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Ping Liu Scientific Computer Programmer [Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email:

Education

• 1999 - Ph.D. (Climate Dynamics), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
  Dissertation: On the Interannual Variability of Subtropical High Belt and Subtropical Anticyclone over Western Pacific and their Connections with Tropical SSTA Pattern
• 1995 - M.S. (Atmospheric Sciences), Chinese Meteorological Institute, Beijing, China
• 1992 - B.S. (Atmospheric Sciences), Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, China

Research Interests 

• Climate model resolution and its ability to simulate monsoon climate and variability
• Air-sea Interaction over Warm Pool and monsoon variability and predictability
• Dynamics of subtropical anticyclone from weather to climate scale
• Historical and future trends of arid and semiarid climate

Scientific Work Experience

• IPRC, University of Hawaii, June 2001 – November 2009
• Climate Model Leading Scientist, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, China, January – June 2001
• Visiting Scholar, CCR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, October – December 2000
• Associate Scientist, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, China, May 1999 – October 2000

Refereed Publications

• Liu, P., M. Satoh, B. Wang, H. Fudeyasu, T. Nasuno, T. Li, H. Miura, H. Taniguchi, H. Masunaga, X. Fu, and H. Annamalai: An MJO Simulated by the NICAM at 14-km and 7-km Resolutions. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.
• Fu, X., B. Wang, Q. Bao, P. Liu, and J.-Y. Lee, 2009: Impacts of initial conditions on monsoon intraseasonal forecasting. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08801; doi:10.1029/2009GL037166.
• Liu, P., Y. Kajikawa, B. Wang, A. Kitoh, T. Yasunari, T. Li, H. Annamalai, X. Fu, K. Kikuchi, R. Mizuta, K. Rajendran, D. E. Waliser, D. Kim, 2009: Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in the MRI-20km60L AGCM. J. Climate, 22 (8), 2006 – 2022, doi: 10.1175/2008JCLI2406.1.
• Fu, X., B. Wang, B. Qing, P. Liu, and B. Yang, 2008: Experimental dynamical forecast of an MJO event observed during TOGA-COARE Period. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 1, 24 – 28.
• Wang, B., J.-Y. Lee, I.-S. Kang, J. Shukla, C.-K Park, A. Kumar, J. Schemm, S. Cocke, J.-S. Kug, J.-J. Luo, T. Zhou, B. Wang, X. Fu, W.-T. Yun, O. Alves, E. K. Jin, J. Kinter, B. Kirtman, T. Krishnamurti, N. C. Lau, W. Lau, P. Liu, P. Pegion, T. Rosati, S. Schubert, W. Stern, M. Suarez, and T. Yamagata: Advance and Prospectus of Seasonal Prediction, 2008: Assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-Model Ensemble Retrospective Seasonal Prediction (1980 – 2004). Clim. Dyn., DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0460-0. IPRC-548.
• Li, T. P. Liu, X. Fu, B. Wang, and G.A. Meehl, 2006: Spatiotemporal structures and mechanisms of the trppospheric biennial oscillation in the Indo-Pacific warm ocean regions. J. Climate, 19, 3070 – 3087.
• Annamalai, H., and P. Liu, 2005: Response of the Asian Summer Monsoon to changes in ENSO properties. Quart. J. Royal Met. Soc., 131, 805 – 831.
• Annamalai, H., P. Liu, and S.-P. Xie, 2005: Southwest Indian Ocean SST variability: Its local effect and remote influence on Asian Monsoons. J. Climate, 18, 4150 –4167.
• Mapes, B. E., Liu P., Buenning N., 2005: Indian monsoon onset and the Americas midsummer drought: Out-of-equilibrium responses to smooth seasonal forcing. J. Climate, 18, 1109-1115.
• Liu, P., B. Wang, K.R. Sperber, T. Li, and G.A. Meehl, 2005: MJO in the NCAR CAM2 with the Tiedtke Convective Scheme. J. Climate, 18 (15), 3007 – 3020.
• Li, T., P. Liu, X. Fu, B. Wang, and G.A. Meehl, 2004: Tempo-spatial structures and mechanisms of the tropospheric biennial oscillation in the Indo-Pacific warm ocean regions. J. Climate, 19, (13), 3070 – 3087 DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3736.1.
• Wu, T., P. Liu, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, R. Yu, and G. Wu, 2003: The Performance of Atmospheric Component Model R42L9 of GOALS/LASG. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 20, 726 – 742.
• Wang, B., S. C. Clemons, and P. Liu, 2003: Contrasting the Indian and East Asian monsoons: implications on geologic timescales. Marine Geology, 201, 5 – 21.
• Annamalai, H., R. Murtugudde, J. Potemra, S.-P. Xie, P. Liu, and B. Wang, 2003: Coupled dynamics over the Indian Ocean: Spring initiation of the zonal mode. Deep Sea Research II, 50, 2305 – 2330.
• Wang, B., S.C. Clemons, and P. Liu, 2003: Contrasting the Indian and East Asian monsoons: implications on geologic timescales. Marine Geology, 201 (1-3), 5 – 21.
• Liu, P., G.A. Meehl, and G. Wu, 2002: Multi-model trends in the Sahara induced by increasing CO₂. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 1881, doi: 10.1029/2002GL015923.
• Liu, P., G. Wu, and F. Sun, 2001: Local meridional circulation and deserts, Adv. Atmos. Sci., accepted.
• Liu, P., W. Washington, G. Meehl, G. Wu, and G. Potter, 2001: Historical and future trends of the Sahara Desert, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2683 – 2686.
• Liu, Y.M., G.X. Wu, H. Liu, and P. Liu, 2001: Condensation heating of the Asian summer monsoon and the subtropical anticyclone in the Eastern Hemisphere, Climate Dynamics, 17, 327 – 338.
• Contributor to "IAP Climate System Model", edited by X.H. Zhang et al., Chinese Academic Press, 2000, Beijing.
• Liu, P., and G.X. Wu, 2000: On the three dimensional features of subtropical high belt. Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 24, 577 – 584.
• Wu, G., P. Liu, and Y.M. Liu, 2000, Effect of SSTA over Indian ocean to the Subtropical Anticyclone over Western Pacific: Two-stage thermal adaptation in the atmosphere. Act. Meteorol. Sin., 58, 513 – 522 (in Chinese).
• Liu, Y., H. Liu, P. Liu, and G.X. Wu, 1999: The effect of spatially nonuniform heating on the formation and variation of subtropical high. Part II: Land-surface sensible heating and eastern Pacific subtropical high. Act. Meteorol. Sin., 57, 385 – 396 (in Chinese).
• Liu Y., H. Liu, G.X. Wu, and P. Liu, 1999: The effect of spatially nonuniform heating on the formation and variation of subtropical high. Part III: The latent heating and subtropical anticyclone over the western Pacific.  Act. Meteorol. Sin., 57, 525 – 538 (in Chinese).
• Wu, G., Y.M. Liu, and P. Liu,1999: The effect of spatially nonuniform heating on the formation and variation of subtropical high. Part I: Scale analysis. Act. Meteorol. Sin., 57, 257 – 263.
• Zheng, Z.G., P. Liu, and L.H. Liu, 1997: Nonlinear properties of a simplified climate system. Act. Meteorol. Sin., 55, 521 – 531 (in Chinese).