Assoc. Professor Dan Li Appointed to 2 International Climate Organizations
Associate Professor Dan Li was recently appointed to the board of the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC)! He will serve a four year term. You can see more information about his appointment here. You can learn more about the IAUC as an organization here. He was also appointed as a panelist to the Predictability, Predictions, […]
Yue Qin awarded Outstanding Student Presentation
Yue Qin, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in E&E, has received the Outstanding Student Presentation Award AMS’s 24th Symposium on Boundary-Layers & Turbulence. In “On the logarithmic behavior of streamwise velocity variance in the neutral atmospheric surface laye,” Ms. Qin explores, ” While the mean velocity profile in the near-neutral atmospheric surface layer has been well […]
Congratulations to Associate Professor Dan Li!
A special congratulations to Dr. Dan Li, who has been promoted from the rank of assistant professor to associate professor. Associate Professor Li first joined the department in 2015 as an assistant professor, previously serving as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. He completed his PhD at Princeton University in the department of Civil and […]
Dan Li publishes on heat islands and evaporation capability
Assistant Professor Dan Li has published “Urban heat island: Aerodynamics or imperviousness?” in Science Advances. Professor Li and his colleagues note that more than half of the world’s population now live in cities, which are known to be heat islands. While daytime urban heat islands (UHIs) are traditionally thought to be the consequence of less […]
Chi Chen receives presentation award at AGU Fall Meeting
PhD candidate Chi Chen has received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award from his presentation at December’s AGU Fall Meeting. The work, “Local land surface temperature response to the widespread Earth greening,” is advised by Ranga Myneni and Dan Li.
Dan Li publishes on atmospheric boundary layer in Atmospheric Research
Assistant Professor Dan Li has published a single-author, invited review article titled “Turbulent Prandtl number in the atmospheric boundary layer – where are we now?” in Atmospheric Research. Turbulent Prandtl number is named after the Father of Modern Fluid Mechanics, Ludwig Prandtl, and is an indicator of how turbulent transport of heat differs from its […]