I am a physical climate scientist interested in the inner workings of Earth’s climate system. My published works center on elucidating the underlying processes of weather/climate phenomena across a wide range of spatio-temporal scales. An example is how tiny aerosol particles can weaken the enormous South Asian monsoon, the lifeblood for 2 billion people. I use a hierarchy of climate models and observations for developing fundamental theories and structure my group’s research around an evolving set of “use cases” such as the Sahel drought. A leading question is on how climate change may affect regional precipitation patterns (e.g. droughts and floods) and extreme events (e.g. hurricanes, wildfires and winter storms).
Recent Publications (*First-authored by students or postdocs supervised)
- Hill*, S., Y. Ming, I.M. Held and M. Zhao, 2017: A moist static energy budget-based analysis of the Sahel rainfall response to uniform oceanic warming. Journal of Climate, 30(15), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0785.1.
- Ming, Y., and I.M Held, 2018: Modeling Water Vapor and Clouds as Passive Tracers in an Idealized GCM. Journal of Climate, 31(2), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0812.1.
- Smyth*, J.E., and Y. Ming, 2021: Investigating the impact of land surface characteristics on monsoon dynamics with idealized model simulations and theories. Journal of Climate, 34(19), DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0954.
- Ming, Y., and co-authors, 2021: Assessing the influence of COVID-19 on the shortwave radiative fluxes over the East Asian Marginal Seas. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(3), DOI:10.1029/2020GL091699.
- *MacDonald, C.G., and Y. Ming, 2022: Tropical Intraseasonal Variability Response to Zonally Asymmetric Forcing in an Idealized Moist GCM, Journal of Climate, 35(24), 4479-4501.
