Tel: (919) 513-4438 (Lab); (919)995-0961(Mobile)
Email: ychen15@ncsu.edu
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Atmospheric Science, North Carolina State University, Jan., 2008 ~ Present.
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2008.
B.S., Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 2005.
Reaserch Experiences
Research Assistant: Jan., 2008 ~ Present at the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, NC State University, USA.
Current research focus: application of WRF/Chem over China and intercomparison with MM5/CMAQ; interactions between aerosol and meteorology; radiative forcing of anthropogenic air pollutants.
Control of Beijing’s Coal Combustion Pollution in the 11th Five-year Plan, Nov., 2005 ~ May., 2007.
Atmospheric Field Measurement in China, Dec., 2004 ~ Jul., 2007.
Field Experiment: Open burning of Biomass Fuel in Rural Area, Hebei Province, China, Jul., 2006 ~ Aug., 2006.
Publications
Contributed Presentations
Chen, Y.-S., Y. Zhang, 2010, Evaluation of Nucleation Algorithms and Their Impacts on Simulated Aerosol Number and Size Distributions and Cloud Properties, submitted for presentation at the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry/the 90th AMS Annual Meeting, January 17-21, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.
Chen, Y.-S., Y. Zhang, and C. J. Jang, 2008, Application of WRF/Chem over China and Intercomparison with MM5/CMAQ, poster presentation at the 7th Annual CMAQ Model-3 User’s Conference, October 6 - 8, 2008, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Zhang, Y., X.-M. Hu, Y. Pan, X.-Y. Wen, Y.-S. Chen, J. D. Fast, G. A. Grell, S. E. Peckham, K. L. Schere, and C. J. Jang, 2008, Updates on the Development and Application of WRF/Chem-MADRID, submitted for presentation at the 9th Annual WRF workshop, June 23 - 27, 2008, Boulder, Colorado.
Zhang, Y., Y.-S. Chen, X.-M. Hu, X.-Y. Wen, K. Wang, C. J. Jang, L.-T. Wang and J.-M. Hao, 2008, Coupled Regional Climate and Air Quality Modeling: History, Current Status, and Challenges, oral presentation at the International Workshop on Regional and Urban Air Quality in Yangtze River Delta Region, April 17 - 18, Shanghai, China.
Liu, X.-H., Y. Zhang, S.-H. Cheng, Y.-S. Chen, and W.-X. Wang, 2010, Understanding of Regional Air Pollution over China using CMAQ: Model Evaluation and Process Analysis, submitted for presentation at the 12th conference on Atmospheric Chemistry of the 2010 AMS Annual Meeting, January 17-21, 2010, Atlanta, GA.
Zhang, Y., X.-Y. Wen, Y.-S. Chen, A. Nenes, and S.G. Ghan, 2010, Sensitivity of simulated aerosol and cloud properties to homogeneous nucleation and aerosol activation parameterizations, submitted for presentation at the 12th conference on Atmospheric Chemistry of the 2010 AMS Annual Meeting, January 17-21, 2010, Atlanta, GA.
Zhang, Y., Y.-S. Chen, P. Pillai, and X.-Y. Dong, 2009, Sensitivity of Simulated Aerosol and Cloud Properties to Nucleation Parameterizations in 3-D Regional and Global Models, poster presentation at the 28th Annual Meeting of AAAR, October 26-30, 2009, Minneapolis, MN
Zhang, Y., Y. Pan, Y.-S. Chen, P. Karamchandani, D.G. Streets, and C.J. Jang, 2009, Studying Climate-Air Quality Interactions using the Global-Through-Urban WRF/Chem, submitted for presentation at the 8th annual CMAS meeting, October 19-21, 2009, Chapel Hill, NC.
Zhang, Y., Y. Pan, X.-Y. Wen, Y.-S. Chen, P. Karamchandani, D.G. Streets, and Q. Zhang, 2009, Global-through-urban WRF/Chem: a unified model for modeling aerosol-climate interactions, oral presentation at the Goldschmidt 2009, June 21 - 26, 2009, Davos, Switzerland.
Zhang, Y., Y. Pan, X.-Y. Wen, Y.-S. Chen, and J. Hemperly, P. Karamchandani, D. G. Streets, and C. Jang, 2009, Global-through-urban WRF/Chem: a unified model for simulating aerosol-climate interactions and evaluating co-benefit for air quality and climate change, invited presentation at the joint workshop of EMEP’s Task Force on Measurements and Modeling (TFMM) and the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP), Paris, France, June 17-19.
Zhang, Y., X.-Y. Wen, X.-Y. Dong, Y.-S. Chen, and Y. Pan, 2009, Evaluating Aerosol-Radiation-Cloud-Precipitation-Climate Feedbacks Simulated using Online-Coupled WRF/Chem, oral presentation at the 30th NATO/SPS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application, 18 – 22 May 2009, San Francisco, CA.
Zhang, Y., X.-Y. Wen, Y.-S. Chen, Y. Pan, and X.-M. Hu, 2008, Studying Climate-Chemistry-Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Feedbacks in North America and Asia using Online-Coupled WRF/Chem, oral presentation at the 27th Annual Meeting of American Association for Aerosol Research, Orlando, FL, October 20-24, 2008.
Zhang, Y., K. Wang, Y.-S. Chen, C. J. Jang, and S. Phillips, 2008, Asian Air Pollution Export and Aerosol-Regional Climate Interactions, oral presentation at the 7th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 6-8.
Jang, C., S. Phillips, P. Dolwick, N. Possiel, T. Fox, D. Evarts, Y. Zhang, K. Wang, and Y.-S. Chen, 2008, Modeling of Air Quality and Regional Climate Interactions, oral presentation at the 7th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 6-8.
Work Experiences
Intern, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, May, 2008 ~ Present.
Research Assistant, Air Quality Forecasting Lab, North Carolina State University, Jan., 2008 ~ Present.
Intern, Beijing Guohuan Environmental Engineering Design & Research Institute, Jul, 2005 ~ Aug, 2005.
Awards and Honors:
Second-class scholarship for outstanding academic scores, Tsinghua University, 2002 ~ 2004
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