Bin Yu

Research Scientist - Theme Leader, Climate Diagnostics and Teleconnection Research

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Current research and/or projects

Contributing to Environment Canada’s study of climate processes, climate variability, and climate change

Climate variability and change (e.g., SST variability and possible future changes on a range of timescales)
Impacts of Pacific SST variability (e.g., ENSO and PDO) on North American climate using observational records and Canadian coupled climate modelling outputs
Climate sensitivity and climate feedback
Atmospheric circulation and teleconnection patterns

Professional activities / interests

Research on climate variability and change, and on atmospheric circulation and teleconnection

Peer reviewer of grant proposals and scientific articles

Co-Investigator, IPY project grant award (2006-10)

Education and awards

Visiting Fellowship at JISAO, University of Washington, Seattle, 1997-99

Ph.D. Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 1993

Key publications

Yu B., and F. Zwiers, 2010: Changes in equatorial atmospheric zonal circulations in recent decades. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L05701, doi: 10.1029/2009GL042071.

Yu B., G.J. Boer, F. Zwiers, and W. Merryfield, 2009: Covariability of SST and surface heat fluxes in reanalyses and CMIP3 climate models. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-009-0669-6.

Yu, B. and F. Zwiers. 2007: The impact of combined ENSO and PDO on the PNA climate: A 1000-year climate modeling study. Climate Dynamics. 29:837-851.

Yu, B. and G.J. Boer. 2004: The role of the western Pacific in decadal variability. Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L02204, doi:10.1029/2003GL018471.

Boer, G.J. and B. Yu. 2003: Climate sensitivity and response. Climate Dynamics. 20:415-429.

Yu, B. and G.J. Boer. 2002: The roles of radiation and dynamical processes in the ElNiño-like response to global warming. Climate Dynamics. 19:539-553.