Areas of expertise

• Variable-resolution NWP model.
• Mesoscale dynamics and modelling.
• Numerical modelling of coastal ocean and estuarine dynamics.
• Ocean wave modelling, pollutant dispersion.

Current activities

• Development of the variable-resolution UM NWP model, together with Dr Junichi Ishida (from Japan Met Services) and Dr Terry Davies, this work was the winner of the Met Office Awards for Excellence 2007 for outstanding scientific achievement.
• Development of a very high resolution fog prediction model.
• High-resolution NWP model physics research, in particular, boundary layer mixing process.
• Development of a high-resolution wave-ocean-atmosphere coupled UM model.

Career background

Yongming's main research interest is in the utilization of numerical models in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics with applications to Meteorology and Oceanography, an area in which she has worked intensively since her PhD was awarded in 1994, and in which she did all her post-graduate research work. In her current position, Yongming collaborated with colleagues in the JCMM Convective Scale Processes group, developing the Met Office variable resolution UKV model. Yongming has modified the whole of the UM dynamical core routines. With it's improved computational efficiency, the variable resolution UM lays the foundation for the next generation high resolution (1.5 km) NWP model. During this period at JCMM, Yongming has also developed a very high resolution and very efficient fog prediction model. Prior to that, Yongming worked in the Hadley Centre, working on the development and implementation of a bottom boundary layer module.

Yongming's research interest and expertise also extend to the numerical modelling of coastal oceans and estuaries, emphasizing storm surges and other mesoscale phenomena, ocean wave modelling, pollutant dispersion in estuaries.