Mingfang Ting

Climate Change

Lamont Research Professor

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Ocean and Climate Physics

Adjunct Professor

Earth and Environmental Sciences

104C Oceanography

61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000

Palisades

10964-8000

Phone:

(845) 365-8374

Fax:

(845) 365-8157

ting@ldeo.columbia.edu

Fields of interest:

Impact of global climate change on regional scales in terms of atmospheric stationary waves and precipitation extremes; Dynamics of the naturally occuring and anthropogenically-forced climate changes, droughts and floods circulation; Regional climate modeling, Asian and North American monsoons.

Education

List of degrees from highest to lowest:

Ph.D.

Princeton University

1990

M.S.

Peking University

1985

B.S.

Peking University

1983

Honors & Awards:

• Helen Corley Petit Professorship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, 1998-1999

• Outstanding Overseas Chinese Young Scientists Award, Chinese National Science Foundation, China, 1998

• The National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1995

Lamont Projects:

Educational Activities:

Associate Director, MA program in Climate & Society

Colin Kelley

John Sawicki

Ms. Yutian Wu, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

Mr. Stefan Sobolowski, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

Referenced in the Following News Items:

Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter's Huge Snows

Selected Publications:

Forced and Internal 20th Century SST Trends in the North Atlantic, Ting, M.; Kushnir, Y.; Seager, R.; Li, C. , Journal of Climate, March/2009, Volume 22, Issue 6, p.13, (2009), 10.1175/2008JCLI2561.1

The Effect of Topography on Storm-Track Intensity in a Relatively Simple General Circulation Model, Son, S.-W.; Ting, M.; Polvani, L. M. , Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, February/2009, Volume 66, Issue 2, p.19, (2009), 10.1175/2008JAS2742.1

Would advance knowledge of 1930s SSTs have allowed prediction of the Dust Bowl drought?, Seager, R.;Kushnir, Y.;Ting, M.F.;Cane, M.A.;Naik, N.;Velez(Nakamura), J. , Journal of Climate, Volume 21, p.3261-3281. DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI2134.1, (2008)

Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America, Seager, R.; Ting, M. F.; Held, I.; Kushnir, Y.; Lu, J.; Vecchi, G.; Huang, H. P.; Harnik, N.; Leetmaa, A.; Lau, N. C.; Li, C. H.; Velez, J.; Naik, N. , Science, May 25, Volume 316, Issue 5828, p.1181-1184, (2007), DOI 10.1126/science.1139601

Northern hemisphere winter climate variability: Response to North American snow cover anomalies and orography, Sobolowski, S.; Gong, G.; Ting, M. , Geophysical Research Letters, Aug 31, Volume 34, Issue 16, p.-, (2007), Doi 10.1029/2007gl030573

Impact of atmospheric moisture storage on precipitation recycling, Dominguez, F.; Kumar, P.; Liang, X. Z.; Ting, M. F. , Journal of Climate, Apr 15, Volume 19, Issue 8, p.1513-1530, (2006)

The role of the north American topography on the maintenance of the great plains summer low-level jet, Ting, M. F.; Wang, H. L. , Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Mar, Volume 63, Issue 3, p.1056-1068, (2006)

Mechanisms of ENSO-forcing of hemispherically symmetric precipitation variability, Seager, R.; Harnik, N.; Robinson, W. A.; Kushnir, Y.; Ting, M.; Huang, H. P.; Velez, J. , Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Apr, Volume 131, Issue 608, p.1501-1527, (2005), Doi 10.1256/Qj.04.96

The global stationary wave response to climate change in a coupled GCM, Joseph, R.; Ting, M. F.; Kushner, P. J. , Journal of Climate, Feb, Volume 17, Issue 3, p.540-556, (2004)

Regional climate model simulation of US precipitation during 1982-2002. Part I: Annual cycle, Liang, X. Z.; Li, L.; Kunkel, K. E.; Ting, M. F.; Wang, J. X. L. , Journal of Climate, Sep, Volume 17, Issue 18, p.3510-3529, (2004)