Yue Dong (董 玥)
Email: ydong@atmos.ucla.edu
I am a climate scientist studying climate dynamics and climate change. My research interests are focused on large-scale climate interactions in the coupled climate system, such as atmosphere-ocean interactions and tropics-extratropics teleconnections, and how these dynamic processes are coupled with the Earth's radiative responses and climate sensitivity to anthropogenic and natural forcings.
To do that, I use climate models (both complex global climate models and idealized conceptual models) and observational data to better understand the fundamental physics of the coupled climate system.
NEWS
In November 2024, I will be joining the faculty of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a tenure-track assistant professor!
I am currently looking for new PhD students to join my group studying large-scale coupled climate interactions between the atmosphere (e.g., clouds, circulation, precipitation), oceans (e.g. temperature, salinity, heat uptake), and the cryosphere. Research topics in my group include:
Interactions between the Southern Ocean and the tropical Pacific
Formation of global surface temperature patterns
Constraints on climate sensitivity, transient climate response, and the global energy budget
Forced and unforced climate change over the historical period
Short bio
2024/11 - Assistant Professor, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California Los Angeles
2023/9 - 2024/10 Research Scientist, University of Colorado Boulder/CIRES
2022/1 - 2023/8 NOAA C&GC Postdoctoral Fellow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (host: Prof. Lorenzo Polvani)
2016/9 - 2021/12, PhD, Atmospheric Sciences (concurrent MS degree in Applied Mathematics), University of Washington. (Advisors: Prof. Kyle Armour and Prof. David Battisti)
2012 - 2016, B.E. International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (advisor: Prof. Manabu Kanda)