Areas of Expertise

Tropical Cyclones, Tornadoes, Thunderstorms and Heat Waves
El Nino-Southern Oscillation
Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation
Madden-Julian Oscillation
Droughts, Global Warming
Global Climate Modelling

Education

Ph.D., 2001 Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
M.S., 1993 Nuclear Physics, Peking University, Beijing, China
B.S., 1990 Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Current CV:

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Interests: Climate Dynamics, Climate Modeling

Current Research: Extreme Weather, Climate Variability, Global Warming

Courses Taught:

Geography 1900 - Extreme Weather and Climate
Geography 5900 - Climatology
Geography 5921 - Boundary Layer Climatology
Geography 5950 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics
Geography 8901 - Tropical Meteorology

Select Publications:

Lin, J. L., and T. Qian, 2019: Switch Between El Nino and La Nina is Caused by Subsurface Ocean Waves Likely Driven by Lunar Tidal Forcing. Nature Scientific Reports, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-49678-w

Lin, J. L., and T. Qian, 2019: A New Picture of the Global Impacts of El Nino-Southern Oscillation. Nature Scientific Reports, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-54090-5

Lin, J. L., and T. Qian, 2019: Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones Observed by AMSU Satellites. Geophy. Res. Lett., https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083488

Lin, J. L., T. Qian, T. Shinoda, and S. Li, 2015: Is the Tropical Atmosphere in Convective Quasi-Equilibrium? J. Climate, 28, 4357-4372.[pdf]

Lin, J. L., T. Qian, and T. Shinoda, 2014: Stratocumulus Clouds in Southeastern Pacific Simulated by Eight CMIP5–CFMIP Global Climate Models. J. Climate, 27, 3000-3022.[pdf]

Lin, J. L., 2007. The double-ITCZ problem in IPCC AR4 coupled GCMs: Ocean-atmosphere feedback analysis. J. Climate, 20, 4497-4525.[pdf]

Lin, J. L., Kiladis, G.N., Mapes, B.E., Weickmann, K.M., Sperber, K.R., Lin, W.Y., Wheeler, M., Schubert, S.D., Del Genio, A., Donner, L.J., Emori, S., Gueremy, J.-F., Hourdin, F., Rasch, P.J., Roeckner, E., and J.F. Scinocca, 2006. Tropical intraseasonal variability in 14 IPCC AR4 climate models. Part I: Convective signals. J. Climate, 19, 2665-2690.[pdf]

More peer-reviewed publications at Google Scholar page