Expertise:

Prof. Yimin Liu, doctor. She is mainly engaged in subtropical weather and climate dynamics, Tibetan Plateau climate dynamics and climate simulation. She has studied the formation of the subtropical anticyclone systematically. She revealed how the different kinds of heating contribute differently to the formation and variation of the subtropical anticyclones, and how their combination affects the subtropical climates. She contributes to the development of the thermal adaptation theory and demonstrates how the atmosphere responds to different kind of heating and cooling. She also discovered how the deep condensation heating during the BOB monsoon onset can trigger the monsoon onset over the Southern China Sea. Moreover she conducted a series of study on the impacts on the Asian climate of the land-sea thermal contrast and the Tibetan Plateau mechanical and thermal forcing. She has published more than 70 papers on domestic and international academic journals and 3 books. Her PhD thesis was one of the Excellent PhD theses in China in 2001. She received Ye Du Feng Zheng Award for Excellent Paper of Young Scientist in 2001 and Zhao Jiuzhang Award of the Science and Technology for Young Scientist in 2005.

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Publication:

PART I SELETED PAPERS IN JOURNAL Liu Y.M., G.X. Wu, H. Liu and P. Liu, 2001: Condensation heating of the Asian summer monsoon and the subtropical anticyclone in the Eastern Hemisphere. Clim. Dyn. 17:327－338 Liu, Y.M., J. C. L. Chan, J. Y. Mao and G. X. Wu, The Role of Bay of Bengal Convection in the Onset of the 1998 South China Sea Summer Monsoon. Mon. Wea. Rev. 2002, 130: 2731-2744 Wu G.X. and Y. M. Liu, 2003: Summertime quadruplet heating pattern in the subtropics and the associated atmospheric circulation. Geophy. Res. Lett, 30,1201-1204 Liu Y.M., G.X. Wu, and R. C. Ren, 2004: Relation between the Subtropical Anticyclone and Diabatic Heating , J. Climate, 2004, 17, 682-698 Liu Yimin and Wu Guoxiong, 2004: Progress in the study on the formation of the summertime subtropical anticyclone. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 21(3):322-342 Xiaoyun Liang, Yimin Liu, and Guoxiong Wu, 2005: The role of land-sea distribution in the formation of the Asian summer monsoon. Geoph. Res. Lett. 32: 10.1029/2004GL021587 Liu YM,B.J. Hoskins, M,Blackburn, 2007: Impacts of the Tibetan Topography and heating on the summer flow over Asia. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan (Special 125th Anniversary Issue). 85B:1-19 Guoxiong Wu, Yimin Liu, Tongmei Wang, Rijin Wan, …,2007: The Influence of the Mechanical and Thermal Forcing of the Tibetan Plateau on the Asian Climate. J. Hydrometeorology. 8: 770-789 PART II BOOKS Wu Guoxiong, Chou Jifan, Liu Yimin, Hejinhai, 2002: Dynamics of the Formation and Variation of Subtropical Anticyclones. Beijing, Science Press. 314pp Liu Yimin, 2003: Diabatic heating and subtropical anticyclone, Beijing, Education Presss, 166pp Liu Yimin and Qian Zhengan, 2005: The differences between the sea and land thermal forcing on the variability of climate in China. Beijing, Meteorology Press. 202pp

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Projects:

NSFC project “A linear PV model with self-adjustment in the open and dissipation subtropics and its simulation" and Group Project “Mechanism of the climatic variation over the Eastern Asia and Western Pacific and the predictability theory", 973 project “Research on Theories and Methods of Monitoring and Predicting of Heavy Rainfall in South China" and “Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction over the Joining Area of Asia and Indian-Pacific Ocean and Its Impact on the Short-Term Climate Variation in China".