Graduate Students
Ding Li
Office: McLennan Labs MP704A
Phone: (416) 946-0869
Email: dingli@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Details: My current research focuses on global climate modeling. I am interested in simulating ice sheet and sea level changes through global warming, by using 3D global climate model (CCSM3) coupled with some regional climate models.
Yonggang Liu
Office: McLennan Labs MP710
Phone: (416) 978-5213
Email: ygliu@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Details: I have been working on global mantle convection for two and a half years but just recently I am more interested in climate modeling. Currently I am simulating the glacial events during the Neoproterozoic Era, which could have produced the most extensive ice cover of the Earth surface. We believe that the periodicity or the recurrence of these events are explainable by the global CO2 cycle.
Constantine Nenkov
Office: McLennan Labs MP609
Phone: (416) 946-3019
Email: nenkov@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Webpage: http://www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/people/nenkov/nenkov.html
Details: My current research interests are in the field of Planetary Science, and in particular the study and modeling of the atmospheres of gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn. To this end, for the last couple of years I have been developing and implementing a fully 3D Atmospheric Global Circulation Model (AGCM). This model is built around novel numerical methodology and uses icosahedral spatial grid structure. One important feature of this approach is that it allows for better representation of the physical fields in the polar regions, which is also one of the goals of the current Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan. I use this model to simulate and hopefully better understand various features in the dynamics of the gaseous envelopes in this class of gas giant planets.
Xiaolu Yu
Office: McLennan Labs MP710
Phone: (416) 978-5213
Email: yuxiaolu@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
Details: My current reseach focuses on present day climate simulation using fully coupled global climate model, especially the importance of aerosol forcing in hemispheric climate sensitivity. I am also interested in sea ice and ice sheet response to global climate change as well as the involved feedback mechanism.
