Dr. Yimin LIU (Senior Scientist) Email:  lym .AT. lasg.iap.ac.cn Tel:  (86-10) 82995171 Fax:  (86-10) 82995172 Postal:  P.O. Box 9804, Beijing, 100029 Web: Brief Experences: EDUCATION 1995.09-1998.12: Ph.D. Study at Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China DISSERTATION: Impacts of Spatially Non-uniform Diabatic Heating on the Formation of Subtropical Anticyclone in Boreal Summer 1986.09-1989.05: MSc. Study at Chinese Academy of Meteorology, Beijing, China DISSERTATION: A global coupled ocean-atmosphere model of shallow water wave and its numerical experiments 1982.09-1986.07: BSc Study at Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China WORKING EXPERIMENTS 1998.12-now LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Full Professor 2004.3-now Associate Professor 2000.10-2004.02 Assistant Professor 1998.12-2000.09 1989.05-1995.08: Assistant Professor, Chinese Academy of Meteorology (1989.05-1994.12) and National Climate Center (1995.01-1995.08), Beijing, China VISIT EXPERIMENTS 2003.11-2004.10 University of Reading, Reading, UK 2000.11-2001.04 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Research interests Subtropical weather and climate dynamics Tibetan Plateau climate dynamics Air-sea-land system simulation Ongoing Projects NSFC project “The seasonal and interannual variability of the subtropical high" and NSFC Group Project “Mechanism of the climatic variation over the Eastern Asia and Western Pacific and the predictability theory", 973 project “Climate impact induced by the city belts along the East China and its countermeasure study”, CAS Project “The impacts the thermal forcing of the Tibetan Plateau and the joining area of Asia and Indian-Pacific Ocean on the interannual and decadal variation of the Asian monsoon”   Publications: SELETED PAPERS IN JOURNAL Liu Y.M., G.X. Wu, H. Liu and P. Liu, 2001: Condensation heating of the Asian summer monsoon and the subtropical anticyclone in the Eastern Hemisphere. Clim. Dyn. 17:327£­338 Liu, Y.M., J. C. L. Chan, J. Y. Mao and G. X. Wu, The Role of Bay of Bengal Convection in the Onset of the 1998 South China Sea Summer Monsoon. Mon. Wea. Rev. 2002, 130: 2731-2744 Wu G.X. and Y. M. Liu, 2003: Summertime quadruplet heating pattern in the subtropics and the associated atmospheric circulation. Geophy. Res. Lett, 30,1201-1204 Liu Y.M., G.X. Wu, and R. C. Ren, 2004: Relation between the Subtropical Anticyclone and Diabatic Heating , J. Climate, 2004, 17, 682-698 Liu Yimin and Wu Guoxiong, 2004: Progress in the study on the formation of the summertime subtropical anticyclone. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 21(3):322-342 Xiaoyun Liang, Yimin Liu, and Guoxiong Wu, 2005: The role of land-sea distribution in the formation of the Asian summer monsoon. Geoph. Res. Lett. 10.1029/2004GL021587 Liu YM, B.J. Hoskins, M,Blackburn, 2007: Impacts of the Tibetan Topography and heating on the summer flow over Asia. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan. 85B:1-19 Liu YM, Q. Bao, AM Duan, ZA Qian and GX Wu, 2007: Recent Progress in the Study in China of the Impact of Tibetan Plateau on the Climate. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 24: 1060-1076. Guoxiong Wu, Yimin Liu, Tongmei Wang, Rijin Wan, …,2007: The Influence of the Mechanical and Thermal Forcing of the Tibetan Plateau on the Asian Climate. J. Hydrometeorology. 8: 770-789 Li Jiandong, Liu Yimin, Wu Guoxiong, Cloud Radiative Forcing in Asian Monsoon Region Simulated by IPCC AR4 AMIP Models. ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, 26:923-939 Yimin Liu, Liang Guo, Guoxiong Wu and Zaizhi Wang, 2009: Sensitivity of ITCZ Configuration to Cumulus Convective Parameterizations on an Aqua Planet. Climate Dyn. BOOKS Wu Guoxiong, Chou Jifan, Liu Yimin, Hejinhai, 2002: Dynamics of the Formation and Variation of Subtropical Anticyclones. Beijing, Science Press. 314pp Liu Yimin, 2003: Diabatic heating and subtropical anticyclone, Beijing, Education Presss, 166pp