Fan Yang

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Bldg. 490D, Room 2-10
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-8372
fanyang@bnl.gov

Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards

Expertise

• Cloud Physics
• Ice Nucleation
• Aerosol Cloud Interaction
• Remote Sensing
• Cloud Modeling

Research Activities

• 2022.4-present, Atmospheric Scientist (lvl 3), Environmental & Climate Sciences Department,- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
• 2019.4-2022.3, Goldhaber Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental & Climate Sciences Department,- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
• 2017.5-2019.3, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Environmental & Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
• 2016.2-2016.4, Visiting Student, Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richard, WA
• 2012.9-2017.4, Graduate Research Assistant, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, M

Education

• Michigan Technological University, Department of Physics, PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, 2017
• Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Master’s Degree in Atmospheric Science, 2012
• Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Bachelor’s Degree in Atmospheric Science, 2009

Professional Appointments

• Journal Reviewer for Atmosphere, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Research, Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, Journal of Meteorological Research, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Remote Sensing
• Grant Reviewer for DOE Research proposals

Selected Publications

• Yang F, Cantrell WH, Kostinski AB, Shaw RA, Vogelmann AM (2019) Is Contact Nucleation Caused by Pressure Perturbation? Atmosphere 11:1. doi: 10.3390/atmos11010001
• Yang F, McGraw R, Luke EP, Zhang D, Kollias P, Vogelmann AM (2019) A new approach to estimate supersaturation fluctuations in stratocumulus cloud using ground-based remote-sensing measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12:5817–5828. doi: 10.5194/amt-12-5817-2019
• Chandrakar KK, Saito I, Yang F, Cantrell W, Gotoh T, Shaw RA (2019) Droplet size distributions in turbulent clouds: experimental evaluation of theoretical distributions. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 146:483–504. doi: 10.1002/qj.3692
• Zhang D, Vogelmann A, Kollias P, Luke E, Yang F, Lubin D, Wang Z (2019) Comparison of Antarctic and Arctic Single-Layer Stratiform Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties Using Ground-Based Remote Sensing Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124:10186–10204. doi: 10.1029/2019jd030673
• Thomas S, Ovchinnikov M, Yang F, Voort D, Cantrell W, Krueger SK, Shaw RA (2019) Scaling of an Atmospheric Model to Simulate Turbulence and Cloud Microphysics in the Pi Chamber. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11:1981–1994. doi: 10.1029/2019ms001670
• Borque P, Luke EP, Kollias P, Yang F (2018) Relationship between Turbulence and Drizzle in Continental and Marine Low Stratiform Clouds. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 75:4139–4148. doi: 10.1175/jas-d-18-0060.1
• Yang F, Luke EP, Kollias P, Kostinski AB, Vogelmann AM (2018) Scaling of Drizzle Virga Depth With Cloud Thickness for Marine Stratocumulus Clouds. Geophysical Research Letters 45:3746–3753. doi: 10.1029/2018gl077145
• Yang F, Kollias P, Shaw RA, Vogelmann AM (2017) Cloud droplet size distribution broadening during diffusional growth: ripening amplified by deactivation and reactivation. doi: 10.5194/acp-2017-1125
• Yang F, Cruikshank O, He W, Kostinski A, Shaw RA (2018) Nonthermal ice nucleation observed at distorted contact lines of supercooled water drops. Physical Review E. doi: 10.1103/physreve.97.023103
• Chandrakar KK, Cantrell W, Chang K, Ciochetto D, Niedermeier D, Ovchinnikov M, Shaw RA, Yang F (2016) Aerosol indirect effect from turbulence-induced broadening of cloud-droplet size distributions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113:14243–14248. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1612686113
• Yang F, Shaw R, Xue H (2016) Conditions for super-adiabatic droplet growth after entrainment mixing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16:9421–9433. doi: 10.5194/acp-16-9421-2016
• Yang F, Ovchinnikov M, Shaw RA (2015) Long-lifetime ice particles in mixed-phase stratiform clouds: Quasi-steady and recycled growth. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120:11,617–11,635. doi: 10.1002/2015jd023679
• Yang F, Shaw RA, Gurganus CW, Chong SK, Yap YK (2015) Ice nucleation at the contact line triggered by transient electrowetting fields. Applied Physics Letters 107:264101. doi: 10.1063/1.4938749
• Yang F, Ovchinnikov M, Shaw RA (2014) Microphysical consequences of the spatial distribution of ice nucleation in mixed-phase stratiform clouds. Geophysical Research Letters 41:5280–5287. doi: 10.1002/2014gl060657
• Li Z, Xue H, Yang F (2013) A modeling study of ice formation affected by aerosols. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118:11,213–11,227. doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50861
• Yang F, Ovchinnikov M, Shaw RA (2013) Minimalist model of ice microphysics in mixed-phase stratiform clouds. Geophysical Research Letters 40:3756–3760. doi: 10.1002/grl.50700
• Yang F, Xue H, Deng Z, Zhao C, Zhang Q (2012) A closure study of cloud condensation nuclei in the North China Plain using droplet kinetic condensational growth model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12:5399–5411. doi: 10.5194/acp-12-5399-2012

Awards & Recognition

• 2020 March, SPOTLIGHT Award for exceptional service, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• 2019 April, Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 2018 July, First Prize for Group Research during the Second ARM Summer Training Event
• 2016 Fall, Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Michigan Technological University
• 2014, 2016, Graduate Student Government Presenting Travel Grant, Michigan Technological University