Xiu-Qun Yang earned his PhD degree from Nanjing University and worked as a postdoc at Princeton University (GFDL/NOAA). He has been working at Nanjing University, engaging in climate dynamics research with observational diagnoses, numerical experiments and theoretical analyses. His major research areas include: (1) tropical and extratropical air-sea interaction dynamics, (2) subseasonal-to-interdecadal climate variability and predictability, and (3) regional human activities (aerosols and urbanization) and East Asian monsoon climate change.
Lejiang Yu graduated from Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has worked at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Michigan State University, and then at Polar Research Institute of China. His research experience includes ocean-atmosphere interaction, boundary-layer meteorology and climate, extreme events and polar meteorology and climate. His current research is on polar sea ice variability, polar boundary-layer dynamics and polar extreme events.
Yang Zhang graduated from Nanjing University (B.Sc) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). She now works as a full professor at Nanjing University. Her research experience includes extratropical eddy-mean flow interactions, climate variability and climate change, mid-latitude air-sea interactions and large-scale circulations in East Asia. Her current research pursues essential understanding in the dynamics of mid- and high-latitude climate variability and developing diagnostic tools accordingly, which would help make improvements in the modeling and prediction of the extratropical climate system.
