Yunyao Li
- Research Scientist
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Yunyao Li
- Job Title
- Research Scientist
Affiliations
Departments
- Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences Department (Research Faculty)
Centers
- Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS)
Research Areas
- Atmospheric Science
- Earth Observation
- Modeling and Simulation
Education
08/2012-07/2018: University of Maryland, College Park Ph.D., Atmospheric Science Advisor: Dr. Kenneth Pickering (NASA Senior Physical Scientist; NASA Emeritus; University of Maryland Research Professor)
09/2008-06/2012: Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (Former Nanjing Institute of Meteorology) B.S., Atmospheric Science
About
I am a research scientist at George Mason University working in the George Mason Air Quality Group. My research focuses on convective storms, wildfire emission, chemical transport modeling, and data assimilation. I received my PhD from University of Maryland in 2018 on deep convective transport of trace gases. After that, I worked a postdoc at University of Maryland on data assimilation in the GDAS/GFS system. Then, I continued the atmospheric modeling research with Dr. Daniel Tong on biomass burning emission and air quality modeling.
Current Research
Evaluating and simulating the impact of wildfires on air quality and human health.
Selected Publications
Li, Y., Tong, D., Ma, S., Zhang, X., Kondragunta, S., Li, F., & Saylor, R. (2021). Dominance of wildfires impact on air quality exceedances during the 2020 record-breaking wildfire season in the United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094908. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094908
Li, Y., Tong, D. Q., Ngan, F., Cohen, M. D., Stein, A. F., Kondragunta, S., et al. (2020). Ensemble PM2.5 forecasting during the 2018 Camp Fire event using the HYSPLIT transport and dispersion model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2020JD032768. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD032768
Contact Info
- Name
- Dr. Yunyao Li
- Job Title
- Research Scientist