Yan Luo    Postdoc Researcher Center for Research on Environment and Water    4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302    Calverton, MD 20705-3106 USA     240/247-1443 Phone     301/595-9790 Fax     Email: Yan Luo

Biography:  Yan Luo received her Ph.D. from University of Maryland, College Park in 2006. Yan's main research at the University of Maryland focused on land-atmosphere interactions and studied the role of land surface conditions on the variability and predictability of the regional hydrologic cycle. She also evaluated the land-surface water and energy budgets from model products and observations. After completing her doctorate, Yan conducts her research at CREW, in Calverton, MD, where she is working on land surface data assimilation to investigate Ensemble Kalman Filter approaches for the assimilation of various satellite land data products into land surface models, as well as the benefit of assimilation for forecasting applications.

Research Interests: 

Land Data Assimilation System; land-atmosphere interactions; water and energy budgets; satellite application.

Education: 

Ph.D.  Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, May 2006

M.S.   Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, P.R. China, June 1992

B.S.   Department of Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, P.R. China, June 1989

Professional Membership: 

• American Meteorological Society

Experience: 

2006-present: Postdoctoral research scientist, Center for Research on Environment and Water, Calverton, Maryland

2000-2006: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

1992-2000: Meteorologist, Division of Climate Prediction, National Climate Center, Beijing, P.R. China

1989-1992: Graduate Research Assistant, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

Current Research: 

• Assimilation of AMSR_E data into the Noah LSM

Publications: 

• Xia Feng, Alok Sahoo, Kristi Arsenault, Paul Houser, Yan Luo, and Tara Troy, 2006: The Impact of Snow Model Complexity at Three CLPX Sites. Manuscript in preparation.

• Luo, Y., E. H. Berbery, K. E. Mitchell, and A. K. Betts, 2006: Soil moisture memory and land-atmosphere interactions in the North American Regional Reanalysis. Manuscript submitted.

• Luo, Y., E. H. Berbery, and K. E. Mitchell, 2005: The operational Eta model precipitation and surface hydrologic cycle of the Columbia and Colorado basins. J. Hydrometeor., 6, 341-370.

• Berbery, E. H., Y. Luo, K. E. Mitchell, and A. K. Betts, 2003: Eta model-estimated land surface processes and the hydrologic cycle of the Mississippi basin. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D22), 8852, doi:10.1029/2002JD003192, 2002.

• Wang, Xiangdong, Weijing Li, Yan Luo, Zhengqing Ye, Yiguo Liang, Yong Luo,and Haibo Liu, 1996, The progress report of monthly dynamical ensemble forecasts in 1996, Climate Reportage, 1996, No. 3, pp39-35.

• He, Min and Yan Luo, 1995, Features of inter-annual oscillation of 500 hPa mean monthly general circulation in Eurasia, Q.J. Appl. Meteor., 1995, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp461-467.

• Jiang, Dayong, Yimin Liu, Yan Luo, and Meiyu Yang, 1994, Numerical simulation studies on short range climatic variation, ACTA METEOROLOGICA SINICA, 1994, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp168-177 (in English).

• Luo, Yan, Dayong Jiang, and Yimin Liu, 1994, The studies of ENSO numerical simulations, Journal of Tropical Meteor., Vol 10, No. 2, pp97-106.

• Jiang, Dayong, Meiyu Yang, Yimin Liu, and Yan Luo, 1992, Numerical modeling studies for the second stream of climatic research, Chinese Journal of Computational Physics, 1992, Vol. 9, pp725-730.

Some related programs: 

• Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)

• The North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS)

• Land Information System (LIS)

• GEWEX Continental-scale International Project (GCIP)

• GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP)

Presentation: 

26 April 2006 "Regional Aspects of the N. American Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions & Their Contributions to the Variability & Prediction of the Regional Hydrologic Cycle"

15 January 2007 AMS meeting: "Application and evaluation of the Kalman Filter data assimilation approaches in the Noah land surface model"

Last Updated: 26 March 2007