Dr Yan Ren

Visiting Research Fellow

My interests lie on the atmospheric boundary layer and atmospheric turbulence processes and its role in actual atmospheric environments and climate processes, such as air pollution dispersion, particulate transportation and climate change. I gained my PhD from Peking University in July 2021. Following that, I took on the position of Associate Professor at Lanzhou University in China. Now, I visit Walker institute of UoR as a one-year visiting scholar. In my past works, I focused on the stable boundary layer and its interaction with atmospheric pollution processes, such as weak and intermittent turbulence, turbulent diffusion laws, and transport mechanisms of substances (such as fine particles mass concentrations) and energy by utilizing the eddy covariance technique during haze pollution events. I hope I can communicate and establish connections with scientists who specify various backgrounds.

Selected Publications
1. Chang Heying, Ren Yan*, Zhang Hongsheng, Liang Jiening, Cao Xianjie, Tian Pengfei, Li Jiayun, Bi Jianrong, Zhang Lei. 2024. The characteristics of turbulence intermittency and its impact on surface energy imbalance over Loess Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110088.
2. Ren Yan*, Zhang Hongsheng*, Zhang Lei, Liang Jiening. 2023. Quantitative description and characteristics of submeso motion and turbulence intermittency. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 149:1726–1744. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4479.
3. Ren Yan*, Zhang Hongsheng, Wu Bingui, Zhang Lei, Liang Jiening, Zhang Xiaoye. 2023. Energy transition in the enhancement and break of turbulence barrier during heavy haze pollution. Environmental Pollution, 317,120770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120770.
4. Ren Yan*, Zhang Hongsheng*, Zhang Xiaoye, Wu Bingui, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu, Zhu Tong. 2023. Coupled-decoupled turbulence structures of stable boundary layer during heavy haze pollution events. Atmospheric Research, 281, 106465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2022.106465
5. Ren Yan*, Zhang Hongsheng*, Zhang Xiaoye, Wu Bingui, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu, Zhu Tong. 2022. Quantitative verification of the turbulence barrier effect during heavy haze pollution events. Environmental Research Communications. 4, 045005, https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ac6381.
6. Ren Yan, Zhang Hongsheng, Zhang Xiaoye, Li Qianhui, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu, Kang Ling, Zhu Tong. 2021. Temporal and spatial characteristics of turbulent transfer and diffusion coefficient of PM2.5. Science of the Total Environment, 782, 146804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146804.
7. Ren Yan, Zhang Hongsheng, Zhang Xiaoye, Wei Wei, Li Qianhui, Wu Bingui, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu, Kang Ling, Zhu Tong. 2021. Turbulence barrier effect during heavy haze pollution events. Science of the Total Environment, 753, 142286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142286.
8. Ren Yan, Zhang Hongsheng, Wei Wei, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu. 2020. Determining the fluctuation of PM2.5 mass concentration and its applicability to Monin–Obukhov similarity. Science of the Total Environment, 710, 136398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136398.
9. Ren Yan, Zhang Hongsheng, Wei Wei, Wu Bingui, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu. 2019. Effects of turbulence structure and urbanization on the heavy haze pollution process. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 1041–1057. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-1041-2019.
10. Ren Yan, Zhang Hongsheng, Wei Wei, Wu Bingui, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu. 2019. Comparison of the turbulence structure during light and heavy haze pollution episodes. Atmospheric Research, 230, 104645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2019.104645.
11. Ren Yan, Zhang Hongsheng, Wei Wei, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu, Kang Ling. 2019. A study on atmospheric turbulence structure and intermittency during heavy haze pollution in the Beijing area. Science China Earth Sciences, 62(12), 2058–2068. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-019-9451-0.
12. Ren Yan, Zheng Shuwen, Wei Wei, Wu Bingui, Zhang Hongsheng, Cai Xuhui, Song Yu. 2018. Characteristics of the Turbulent Transfer during the Heavy Haze in Winter 2016/17 in Beijing. Journal of Meteorological Research. 32(1), 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13351-018-7072-3.