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Ying Fan Reinfelder
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Wright Labs, 610 Taylor Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066
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Department of Environmental Sciences
14 College Farm Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551
Phone: (732) 932-9800 x6212
Fax: (732) 932-8644
Email: yingfan@rci.rutgers.edu
Education
- B.S., Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering
- M.S., University of Utah
- Ph.D., Utah State University
- Postdoc, MIT
- Postdoc, Princeton University
Teaching
- Undergraduate: Hydrogeology
- Undergraduate: Hydrologic Processes
- Graduate: Groundwater Modeling
Research Interests
Projects:
- Investigate the role of the groundwater reservoir in the terrestrial
water cycle - its link to soil moisture and river flow and hence continental
climate dynamics.
- Reconstruct the Earth's hydrologic cycle in the past 21k years, using an
integrated hydrologic modeling approach and constrained by paleo-proxies.
- Investigate the role of fractures in sedimentary rocks in controlling
groundwater flow and groundwater-river exchange in Newark Basin, a Mesozoic
rift basin in the eastern U.S.
- Examining the effect of groundwater pumping and irrigation on stream
flow and precipitation in the High Plains.
- Investigate the feasibility of carbon sequestration in the deep saline
formations of the Atlantic Coastal Plains off New Jersey coast. My
contribution will be a fluid dynamics model for studying the potential
migration pathways and residence times of the injected CO2 in a
supercritical state.
- Assess the future of freshwater resources for the nation over the coming
decades using an integrated regional climate and hydrology model.
- Building a global groundwater database in support of earth system
modeling.
Members of Research Group:
- Elif Sertel, postdoctoral associate, regional climate modeling (Dept. Environmental Sciences)
- Deniz Kustu, Ph.D. student, coupled climatic-hydrologic change in N. America (Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences)
- Anthony DeAngelis, Ph.D. student, summer research, observational evidence of irrigation-precipitation link in the High Plains (Dept. Environmental Sciences)
- Neil Ramchandani, RU Aresty undergraduate scholar, building a global groundwater database in support of earth system modeling.
Grants:
- NSF Water Cycle Research (NSF-ATM-0450334) - 03/01/05-02/28/10
- Rutgers University Academic Excellence Fund - 04/01/07-03/31/09
Recent Publications
- Fan, Y., and G. Miguez-Macho, A simple hydrologic framework for simulating natural wetlands in earth system models. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, in review.
- Schaller, M., and Y. Fan. 2008. River basins as groundwater exporters and importers: Implications for water cycle and climate modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.
- Lyon, S., F. Dominguez, D. Gochis, N. Brunsell, C. Castro, F. Chow, Y. Fan, D. Fuka, Y. Hong, P. Kucera, S. Nesbitt, N. Salzmann, J. Schmidli, P. Snyder, A. Teuling, T. Twine, G. Lee, S. Levis, J. Lundquist, G. Salvucci, A. Sealy, T. Walter. 2008. Coupling terrestrial and atmospheric water dynamics to improve prediction in a changing environment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, in press.
- Miguez-Macho, G., H. Li, and Y. Fan. 2008. Simulated water table and soil moisture climatology over North America. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 5: 663-672.
- Anyah, R., C. P. Weaver, G. Miguez-Macho, Y. Fan, and A. Robock,
2007. Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 3. Simulated
groundwater influence on coupled land-atmosphere variability. Journal of
Geophysical Research, 113, D07103, doi:10.1029/2007JD009087.
- Miguez-Macho, G., Y. Fan, C. P. Weaver, R. Walko, and A. Robock.
2007. Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling, Part II:
Formulation, validation, and simulations of soil moisture fields. Journal of
Geophysical Research. doi:10.1029/2006JD008112.
- Fan, Y., G. Miguez-Macho, C. P. Weaver, R. Walko, and A. Robock.
2007. Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling, Part I: Water
table observations and the equilibrium water table simulations. Journal of
Geophysical Research, doi:10.1029/2006JD008111.
- Fan, Y., L. Toran, and R. Schlische. 2007. Groundwater flow and
groundwater-stream interaction in fractured and dipping sedimentary rocks:
Insights from numerical models. Water Resources Research, VOL. 43, W01409,
doi:10.1029/2006WR004864.
- Moramarco, T., Y. Fan and R. L. Bras. 1999. An analytical solution
for channel routing with uniform lateral inflow. Journal of Hydraulic
Engineering, 125(7): 707-713.
- Fan, Y. and R. L. Bras. 1998. Analytical solutions to hillslope
subsurface storm flow and saturation overland flow. Water Resources
Research, 34(4): 921-927.
- Fan, Y., C. J. Duffy and D. S. Oliver, Jr. 1997. Density-driven
groundwater flow in closed desert basins: Field investigations and numerical
experiments. Journal of Hydrology, 196: 139-184.
- Fan, Y., E. F. Wood, M. L. Baeck and J. A. Smith. 1996. The
fractional coverage of rainfall over a model grid: analyses of NEXRAD radar
data over the Southern Plains. Water Resources Research, 32(9): 2787-2802.
- Fan, Y. and R. L. Bras. 1995. On the concept of a representative
elementary area (REA) in catchment hydrology. Hydrological Processes,
9:821-832.
- Fan, Y. and C. J. Duffy. 1993. Monthly temperature and precipitation
fields on a storm-facing mountain front: Statistical structure and empirical
parameterization. Water Resources Research, 29(12): 4157-4166.
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