Lisan Yu is an oceanographer, and a senior scientist at the

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, acronym pronounced ) is a private, nonprofit research and higher education facility dedicated to the study of marine science and engineering. Established in 1930 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, it i ...

. She serves on the Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC), a new Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) committee of

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. In 2020, Yu was one of the researchers at the

who received a $500,000 grant from the

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's (NOAA) Climate Observations and Monitoring program to develop a

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

framework to improve estimates of air-sea heat exchange in the

Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately and is known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, a ...

. Yu's research involves analysing data collected by a

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fleet from a 2019 Arctic mission. Yu has authored over 100 academic publications, which have been cited over 7,800 times, resulting in an

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and i10-index of 37 and 65 respectively. Yu was one of 1,371 peer-reviewers for the JGR-Oceans journal during 2021.

Selected Academic Publications

* Objectively analyzed air–sea heat fluxes for the global ice-free oceans (1981–2005). Lisan Yu and Robert A Weller. ''

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''. 2007. * Multidecade Global Flux Datasets from the Objectively Analyzed Air-sea Fluxes (OAFlux) Project: Latent and Sensible Heat Fluxes, Ocean Evaporation, and Related Surface Meteorological Variables. Lisan Yu, Xiangze Jin, and Robert A. Weller. 2008. * Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation. Luis Gimeno, Andreas Stohl, Ricardo M Trigo, Francina Dominguez, Kei Yoshimura, Lisan Yu, Anita Drumond, Ana María Durán‐Quesada, Raquel Nieto. '' Reviews of Geophysics''. 2012. * Surface irradiances consistent with CERES-derived top-of-atmosphere shortwave and longwave irradiances. Seiji Kato, Norman G Loeb, Fred G Rose, David R Doelling, David A Rutan, Thomas E Caldwell, Lisan Yu, Robert A Weller. ''

Journal of Climate The ''Journal of Climate'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published semi-monthly by the American Meteorological Society. It covers research that advances basic understanding of the dynamics and physics of the climate system on larg ...

''. 2013.

References

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