About me
I’m a PhD candidate in Dept. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University, working with Dr. Timothy Merlis and Prof. Yi Huang. I’m currently visiting the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Stephan Fueglistaler.
Broadly, I’m interested in radiation and climate change. Radiation and climate dynamics are conventionally viewed as different areas of research, but the intersection of these disciplines has emerged as a key to understanding climate change in response to greenhouse gas emissions. My previous works focus on the radiative effect of CO2 emission, in which I assessed the intrinsic variability of CO2 radiative forcing and reconciled different schools of theoretical thought.
Prior to studying at McGill, I got a master’s degree at National Taiwan University, where I worked with Prof. Chien-Ming Wu and studied the coupling of sea surface temperature, convection, radiation, and circulation with a cloud-resolving model.
Refereed Publications
Chen, Y.-T., T. M. Merlis, and Y. Huang (2024). The cause of negative CO2 forcing at the top-of-atmosphere: the role of stratospheric vs. tropospheric temperature inversions. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL106433, doi:10.1029/2023GL106433. Official version
Chen, Y.-T., Y. Huang, and T. M. Merlis (2023). The global patterns of instantaneous CO2 forcing at the top-of-atmosphere and surface. J. Climate, 36, 6331–6347, doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0708.1. Official version
Chen, Y.-T., and C.-M. Wu (2019). The role of interactive SST in the cloud-resolving simulations of aggregated convection. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 11, 3321-3340. doi:10.1029/2019MS001762. Official version