Kai Yang, PhD, Young Research Fellow, master supervisor. Research areas of Dr. Yang focus on the numerical model, modeling and land-atmosphere interactions. He has conducted researchesabout the impacts of freeze-thaw process and snow cover anomalies over Tibetan Plateau on general circulation in East Asia, incorporated a fully coupled water-heat transport scheme intoCommunity Land Model, improved the frozen soil parameterization.
Area of Expertise:
Land-atmosphere interaction, land surface modeling and parameterizations
Education:
Ph. D. in Meteorology (Jun. 2020), College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
M. S. in Meteorology (Jun. 2017), College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
B. S. in Atmospheric Sciences (Jun. 2014), College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University
Email:yangkai@lzu.edu.cn
Selected publications:
1.Yang K., Qi Q., Wang C. (2023). Possible impacts of vegetation cover increment on the relationship between winter snow cover anomalies over the Third Pole and summer precipitation in East Asia. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00467-3
2.Yang, K., Yang, J., Zhaoye, P., Zhang, F., Zhang, G., Wang, C. (2023). Optimization and validation of soil frozen-thawing parameterizations in Noah-MP. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD038217. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD03821
3.Yang K., Wang C. (2023). Frozen Soil Advances the Effect of Spring Snow Cover Anomalies on Subsequent Precipitation over Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24(2), 335-350. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-22-0083.1
4.Yang J., Yang K.*, Zhang F., Wang C.* (2023). Contributions of natural and anthropogenic factors to historical changes in vegetation cover and its future projections in the Yellow River basin, China. International Journal of Climatology, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8213
5.Yang K., Wang C. (2022). East–west reverse coupling between Spring soil moisture and summer precipitation and its possible responsibility for wet bias in GCMs over Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres ,127, e2021JD036286. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036286
6.Yang J., Yang K.*, Wang C.* (2022). How desertification in northern China will change under a rapidly warming climate in the near future (2021–2050). Theoretical and Applied Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-022-04315-x
7.Yang K., Wang C. (2019). Seasonal persistence of soil moisture anomalies related to freeze–thaw over the Tibetan Plateau and prediction signal of summer precipitation in eastern China. Climate Dynamics, 53, 2411-2424. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04867-1
8.Yang K., Wang C. (2019). Water storage effect of soil freeze-thaw process and its impacts on soil hydro-thermal regime variations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 265, 280-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.011
9.Yang K., Wang C., Li S. (2018). Improved simulation of Frozen-Thawing Process in Land Surface Model (CLM4.5). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 238–258. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JD028260
10.Wang C., Yang K. (2018). A new scheme for considering soil water‐heat transport coupling based on Community Land Model: Model description and preliminary validation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10, 927-950. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017MS001148
11.Yang K., Wang C., Bao H. (2016). Contribution of soil moisture variability to summer precipitation in the Northern Hemisphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 108-124. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025644
