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Yiyong Luo

312 Watkins

yluo@gso.uri.edu

401-874-6235

Educational Background

Ph.D., Environmental Science M.S., Physical Oceanography B.S., Physical Oceanography

Ocean University of Qingdao Ocean University of Qingdao Ocean University of Qingdao

1999 1992 1989

Areas of Specialization

Research

Yiyong Luo is a physical oceanographer specializing in ocean circulation and numerical modeling. His present interests include large-scale ocean circulations in the Pacific and North Atlantic as well as their variability on interannual to decadal time scales.

Publications:

Luo, Y., and L. M. Rothstein, 2006: Mean water pathways in the subtropical and subpolar North Pacific from a high-resolution ocean GCM. Submitted.

Luo, Y., M. D. Prater, E.G. Durbin, and L. M. Rothstein, 2006: Changes in the Northwest Atlantic Circulation for the 1992-95 high NAO period from a numerical model. Continental Shelf Research, 26(14), 1617-1635.

Luo, Y., L. M. Rothstein, R-H zhang, and A. J. Busalacchi, 2005: On the connection between South Pacific spiciness anomalies and decadal equatorial variability in an Ocean GCM. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, C10002, doi:10.1029/2004JC002655

Luo, Y., H.-M. Zhang, and M. D. Prater, L. M. Rothstein, 2003: Warm water pathways, transports and transformations in the northwestern North Atlantic and their modification by cold air outbreaks. Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(C4), 3129, doi:10.1029/2002JC001442.

Luo, Y., C. Guan, D. Wu, 2002: An eta-coordinate version of the Princeton Ocean Model. Journal of Oceanography, 58, 589-597.

Presentations:

On the connection between South Pacific spiciness anomalies and decadal equatorial variability. CRCES workshop, Warrenton, VA, October 17-20, 2005.

A numerical investigation of decadal ENSO variability. AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Honolulu, HI, August 16-20, 2004.

A numerical study of decadal temperature anomalies in the Pacific Ocean. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, January 26-30, 2004.

Changes in the Northwest Atlantic circulation for the 1992-95 high NAO period from a numerical model. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR, January 26-30, 2004.

The warm water limb of the meridional overturning circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean as depicted by an Ocean GCM. US CLIVER, Boulder, CO, June 12-14, 2001.