Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.
My curiosities lie in the dynamic ocean and its role in the Earth system.
I am also a certificated freediver and love to feel water temperature and pressure changes when I dive deep!
PhD research: I aim to constrain the dissipation of oceanic mesoscale energy, which is the circulation at length scales $O(100s\ \mathrm{km})$, time scales of $O(1\ \mathrm{day})$, and that plays a crucial role in Earth's climate.
I am co-advised by Prof. Andrew Stewart and Prof. James McWilliams during the time at UCLA.
Additionally, I have been mentoring Aisha, an undergraduate researcher, and collaborating with Kaushik to predict ocean bottom flows using machine learning.
Postdoctoral research interests: I am motivated to perform research in bottom boundary submesoscale simulations, eddy-internal wave interactions using SWOT, nonlinear internal wave simulations, and the prediction of nonlinear internal tides.
Previous research in Taiwan: I was advised and employed by Zhi-Cheng Huang for nearshore dynamics monitoring, investigation, and research.
Send me an email at sunnyyeh@atmos.ucla.edu for collaboration, questions, mentoring, or freediving!
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