About Yimin Liu’s work
From November 2000 to May 2001, Yimin Liu held a Croucher Visitorship at City University of Hong Kong. At the time, Liu was based at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Yimin Liu graduated from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 1986 and received her PhD from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999. She has visited City University of Hong Kong and Reading University in the UK. She studies subtropical weather and climate dynamics and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau weather and climate dynamics. In recent years, she has presided over a number of scientific research projects, including the Natural Science Foundation of China, the 973 project and the important direction project of the Academy of Sciences.
The main achievements in recent years include: monsoon and subtropical weather dynamics, revealing the adaptation mechanism of atmospheric circulation to different types of external heat sources, subtropical climate dynamics, systematically carrying out research on subtropical climate dynamics, putting forward innovative theories and views on the formation and variation of subtropical highs, revealing the different effects of adiabatic heating on the morphological variation of subtropical highs and their comprehensive climatic effects.