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Dr. Yuh-Lang Lin Professor North Carolina State University Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences 140 Research III, Centennial Campus Box 8208 Raleigh, N.C. 27695 Phone: 919.515.1438 Fax: 919.515.1683 Email: yl_lin@ncsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Meteorology and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Yale University, 1984
M.S., Meteorology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, 1979
M.A., Mathematics, Fordham University, New York, 1978
B.S., Mathematics, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, 1976

Research Interests

Mesoscale Dynamics and Modeling: moist convection, mesoscale waves, orographic effects on mesoscale systems, tropical cyclogenesis, mesoscale cyclogenesis, storm dynamics, and vortex dynamics and modeling.

Selected Publications

• Chiao, S., Y.-L. Lin, and M. L. Kaplan, 2004: Numerical Study of the Orographic Forcing of Heavy Precipitation during MAP IOP-2B. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.
  
  
• Chen, S.-H., and Y.-L. Lin, 2004: Orographic effects on a conditionally unstable flow over an idealized three-dimensional mesoscale mountain. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., in press.
  
  
• Hill, C. M., and Y.-L. Lin, 2003: Initiation of a mesoscale convective complex over the Eithiopian Highlands preceeding the genesis of Hurricane Alberto (2000): A precursor to tropical cyclogenesis. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1232, doi:10.1029/2002GL016655.
  
  
• Chiao, S., and Y.-L. Lin, 2003: Numerical modeling of an orographically induced precipitation event associated with tropical storm Rachel over Taiwan . Wea. Forecasting, 18, 325-344.
  
  
• Lin, Y.-L., D. B. Ensley, S. Chiao, C. M. Hill, and C.-Y. Huang, 2002: Orographic influence on rainfall and track deflection associated with the passage of a tropical cyclone. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2929-2950.