鄭芳怡(Fang-Yi Cheng)

Welcome to Dr. Fang-Yi Cheng's web space

Fang-Yi obtained her bachelor's degree in science from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at National Central University in Taiwan. She obtained her master's degree in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Houston. She received her Ph.D in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Houston. Her Ph.D. dissertation is to understand the impact of meteorological changes due to land use and land cover differences on Houston’s high ozone problem (dissertation advisor: Professor Daewon Byun).

After graduate school, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in IMAQS (Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies), University of Houston, to implement a new inorganic gas-aerosol equilibrium module, UHAERO, into the U.S. EPA Models-3/CMAQ 3-D air quality model to assess the aerosol prediction capability. She also studied the boundary layer processes in coastal and urban environments to improve meteorological simulations for air quality assessment.

Fang-Yi joined the Hydrologic Research Center (http://www.hrcwater.org/) in San Diego, California, as a Postdoctoral Associate in May 2008. She supported the hydro-meteorological forecasting system in Panama. She also studied the climatological wind fields in the Panama Canal watershed using 10 years of observed hourly surface wind data and numerical model simulations. She worked on the Integrated Forecast and Reservoir Management (INFORM) project, an integrated forecast and water management system for the Northern California river and reservoir system. INFORM provides the real-time meteorological/climatological, and hydrological forecasts. This study is beneficial for supporting the water management program in Northern California.

Fang-Yi joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at National Central University in August 2009, and life continued.