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Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Tianle Yuan

(Associate Research Scientist)

Tianle Yuan's Contact Card & Information.
Email: tianle.yuan@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.6195
Org Code: 613
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 613
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO

Research Interests


Cloud physics


Aerosol-cloud interactions


Climate feedbacks


Deep learning / Machine learning

Current Projects


NASA MEASURES

Aerosols


DOE ASR


NOAA ERB

Publications


Refereed

2024. "Has Reducing Ship Emissions Brought Forward Global Warming?." Geophysical Research Letters 51 (15): [10.1029/2024gl109077] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Abrupt reduction in shipping emission as an inadvertent geoengineering termination shock produces substantial radiative warming." Communications Earth & Environment 5 (1): 281 [10.1038/s43247-024-01442-3] [Journal Article/Letter]

2024. "Self-Supervised Cloud Classification." Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems 3 (1): [10.1175/aies-d-23-0036.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Deep convective cloud system size and structure across the global tropics and subtropics." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 16 (21): 5387-5401 [10.5194/amt-16-5387-2023] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Observational evidence of strong forcing from aerosol effect on low cloud coverage." Science Advances 9 (45): eadh7716 [10.1126/sciadv.adh7716] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Global reduction in ship-tracks from sulfur regulations for shipping fuel." Science Advances 8 (29): [10.1126/sciadv.abn7988] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22 (1): 641-674 [10.5194/acp-22-641-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Observation and modeling of the historic “Godzilla” African dust intrusion into the Caribbean Basin and the southern US in June 2020." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 (16): 12359-12383 [10.5194/acp-21-12359-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Identifying meteorological influences on marine low-cloud mesoscale morphology using satellite classifications." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 (12): 9629-9642 [10.5194/acp-21-9629-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Effect of volcanic emissions on clouds during the 2008 and 2018 Kilauea degassing events." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21 (10): 7749-7771 [10.5194/acp-21-7749-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Applying deep learning to NASA MODIS data to create a community record of marine low-cloud mesoscale morphology." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 13 (12): 6989-6997 [10.5194/amt-13-6989-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Anthropogenic Decline of African Dust: Insights From the Holocene Records and Beyond." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (22): [10.1029/2020gl089711] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Interannual variability and trends of combustion aerosol and dust in major continental outflows revealed by MODIS retrievals and CAM5 simulations during 2003–2017." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 139-161 [10.5194/acp-20-139-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Estimates of African Dust Deposition Along the Trans‐Atlantic Transit Using the Decadelong Record of Aerosol Measurements from CALIOP, MODIS, MISR, and IASI." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124 (14): 7975-7996 [10.1029/2019jd030574] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Automatically Finding Ship-tracks to Enable Large-scale Analysis of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions." Geophysical Research Letters [10.1029/2019gl083441] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "MISR Radiance Anomalies Induced by Stratospheric Volcanic Aerosols." Remote Sensing 10 (12): 1875 [10.3390/rs10121875] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "MODIS Retrievals of Cloud Effective Radius in Marine Stratocumulus Exhibit No Significant Bias." Geophysical Research Letters 45 (19): 10,656-10,664 [10.1029/2018gl079325] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Observations of Local Positive Low Cloud Feedback Patterns and Their Role in Internal Variability and Climate Sensitivity." Geophysical Research Letters 45 (9): 4438-4445 [10.1029/2018gl077904] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Positive low cloud and dust feedbacks amplify tropical North Atlantic multidecadal oscillation." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (3): 1349–1356 [10.1002/2016gl067679] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "The fertilizing role of African dust in the Amazon rainforest: A first multiyear assessment based on data from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations." Geophysical Research Letters 42 (6): 1984-1991 [10.1002/2015GL063040] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Quantification of Trans-Atlantic Dust Transport from Seven-year (2007-2013) Record of CALIPSO Lidar Measurements." Remote Sens. Environ 159 232-249 [10.1016/j.rse.2014.12.010] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Current and Future Perspectives of Aerosol Research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society early view [10.1175/ BAMS-D-13-00153.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Aerosol indirect effect on tropospheric ozone via lightning." J. Geophys. Res. 117 (D18): D18213 [10.1029/2012JD017723] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "An integrated analysis of aerosol above clouds from A-Train multi-sensor measurements." Remote Sens Environ 121 125-131 [10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.011] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Aerosols from Overseas Rival Domestic Emissions over North America." Science 337 (6094): 566-569 [10.1126/science.1217576] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Observational evidence of aerosol enhancement of lightning activity and convective invigoration." Geophys Res Lett 38 (4): L04701 [10.1029/2010GL046052] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Microphysical, macrophysical and radiative signatures of volcanic aerosols in trade wind cumulus observed by the A-Train." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (14): 7119-7132 [10.5194/acp-11-7119-2011] [Journal Article/Letter]

2011. "Cloud macroscopic organization: order emerging from randomness." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (15): 7483-7490 [10.5194/acp-11-7483-2011] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "General Macro- and Microphysical Properties of Deep Convective Clouds as Observed by MODIS." Journal of Climate 23 (13): 3457-3473 [10.1175/2009JCLI3136.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2009. "Dominant role by vertical wind shear in regulating aerosol effects on deep convective clouds." J. Geophys. Res. 114 (D22): D22206 [Full Text] [10.1029/2009JD012352] [Journal Article/Letter]

2008. "Increase of cloud droplet size with aerosol optical depth: An observation and modeling study." J Geophy Res 113 (D4): D04201 [10.1029/2007JD008632] [Journal Article/Letter]