School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

 

Yan HUANG

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Georgia Institute of Technology

311 Ferst Drive

Atlanta, GA 30332-0340

Phone: 404-385-1515

Fax: 404-3851510

Email: yan.huang@gatech.edu

Office: ES&T

 

 

 

 

*Education

 

Ph. D., 2005, Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

M. S., 2002, Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

M. S., 1992, Atmospheric Physics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

 

B. S., 1989, Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, (formerly Nanjing Institute of Meteorology), Nanjing, P.R. China

 

*Research Interests

 

Ø       Aerosol-land-atmosphere interactions

Ø       Aerosol-cloud-climate interaction

Ø       Regional and global climate modeling

Ø       Air pollution modeling

 

*Professional Experiences

 

v      Environmental Modeler, January 2008 - present

Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division, Air Protection Division, Atlanta, GA

 

v      Postdoctoral Research Fellow, April 2005 - December 2007

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

 

v      Graduate Research Assistant, October 1998 - March 2005

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

 

v      Visiting Scholar, Apr. 1997 - Sep. 1998

Climate and Global Dynamic Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

 

v      Research Assistant, Aug. 1994 - Mar. 1997

START Regional Center for Temperate East Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

 

v      Research Assistant, Sep. 1990 - Jul. 1994

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

 

*Professional Memberships

 

v      Member, American Meteorological Society, 2004-present

 

v      Member, American Geophysical Union, 1999-present

 

*Peer-Reviewed Publications

 

Huang Y., W. L. Chameides, Q. Tan, and R. E. Dickinson, 2008: Characteristics of anthropogenic sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols over East Asia: Regional modeling and observation. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 25(6), 946 - 959, doi: 10.1007/s00376-008-0946-z. [Reprint]

 

Huang Y., W. L. Chameides and R. E. Dickinson, 2007: The assessment of direct and indirect effect of anthropogenic aerosols on regional precipitation over East Asia, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 112, D03212, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007114. [Reprint]

 

Huang Y., R. E. Dickinson and W. L. Chameides, 2006: Impact of aerosol indirect effect on surface temperature over East Asia, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 4371-4376, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504428103. [Reprint]

 

Steiner, A., C. Luo, Y. Huang and W. L. Chameides, 2002: Past and present-day biogenic volatile organic compound emissions in East Asia, Atmospheric Environment, 36 (31), 4895-4905.

 

Tan, Q., Y. Huang and W. L. Chameides, 2002: Budget and export of anthropogenic SOx from East Asia during continental outflow conditions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, D13, doi: 10.1029/2001JD000769.

 

W. L. Chameides, C. Luo, R. Saylor, D. Streets, Y. Huang, M. Bergin and F. Giorgi, 2002: Correlation between model-calculated anthropogenic aerosols and satellite-derived cloud optical depths: Indication of indirect effect? Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, D10, doi: 10.1029/2000JD000208.

 

Qian, Y., F. Giorgi, Y. Huang, W. Chameides and C. Luo, 2001: Regional simulation of anthropogenic sulfur over East Asia and its sensitivity to model parameters, Tellus, 53B, 171-191.

 

Chameides, W. L., H. Yu, S.C. Liu, M. Bergin, X. Zhou, L. Mearns, G. Wang, C.S. Kiang, R.D. Saylor, C. Luo, Y. Huang, A. Steiner and F. Giorgi, 1999: Case study of the effects of atmospheric aerosols and regional haze on agriculture: An opportunity to enhance crop yields in China through emission controls? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96, 13,626-633.

 

Giorgi, F., Y. Huang, K. Nishizawa and C. Fu, 1999: A seasonal cycle simulation over East Asia and its sensitivity to radiative transfer and surface processes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 6403-6423.

 

Fu, C. and Y. Huang, 1996: Global change in Asia, Climatic and Environmental Research, Vol. 1, No. 2.

 

Huang, Y. and H. Xu, 1994: Seeding modeling on hail suppression with AgI particles, Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 18, No. 4.

 

Cao, W., Zhu, W. and Y. Huang, 1991: Application of the HIWAY-2 model in the research on the Nanjing-Liuhe highway air pollution caused by automobile emission, Journal of Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Vol. 14, No. 2. (In Chinese)

 

*Dissertations

 

v      Huang, Y., 2005: Assessments of the direct and indirect effects of anthropogenic aerosols on regional precipitation over East Asia using a coupled regional climate-chemistry-aerosol model, Ph.D. dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.

Advisor: William L. Chameides

 

v      Huang, Y., 1992: Seeding modeling on hail suppression with AgI particles, Master dissertation, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

 

*Professional Conferences

 

v      International Workshop on 'Development of Regional Earth System Model and Its Applications', CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum 2008, Kunming, P. R. China, 17-19 September, 2008

Oral presentation, The coupling of aerosol and regional climate model

 

v      8th Annual Ad-hoc Meteorological Modelers' Meeting, June 26-27, Boulder, CO

 

v      9th WRF Users' Workshop, June 23-26, Boulder, CO

 

v      2008 EPA Regional/State/Local Modelers' Workshop, June 9-12, Denver, CO

 

v      2007 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2007.

Postal presentation, Evaluation of Orographic effect on surface climate with WRF climate model

 

v      Global Environmental Change: Regional Challenges - An Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) Open Science Conference, Beijing, P. R. China, 9-12 November 2006

Postal presentation

 

v      2nd International Young Scientists' Global Change Conference, Beijing, P. R. China, 7-8 November 2006

Oral presentation, The regional climatic effects of anthropogenic aerosols

 

v      The 11th Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, CO, June 20-22, 2006.

 

v      2006 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 5-9, 2005.

Oral presentation, Direct and indirect effects of anthropogenic aerosols on regional precipitation over East Asia

 

v      Air Pollution as Climate Forcing: A Second Workshop, Honolulu, HI, April 4-6, 2005.

Poster presentation, Aerosol indirect effect on surface temperature

 

v      China-Map Working Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 1999.

 

v      EOS-Investigator Working Group Meeting, Vail, CO, June 1999.

 

v      China-Map Working Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA, April 1999.

 

v      Summer Colloquium on the Physics of Weather and Climate 'The Effect of Topography on the Atmospheric Circulation', ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 8-19, 1998.

 

v      Conference on 'The Role of Topography in Modeling Weather and Climate', ICTP, Trieste, Italy, June 22-26, 1998.

 

v      Ninth Science Team Meeting of U.S. Department of Energy and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Joint Research on Greenhouse Effect, Seattle, WA, September 1997.

 

*Teaching Experiences

 

v      Teaching Assistant, Fall 2004

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Course: EAS1601 Habitable Planet

 

v      Tutor, June 1998

ICTP - The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Tutorial on the use of Regional Climate model

 

 

Last Updated: February 12, 2009