Bio

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) working with Dr. Michael Mcphaden, supported by the National Research Council Research Associateship Program. I got my PhD degree in 2024 from Ocean University of China, under a joint supervision with Dr. Xiaopei Lin at Ocean University of China and Dr. Wenju Cai at CSIRO, Melbourne Australia. My research interests include: (1) tropical Atlantic climate variability, with impacts on hurricanes and regional rainfall; (2) trans-basin climate interaction; (3) socioeconomic impacts of tropical climate variability. I have published 10 papers at the high-impact journals in the field, including Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, with 5 papers as the first author.

Educations

• 2018.08 - 2024.06, Ph.D., Physical Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
• 2022.04 - 2024.04, Joint Ph.D. Program, CSIRO Environment, Melbourne, Australia
• 2014.09 - 2018.06, B.S., Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China

Publications

• Wang, G., … Liu, Y. et al. (2024). The Indian Ocean Dipole in a warming world. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 5(8), 588–604.
• Tang, H. S., Zhang, Y., Kosaka, Y., Yang, J. C., Shu, Q., Liu, Y., & Lin, X. (2024). Positive feedback between the negative phase of interannual component of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and La Niña. Climate Dynamics, 62(8), 8319-8332.
• Cai, W., Liu, Y., Lin, X., Li, Z., Zhang, Y., & Newth, D. (2024). Nonlinear country-heterogenous impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on global economies. Nature Communications, 15(1), 5009.
• Liu, Y., Cai, W., Zhang, Y., Lin, X., & Li, Z. (2024). Near-term projection of Amazon rainfall dominated by phase transition of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7(1), 46.
• Liu, Y., Cai, W., Lin, X., Li, Z., & Zhang, Y. (2023). Nonlinear El Niño impacts on the global economy under climate change. Nature Communications. 14(1), 5887.
• Cai, W., … Liu, Y. et al. (2023). Anthropogenic impacts on twentieth-century ENSO variability changes. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1-12.
• Cao, R., Rong, Z., Chen, H., Liu, Y., Mu, L., & Lv, X. (2023). Modeling the long-term transport and fate of oil spilled from the 2021 A Symphony tanker collision in the Yellow Sea, China: Reliability of the stochastic simulation. Ocean Modelling, 186, 102285.
• Liu, Y., Cai, W., Lin, X., & Li, Z. (2022). Increased extreme swings of Atlantic intertropical convergence zone in a warming climate. Nature Climate Change, 12(9), 828-833.
• Liu, Y., Li, Z., Lin, X., & Yang, J.C. (2021). Enhanced eastern Pacific ENSO‐tropical north Atlantic connection under greenhouse warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(22), e2021GL095332.
• Liu, Y., Li, Z., Cai, W., Lin, X., & Yang, J.C. (2021). Weakened ENSO‐Ningaloo Niño/Niña teleconnection under greenhouse warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(5), e2020GL091326.

Honors and Awards

• 2024.06 Graduate with Distinction of Shandong Province
• 2024.06 Graduate with Distinction of Ocean University of China
• 2023.09 “Zhuoyue” Scholarship, granted by Ocean University of China (the highest scholarship honor at Ocean University of China)
• 2023.09 “Graduates of the Year”, Ocean University of China (a prestigious accolade for 10 graduate students annually)
• 2023.05 May-Fourth Youth Medal, granted by Ocean University of China
• 2022.11 China National Scholarship, granted by The Ministry of Education of China

Conferences and Seminars

• 2024.04, Quantifying economic impact of tropical climate variability: From past to future. EGU24 General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
• 2024.02, Nonlinear impacts from ENSO and IOD to Australian and global economy under climate change. 30th AMOS Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia
• 2023.12, Nonlinear Impact of El Niño and Indian Ocean Dipole on Global Economy in a Warming Climate. Fudan-Guanghua International Forum for Young Scholars, Shanghai, China
• 2023.12, Nonlinear El Niño Impact on Global Economy in a Warming Climate. AGU23 Fall Meeting, San Francisco CA, USA
• 2023.11, Two Regimes in North Tropical Atlantic Variability. Kiel-wide science event on “Coastal Upwelling”, Kiel, Germany
• 2023.05, Observed mean state and teleconnection of African climate. African Climate Workshop Programme 2023, Hong Kong
• 2023.04, Nonlinear El Niño impact on global economy in a warming climate. EGU23 General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
• 2023.01, More Extreme Swings of Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone Under Greenhouse Warming. 103rd AMS Annual Meeting, Denver CO, USA
• 2022.02, Increased extreme swings of Atlantic intertropical convergence zone in a warming climate. Ocean Science Meeting 2022, Virtual
• 2021.11, Increased extreme swings of Atlantic intertropical convergence zone in a warming climate. 11st International Conference on Tropical Marine Environmental Changes, Guangzhou, China
• 2021.02, Weakened ENSO‐Ningaloo Niño/Niña teleconnection under greenhouse warming. 28th AMOS Annual Conference, Virtual