Biography

Research Interests:

Observations of and Numerical Modeling of Atmospheric, Oceanic, Estuary, Land and Hydraulic Inter-Actively Coupled Systems
Relationships between Climate and Weather Coupled Systems
Wind-Wave-Current Coupled Interactions

Recent Publications:

2014

Yan, T., S. Bao, L. J. Pietrafesa and P. T. Gayes, 2014: Modal Inter-Comparisons between North Atlantic Accumulated Cyclone Energy and the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation, and the Pathology of the 2013 Hurricane Season. Special Issue: Weather Forecasting, Nature Science (in print)

2013

Yan, Tingzhuang, S. Bao, L. Pietrafesa and P. Gayes, 2013: Modal Inter-Comparisons between North Atlantic Accumulated Cyclone Energy and the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation, and the Pathology of the 2013 Hurricane Season. Journal Natural Science (accepted)

Pietrafesa, Leonard J., David A. Dickey, Paul T. Gayes, Tingzhuang Yan, James M. Epps, Maura Hagan, Shaowu Bao, and Machuan Peng. 2013 "On Atmospheric-Oceanic-Land Temperature Variability and Trends." International Journal of Geosciences 4 (2013): 417-443.

2012

Yan, T., L, J, Pietrafesa, G. D. Bell and D. A. Dickey, 2012: On the inverse relationship between North American snow extent and North Atlantic hurricane activity. Int. J. Climatol. 32, DOI: 10.1002/joc.3485