Lisan Yu

Lisan Yu is an oceanographer, and a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She serves on the Earth Science Advisory Committee (ESAC), a new Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) committee of NASA.

In 2020, Yu was one of the researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who received a $500,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate Observations and Monitoring program to develop a machine learning framework to improve estimates of air-sea heat exchange in the Arctic Ocean. Yu's research involves analysing data collected by a Saildrone fleet from a 2019 Arctic mission.

Yu has authored over 100 academic publications, which have been cited over 7,800 times, resulting in an h-index and i10-index of 37 and 65 respectively. Yu was one of 1,371 peer-reviewers for the JGR-Oceans journal during 2021.

Selected Academic Publications

 * Objectively analyzed air–sea heat fluxes for the global ice-free oceans (1981–2005). Lisan Yu and Robert A Weller. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 2007.
 * Multidecade Global Flux Datasets from the Objectively Analyzed Air-sea Fluxes (OAFlux) Project: Latent and Sensible Heat Fluxes, Ocean Evaporation, and Related Surface Meteorological Variables. Lisan Yu, Xiangze Jin, and Robert A. Weller. 2008.
 * Oceanic and terrestrial sources of continental precipitation. Luis Gimeno, Andreas Stohl, Ricardo M Trigo, Francina Dominguez, Kei Yoshimura, Lisan Yu, Anita Drumond, Ana María Durán‐Quesada, Raquel Nieto. Reviews of Geophysics. 2012.
 * Surface irradiances consistent with CERES-derived top-of-atmosphere shortwave and longwave irradiances. Seiji Kato, Norman G Loeb, Fred G Rose, David R Doelling, David A Rutan, Thomas E Caldwell, Lisan Yu, Robert A Weller. Journal of Climate. 2013.