Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science
 Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center


About Me
- Education
- Honors/Awards
- Membership
- Research Interests

Course Projects
- METO 617
- METO 684
- METO 658N

Downloads
- GrADS Scripts

Research
- Presentations
- Publications

Useful Links
- Climate Indices
  - NOAA CDC
- WCRP CMIP3
Update: New Scripts for Plotting Line Graphs in GrADS (Jul-01-2008)

Two new scripts are created for plotting line graphs. The script "plot.gs" plots the curves, while "legend.gs" draws the legend (sample plot). The latter script requires no arguments, which is more convenient than "cbar_line.gs".


Bin Guan

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
Computer and Space Sciences Bldg, Rm 2115
 University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Advisor: Dr. Sumant Nigam

Email: bguan@atmos.umd.edu
 
Ph.D., Atmospheric and Oceanic Science 2008 (expected), University of Maryland, College Park
M.Phil., Applied Physics 2003, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Education
1996-2000: B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
2000-2001: Graduate student in Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Advisor: Dr. Yuan Wang.
2001-2003: M.Phil. in Applied Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Supervisor: Dr. Johnny C. L. Chan.
2003-present: Ph.D. student (admitted to candidacy in October, 2005) in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park. Advisor: Dr. Sumant Nigam.

Honors/Awards
2008: Member, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
2007-2008:
 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship, University of Maryland Graduate School.
2007:
 Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award, University of Maryland Graduate School.
2003-2008:
 Research Assistantship, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park.
2001-2003:
 Postgraduate Studentship, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
1997, 1998:
 Outstanding student awards from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
1996-1999:
 Scholarship from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.

Membership
2004-present: Member, American Geophysical Union.

Presentations
 Guan, B., 2008: Pacific sea surface temperature variability in the twentieth century: Spatiotemporal structures, and connections to long-term droughts over the Great Plains. Seminar, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

Guan, B. and S. Nigam, 2007: Pacific sea surface temperatures in the twentieth century: An evolution-centric analysis of variability and trend. The 2007 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California.

 Guan, B. and S. Nigam, 2006: Pacific decadal SST variability 1900-2002: structure and evolution. The 11th Annual CCSM Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado.

 Publications
Guan, B., and S. Nigam, 2008: Pacific sea surface temperatures in the twentieth century: An evolution-centric analysis of variability and trend. J. Climate, 21(12), 2790-2809. Fulltext

Guan, B. and J. C. L. Chan, 2006: Nonstationarity of the intraseasonal oscillations associated with the western North Pacific summer monsoon. J. Climate, 19(4), 622-629. Fulltext

Guan, B., 2003: Summer monsoon over the western North Pacific: The onset and the intraseasonal variations. M.Phil. thesis, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Abstract and TOC (provided by CityU library)
Fulltext (provided by CityU library)

Research Interests
- Pacific decadal variability.
- North American hydroclimate variability.

Me
Inner Harbor, Baltimore
March, 2008

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