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Yang (Edward) Yang Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2005 - Ph.D. (Meteorology), University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
Dissertation: Island-scale circulations of the island of Hawaii during HaRP and the summer of 2004 - 1989 - M.S. (Atmospheric Physics), Lanzhou Institute of Plateau atmospheric physics, China
- 1986 - B.S. (Meteorology), Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Research Interests
- Mesoscale numerical simulations and modeling
- Tropical regional climate and weather
- Mountainous meteorology
- Radar and satellite data analysis
Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, January 2006 – present
- Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, August 1999 – December 2005
- Vice Director, Guizhou Meteorological Center, Guiyang, P.R. China, June 1998 – August 1999
- Visiting Scholar, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook, May 1998 – April 1999
- Research Engineer and Senior Research Engineer, Guizhou Institute of Meteorological Science, Guiyang, P.R. China, August 1989 – August 1999
- Vice Director, Guizhou Institute of Meteorological Science, Guiyang, P.R. China, June 1995 – May 1998
Selected Publications
- Yang, Y., and Y.-L. Chen: Effects of terrain heights and sizes on island-scale circulations and rainfall for the island of Hawaii during HaRP. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.
- Yang, Y., and Y.-L. Chen, 2005: Numerical simulation of the island-scale circulations over the island of Hawaii during HaRP. Mon. Wea. Rev., 133, 3693 – 3713.
- Yang, Y., and Y.-L. Chen, 2003: Circulations and rainfall on the leeside of the island of Hawaii during HaRP. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2525 – 2542.
- Yang, Y., and Y.-L. Chen, 2003: High-resolution simulations of the island-induced circulations for the island of Hawaii during HaRP. The Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Orlando, Florida. 16 – 20 November 2003.
- Yang, Y., and Y. Liu, 1997: The relationship of meso- b scale topography and the hails and rainfall in Guizhou. Plateau Meteorology, Vol. 16, No. 2.
- Yang, Y., and Y. Yu, 1995: The quasi-geostrophic frontogenesis function analyses for a quasi-stationary front in south-west China. Plateau Meteorology, Vol. 14, No. 3.
- Yang, Y., and S. Luo, 1993: Energy analyses of vortices over the Tibet Plateau in the summer. Quarterly Journal of Applied Meteorology, Vol. 3, No. 2.
- Luo, S., and Y. Yang, 1992: A case study on numerical simulation of summer vortex over Tibet Plateau. Plateau Meteorology, Vol. 11. No. 2.