Zong-Liang Yang
City:
Austin
State/Province:
Texas
Country:
United States
Current Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences,
1 University Station #C1100, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0254 USA
1 University Station #C1100, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0254 USA
Current Position:
Professor;
for his biographical sketches, see http://jackson-d-1.geo.utexas.edu/researcher.php?researcher_id=1039 ;
for his research website, see http://www.geo.utexas.edu/climate
for his biographical sketches, see http://jackson-d-1.geo.utexas.edu/researcher.php?researcher_id=1039 ;
for his research website, see http://www.geo.utexas.edu/climate
Career Highlights:
Distinguished Achievement Award (shared) - National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Colorado, USA, 2008
Co-chair, NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Land Working Group (LandWG), 2008-2010
Adjunct Professor of Lanzhou University, China 2008-present
Adjunct Professor of The START Regional Center for Temperate East Asia - Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 2008-present
The Joseph C. Walter Jr. Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004
Dean’s Fellow, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2004
Young Scientists' travel award - EGS General Assembly, Hamburg, Germany 1995
Postgraduate Research Award - Macquarie University, Australia 1989-1992
Visiting Research Scholarship, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA 1991
Travel Award - Wisconsin summer school (climate system modeling) 1991
Ph.D., 1992, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
M.Sc., 1989, Melbourne University, Australia
B.Sc., 1984, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China
Co-chair, NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Land Working Group (LandWG), 2008-2010
Adjunct Professor of Lanzhou University, China 2008-present
Adjunct Professor of The START Regional Center for Temperate East Asia - Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 2008-present
The Joseph C. Walter Jr. Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004
Dean’s Fellow, College of Natural Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2004
Young Scientists' travel award - EGS General Assembly, Hamburg, Germany 1995
Postgraduate Research Award - Macquarie University, Australia 1989-1992
Visiting Research Scholarship, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, USA 1991
Travel Award - Wisconsin summer school (climate system modeling) 1991
Ph.D., 1992, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
M.Sc., 1989, Melbourne University, Australia
B.Sc., 1984, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China
Field of Research:
EARTH SCIENCES - Atmospheric Sciences - Climate Change Processes
Professional Memberships:
American Meteorological Society
American Geophysical Union
American Geophysical Union
Notable Grants/Projects:
NASA, Terrestrial Hydrology Program (THP), "Estimating Regional-Scale Snow Water Equivalent from in situ Measurements, Remote Sensing, and Land Surface Modeling with Data Assimilation", 2009-2012, PI.
NOAA, Climate Prediction Program for Americas (CPPA), "Improving Hydrological Representation in the Community Noah Land Surface Model for Intra-seasonal to Interannual Prediction Studies", 2007-2010, PI.
NASA, Interdisciplinary Science (IDS) Program, "Using Satellite Data and Fully Coupled Regional Hydrologic, Ecological and Atmospheric Models to Study Complex Coastal Environmental Processes (NNX07AL79G)", 2007-2010, PI.
NASA IDS, Developing and Applying an Integrated Multi-scale Earth System Modeling Framework to Study the Impacts of Changing Climate, Local Weather, and Land Use on Watersheds and Downstream Coastal Ecosystems, 2010-2013, PI.
EPA, Science to Achieve Results (STAR), "Impacts of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) Emissions in Texas", 2004-2007, PI
KAUST, "Potential Effects of Global Warming on Hydrology and Water Resources in Saudi Arabia", PI.
NOAA, "Improved probabilistic streamflow forecasting using ensembles of calibrated distributed Noah Land-Surface Model, SAC-SMA and statistical learning machines within an assimilation framework", with PhD stuent.
CNSF, "Numerical Modeling of Droughts in Northern China", PI.
NASA, "GRACE Water Storage for Water Resources Management: Case Study High Plains Aquifer, USA", Co-PI.
NSF, Paleo Perspective for Climate Change (P2C2), "Mechanisms of regional climate change and impacts on water availability in Texas from the Last Glacial Maximum to present-day", Co-PI.
NOAA, Climate Prediction Program for Americas (CPPA), "Improving Hydrological Representation in the Community Noah Land Surface Model for Intra-seasonal to Interannual Prediction Studies", 2007-2010, PI.
NASA, Interdisciplinary Science (IDS) Program, "Using Satellite Data and Fully Coupled Regional Hydrologic, Ecological and Atmospheric Models to Study Complex Coastal Environmental Processes (NNX07AL79G)", 2007-2010, PI.
NASA IDS, Developing and Applying an Integrated Multi-scale Earth System Modeling Framework to Study the Impacts of Changing Climate, Local Weather, and Land Use on Watersheds and Downstream Coastal Ecosystems, 2010-2013, PI.
EPA, Science to Achieve Results (STAR), "Impacts of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) Emissions in Texas", 2004-2007, PI
KAUST, "Potential Effects of Global Warming on Hydrology and Water Resources in Saudi Arabia", PI.
NOAA, "Improved probabilistic streamflow forecasting using ensembles of calibrated distributed Noah Land-Surface Model, SAC-SMA and statistical learning machines within an assimilation framework", with PhD stuent.
CNSF, "Numerical Modeling of Droughts in Northern China", PI.
NASA, "GRACE Water Storage for Water Resources Management: Case Study High Plains Aquifer, USA", Co-PI.
NSF, Paleo Perspective for Climate Change (P2C2), "Mechanisms of regional climate change and impacts on water availability in Texas from the Last Glacial Maximum to present-day", Co-PI.
Research Interests:
Global Change,
Climate Change,
Global Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Climate Modeling, Land Surface Modeling, Interaction of Terrestrial and Atmospheric Hydrological Processes, Flash Flood Modeling, Coastal Environment, Biogenic Emissions, and Air Quality.
Climate Change,
Global Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Climate Modeling, Land Surface Modeling, Interaction of Terrestrial and Atmospheric Hydrological Processes, Flash Flood Modeling, Coastal Environment, Biogenic Emissions, and Air Quality.
Publication History:
Author or co-author of 90+ peer reviewed papers, with a total citation of 3100 and a h-index of 30.
Selected Refereed Articles:
Yang, Z.-L., 2008: Description of recent snow models, in "Snow and Climate", Edited by R. L. Armstrong and E. Martin, Cambridge University Press, 129-136.
Yang, Z.-L., 2004: Modeling land surface processes in short-term weather and climate studies, in "Observations, Theory, and Modeling of Atmospheric Variability", Edited by X. Zhu, World Scientific Series on Meteorology of East Asia, Vol. 3, World Scientific Publishing Corporation, Singapore, 288-313.
Yang, Z.-L. and G.-Y. Niu, 2003: The Versatile Integrator of Surface and Atmosphere Processes (VISA) Part 1: Model description, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 175-189.
Yang, Z.-L., D. Gochis, W.J. Shuttleworth, and G.-Y. Niu, 2003: The impacts of sea surface temperature on the North American monsoon: A GCM study, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(2), 1033, 10.1029/2002GL015628. (4 pages)
Yang, Z.-L., D. Gochis and W.J. Shuttleworth, 2001: Evaluation of the simulations of the North American monsoon in the NCAR CCM3, Geophysical Research Letters, 28(7), 1211-1214.
Yang, Z.-L., Y. Dai, R.E. Dickinson, W.J. Shuttleworth, 1999: Sensitivity of ground heat flux to vegetation cover fraction and leaf area index, J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D16), 19505-19514.
Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A.N. Hahmann, G.-Y. Niu, M. Shaikh, X. Gao, R.C. Bales, S. Sorooshian, and J.M. Jin, 1999: Simulation of snow mass and extent in global climate models, Hydrological Processes, 13 (12-13), 2097-2113.
Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A. Robock and K.Y. Vinnikov, 1997: Validation of the snow sub-model of the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme with Russian snow cover and meteorological observational data, Journal of Climate, 10, 353-373.
Yang, Z.-L. and R.E. Dickinson, 1996: Description of the biosphere-atmosphere transfer scheme (BATS) for the Soil Moisture Workshop and evaluation of its performance, Global and Planetary Change, 13, 117-134.
Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A. Henderson-Sellers and A.J. Pitman, 1995: Preliminary study of spin-up processes in landsurface models with the first stage data of Project for Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes Phase 1(a), J. Geophys. Res., 100 (D8), 16,553-16,578.
Yang, Z.-L., 1995: Investigating impacts of anomalous land-surface conditions on Australian climate with an advanced land-surface model coupled with the BMRC AGCM, Int. J. Climatol., 15, 137-174.
Yang, Z.-L., A.J. Pitman, B. McAvaney and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1995: The impact of implementing the bare essentials of surface transfer land surface scheme into the BMRC GCM, Climate Dynamics, 11,
279-297.
Henderson-Sellers, A., Z.-L. Yang and R.E. Dickinson, 1993: The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 74, 1335-1349.
Pitman, A.J., A. Henderson-Sellers and Z.-L. Yang, 1990: Sensitivity of regional climates to localised precipitation in global models, Nature, 346, 374-737.
For a full list of 80+ peer-reviewed publications, please see http://www.geo.utexas.edu/climate/lead_publications.html
For detailed research activities, please see http://www.geo.utexas.edu/climate
Selected Refereed Articles:
Yang, Z.-L., 2008: Description of recent snow models, in "Snow and Climate", Edited by R. L. Armstrong and E. Martin, Cambridge University Press, 129-136.
Yang, Z.-L., 2004: Modeling land surface processes in short-term weather and climate studies, in "Observations, Theory, and Modeling of Atmospheric Variability", Edited by X. Zhu, World Scientific Series on Meteorology of East Asia, Vol. 3, World Scientific Publishing Corporation, Singapore, 288-313.
Yang, Z.-L. and G.-Y. Niu, 2003: The Versatile Integrator of Surface and Atmosphere Processes (VISA) Part 1: Model description, Global and Planetary Change, 38, 175-189.
Yang, Z.-L., D. Gochis, W.J. Shuttleworth, and G.-Y. Niu, 2003: The impacts of sea surface temperature on the North American monsoon: A GCM study, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(2), 1033, 10.1029/2002GL015628. (4 pages)
Yang, Z.-L., D. Gochis and W.J. Shuttleworth, 2001: Evaluation of the simulations of the North American monsoon in the NCAR CCM3, Geophysical Research Letters, 28(7), 1211-1214.
Yang, Z.-L., Y. Dai, R.E. Dickinson, W.J. Shuttleworth, 1999: Sensitivity of ground heat flux to vegetation cover fraction and leaf area index, J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D16), 19505-19514.
Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A.N. Hahmann, G.-Y. Niu, M. Shaikh, X. Gao, R.C. Bales, S. Sorooshian, and J.M. Jin, 1999: Simulation of snow mass and extent in global climate models, Hydrological Processes, 13 (12-13), 2097-2113.
Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A. Robock and K.Y. Vinnikov, 1997: Validation of the snow sub-model of the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme with Russian snow cover and meteorological observational data, Journal of Climate, 10, 353-373.
Yang, Z.-L. and R.E. Dickinson, 1996: Description of the biosphere-atmosphere transfer scheme (BATS) for the Soil Moisture Workshop and evaluation of its performance, Global and Planetary Change, 13, 117-134.
Yang, Z.-L., R.E. Dickinson, A. Henderson-Sellers and A.J. Pitman, 1995: Preliminary study of spin-up processes in landsurface models with the first stage data of Project for Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes Phase 1(a), J. Geophys. Res., 100 (D8), 16,553-16,578.
Yang, Z.-L., 1995: Investigating impacts of anomalous land-surface conditions on Australian climate with an advanced land-surface model coupled with the BMRC AGCM, Int. J. Climatol., 15, 137-174.
Yang, Z.-L., A.J. Pitman, B. McAvaney and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1995: The impact of implementing the bare essentials of surface transfer land surface scheme into the BMRC GCM, Climate Dynamics, 11,
279-297.
Henderson-Sellers, A., Z.-L. Yang and R.E. Dickinson, 1993: The Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 74, 1335-1349.
Pitman, A.J., A. Henderson-Sellers and Z.-L. Yang, 1990: Sensitivity of regional climates to localised precipitation in global models, Nature, 346, 374-737.
For a full list of 80+ peer-reviewed publications, please see http://www.geo.utexas.edu/climate/lead_publications.html
For detailed research activities, please see http://www.geo.utexas.edu/climate
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| 2009-10-03 12:57PM | Research | My statement of research interests | statement_of_research_interests_zl_yang.pdf |
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| 2009-10-03 12:55PM | Teaching | My statement of teaching objectives | uteaching_statement_zl_yang.pdf |
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| 2009-10-03 12:41PM | Dr. Yang's CV | Biographical Sketches for Dr. Zong-Liang Yang | nsf_cv_zlyang.pdf |
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| 2009-08-28 10:30AM | My research vision statement | This is an invited seminar I gave at Purdue University. It articulates... | landweatherclimate.pdf |
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