Employment
/ Activities / Awards &
Honors / Publications
Education:
Peking University, China Atmospheric Science B.Sc., 1991
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China Atmospheric Physics M.S.,
1994
University of California at Los Angeles Atmospheric Sciences M.S.,
1996
University of California at Los Angeles Atmospheric Sciences Ph.
D., 1998
Employment:
10/2000 - Research Associate, Atmospheric Sciences
Research Center, SUNY-Albany
12/1998 - 09/2000 Staff Research Associate, Department of Atmospheric
Sciences, UCLA
09/1994 - 11/1998 Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric
Sciences, UCLA
09/1991 - 07/1994 Research Assistant, Institute of Atmospheric
Physics, Beijing, China
Professional Activities, Awards
& Honors:
Invited to give a review talk on the Effect of Galactic Cosmic
Rays on Aerosol Nucleation, Workshop on Ion-Aerosol-Cloud Interactions,
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, April18-20, 2001. (http://cloud.web.cern.ch/cloud/iaci_workshop)
Convener, "Atmospheric Ions: Roles in Aerosol Formation and
Chemistry," Special Session, Spring AGU Meeting, Washington,
DC, May 30-June 3, 2000.
Reviewed Funding Proposals for National Aeronautics Space Administration
(NASA), and Manuscripts for Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical
Research Letters, Atmospheric Environment, Journal of Applied
Meteorology.
Invited to give a briefing at the panel meeting of National Research
Council's Panel on Atmospheric Effects of Aviation, Irvine, California,
February 14-15,1999.
Participated ACCESS V: 1999 Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for
Emerging Senior Scientists, Narragansett, RI, June 10-13, 1999.
Participated SASS (Subsonic Assessment program) Mission Planning
Meeting for a 1999 Field Mission, Boulder, CO, January 27-28,
1998.
Participated Techniques and Problems in Modeling Size-distributed
Aerosol Formation and Composition Workshop, Atmospheric Environment
Service, Environment Canada, Ontario, Canada, March 3-5, 1997.
Jacob A. Bjerknes Memorial Award for Outstanding Research, UCLA,
1998.
Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 1998.
Global Change Consortium Fellowship, UCLA, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997.
Publications:
Yu, F. and R. P. Turco, From molecular clusters
to nanoparticles: The role of ambient ionization in tropospheric
aerosol formation, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 4797-4814, 2001.
Yu, F., and R. P. Turco, On the contribution of lightning to ultrafine
aerosol formation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 155-158, 2001.
Yu, F., and R. P. Turco, Ultrafine aerosol formation via ion-mediated
nucleation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 883-886, 2000.
Yu, F., and R. P. Turco, Evolution of aircraft-generated volatile
particles in the far wake regime: Potential contributions to ambient
CCN/IN, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1703-1706, 1999.
Yu, F., R. P. Turco, and B. Kaercher, The possible role of organics
in the formation and evolution of ultrafine aircraft particles,
J. Geophy. Res., 104, 4079-4087, 1999.
Yu, F., R. P. Turco, B. Kärcher, and F. P. Schröder,
On the mechanisms controlling the formation and properties of
volatile particles in aircraft wakes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25,
3839-3842, 1998.
Yu, F., and R. P. Turco, The formation and evolution of aerosols
in stratospheric aircraft plumes: Numerical simulations and comparisons
with observations, J. Geophy. Res., 103, 25,915-25,934, 1998.
Yu, F., and R. P. Turco, Contrail formation and impacts on aerosol
properties in aircraft plumes: Effects of fuel sulfur content,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 313-316, 1998.
Yu, F., and R. P. Turco, The role of ions in the formation and
evolution of particles in aircraft plumes, Geophys. Res. Lett.,
24, 1927-1930, 1997.
Kärcher, B., R. P. Turco, F. Yu, M.Y. Danilin, D. K. Weisenstein,
R. C. Miake-Lye, and R. Busen, On the unification of aircraft
ultrafine particle emission data, J. Geophy. Res., 105, 29379-29386,
2000.
Kärcher, B., F. Yu, F. P. Schröder, and R. P. Turco,
Ultrafine aerosol particles in aircraft plumes: Analysis of growth
mechanisms, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 2793-2796, 1998.
Turco, R. P., F. Yu, and J. X. Zhao, Tropospheric sulfate aerosol
formation via ion-ion recombination, J. Air Waste Manag. Assoc.,
50, 902-907, 2000.
Turco, R. P., and F. Yu, Aerosol formation in the troposphere,
in Proc. NATO ASI, Ozone and Aerosols, Kolympari, Crete, May 15-24,
1999, in press, 2000.
Turco, R. P., and F. Yu, Particle size distribution in an expanding
plume undergoing simultaneous coagulation and condensation, J.
Geophy. Res., 104, 19,227-19,242, 1999.
Turco, R. P., J. X. Zhao and F. Yu, A new source of tropospheric
aerosols: Ion-ion recombination, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 635-638,
1998.
Turco, R. P., and F. Yu, Aerosol size distribution in a coagulating
plume: Analytical behavior and modeling applications, Geophys.
Res. Lett., 25, 927-930, 1998.
Turco, R. P., and F. Yu, Aerosol invariance in expanding coagulating
plumes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1223-1226, 1997.
