All my publications can be found at Google Scholar and ResearchGate. Below, * denotes the corresponding author.
2024 (First-year Tenure Track)
[21] Qiu Yang*, Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Jianfeng Li, Xingchao Chen, 2024: Contrasting Future Changes of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Isolated Deep Convection over the Inland and Coastal US. Submitted
2023
[20] Xingchao Chen*, L. Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Qiu Yang, 2023: Environmental controls on MCS’s lifetime rainfall over tropical oceans. Geophysical Research Letters.
[19] Qiu Yang*, Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Xingchao Chen, 2023: A Moist Potential Vorticity Model for Mid-Latitude Mesoscale Convective Systems over Land. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[18] Xingchao Chen*, Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Xingchao Chen, Qiu Yang, 2023: Diurnal MCSs Precede the Genesis of Tropical Cyclone Mora (2017): The Role of Convectively Forced Gravity Waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
2022
[17] Qiu Yang*, Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Xingchao Chen, 2022: Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Summertime Mesoscale Convective Systems: A Simple Lagrangian Parcel Model Perspective. Journal of Climate.
[16] Qiu Yang*, Walter Hannah, Ruby Leung, 2022: Convective Momentum Transport and its Impact on the Madden-Julian Oscillation in E3SM-MMF. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
[15] Xingchao Chen*, L. Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Qiu Yang, 2022: Precipitation-Moisture Coupling Over Tropical Oceans: Sequential Roles of Shallow, Deep, and Mesoscale Convective Systems, Geophysical Research Letters.
[14] Fengfei Song*, L. Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Xingchao Chen, Qiu Yang, 2022: Observed and Projected changes of large-scale environments for spring MCS initiation over the U.S. Great Plains. Geophysical Research Letters.
2021
[13] Qiu Yang*, Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Fengfei Song, Xingchao Chen, 2021: A Simple Lagrangian Parcel Model for the Initiation of Summertime MCSs over the Central US, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[12] Xingchao Chen*, L. Ruby Leung, Zhe Feng, Fengfei Song, Qiu Yang, 2021: Mesoscale Convective Systems Dominate the Energetics of the South Asian Summer Monsoon Onset, Geophysical Research Letters.
2020
[11] Qiu Yang*, Andrew J. Majda, Nan Chen, 2020: ENSO Diversity in a Tropical Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO, El Nino, and Dynamic Walker Circulation, Journal of Climate.
2019
[10] Qiu Yang*, Andrew J. Majda, Noah Brenowitz, 2019: Effects of Rotation on the Multiscale Organization of Convection in a Global 2D Cloud Resolving Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[9] Qiu Yang*, Andrew J. Majda, Mitchell W. Moncrieff, 2019: Upscale Impact of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Its Parameterization in An Idealized GCM for A MJO Analog above the Equator, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[8] Qiu Yang, Boualem Khouider*, Andrew J. Majda, Michele De La Chevrotiere, 2019: Northward Propagation, Initiation and Termination of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillations in a Zonally Symmetric Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[7] Qiu Yang*, Andrew J. Majda, 2019: Upscale Impact of Mesoscale Disturbances of Tropical Convection on 2-Day Waves, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
2018
[6] Noah Brenowitz*, Andrew J. Majda, Qiu Yang, 2018: The Multiscale Impacts of Organized Convection in Global 2D Cloud Resolving Models, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
[5] Qiu Yang*, Andrew J. Majda, 2018: Upscale Impact of Mesoscale Disturbances of Tropical Convection on Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
2014-2017
[4] Qiu Yang*, Andrew J. Majda, Boualem Khouider, 2017: ITCZ Breakdown and Its Upscale Impact on the Planetary-Scale Circulation over the Eastern Pacific, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[3] Qiu Yang*, Andrew J. Majda, 2017: Upscale Impact of Mesoscale Disturbances of Tropical Convection on the Synoptic-Scale Equatorial Waves in Two-Dimensional Flows, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[2] Andrew J. Majda, Qiu Yang*, 2016: A Multi-Scale Model for the Intraseasonal Impact of the Diurnal Cycle over the Maritime Continent on the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[1] Qiu Yang*, Andrew J. Majda, 2014: A Multi-Scale Model for the Intraseasonal Impact of the Diurnal Cycle of Tropical Convection, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Non-peer reviewed publication
Qiu Yang, 2017: Multi-Scale Models for the Scale Interaction of Organized Tropical Convection, Ph.D thesis. My thesis defense slides are here.