Climate Modelling Group
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences

Dr. Yanping He

Opus der Pinguin
Post Doctoral Fellow

School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
University of Victoria
PO Box 3055 STN CSC
Victoria BC V8W 3P6 
CANADA

Tel: (250) 472 4008
Fax: (250) 472 4030

email: yhe@uvic.ca

Education

PhD., Atmospheric Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, Advisor: Prof. Robert E. Dickinson.
MCS. Candidate, Computer Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Canada
M.S., Climatology, Peking University, China
B.S., Meteorology, Peking University, China

MITACS and CRCMD Wind Project
Understanding and Evaluating Land Surface Wind Probability Distributions with High Resolution Observations and Regional Climate Modeling

CRCMD Cloud Project
CCCMa Single Column Model SCM15F TKE version Improvements and Implementation.

Selelected Journals

  • He Y., A. H. Monahan, N. McFarlane, and K. Winger (2010), Diurnal varying land surface wind speed over North America: Observations and Canadian climate model simulations, Monthly Weather Review, in preparation.
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  • He Y., A. H. Monahan, N. McFarlane, and A. Dai (2010), The probability distribution of global land surface wind speed: relationship with lower tropospheric winds and surface stability, J. Climate, to be submitted.
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  • He Y., A. H. Monahan, C. G. Jones, A. Dai, S. Biner, D. Caya, and K. Winger (2010), The probability distribution of land surface wind speed over North America, JGR-Atmosphere, in press, PDF preprint.
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  • He Y. and R. E. Dickinson (2010), How low cloud variability is linked to lower tropospheric dry static energy transport in subtropical marine stratus and stratocumulus regions, Theortical and Applied Climatology, with revision, abstract.
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  • He Y.(2009), How surface latent heat flux is linked to lower tropospheric stability in Southern Marine Stratus and Stratocumulus Regions, Cent. Eur. J. Geosci., Vol 1, No.3, 368-375 PDF.

  • He Y. (2009), Surface wind speed probability distribution in the Southeast Pacific of marine stratus and stratocumulus regions, Cent. Eur. J. Geosci., Vol.1, No. 4., 443-456 PDF.
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  • Zeng X., M. Zhao, R. E. Dickinson, and Y. He (1999), A multiyear hourly sea surface skin temperature dataset derived from the TOGA TAO bulk temperature and wind speed over the tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.104, 1525-1536./

    • Books and Chapters

  • He Y, (2008), Subtropical marine low clouds and surface wind distributions, VDM publishing house, German, 978-3-639-09673-6.

  • Zeng X. and Y. He (2001), Surface evaporation at very high sea surface temperatures. In monograph: Dynamics of atmospheric and oceanic circulation and climate. China Meteorological Press, 508-520.

    • Selected Proceedings

  • He Y. and N. McFarlane 2010, SCM15F TKE verison Improvements, Cloud-Aerosol Feedback and Climate (CAFC) Network Annual Meeting, , Toronto, ON, Canada.

  • He Y., A. H. Monahan, and N. McFarlane, 2009, Non-Weibull behavior of global land surface wind speed, CRCMD Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada.

  • He Y., A. H. Monahan, C. G. Jones, A. Dai, S. Biner, D. Caya, and K. Winger, 2008, Land surface wind probability distributions in North America: observations, theory, and regional climate model evaluations, CRCMD Annual Meeting, I'Esterel, QC,Canada.

  • He Y. and R. E. Dickinson, 2006. A simple conceptual model of atmospheric stability and marine stratus and stratocumulus cloud fraction, 18th conference on climate variability and climate change, 9.11, 86th AMS annual meeting , Atlanta, GA. PDF

  • Fyffe G., J. D. Horton, Y. He, 2001. Experiments with MARMOSET, a deduction system based on clause trees, Proceedings of the second international workshop on the implementation of logics , German.

  • He Y., X. Zeng, and R. E. Dickinson (1999), Diurnal variation of temperature and surface fluxes over the Tropical Pacific, Proceedings of a conference on the TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE) , 328-329.

  • He Y., X. Zeng, and R. E. Dickinson (1998), The relationship of latent heat flux with sea surface temperature and wind speed over the Tropical, Ninth conference on interaction of the sea and atmosphere,

  • Research Interest

  • Boundary Layer Physics and Dynamics
  • Stochastic and extreme processes in winds
  • Wind-Cloud Interactions
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