People | Xiao-Hai Yan

• B.S. Equi, Marine Science, Tong Ji University, Shanghai, China, 1977.
• M.S. Equi, Remote Sensing Physics, Shanghai Inst. of Tech. Physics, Academia Sinica, 1981.
• Ph.D., Satellite and Physical Oceanography, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 1989.
• Post Doc, Satellite and Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, 1990.

Center for Remote Sensing

Satellite Oceanography/Ocean Remote Sensing
Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation/Climate Change
Remote Sensing of Estuaries, Coastal and Open Ocean Waters
Remote Sensing Image Processing
Air-Sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Dynamics 
Mirowave Remote Sensing (Altimeter, Scatterometer and SAR)
Environmental Remote Sensing

• My research has been supported by the NSF, NASA, ONR, NOAA, JPL and SeaGrant
• I am always interested in talking to bright, motivated potential graduate students or postdocs - feel free to email me if you are interested in our work!

Post Doctoral and Graduate Student Support Available

The Ocean Dynamics Research Group

• Dr. Xiao-Hai Yan
  Mary A. S. Lighthipe Chair Professor, National Presidential Faculty Fellow,
  Director, Center for Remote Sensing
• Dr. Young-Heon Jo, Assistant Research Professor
• Dr. Yuwu Jiang, Sabbatical Professor, Xiamen University
• Dr. Yong Q. Kang, Sabbatical Professor, South Korea
• Dr. Intae Yang, Sabbatical Professor, South Korea
• Dr. Rupsi Chandra, Post Doctoral Researcher
• Mr. Matthew Shatley, Technician

Current Ph.D. Students:

Feili Li, Research Assistant, Satellite Oceanography
Zhaoyun Chen, Research Assistant, Satellite Oceanography
Xiangbai Wu, Research Assistant, Satellite Oceanography
Weiwei Zhang, Research Assistant, Satellite Oceanography
Jin Sha, Research Assistant, Satellite Oceanography
Autumn Kidwell, Research Assistant, Satellite Oceanography
Xinyou Lin, Research Assistant, Satellite Oceanography

Current M.S. Student:

Federico Ienna, Research Assistant, Satellite Oceanography

MAST 606: Ocean (Atmosphere) Remote Sensing
CIEG 606, GEOG 606, ELEG 606 Cross Listing: Ocean (Atmosphere) Remote Sensing
MAST 881 : Satellite Oceanography
MAST 686 : Remote Sensing Seminar
MAST 880 : Principles of Applied Ocean Science
MAST 682: Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment
MAST 853: Oceanography Seminar 
MAST 866: Special Problems Courses 
MAST 868: Research Courses
UNIV3699: Undergraduate Research Sustaining
I have advised 31 graduate students, (M.S. and Ph.D.) and more than 10 undergraduate trainees.

Yan, X.-H., J.R. Schubel, and D.W. Pritchard. 1991. Oceanic upper mixed layer depth determination from a satellite model. Remote Sensing of Environment, 32(1):55-74.

Yan, X.-H., A. Okubo, J.R. Shubel, and D.W. Pritchard. 1991. An analytical mixed layer remote sensing model. Deep Sea Research, 38(3):267-287.

Yan, X.-H., P.P. Niiler and R.H. Stewart. 1991. Construction and accuracy analysis of images of the daily-mean mixed layer depth. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 12(12):2573-2584.

Yan, X.-H., C.-R. Ho, Q. Zheng and V. Klemas. 1992. Temperature and size variabilities of the western Pacific warm pool, Science, 258(5088):1643- 1645.

Yan, X.-H. and A. Okubo. 1992. Three-dimensional analytical model for the mixed layer depth, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97(C12):20,201-20,226

Yan, X.-H., Q. Zheng, C.-R. Ho, C.-K, Tai and R. Cheney. 1994. Development of the pattern recognition and spatial integration filtering methods for analyzing satellite altimeter data, Remote Sensing of Environment, 48:147-158.

Yan, X.-H., P. Niiler, S. Nadiga, R. Stewart, and D. Cayan. 1995. Heat storage in the North Pacific: 1976-1989, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100(C4):6270-6292.

Yan, X.-H., Q. Zheng, Y. He, C. Ho and W.T. Liu. 1997. Centroid rotation of the western Pacific warm pool for the recent three El Nino events, J. Physical Oceanogr., 27(5):837-846.

Yan, X.-H., Pablo Clemente-Colon and William Pichel. 1997. The Maximum Similarity Shape Matching (MSSM) feature tracking method applied to an oil spill observed in SAR imagery. J. of Marine Technology Society. 31(2):8-14.

Yan, X.-H., Y. He, D. Susanto and T. Liu. 2000. Multi-sensor studies on El Nino-Southern Oscillation and variability in Equatorial Pacific, J. of Adv. Marine Science and Tech. Society, 4(2):289-301.

Yan, X.-H., Y. Zhou, J. Pan, D. Zheng, M. Fang, X. Liao, M.-X. He, W. Liu, and X. Ding. 2002. Pacific Warm Pool Excitation, Earth Rotation and El Nino Southern Oscillations, Geophysical Research Lett., 19(21):15,685-15,690.

Yan, X.-H., J. Pan, Y.-H. Jo, M.-X. He, W. Liu and L. Jiang. 2004. The Role of Winds on Estimation of Ocean Heat Storage Anomaly using Satellite Data, J. Geophys. Res. Vol 109(C3):C03041 10.1029/2003JC002202

Yan, X-H., Y. Jo, B. Dzwonkowski and L. Jiang. 2005. Applications of the HHT in Ocean-Atmosphere Remote Sensing Research. Book Chapter, p. 59-81 in "Hilbert-Huang Transform in Engineering Applications", Taylor & Francis Publisher, 313 pp.

Yan, X.-H., Y. Jo, W. T. Liu, and M. He. 2006. A new study of the Mediterranean outflow, air-sea interactions, and Meddies using multisensor data, J. Physical Oceanogr., Vol. 36, No. 4, pages 691-710.

Yan, X-H., Y. Jo, L. Jiang, Z. Wan, W. T. Liu, Y. Li, J. Zhan and T. Du. 2008. Impact of the Three Gorge Dam Water Storage on the Yangtze River Outflow into the East China Sea, Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L05610, doi:10.1029/2007GL032908.

Dzwonkowski, B., J. T. Kohut, and X. Yan. 2009. Seasonal differences in wind-driven across-shelf forcing and response relationships in the shelf surface layer of the central Mid-Atlantic Bight, J. Geophys. Res., 114, C08018, doi:10.1029/2008JC004888.

Yan, X-H, Y-H Jo, W. T. Liu and Minhan Dai. 2010. Salinity Variations in Water Column due to Outflows Estimated by Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing. Advances In Geosciences, 18, 109-133, 2010

Jiang, L., L.C. Breaker, and X.H. Yan. 2010. A Model for Estimating Cross-Shore Surface Transport,  J. Geophys. Res., 225,C04017,doi:101029/ 2009JC0005998.

Yan, X.-H. 2011. Observing the Ocean's Interior from Space. Book Chapter, in "The 10000 Most Important and Challenging Scientific Research Topics", Science Press publisher. p. 903-904, 2011.

Kang, Y. Q., Jo, Y.-H. and Yan, X.-H. 2011. (US Patent) Geometric Registration of Images by Similarity Transformation Using Two Reference Points, US Patent No. US8078004B2.

Kang, Y. Q., Jo, Y.-H. and Yan, X.-H. 2012 (US Patent) Estimation of Subsurface Thermal Structure Using Sea Surface Height and Sea Surface Temperature, US Patent No. US8152366.

Li, F., Y.-H. Jo, W.T. Liu, and X.-H. Yan. 2012. A dipole pattern of the sea surface height anomaly in the North Atlantic: 1990s - 2000s, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi: 10.1029/2012GL052556.

Chen, Zhaoyun, Xiao-Hai Yan, Young-Heon Jo, Lide Jiang, Yuwu Jiang. 2012. A study of Benguela upwelling system using different upwelling indices derived from remotely sensed data, Continental Shelf Research, 45, 27-33.

Jo, Young-Heon, M. Dai, W. Zhai, X.-H. Yan, and S. Shang, 2012. On the Variations of Sea Surface pCO2 in the Northern South China Sea - A Remote Sensing Based Neural Network Approach. J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JC007745.

Wu, Xiangbai, Xiao-Hai Yan, Young-Heon Jo, and W. Timothy Liu. 2012.  Estimation of Subsurface Temperature Anomaly in the North Atlantic using a Self-Organizing Map Neural Network, J. Atm. & Ocean Tech.,  29, (11), Pages 1675-168

Enhui Liao, Yuwu Jiang, Li Li, Huasheng Hong, Xiao-Hai Yan, 2013. The cause of the 2008 cold disaster in the Taiwan Strait, Ocean Modeling, 62 (2013), 1–10

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Matteoda, Anna Marie - Ph.D., 1992
Kuhn, John - MS, 1993
Yu, Yuanqing - MS, 1993
Ho, Chung-Ru - Ph.D., 1994
Kuo, Nan-Jung, Ph.D., 1994
Chen, Han-Tsung - Ph.D., 1995
Liu, Yuguang - Ph.D., 1996
Kostanty, Henry - Ph.D., Transfer
Keiner, Louis - Ph.D., 1997
Nadiga, Sudhir - Ph.D., 1997
Wang, Zongming - Ph.D., 1997
Lu, Ying - Ph.D., Transfer
Susanto, Raden Dwi - Ph.D., 1998
He, Yun - Ph.D., 1999
Ali, Ahmed - Ph.D., 2001
Clemente-Colon, Pablo - Ph.D., 2002
Beggs, Josh - MS, Transfer
Yuan, Ying - MS, 2002
Zhang, Xuebin - MS, 2002
Trigon, Jo - MS, Transfer
Jo, Young-Heon, Ph.D., 2003
Davis, Amelie, MS, 2004
Jiang, Lide, Ph.D.,2009
Dzwonkowski, Brian, Ph.D.,2009

Remote Sensing Physicist, Shanghai Institute of Tech. Physics, Academia Sinica, 1977-85
Research Assistant, Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY, Stony Brook, 1985-89
Postdoctoral Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, 1989-90
Tenure Track Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, 1990-1993
Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Delaware, 1993-1995
Associate Director, Center for Remote Sensing, University of Delaware, 1990-2001
Professor, University of Delaware, 1995-2004
Mary A. S. Lighthipe Chair Professor, University of Delaware, 2004-Present
Co-Director and Director, Center for Remote Sensing, University of Delaware, 2002-Present
Associate Director, Delaware Space Grant Consortium, 2005-Present

US CLIVAR Science Steering Committee and Panel Member, 2012-Present
Eminent Oversea Visiting Professor, named by the Ministry of Education, China, 2010
Editor, International Journal of Oceanography, 2009-Present
Distinguished Scholar and Visiting Chair Professor, Xiamen University, 2007
Zhijiang Chair Professor, East China Normal University, 2005-2006
"Science Spectrum Trailblazer" named by Science Spectrum Magazine - 2005, 2006, 2007
Mary A. S. Lighthipe Chair Professor, University of Delaware, 2004-Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Remote Sensing, 2003-Present
Editor Board, Journal of Oceanic and Coastal Sea Research, 2002-Present
Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Ocean University of China, 2000-2005
Editor, New Frontiers of Sciences Book Series, Higher Education Press, 2000-Present
Center for Excellence Award, NASA, 1997
Honorary Professorship Award, National Institute of Ocean Environment Forecast, 1995
U.S. National Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award, NSF and White House - 1994
Distinguished Leadership Award for Outstanding Service to the Global Change Research, 1994
Honorary Professorship Award, First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, China - 1993
NSF International Travel Award - 1991
NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship Award - 1989
AGU Travel Award - 1988
Rockefeller Institute Research Award - 1987