Institute of Hydrological Sciences

 

List of Faculty Members
Professors:  
 

Chung-Hsiung Sui(隋中興)

Wu-Ting Tsai(蔡武廷)

Associate Professors:
  Ming-Jen Yang(楊明仁)


Ming-Hsu Li (李明旭)

 

CHUNG-HSIUNG SUI (隋中興)
Highest Education: Ph.D., UCLA
Present Position: Professor (2001-)
Joined NCU Faculty: 2001.8
Research Specialty: Atmospheric Hydrologic cycle, Air-Sea interaction, Climate variability & change

E-mail: sui@cc.ncu.edu.tw


Refereed Papers

Lin, I.-I., W. T. Liu, C.-C. Wu, J. C. H. Chiang, C.-H. Sui, 2002:

Satellite observations of modulation of surface winds by typhoon-induced upper ocean cooling.

Geophys. Res. Lett. (accepted)

 

Ho, C.-H., J.-J. Baik, J.-H. Kim, and D.-Y. Gong , C..-H. Sui, 2002:

Decadal Changes in Summertime Typhoon Tracks.

Submitted to J. Climate.

 

Sui, C.-H. and X. Li, 2002:

A new partition technique to estimate convective and stratiform rainfall: a cloud microphysics perspective.  Submitted to J. Atmos. Sci.

 

Sui, C.-H. and X. Li, 2002:

Effects of Hydrometeors Convergence in Precipitation Modeling.

submitted to J. Hydrometeoroly.

 

He, Haiyan, C.-H. Sui, M. Jian, and Z. Wen, 2002:

The evolution of tropospheric temperature field and its relationship with the onset of Asian summer monsoon. Submitted to J. Meteor. Soc. Japan.

 

Sui, C.-H., C.-Y. Huang, Y.-B. Tsai, C.-S. Chen, P.-L. Lin, S.-L. Shieh, M.-H. Li, Y.-A. Liou, T.-C. C. Wang, R.-S. Wu, G.-R. Liu, Y.-H. Chu, 2002:

Typhoon Nari and Taipei Flood - A pilot meteorology-hydrology study.

EOS, Trans, Amer. Geophys. Union, 83, Number 24, 11 June 2002, 265-270.

 

Li, X., C.-H. Sui, and K.-M. Lau, 2002:

Dominant cloud microphysical processes in a tropical oceanic convective system: A 2-D cloud resolving modeling study.

Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2481-2491.

 

Sui, C.-H., X. Li, M. M. Rienecker, K.-M. Lau, I. Laszlo, R. T. Pinker , 2001:

The impacts of daily surface forcing in the upper ocean over tropical Pacific: A numerical study. 

J. Climate. (accepted)

 

Li, X., C.-H. Sui, and K.-M. Lau, 2001:

Precipitation efficiency in the tropical deep convective regime.  

J. Meteor. Soc. Japan. 80, 205-212.

 

Johnson, D., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson, C.-H. Sui, 2002: A study of the response of deep tropical clouds to mesoscale processes: Part I: Modeling strategies and simulations of TOGA-COARE convective systems.

J. Atm. Sci. 59, (accepted)

 

Tao, W.-K., S. Simpson,  D. Baker, S. Braun, M.-D. Chou, B. Ferrier, D. Johnson, A., Khain, S. Lang, B. Lynn, C.-L. Shie, C.-H. Sui, Y. Wang, and P. Wetzel, 2002:

Microphysics, radiation and surface processes in the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics (in press)

 

Shie, C.-L., W.-K. Tao, J. Simpson, and C.-H. Sui, 2002:

Quasi-equilibrium states in the tropics simulated by a cloud-resolving model. Part I: Specific features and budget analysis.

J. Atm. Sci. 59, (accepted)

 

Ho, C.-H., M.-D. Chou, C.-H. Sui, 2002:

Comparison of Different Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Data Sets over Tropical Oceans.

Int. J. Climatol. 22, 263–270.

 

Li, X., C.-H. Sui, and K.-M. Lau, 2002:

Interaction between tropical convection and its embedding environment: an energetics analysis of a 2-D cloud resolving simulation.

J. Atmos. Sci. 59, 1712-1722.

 

Peng, L., C.-H. Sui, K.-M. Lau, and W.-K. Tao, 2001:

Genesis and Evolution of Super Cloud Clusters in a Two-Dimensional Cumulus Resolving Model.

J. Atmos. Sci. 58, 877-895.

 

He, H., Z. Wen, M. Jian, and C.-H. Sui, 2000:

A study on the onset of the Asian Summer monsoon during 1982-1996, Par I. The main characteristics of the summer monsoon circulation and the monsoon onset index.

Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni (in Chinese), 39, No. 3, 91-96.

 

He, H., Z. Wen, M. Jian, and C.-H. Sui, 2000:

A study on the onset of the asian Summer monsoon during 1982-1996, Part II. The inter annual variations of the onset time of the Asian Summer monsoon.

Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Sunyatseni (in Chinese), 39, No. 4, 99-103.

 

Li, X., C.-H. Sui, K.-M. Lau, and D. Adamec, 2000:

Effects of precipitation on ocean mixed layer temperature and salinity as simulated in a 2-D coupled ocean-cloud resolving atmosphere model.

J. Meteor. Soc. Japan. 78, 647-659

 

Li, X., C.-H. Sui, K.-M. Lau, and M.-D. Chou, 1999:

Large-scale forcing and cloud-radiation interaction in the tropical deep convective regime.

J. Atmos. Sci. 56, 3028-3042.

 

Vega, A. J., R. V. Rohli, C.-H. Sui, 1999:

Climatic relationships to Chesapeake Bay salinity during Southern Oscillation extremes.

Physical Geography, 20, 6, 468-490.

 

Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson, C.-H. Sui, C.-L. Shie, B. Zhou, K.-M. Lau, and M. Moncrieff, 1999:

Equilibrium states simulated by Cloud resolving models.

J. Atmos. Sci . 56, 3128-3139.

 

Sui, C.-H., X. Li, and K.-M. Lau, 1998:

Selective absorption of solar radiation and upper ocean temperature in the equatorial western Pacific.

J. Geophys. Res.. 103, C5, 10,313-10,321.

 

Sui, C.-H., X. Li, and K.-M. Lau, 1998:

Radiative-convective processes in simulated diurnal variations of tropical oceanic convection.

J. Atmos. Sci.. 55, 2345-2357.

 

Vega, A. J., C.-H. Sui, and K.-M. Lau, 1998:

Interannual to interdecadal variations of the regionalized surface climate of the United States and relationships to generalized flow.

Physical Geography. 19, 4, 271-291.

 

Lee, H.-K., P.-S. Chu, C.-H. Sui, and K.-M. Lau, 1998:

On the annual cycle of latent heat fluxes over the equatorial Pacific using TAO buoy observations.

J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 76, 909-923, 1998.

 

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WU-TING TSAI (蔡武廷)

Highest Education:  Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Present Position:    Professor (1997--)

Joined NCU Faculty:  2002.8

Research Specialty:  Air-sea interaction, Environmental physics, Fluid mechanics

E-mail: wttsai@cc.ncu.edu.tw

 

Refereed Papers

Tsai, W.-T. and Liu, K.-K.

“An assessment of the effect of sea-surface surfactant on global atmosphere-ocean CO2 flux”

Accepted, to appear in Journal of Geophysical Research, (2002)

 

Lin, I.-I., Wen, L.-S., Liu, K.-K., Tsai, W.-T. and A.-K. Liu.

“Evidence and quantification of the correlatin between radar backscatter and ocean colour supported by simultaneously acquired in situ sea truth”

Accepted, to appear in Geophysical Research Letters, (2002)

 

Tsai, W.-T.

“On the formation of streaks on wind-driven water surfaces”

Geophysical Research Letters, 28(20) (2001) 3959-3962

 

Tsai, W.-T.

“Numerical simulation of hydrodynamic processes beneath a wind-driven water surface”

AGU Geophysical Monograph: Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, edited by M.A. Donelan, W.M. Drennan, E.S. Saltzman and R. Wanninkhof, (2001) 71-75

 

Tsai, W.-T.

“Faraday resonance for stratified two-layer flow”

Journal of Marine Science and Technology, (2001) 9(2), 130-132

 

Tsai, W.-T.

“Vortex dynamics beneath a surfactant contaminated ocean surface”

Journal of Geophysical Research, (1998) 103(C12), 27919-27930

 

Tsai, W.-T.

“A numerical study of the evolution and structure of a turbulent shear layer under a free surface”

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (1998) 354, 239-276

 

 

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Ming-Jen Yang (楊明仁)

Highest Education:   Ph.D., University of Washington

Present Position:     Assistant Professor (1998--)

Joined NCU Faculty:  2002.8

Research Speciality:  Microphysics, Numerical model, Mesoscale Meteorology

E-mail: mingjen@ihs.ncu.edu.tw  

 

Refereed Papers

Yang, M.-J., F.-C. Chien, and M.-D. Cheng

Precipitation parameterization in a simulated Mei-Yu front.

Terr., Atmos., and Oceanic Sci., 11, 393-422. (2000) (SCI extended: NSC 88-2111-M-052-004-AP6)

 

黃小玲和楊明仁.

對流系統受環境風場垂直風切影響之理想化數值模擬研究

華岡理科學報,1879-98 (2001) (NSC 89-2111-M-034-007)

 

張乃斌,周榮華,楊宏宇,宋偉國,楊明仁,黃金益,于蓓

核能電廠緊急事故大氣擴張及劑量評估決策支援系統之建立

台電工程月刊,640, 80-109 (2001) (NSC 89-2111-M-034-007)

 

Colle, B. A., B. F. Smull, and M.-J. Yang

Numerical simulations of a landfalling cold front observed during COAST

Rapid evolution and responsible mechanisms. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 1945-1966 (2002) 

(SCI; NSC 89-2111-M-034-007)

 

Chien, F.-C., Y.-H. Kuo, and M.-J. Yang

Precipitation forecast of the MM5 in Taiwan area during the 1998 Mei-Yu season

Wea. Forecasting, in press. (2002) (SCI; NSC 89-2111-M-034-007)

 

Yang, M.-J., and Q.-C. Tung

Rainfall forecast of cumulus parameterization schemes in the Taiwan area

Wea. Forecasting, accepted with revision. (2002)

(SCI; NSC 90-2111-M-034-006-AP4; NSC 90-2626-Z-034-002)

 

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MING-HSU LI (李明旭)
Highest Education: Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Present Position: Assistant Professor (2001-)
Joined NCU Faculty: 2001.8
Research Specialty: Land Hydrology Modeling, Flood Prediction and Mitigation, Subsurface Modeling, Geochemical Modeling

E-mail: mli@cc.ncu.edu.tw

 

Refereed Papers

Cheng, H. P. and M. H. Li, 2002

A sensibility analysis of model selection in modeling the reactive transport of cesium in crushed granite

J. of Contaminant Hydrology, (Accept)

 

Li, M. H., M. H. Hsu, L. S. Hsieh, and W. H. Teng, 2002

Inundation potentials analysis for Tsao-Ling landslide lake formed by Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan

Natural Hazards, 25, 289-303

 

Liu, W. C., M. H. Hsu, A. K. Kuo, and M. H. Li, 2001

Influence of bathymetric changes on hydrodynamics and salt intrusion in estuarine system

Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 37(5), 1405-1416.

 

Yeh, G. T., M. D. Siegel, and M. H. Li, 2001

Numerical modeling of coupled variably saturated fluid flow and reactive transport with fast and slow chemical reactions

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 47, 379-390.

 

Li, M. H., H. P. Cheng, and G. T. Yeh, 2000

Solving 3-D subsurface flow and transport with an adaptive multigrid

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE, 5(1), 74-81.

 

Cheng, H. P., G. T. Yeh, J. Xu, M. H. Li, and R. Carsel, 1998

A study of incorporating the multigrid method into the three-dimensional finite element discretization: a modular setting of grid generation and application

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 41, 499-526.

 

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