream advection scheme for non-uniform and time-dependent flow. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 61, 27–38.
  • Wang, Y., and G.J. Holland, 1996: Tropical cyclone motion and evolution in vertical shear. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3313–3332.
  • Wang Y., and G.J. Holland, 1996: The beta drift of baroclinic vortices. Part II: Diabatic vortices. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3737–3756.
  • Wang, Y., and G.J. Holland, 1996: The beta drift of baroclinic vortices. Part I: Adiabatic vortices. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 411–427.
  • Wang Y., 1995: On an inverse balance equation in sigma-coordinates for model initialization. Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 482–488.
  • Wang Y., and G.J. Holland, 1995: On the interaction of tropical-cyclone-scale vortices. IV: Baroclinic vortices. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 121, 95–126.
  • Holland, G.J., and Y. Wang, 1995: Baroclinic dynamics of simulated tropical cyclone recurvature. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 410–425.
  • Holland, G.J., Y. Wang, and M. Lander, 1995: Reply to "Comments on the meandering nature of tropical cyclone tracks”. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 289–290.
  • Wang, Y., and Y. Zhu, 1994: A numerical study on the influence of beta-effect on binary tropical cyclone interaction. J. Atmos. Sci. Res. Appl., 6, 1–7 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., 1993: On some baroclinic aspects of tropical cyclone motion. BMRC Research Report, No. 39. (Eds, J.D. Jasper and P.J. Meighen). 81–92.
  • Wang, Y., G.J. Holland, and L.M. Leslie, 1993: Some baroclinic aspects of tropical cyclone motion. Tropical Cyclone Disasters, (Eds., J. Lighthill, K. Emanuel, G.J. Holland), Peking University Press, 280–285.
  • Wang, Y., 1993: Movable CISK waves with Beta-effect and the behavior of South Asia summer monsoon trough-ridge. Scientia Atmospherica Sinica, 17, 385–394 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Fei, L., Y. Wang, Z. Xue, and T. Wu, 1993: The correlation analysis between the sea surface temperature over the equatorial Eastern Pacific and the anomalous rainfall in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Act. Meteor. Sin., 51, 442–447 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., and Y. Zhu, 1993: The effect of topography on CISK disturbances. J. Atmos. Sci. Res. Appl., 4, 1–7 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., and Y. Zhu, 1992: Analysis and numerical study of the interactions of binary tropical cyclones, Part I: Analysis of physical mechanism. Scientia Atmospherica Sinica, 16, 573–582 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., and Y. Zhu, 1992: Analysis and numerical study of the interactions of binary tropical cyclones, Part II: Numerical simulations. Scientia Atmospherica Sinica, 16, 659–668, (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Hu, J., and Y. Wang, 1992: Atmosphere and ocean low-frequency oscillations and their effects on tropical cyclone tracks over the northwest Pacific. Act. Meteor. Sin., 50, 418–428 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., 1991: On the accurate solutions of nonlinear barotropic Rossby waves. Act. Meteor. Sin., 49, 411–420 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., 1990: Stability of large-scale atmospheric motions in low latitudes and the activity of monsoon. J. Tropical Meteor., 7, 1–11 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., and Y. Zhu, 1989: The interactions of binary cyclonic vortices in a nondivergent barotropic model. J. Tropical Meteor., 6, 105-115 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., and Y. Zhu, 1989: The influence of environmental flow on the interactions of binary cyclonic vortices. J. Tropical Meteor., 6, 193–200 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., and Y. Zhu, 1989: A numerical simulation study of the Fujiwhara Effect of binary cyclones. J. Academy of Meteor. Sci., SMA, 3, 13–20 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., 1988: A preliminary study of the dynamical mechanism of intraseasonal oscillations in tropical troposphere. J. Tropical Meteor, 5, 216–227 (in Chinese with English abstract).
  • Wang, Y., 1987: The dispersion features of low-frequency barotropic planetary waves and the dynamical mechanism of the teleconnection patterns in general circulation. J. Tropical Meteor., 4, 217–226 (in Chinese with English abstract).