Time: 14:00-15:00, 4 July (Thursday)
Venue: Lecture Hall 221, Institute of Surface-Earth System Science (Building No. 16)
Topics: Land Surface Modeling: Progress and Prospect
Speaker: Prof. Zong-Liang Yang is the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Earth System Sciences in the Department of Geological Sciences and the Director of the Center for Integrated Earth System Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are focused on understanding the fundamental land surface processes for weather, climate, hydrology, air quality, the environment, and the earth system. He has led the development of parameterization schemes for terrestrial hydrology (including snow, frozen soil, runoff, and groundwater) in the Community Land Model (CLM) for use in a premier climate model—the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Earth System Model (CESM). He has also led the development of the next-generation land surface model (Noah-MP) for the mesoscale Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) modeling system. He has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed journal articles (with a Web of Knowledge h-index of 49, total citation > 11000 and a Google Scholar h-index of 59, total citation > 18500). He teaches classes on physical climatology, land–atmosphere interaction dynamics, and climate change. He has graduated 15 PhD students and 3 MS thesis students since coming to Austin in 2001. Before joining the faculty at UT-Austin, Dr. Yang was a postdoc and then research faculty at the University of Arizona and he holds a Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Macquarie University and an MS in Meteorology from University of Melbourne in Australia.
