GFDL - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Yi Ming

Deputy Head, Atmospheric Physics Division

NOAA/GFDL
Princeton University, 201 Forrestal Rd.
Princeton, NJ 08542

Email: Yi.Ming@noaa.gov
Phone: 609-452-5338
Fax: 609-987-5063

Biographical Sketch

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Regional hydroclimate variability and change
• Climate dynamics
• Atmospheric physics/modeling

Recent Papers

Sahel Rainfall Change

• A moist static energy budget-based analysis of the Sahel rainfall response to uniform oceanic warming (J. of Climate)
• Further analysis (J. of Climate)

Climate Response to Early Holocene Orbital Forcing

• West African monsoon and zonal-mean tropical precipitation (GRL)

Aerosol Absorption and Extratropical Circulation

• The influence of aerosol absorption on extratropical circulation (J. of Climate)

An Idealized Moist Model with Realistic Radiative Transfer

• The role of water vapor feedback in ITCZ shift (J. of Climate)

Dynamics of South Asian Monsoon Low-Pressure Systems (Depressions)

• Moist and moist static energy budgets (J. of Atmospheric Sciences)
• Theory (J. of Atmospheric Sciences)

An Idealized Model of Passive Water Vapor and Clouds

• Modeling Water Vapor and Clouds in an Idealized GCM (J. of Climate)

East Asian Monsoon Change

• Competing Atmospheric and Surface-driven Impacts of Absorbing Aerosols (J. of Climate)

Tropical Tropopause Layer under Warming

• Changes of the tropical tropopause layer under global warming (J. of Climate)

Arctic Haze

• On the seasonality of Arctic Haze (J. of Climate)

Energy Flux Perturbation

• Spatially Similar Surface Energy Flux Perturbations due to Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols (Nature Geosciences, submitted)

Lower Stratospheric Circulation

• Tropical climate change control of the lower stratospheric circulation (GRL)

Forced Changes in Tropical Circulation and Stability 

• Mechanisms of forced tropical meridional energy flux change (J. of Climate)

Surface Dimming over East Asia

• Role of aerosol absorption in driving solar dimming (JGR)

Indian Monsoon

• Local vs. Remote Aerosol Impacts (GRL)
• Earlier Onset of the South Asian Monsoon (GRL)
• Role of Land Processes (Climate Dynamics)
• Model Precipitation Bias over the Equatorial Indian Ocean (Climate Dynamics)

Radiative Forcing

• Nonlocal Component of Radiative Flux Perturbation (GRL)

Climate Sensitivity

• Empirically Constraining Aerosol Forcing and Transient Climate Response (Submitted to GRL)

Geoengineering

• Geoengineered Brightening of the Subtropical Marine Clouds (GRL)

A “Trilogy” on Aerosol-induced Circulation Changes

• Tropical Circulation (J. Climate)
• Weakening of the South Asian monsoon (Science)
• Boreal Winter Extratropical Circulation (J. Climate)

Climate Impacts of Absorbing Aerosols

• Tropospheric-only Responses (J. Climate)
• Hydrological Effect (GRL)

Published Papers

• My GFDL Bibliography

Research Interests

• Aerosol physics and chemistry
• Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions
• Anthropogenic and natural climate forcings
• Global and regional climate change

Teaching

• AOS 527: Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
• AOS 580: Aerosol, Cloud and Climate Change