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Lei Yin

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, expected 2015

Supervisors

Rong Fu

Research Theme

Climate, Carbon & Geobiology

Research Discipline

Climate Dynamics

My research centers on recognizing the basic physical processes and dynamics contributing to climate variability and change on all time scales, understanding the relative importance of natural variability and anthropogenic forcing, and revealing the potential influence of air-land interactions behind the hydrological cycle. Currently, we focus our realization on South America, the south-central US and the Congo basin. Earth system modeling and water isotope technics are employed to facilitate our physical understanding and striking scientific explorations. Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) indicates an unignored bias on regional climate, especially Amazonia. As the largest tropical rainforest, Amazonia contributes to a large fraction of global carbon uptake. The bias attenuates our acceptance of the couple climate models. A deep understanding of physical processes will increase our confidence in the simulations and projections from the climate models. I also share my interest on boundary layer meteorology and emphasize on how the change of surface conditions can impact the turbulent characteristics, which will boost our knowledge on the interactions between the boundary layer processes and large-scale climate.