Mingfang Ting

Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School

Affiliated with: Ocean and Climate Physics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO)

Columbia Climate School

Co-director, M.S. in Climate

Columbia Climate School

Co-Senior Director for Education, Columbia Climate School

104C Oceanography
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964

BIOGRAPHY:

Mingfang Ting, Professor of Climate at the Columbia Climate School, earned her Ph.D. in Climate Dynamics from Princeton University.  As a climate scientist, Dr. Ting’s research covers a wide array of topics related to climate variability and change.  These include the study of weather and climate extremes in a warming world, Asian monsoon systems, Arctic sea ice variability and changes, decadal and multidecadal climate modes, hydroclimate variability, and the impacts of climate change on agriculture and human health.

She is the recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER award, an elected Fellow of both the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS), and has received the AMS Distinguished Scientific/Technological Accomplishment Award in Climate Variability and Change. In 2021, she was named one of the world’s top climate scientists” by Reuters, recognized for the quality and impact of her scholarly publications in climate change science.  She served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Climate, one of the leading journals in physical climate science, from 2020 to 2023.  She is also Co-Senior Director for Education and Co-Director of the Master of Science in Climate Program at the Columbia Climate School.  Since 2004, she has been teaching climate science at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Columbia University.

PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below
Name Start Date End Date
Advancing Predictive understanding of North American Drought: The Role of the North Atlantic SST 8/1/14 7/31/18
Asian Monsoon Response to the Changing Climate Role of Anthropogenic Forcing 9/1/15 8/31/18
Assessing Transport Pathways into the Arctic and Their Efficiencies 4/15/19 3/31/23
Collaborative Research: EaSM2: Linking near-term future changes in weather and hydroclimate in western North America to adaption for ecosystem and water management 4/1/13 3/31/19
Collaborative Research: Variations and Trends in Fall Precipitation over the Central United States: Issues of Physical Mechanisms, Circulation Anomalies and Boundary Forcing 6/15/08 5/31/13
Dynamics of Arctic-Midlatitude Teleconnections - mechanisms, robustness and tropical modulation 5/27/16 3/31/20
Mechanisms and Predictability of the Global Climate Impacts of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability 8/1/09 6/30/13
Understanding and Attributing Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Frequency Changes in the 20th and 21st Centuries 8/1/10 7/31/14
Understanding Forced Asian Monsoon Changes in Observations and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 11/1/16 10/31/21
Collaborative Research: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Mechanisms of Heat Extremes in the Northern Hemisphere 4/1/20 3/31/23
Process-Based Understanding of Extreme Asian Monsoon Rainfall Response to Anthropogenic Forcings 9/1/20 8/31/21
Causal Mechanisms of Dry and Humid Heat Extremes 9/1/22 8/31/25
GRID3 Solutions for Data Integration into Routine Health Information Systems in Selected ESAR Countries 7/6/22 12/31/22
Workshop: Emerging Risks from Concurrent, Compounding and Record-breaking Extreme Heat across Sectors 7/10/24 7/14/24