- Department: School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS), Stony Brook University
- Present Rank: Professor in Atmospheric Sciences
Education
- Ph. D. Princeton University
Recent Awards and Honors
- Editor’s Award, American Meteorological Society
- Fellow, American Meteorological Society
Research Interests (click here for highlights)
My main research focus is on investigating mid latitude storms, including how to forecast them better from a few days out to a season, how they may change under global warming, and their immense societal impacts. The distinctive characteristic of my research lies in the fact that I employ a wide range of tools in my research, ranging from analyses of gridded atmospheric analyses and state of the art climate model simulations to learn about the basic characteristics of the phenomena, examination of actual observations to validate what have been learnt from the gridded data, and dynamical studies using a suite of intermediate/mechanistic models to achieve better understanding of these observed phenomena. My major research interest areas are:
- Extratropical cyclones – forecasting and impacts
- Weather and climate extremes associated with extratropical cyclones
- Global warming and climate change
- Dynamics and life cycle of baroclinic waves and cyclones
- Dynamics, variability, and trends of storm tracks
- Wave/mean flow interactions
- Tropical/extratropical interactions, tropical meteorology
Publications
- Please refer to most recent publication list
Professional Service Outside the University
- Reviewed papers for: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Climate, Monthly Weather Review, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Weather and Forecasting, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letts., AGU monograph, G-Cubed (Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems), JAMES, International Journal of Climatology, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Atmospheric Sciences Letters, Tellus, Atmosphere-Ocean, Climate Dynamics, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Climate Research, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Environmental Research Letters, Atmospheric Research, Science, Scientific Report, Science Advances, PNAS, Weather and Climate Dynamics
- Reviewed Research Proposals for: National Science Foundation, NOAA, NASA, DOE, NERC (UK), Swiss NSF, French National Research Agency, Israel Science Foundation
- Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review (2002, 2007-2009)
- Editor of J. Atmos. Sci. (2021- ), Associate Editor (2016-2020)
- Convener of Special Session on Variability of Storm Tracks, AGU Spring Meeting, 5/2002
- Contributing author, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report WG1 Ch. 3 (Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change)
- Co-leader, THORPEX interest group on “The role of Rossby wave dynamics in predictability”
- Member, AMS committee on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (2006-2011)
- Program co-chair, AMS 18th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (June, 2011)
- Chair, US THORPEX Science Steering Committee, 2011-2014
- Member, NOAA MAPP CMIP5 Task Force (2012-2014)
- Co-lead, NOAA MAPP S2S Prediction Task Force (2016-2020)
- Member, NOAA MAPP CMIP6 Task Force (2019-2022), co-lead of Cold Climate Processes group