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.