All my publications can be found at Google Scholar and ResearchGate.
In the list below, * denotes the corresponding author, and names underlined indicate students or postdocs under my mentorship.
2026
[27] Li, Q.*, …, Yang, Q. et al., 2026: Leveraging dense data, advanced modeling, and artificial intelligence to tackle urban climate extremes. Submitted.
[26] Bai, L., Huang, Y., Liu*, Q., Huang, L., Chen, G., Yang, Q., and Zhu, L., 2026: Orographic disturbances shaping convective preconditioning over a tropical island. Submitted.
[25] Yang, Q.*, Leung L. R., Li, J., Feng, Z., Wang, H., and Yu, Y., 2026: Observed and Simulated Characteristics of Central U.S. Mesoscale Convective Systems and Their Dependence on Monthly Environmental Conditions. Submitted.
[24] Li, Y. and Yang, Q.*, 2026: A Two-Layer Stochastic Dynamic Model for Convective Aggregation over Tropical Oceans: Roles of Compensating Subsidence, Cold Pools, and Vertical Shear. Submitted.
[23] Lin, G.*, Liao, W., Lin, Z., Zhang, H., Kou, W., Guo, X., Xie, Z., Yang, Q., Wu, C., and Zhang, M., 2026: Improving East Asian Summer Precipitation Simulation with a Multiscale Modeling Framework in CAS-ESM. Geoscientific Model Development.
2025
[22] Nie, J.*, Lin, Z., Li, P., Yang, Q., Ding, T., Song, F., Meng, Z., Sun, J., Li, J. and Zhao, C., 2025. Mesoscale convective systems: From interannual and decadal variability to responses to climate change. Acta Meteorologica Sinica.
[21] Yang, Q.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., Li, J., and Chen, X., 2025: Environmental Thermodynamic Effects on Future Changes of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Isolated Deep Convection over the US: A Case Study. JGR-Atmospheres.
My tenure track starts from the Year 2024.
2023
[20] Chen, X.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., and Yang, Q., 2023: Environmental controls on MCS’s lifetime rainfall over tropical oceans. Geophysical Research Letters.
[19] Yang, Q.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., and Chen, X., 2023: A Moist Potential Vorticity Model for Mid-Latitude Mesoscale Convective Systems over Land. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[18] Chen, X.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., and Yang, Q., 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] Yang, Q.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., and Chen, X., 2022: Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Summertime Mesoscale Convective Systems: A Simple Lagrangian Parcel Model Perspective. Journal of Climate.
[16] Yang, Q.*, Hannah, W., and Leung, L. R., 2022: Convective Momentum Transport and its Impact on the Madden-Julian Oscillation in E3SM-MMF. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
[15] Chen, X.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., and Yang, Q., 2022: Precipitation-Moisture Coupling Over Tropical Oceans: Sequential Roles of Shallow, Deep, and Mesoscale Convective Systems, Geophysical Research Letters.
[14] Song, F.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., Chen, X., and Yang, Q., 2022: Observed and Projected changes of large-scale environments for spring MCS initiation over the U.S. Great Plains. Geophysical Research Letters.
2021
[13] Yang, Q.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., Song, F., and Chen, X., 2021: A Simple Lagrangian Parcel Model for the Initiation of Summertime MCSs over the Central US, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[12] Chen, X.*, Leung, L. R., Feng, Z., Song, F., and Yang, Q., 2021: Mesoscale Convective Systems Dominate the Energetics of the South Asian Summer Monsoon Onset, Geophysical Research Letters.
2020
[11] Yang, Q.*, Majda, A. J., and Chen, N., 2020: ENSO Diversity in a Tropical Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO, El Nino, and Dynamic Walker Circulation, Journal of Climate.
2019
[10] Yang, Q.*, Majda, A. J., and Brenowitz, N., 2019: Effects of Rotation on the Multiscale Organization of Convection in a Global 2D Cloud Resolving Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[9] Yang, Q.*, Majda, A. J., and Moncrieff, M. W., 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] Yang, Q., Khouider, B.*, Majda, A. J., and De La Chevrotiere, M., 2019: Northward Propagation, Initiation and Termination of Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillations in a Zonally Symmetric Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[7] Yang, Q.* and Majda, A. J., 2019: Upscale Impact of Mesoscale Disturbances of Tropical Convection on 2-Day Waves, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
2018
[6] Brenowitz, N.*, Majda, A. J., and Yang, Q., 2018: The Multiscale Impacts of Organized Convection in Global 2D Cloud Resolving Models, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
[5] Yang, Q.* and Majda, A. J., 2018: Upscale Impact of Mesoscale Disturbances of Tropical Convection on Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
2014-2017
[4] Yang, Q.*, Majda, A. J., and Khouider, B., 2017: ITCZ Breakdown and Its Upscale Impact on the Planetary-Scale Circulation over the Eastern Pacific, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
[3] Yang, Q.* and Majda, A. J., 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] Majda, A. J. and Yang, Q.*, 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] Yang, Q.* and Majda, A. J., 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
[1] Yang, Q.*, 2017: Multi-Scale Models for the Scale Interaction of Organized Tropical Convection, Ph.D thesis. My thesis defense slides are here.