Staff Profile

Lisan Yu

Preferred Name: Lisan Yu

SENIOR SCIENTIST

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Email: lyu@whoi.edu

Phone: 508 289 2504

Website: http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=95996

Lab/Group Site: http://oaflux.whoi.edu/

Education

B.S., Meteorology, Shandong College of Oceanography, P.R. China
M.S., Physical Oceanography, Florida State University
Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Florida State University

Research Interests

– Satellite remote sensing of ocean-surface winds, salinity, and temperature
– Methodology and data sets of global air-sea momentum, heat, and fresh water fluxes
from satellite observations, atmospheric reanalyses and in situ flux measurements
– Global water cycle, its connection to ocean salinity, and its response to climate variations
– Global energy and freshwater budgets
– Ocean-atmosphere interaction from mesoscales to planetary scales