CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. Yu Gu
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE)
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS)
4242 Young Hall, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7228
Tel: (310) 206-0377(W), (310) 634-6076 (cell); E-Mail: gu@atmos.ucla.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000
M.S. Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 1991
B.S. Meteorology, Peking University, 1988APPOINTMENTS & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2020–present: Associate Director of Operations, JIFRESSE, UCLA
2019–present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
2017–2020: Assistant Director, JIFRESSE, UCLA
2012–present: Researcher, JIFRESSE & Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
2005–2012: Associate Researcher, JIFRESSE & Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
2001–2005: Assistant Researcher, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
2000–2001: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2019-2020: Instructor, AOS C160/C240B, Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Oceans, UCLA
2014–2015: Instructor, AOS 104, Fundamentals of Air and Water Pollution, UCLA
EDITORSHIPS
2021–present: Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres
2020–present: Editor, Geophysical Research Letters
2020–present: Associate Editor, Atmosphere and Climate, Frontiers in Environmental Science
2018–2020: Associate Editor, Geophysical Research Letters
2014–2020: Associate Editor, Journal of Meteorological Research
AWARDS & HONORS
2017: Alan Berman Research Publication Award, Department of the Navy.
1999: Jacob A. Bjerknes Memorial Award, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA.
1999: American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU Spring Meeting, Boston, MA.
1999-2000: Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA.
1988: Outstanding Graduate, Peking University, China.
1984-1988: Outstanding Academic Performance Scholarship, Peking University, China
RESEARCH GRANTS
- NSF (PI, AGS-2103820): Collaborative Research: A Synergistic Study of Aerosol Vertical Distributions and their Effects on Convective Clouds and Precipitation. $426,986, 07/01/2021 – 06/30/2024.
- NOAA-DOE Climate Process Teams (PI, NA19OAR4310243): 3D-Land Energy and Moisture Exchanges: Harnessing High Resolution Terrestrial Information to Refine Atmosphere-to-Land interactions in Earth System Models. $605,020, 09/01/2019 – 08/30/2022.
- NASA TASNPP (PI, 80NSSC18K0985): Investigation of Anthropogenic Aerosol Effects on Ice and Mixed-Phase Clouds and Associated Precipitation Based on Satellite Observations. $360,201.61, 05/29/2018 – 05/28/2021.
- NSF (PI, AGS-1660587): Radiative Transfer through the Black Carbon-Snow System: Fundamentals and Applications. $600,000, 09/01/2017 – 08/31/2021.
- Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (Co-PI, Award# 20200288): Co-benefits of Climate Mitigation on Air Quality and Human Health in Los Angeles. $250,000, 07/01/2019 – 06/30/2021.
- Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (Co-I): Environmental and Public Health Benefits from Achieving Sustainable Energy in the Los Angeles County. $200,000, 01/01/2017 – 12/31/2019.
- JPL/NASA (PI): Using MISR and Other Satellite Data for Atmospheric Science Studies. $25,000, 11/01/2018 – 09/30/2019.
- JSIP (PI): Extending A-priori Database for the ENTICE Mission Concept. $7,350, 6/24/2019 – 09/20/2019.
- JPL/NASA (PI): Retrieval Simulation for ENTICE Mission. $11,563, 6/24/2019 – 09/13/2019.
- JPL/NASA (PI): CMIP6 Climate Model Evaluation. $8,674, 6/24/2019 – 09/13/2019.
- NSF (PI, AGS-1701526): Impact of Anthropogenic Air Pollution on Ice clouds and Regional Radiative Forcing. $279,999, 09/01/2017 – 08/31/2019.
- JPL/NASA (PI): WRF-Chem Based Data Assimilation for Air Quality Studies. $52,000, 1/01/2018 – 09/30/2018.
- JSIP (PI): Enhancing Forward Modeling Capability for Weather OSSE. $7,275, 6/18/2018 – 09/14/2018.
- NSF (Co-PI, AGS-1419526): EaSM-3: Collaborative Research: Surface-induced Forcing and Decadal Variability and Change of the East Asian Climate, Surface Hydrology and Agriculture – A Modeling and Data Approach. $1,800,000, 08/01/2014 – 07/31/2018.
- DOE (Co-PI): Collaborative Project: 3D Radiative Transfer Parameterization Over Mountains/Snow for High-Resolution Climate Models: Fast Physics and Applications. $762,000, 9/15/2011-9/14/2014.
- NSF (PI, ATM-0924876): Investigation of the Aerosol Indirect Effect on Ice Clouds and its Climate Impact Using A-Train Satellite Data and a GCM (General Circulation Model). $549,082, 09/01/2009 – 08/31/2013.
- NASA IDS (Co-I): Integrated Hydrologic Response to Extreme Dust Deposition to the Snow Cover of the Colorado River Basin. $1,559,122, 9/1/2010-8/31/2013.
- Strategic University Research Partnership, Director’s Research and Development Fund Proposal FY 2009 (Co-PI): Integrating WRF Simulations and Remote Sensing Observations in the JPL Hurricane Forecasting and Analysis System. $99,630, 2009
- NSF (PI, ATM-0437349) A General Circulation Model (GCM) Investigation of the Direct Radiative Forcing of Spherical and Nonspherical Aerosols. $250,688, 12/2004 – 11/2008.
- NSF (PI, ATM-0437349, supplemantal support): Determination of Radiative and Heat Budgets and Snow-Albedo Feedback over the Tibetan Plateau from Satellite Data. $20,000, 09/2005 – 11/2008.
- Pacific Rim Research Program Mini-Grant (PI, 3TPRRP4-64): Effect of Anthropogenic Aerosols in China on Pacific Rim Region Climate Change. $3,000, 07/2004-06/2005.
CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION
1) JIFRESSE Summer Internship Program (JSIP)
Played a key role in the initiation of the JSIP in 2018; Responsible for the program implemenation and administration.
2) Supervising/Co-Supervising Postdoctoral Scholars:
Yun Lin (2020-present), JIFRESSE, UCLAHongrong Shi (2018-2019), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Bin Zhao (2015-2019), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Zhe Jiang (2017-2018), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Xuehua Fan (2016-2017), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Run Liu (2016-2017), JIFRESSE, UCLA
3) Supervising/Co-Supervising Ph.D. Students/Visiting Graduate Researcher (VGR):
Dominique Stumbaugh (2020-present), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLAKuilin Zhu (2020-present), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLAXinlei Han (2019-2020, JIFRESSE, UCLA
Qixiang Chen (2019-2020), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Xiang Zhong (2019), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Tianhao Zhang (2019), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Wenwen Zhang (2018-2019), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Ziwei Wang (2018, Peking University), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Jing Wang (2018), JIFRESSE, UCLA
Huilin Huang (2017-2018), Department of Geography, UCLA
Cenlin He (2012-2017), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Hsien-Liang Tseng (2013-2016), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Jin Kong (2010-2012), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Qing Yue (2003-2009), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Wenyan Zhou (2005), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Feng Zhang (2003), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA4) Mentoring/Co-Mentoring Undergraduate & High School Students:(a) Undergraduate studentsPhillip Yu (2021), University of Califonia, Davis.Jack Sampiere (2020), Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLAYan Sun (2019), Financial Actuarial Math and Statistics, UCLA
Kyle Johnson (2019), JIFRESSE Summer Internship Program (JSIP), UCLA
Dominique Stumbaugh (2019), JSIP, UCLA
Torrance Cui (2019), University of California, Santa Barbara
Xuan Ji (2018-2019), Beijing Normal University
Arushi Sinha (2018-2019), JSIP, UCLA
Danlei Zhou (2018), University of California, Santa Barbara
Jingjing Nie (2018), JSIP, UCLA
Teresa Jiang (2012), University of California, Berkeley
(b) High school students
Elizabeth Ding (2019), Saratoga High School, CA
Jonathan Qi (2019), Mira Costa High School, CA
Anna Yu (2019), Mira Costa High School, CA
Haohai Li (2019), Ravenscroft School
Jeremy Lim (2017), Walnut High School, CA
Kathleen Song (2017), Irvine High School, CA
Christine Song (2017), Los Osos High School, CA
Teresa Jiang (2010), La Canada High School, CA
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
1) Proposal Panel Review
2021: Review Panelist, NASA Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program
2020: Review Panelist, NASA Earth Science Research From Operational Geostationary Satellite Systems (ESROGSS)
2019: Review Panelist, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
2016: Review Panelist, NASA Aura Science Team and for Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis Program (Aura/ACMAP)
2013: Review Panelist, NASA Sciences of Terra and Aqua Program
2) Journal Article Review
AGU/AMS journals, ACP, Climate Dynamics, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, International Journal of Climatology, Advancse in Atmospheric Sciences, Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, etc. 1-2 articles per month on average.
3) Conference Convener/Organizer/Chair
2021: AMS Annual Meeting, “Aerosol-climate interactions from regional to global scale”, 13th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions.
2019–2020: AGU Fall Meeting, “Microphysical and Macrophysical Properties and Processes of Ice and Mixed-Phase Clouds: Linking in Situ, Remote Sensing Observations and Multiscale Models”, San Francisco, California (2019); Zoom Meeting (2020).
2020: AGU Fall Meeting, “Atmospheric aerosols and their interactions with clouds, radiation, and climate on regional scale”. Zoom Meeting.
2020: AMS Annual Meeting, “Air Quality Forecasting of Pollution Episodes”, 22nd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Boston, Massachusetts.
2019: AGU Fall Meeting, “Aerosol-radiation-cloud-precipitation interactions: Linking regional air pollution and climate change”. San Francisco, California.
2019: The 8th COAA International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Change (ICAOCC), “Air pollution, Aerosol, and Climate”, Nanjing, China
2018: AGU Fall Meeting, “Interactions of Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation, and Climate on Regional Scale”, Washington, D.C.
2018: AGU Fall Meeting, “Microphysical and Macrophysical Properties of Ice and Mixed-Phase Clouds and Processes: Linking in-situ, Remote Sensing Observations and Multi-Scale Models”, Washington, D.C.
2017: AGU Fall Meeting, “Microphysical and Macroscopic Properties of Ice Clouds and Mixed-Phase Clouds and Interactions with Aerosols: Linking in Situ, Remote Sensing Observations and Multiscale Models”, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2016: International Conference, “Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Change”, Beijing, China
2011: International Workshop, “Weather and Climate over Tibetan plateau and Adjacent Regions and their Global Implication”, Chengdu, China
2010: AGU Western Pacific Geophysical Meeting, “Absorbing Aerosols and Their Impacts on Regional Climate: Observational and Modeling Studies”, Taipei, Taiwan
2010: AGU Fall Meeting, “Impacts of Mineral Dust Aerosol on Global and Regional Climate”, San Francisco, California
2005–2012: International Workshops, “Surface-Troposphere-Stratosphere Interaction (STSI) over the Tibetan Plateau and its impacts on global and regional climate change”, USA & China.4) Invited Lecture/Talk/Seminar
2019: Invited Talk, 8th International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Change, Nanjing, China
2017: Invited Seminar, Beijing Institute of Urban Meteorology
2017: Invited Seminar, Guangdong Province Meteorological Bureau, China Meteorological Administration
2016: Invited Talk, 7th International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Change, Beijing, China
2013: Invited Lecture, 14th Annual WRF Users’ Workshop, Boulder
2011: Invited Talk, International Symposium on the Frontier of Atmospheric Sciences, Beijing, China
2010: Invited Talk, 5th Workshop on Surface-Troposphere-Stratosphere Interaction (STSI) over the Tibetan Plateau and its Impacts on Global and Regional Climate Change, Beijing, China5) Committee Services
2021: Chair, Outstanding Student Presentation Award, Global Environmental Change, American Geophysical Union
2019-present: Canvassing Committee Member, Global Environmental Change, American Geophysical Union
2019: Scientific Steering Committee Member, 2019 ISPRS Workshop on Remote Sensing and Synergic Analysis on Atmospheric Environment, Nanjing, China
2018-2020: Coordinator, Outstanding Student Presentation Award, Global Environmental Change, American Geophysical Union
2015: Reviewer, UCLA Alumni Scholarships Program
2012–present: Judge, AGU Fall Meeting Outstanding Student Presentation Award6) Professional Membership
2003: Member, AGU
1997: Member, AMS
PUBLICATIONS (Complete List in Bibliography)~83 peer-reviewed publications (including 3 book chapters)
~2,963 total citations; h-Index 32; i10-index 70 (Google)
A few recent papers published in Nature Geoscience (Corresponding Author, 2019), Nature Sustainability (Co-Author, 2020), PNAS (Co-Author, 2018), and BAMS (Co-Author, 2018).
One co-authored paper won the Alan Berman Research Publication Award issued by Department of the Navy in 2017.