Yuan Wang

Professor

yuanasm@nju.edu.cn
+86-25-89683992

Education

Sep 1992 - Oct 1997	Ph.D in Astronomy and Geophysics, Institut d'Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Sep 1979 - Jul 1983	B.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China

Work Experience

Jan 1998 - Present	Professor, School of Atmosphere Sciences, Nanjng University, Nanjing, China Teaching and Researching in atmospheric dynamics
2006 - 2018	Director, Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather (Ministry of Education), Nanjing University
2006 - 2018	Vice Dean, School of Atmosphere Sciences, Nanjing University
Jan 2006 - Jul 2006	Post-doctoral position, Department of Atmosphere Science National Taiwan University
Nov 1991 - Jan 1993	Visiting Scientist, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, supported by the foundation of WENNER-GREN CENTER
Aug 1983 - Oct 1991	Engineer, Jiangsu Meteorological Observatory Researching in local climate change, local modeling of air pollution.

Areas of Research

Synoptic-dynamic Meteorology
Numerical Weather Prediction
Satellite Meteorology

Teaching Interests

Advanced Synoptic Meteorology

Selected Publications

1.	Zhuge, X., X. Zou, and Y. Wang, 2021: Determining AHI cloud-top phase and intercomparisons with MODIS products over North Pacific. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 59.
2.	Zhang, S., D. B. Parsons, and Y. Wang, 2020: Wave disturbances and their role in the maintenance, structure, and evolution of a mesoscale convection system. J. Atmos. Sci., 77, 51–77.
3.	Abulikemu, A., Y. Wang, R. Gao, Y. Wang, and X. Xu, 2019: A numerical study of convection initiation associated with a gust front in Bohai Bay region, North China. J. Geophy. Res. Atmos., 124, 13843−13860.
4.	Song, J., Klotzbach, P. J., Tang, J., and Wang, Y., 2018: The increasing variability of tropical cyclone lifetime maximum intensity. Sci Rep., 8, 16641.
5.	Xu, X., J. Song, Y. Wang, and M. Xue, 2017: Quantifying the effect of horizontal propagation of three-dimensional mountain waves on the wave momentum flux using Gaussian beam approximation. J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 1783−1798.
6.	Zhuge, X., X. Zou, and Y. Wang, 2017: A fast cloud detection algorithm applicable to monitoring and nowcasting of daytime cloud systems. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 55, 6111-6119.
7.	Li, X., J. Ming., M. Xue, Y. Wang, and K. Zhao, 2015: Implementation of a dynamic equation constraint based on the steady state momentum equations within the WRF hybrid ensemble-3DVar data assimilation system and test with radar T-TREC wind assimilation for tropical Cyclone Chanthu (2010), J. Geophy. Res. Atmos., 120, 4017-4039.
8.	Ming, J. , J. A. Zhang, R. F. Rogers, F. D. Marks, Y. Wang, and N. Cai, 2014: Multiplatform observations of boundary layer structure in the outer rainbands of landfalling typhoons. J. Geophy. Res. Atmos, 119, doi: 10.1002/2014JD021637.
9.	Wang, Y., Song, J. and Wu R., 2013: A new insight into the contribution of environmental conditions to tropical cyclone activities. Acta Meteor. Sinica. 27, 344-355.
10.	Xu, X., Y. Wang, and M. Xue, 2012: Momentum flux and flux divergence of gravity waves in directional shear flows over three-dimensional mountains. J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 3733−3744.

Selected Awards

2014	The First Prize for Science and Technology Progress Award in Jiangsu province.
2006	The First Prize for Science and Technology Progress Award, the Ministry of Education (MOE), China.

Professional Services

Committee Member of Institute of Heavy Rain, CMA(IHR)
Committee Member of China Meteorological Society
Executive director of Jiangsu Meteorological Society
Vice president of Nanjing Meteorological Society
Director of Atmospheric Detection and Meteorological Instrument Committee of Jiangsu Meteorological Society
Associate Editor of the Journal of Meteorological Science
Editorial committee of the Meteorology and Disaster Reduction Research, Plateau and Mountain Meteorology Research and Torrential Rain and Disasters