Da Yang | Convection and Climate

Assistant Professor

My research interests are in the physics of rainstorms and atmospheric circulations in a changing climate. I am particularly interested in what environmental factors control the temporal and spatial scales of rainstorms, how will the characteristic scales of rainstorms change in a warmer climate, and how the collective effects of individual rainstorms, in turn, shape Earth's climate.

News

Mar. 2025: My student Lin Yao has been named a 2025 GFD Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Congratulations Lin! Also, a big shout-out to Heng Quan for being selected as a GFD Fellow. It was a pleasure working with Heng during the last Rossbypalooza Summer School!

Nov. 2024: Our work on atmospheric rivers was featured by UChicago News.

Nov. 2024: Our paper "Vapor Kinetic Energy for the Detection and Understanding of Atmospheric Rivers" was published in Nature Communications.

Aug. 2024: Our paper "Vapor-Buoyancy Feedback in an Idealized GCM" was published in the Journal of Climate.

Aug. 2024: My student Lin Yao has received an Outstanding Student Oral Presentation (OSOP) award for her presentation at the 24th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (AMS). Congratulations Lin!

July 2024: Our paper "Vertically Resolved Analysis of the Madden-Julian Oscillation Highlights the Role of Convective Transport of Moist Static Energy" was published in Geophysical Research Letters.

May 2024: I was interviewed by The Atlantic on clouds and climate change.