About me

I am Yuan-Jen Lin, a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder. I study large-scale climate dynamics (air-sea interaction, climate feedback, etc.) and oceanography.

For more information, please see my full CV: [View CV (last updated: April 2025)].

Research Scope

Publications

2025

Lin, Yuan-Jen, Grégory V. Cesana, Cristian Proistosescu, Mark D. Zelinka, and Kyle C. Armour. “The relative importance of forced and unforced temperature patterns in driving the time variation of low-cloud feedback.” Journal of Climate 38, no. 2 (2025): 513-529. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-24-0014.1. [Poster, 2024 AGU Annual Meeting] [Talk, CGD Seminar]

2023

Lin, Yuan-Jen, Brian EJ Rose, and Yen-Ting Hwang. “Mean state AMOC affects AMOC weakening through subsurface warming in the Labrador Sea.” Journal of Climate 36, no. 12 (2023): 3895-3915. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0464.1. [Paper] [Code Availability] [Poster, 2022 US AMOC Science Team Meeting]

2021

Lin, Yuan‐Jen, Yen‐Ting Hwang, Jian Lu, Fukai Liu, and Brian EJ Rose. “The dominant contribution of Southern Ocean heat uptake to time‐evolving radiative feedback in CESM.” Geophysical Research Letters 48, no. 9 (2021): e2021GL093302. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093302. [Paper] [Data Availability] [Talk, 15th ECS symposium]

2019

Lin, Yuan‐Jen, Yen‐Ting Hwang, Paulo Ceppi, and Jonathan M. Gregory. “Uncertainty in the evolution of climate feedback traced to the strength of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.” Geophysical Research Letters 46, no. 21 (2019): 12331-12339. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083084. [Paper]

In prep/submitted/in review

Lin, Yuan‐Jen, Grégory V. Cesana, Cristian Proistosescu, Yue Dong, and Kate Marvel. Intermodel spread of radiative feedback patterns traced to regional surface warming using NASA GISS ModelE3 Green’s Function (in prep). [Poster, 2024 CFMIP Meeting]

Lin, Yuan‐Jen, Aneesh Subramanian, Kristopher B Karnauskas, Charlotte A DeMott, Janet Sprintall, and Rui Sun. Air-sea transition zone processes driving barrier layer mean state and climate variability (in prep). [Poster, 2024 AGU Annual Meeting]

Tam, Rachel Yuen Sum and co-authors, including Lin, Yuan-Jen. “Meteorological drivers of the low-cloud radiative feedback pattern effect and its uncertainty.”

Bloch-Johnson, Jonah and co-authors, including Lin, Yuan-Jen. “Green’s Function Model Intercomparison Project (GFMIP) Results: A First Look.”