Dr. Yang is currently an associated professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences of SUSTech. He graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from Peking University in 2005 and earned his PhD degree in space physics at Rice University in 2009. He worked as a Postdoc from 2009 to 2011 and then as a research scientist from 2011 to 2018 at Rice. In July 2018, he joined Southern University of Science and Technology. Dr. Yang has published more than 20 refereed journal papers in JGR-Space Physics and GRL. His research interest includes Earth and planetary magnetospheric physics and space weather.

Education background

2009  Ph.D., Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, USA

2008  M.S., Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, USA

2005  B.S., Dept. of Geophysics, Peking University, China

Work Experience

2018.7 – present   Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, SUSTech

2011.11-2018.7    Research Scientist, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University

2009.8-2011.10    Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University

Awards

2013          Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Journal of Geophysical Research- Space Physics

2010          NSF Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) postdoctoral research award

2008-2009 The William & Elva Gordon Fellowship, Rice University

Professional Activities

2015-2019 NSF GEM Focus Group Leader

Research

1.    Earth and planetary magnetospheric physics

2.    Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling, aurora dynamics

3.    Space weather

期刊论文(通讯作者*, 课题组成员)

1.       Xue, D., Yang, J.*, Liu, Z.*, & Yu, S. (2023). Examining the economic costs of the 2003 Halloween storm effects on the North Hemisphere aviation using flight data in 2019. Space Weather, 21, e2022SW003381.

2.       Wang, Y., Yang, J., Guo, X.*, Wang, C.*, & Blanc, M. (2023). Simulation of centrifugally driven convection in Jovian inner magnetosphere using the Rice Convection Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA031132. 

3.       Sadeghzadeh, S., Yang, J.*, Toffoletto, F., Wolf, R., Mousavi, A., & Espinoza, C. M. (2023). RCM modeling of bubble injections into the inner magnetosphere: Spectral properties of plasma sheet particles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA030673.

4.       Wenrui Wang, Jian Yang*, Frank Toffoletto, Richard Wolf, Rumi Nakamura, Jun Cui (2022), Current sheet thinning in the wake of a bubble injection, Geophysical Research Letters, 2022GL100737.

5.       Dong Wei, Jian Yang*, Chengming Liu, Fei Zhang, Wenrui Wang, Weiqin Sun (2022), Successive Westward Traveling Surges Driven by Sequential Plasma-Sheet Bubble Injections, Geophysical Research Letters, 2022GL100774.

6.       Dabin Xue, Jian Yang*, Zhizhao Liu*, Bing Wang, (2022), An optimized solution to long-distance flight routes under extreme cosmic radiation, Space Weather, 2022SW003264.

7.       Dabin Xue, Jian Yang*, Zhizhao Liu* (2022). Potential impact of GNSS positioning errors on the satellite-navigation-based air traffic management. Space Weather, 20, e2022SW003144.

8.       Wenrui Wang, Jian Yang*, Yukitoshi Nishimura, Weiqin Sun, Dong Wei, Fei Zhang, Frank Toffoletto, Richard Wolf, Stanislav Sazykin, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Jun Cui (2021), Magnetospheric source and electric current system associated with intense SAIDs, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2021GL093253.

9.       Dong Wei, Fei Zhang, Yang, J.*, Wenrui Wang, Weiqin Sun, Jun Cui, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Magnetospheric Driver of Westward Traveling Surge: Plasma-Sheet Bubble (2021), Geophys. Res. Lett., 2021GL095539.

10.   Dabin Xue, Zhizhao Liu, Bing Wang, Jian Yang*, (2021), Impacts of COVID-19 on aircraft usage and fuel consumption: a case study on four major airports in China, Journal of Air Transport Management, Volume 95, August 2021, 102106.

11.   Shanshan Bao*, Frank Toffoletto, Jian Yang, Stanislav Sazykin, Michael Wiltberger (2021), Coupling the Rice Convection Model-Equilibrium to the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry Global Magnetohydrodynamic Model, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2020JA028973.

12.   Viktor Sergeev*, Weiqin Sun, Jian Yang, Evgeny Panov (2021), Manifestations of magnetotail flow channels in energetic particle signatures at low-altitude orbit, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2021GL093543.

13.   Weiqin Sun, Sina Sadeghzadeh, Jian Yang*, Wenrui Wang, Jun Cui (2021), Development of Multiple Injection Channels during a Sawtooth Substorm Event, Geophys. Res. Lett., e2021GL094097.

14.   Sina Sadeghzadeh, Jian Yang*, Chih-Ping Wang, Ameneh Mousavi, Wenrui Wang, Weiqin Sun, Frank Toffoletto and Richard Wolf (2021), Effects of bubble injections on the plasma sheet configuration, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, doi.:10.1029/2021JA029127.

15.   Shishir Priyadarshi*, Jian Yang* and Weiqin Sun (2021), Modeling and prediction of near-Earth plasma sheet parameters using the Rice Convection Model and the Recurrent Neural Network, Front. Astron. Space Sci., doi:10.3389/fspas.2021.691000.

16.   Wang, Wenrui, Yang, J.*, Nishimura, Y., Wolf, R. A., Toffoletto, F. R., Angelopoulos, V., et al. (2021). Effects of ion slippage in Earth's ionosphere and the plasma sheet. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2020GL091494. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091494.

17.   S Priyadarshi*, J Yang, M Werner, M Kryza (2020), Ionospheric perturbations initiated due to the forest-fire over Greece as a consequence of lithosphere-atmosphere-ionosphere coupling, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 11 (1), 2411-2430.

18.   Wang, C.‐P.*, Yang, J., Gkioulidou, M., Lyons, L. R., & Wolf, R. A. (2020). Generation and evolution of two opposite types of mesoscale plasma sheet bubbles. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125, e2020JA028072. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028072

19.   Nishimura Y*, Jian Yang, James Weygand, Wenrui Wang, Burcu Kosar, Eric Donovan, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Larry Paxton, Nozomu Nishitani (2020), Magnetospheric conditions for STEVE and SAID: Particle injection, substorm surge and field-aligned currents, Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics, 2020JA027782.

20.   Wang Wenrui, Jian Yang*, Yong-Fu Wang, Quanqi Shi, and Jun Cui (2020), Spatially quasi-periodic finger-like aurora during substorms, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 897, Number 2. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9645

21.   Yang, J.*, Wolf, R., Toffoletto, F., Sazykin, S., Wang, W., & Cui, J. (2019). The Inertialized Rice Convection Model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, doi.:10.1029/2019JA026811.

22.   Wolf, R. A.*, Toffoletto, F. R., Schutza, A. M., & Yang, J. (2018). Buoyancy waves in Earth's magnetosphere: Calculations for a 2‐D wedge magnetosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123, 3548–3564.

23.   Nishimura, Y.*, J. Yang, P. L. Pritchett, F. V. Coroniti, E.  F. Donovan, L. R. Lyons, R. A. Wolf, V. Angelopoulos, S. B. Mende (2016), Statistical properties of substorm auroral onset beads/rays, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, doi:10.1002/2016JA022801.

24.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, and R. A. Wolf (2016), Comparison study of ring current simulations with and without bubble injections, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 121, doi:10.1002/2015JA021901.

25.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, R. A. Wolf, and S. Sazykin (2015), On the Contribution of Plasma Sheet Bubbles to the Storm-Time Ring Current, J. Geophys. Res., 120, doi:10.1002/2015JA021398.

26.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, Gang Lu and Michael Wiltberger (2014), RCM-E and AMIE studies of the Harang Reversal formation during a Steady Magnetospheric Convection event, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2014JA020207.

27.   Yang, J.*, R. A. Wolf, F. R. Toffoletto, S. Sazykin, and C.-P. Wang (2014), RCM-E simulation of bimodal transport in the plasma sheet, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL059400. (AGU EOS Vol. 95, No. 28, research spotlight)

28.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto and R. A. Wolf (2014), RCM-E simulation of a thin arc preceded by a north-south-aligned auroral streamer, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1002/2014GL059840.

29.   V. A. Sergeev*, A. V. Nikolaev, N. A. Tsyganenko, V. Angelopoulos, A.V. Runov, H. J. Singer and J. Yang (2014), Testing a two-loop pattern of the substorm current wedge (SCW2L), J. Geophys. Res., 10.1002/2013JA019629.

30.   Yang, J.*, R. A. Wolf, F. R. Toffoletto and S. Sazykin (2013), RCM-E simulation of substorm growth phase arc associated with large-scale adiabatic convection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1002/2013GL058253.

31.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, R. A. Wolf, S. Sazykin, P. A. Ontiveros, and J. M. Weygand (2012), Large-scale current systems and ground magnetic disturbance during deep substorm injections, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A04223, doi:10.1029/2011JA017415.

32.   Shi, Y.*, E. Zesta, L. R. Lyons, J. Yang, A. Boudouridis, Y. S. Ge, J. M. Ruohoniemi, and S. Mende (2012), Two-dimensional ionospheric flow pattern associated with auroral streamers, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JA017110.

33.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, X. Xing and V. Angelopoulos (2012), RCM-E simulation of the 13 March 2009 steady magnetospheric convection event, J. Geophys. Res., 117, A03224, doi:10.1029/2011JA017245.

34.   Hu, B.*, R. A. Wolf, F. R. Toffoletto, J. Yang, and J. Raeder (2011), Consequences of violation of frozen-in-flux: Evidence from OpenGGCM simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A06223, doi:10.1029/2011JA016667.

35.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, R. A. Wolf, and S. Sazykin (2011), RCM-E simulation of ion acceleration during an idealized plasma sheet bubble injection, J. Geophys. Res., 116, A05207, doi:10.1029/2010JA016346.

36.   Yang, J.*, R. A. Wolf, and F. R. Toffoletto (2011), Accelerated thinning of the near-Earth plasma sheet caused by a bubble-blob pair, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L01107, doi:10.1029/2010GL045993.

37.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, and Y. Song (2010), Role of depleted flux tubes in steady magnetospheric convection: Results of RCM-E simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A00I11, doi:10.1029/2010JA015731.

38.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, G. M. Erickson, and R. A. Wolf (2010), Superposed epoch study of PV5/3 during substorms, pseudobreakups and convection bays, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L07102, doi:10.1029/2010GL042811.

39.   Zhang, J.-C.*, R. A. Wolf, R. W. Spiro, G. M. Erickson, S. Sazykin, F. R. Toffoletto, and J. Yang (2009), Rice Convection Model simulation of the substorm-associated injection of an observed plasma bubble into the inner magnetosphere: 2. Simulation results, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A08219, doi:10.1029/2009JA014131.

40.   Zhang, J.-C.*, R. A. Wolf, G. M. Erickson, R. W. Spiro, F. R. Toffoletto, and J. Yang (2009), Rice Convection Model simulation of the substorm-associated injection of an observed bubble into the inner magnetosphere: 1. Magnetic field and other inputs, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A08218, doi:10.1029/2009JA014130.

41.   Yang, J.*, F. R. Toffoletto, R. A. Wolf, S. Sazykin, R. W. Spiro, P. C. Brandt, M. G. Henderson, and H. U. Frey (2008), Rice Convection Model simulation of the 18 April 2002 sawtooth event and evidence for interchange instability, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A11214, doi:10.1029/2008JA013635.

42.   Liu, W. L.*, S. Y. Fu, Q.-G. Zong, Z. Y. Pu, J. Yang, and P. Ruan (2005), Variations of N+/O+ in the ring current during magnetic storms, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L15102, doi:10.1029/2005GL023038.

43.   Yang J, Fu SY*, Liu WL, Ruan P, Pu ZY, Daly P and Wang YF (2005), Spatial distribution of energetic ion compositions in the plasma sheet observed by Cluster/RAPID, Chinese J . Geophys. (in Chinese), 48 (6).

著作

44.   R. A. Wolf*, R. W. Spiro, S. Sazykin, F. R. Toffoletto, and J. Yang (2017), Forty-Seven Years of the Rice Convection Model, in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Solar System (eds C. R. Chappell, R. W. Schunk, P. M. Banks, J. L. Burch and R. M. Thorne), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi: 10.1002/9781119066880.ch17.

其他

1.       Yang, J., Large-scale current systems and ground magnetic disturbance during deep substorm injections, THEMIS nuggets 2012.

2.       Yang, J., RCM-E simulation of the 13 March 2009 steady magnetospheric convection event, THEMIS nuggets 2012.