Dr. Ying Zou

Assistant Professor, CSPAR

Biography

Dr. Zou’s research interests mainly focus on the Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere, and upper atmosphere, and their dependence on the upstream solar wind. She has been actively studying magnetic reconnection, plasma convection, auroral dynamics, and thermosphere circulation using a combination of spacecraft and ground-based radars, imagers, magnetometers, Fabry-Perot interferometers, etc. She is particularly interested in phenomena that have space weather effects. She joined the department of Space Science as an assistant professor in Fall 2019. Before that she was a Jack Eddy postdoc fellow at Center for Space Physics at Boston University.

Dr. Ying Zou's Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. in Space Physics, UCLA, 2015
  • B.A. in Space Physics, Peking University, 2010

Classes Taught

Recent Grants & Contracts

  • Collaborative Research: Local Time Extent of Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection and Controlling Factors, AGS 1702244, $442,595, 2020-2023
  • Characterizing mesoscale thermospheric F-region winds associated with quasi-steady and transient nightside auroral arcs, AGS 1664885 , $414,751, 2018-2021
  • Heating of Terrestrial Ionospheric Ions by Aurora Borealis, UAH New Faculty Research, $9,622.00, 2020-2021

Selected Publications

  • Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Atz, E., Liang, H., Ma, Q., & Angelopoulos, V. (2020). Azimuthal Variation of Magnetopause Reconnection at Scales Below an Earth Radius. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(4), e2019GL086500. 
  • Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Nishimura, Y., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J. M., McWilliams, K. A., & Nishitani, N. (2019). Local time extent of magnetopause reconnection using space–ground coordination. Annales Geophysicae, 37(2), 215–234. https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-37-215-2019 
  • Zou, Y., Nishimura, Y., Lyons, L., Conde, M., Varney, R., Angelopoulos, V., & Mende, S. (2018). Mesoscale F Region Neutral Winds Associated With Quasi-steady and Transient Nightside Auroral Forms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(9), 7968–7984. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025457 
  • Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Nishimura, Y., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J. M., McWilliams, K. A., & Nishitani, N. (2018). Spreading Speed of Magnetopause Reconnection X-Lines Using Ground-Satellite Coordination. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(1), 80–89. doi:10.1002/2017GL075765 
  • Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Atz, E., Liang, H., Ma, Q., & Angelopoulos, V. (2020). Azimuthal Variation of Magnetopause Reconnection at Scales Below an Earth Radius. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(4), e2019GL086500.
  • Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Nishimura, Y., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J. M., McWilliams, K. A., & Nishitani, N. (2019). Local time extent of magnetopause reconnection using space–ground coordination. Annales Geophysicae, 37(2), 215–234. doi:10.5194/angeo-37-215-2019
  • Zou, Y., Nishimura, Y., Lyons, L., Conde, M., Varney, R., Angelopoulos, V., & Mende, S. (2018). Mesoscale F Region Neutral Winds Associated With Quasi-steady and Transient Nightside Auroral Forms. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(9), 7968–7984. doi:10.1029/2018JA025457
  • Zou, Y., Walsh, B. M., Nishimura, Y., Angelopoulos, V., Ruohoniemi, J. M., McWilliams, K. A., & Nishitani, N. (2018). Spreading Speed of Magnetopause Reconnection X-Lines Using Ground-Satellite Coordination. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(1), 80–89. doi:10.1002/2017GL075765
  • Dimmock, A. P., Hietala, H., & Zou, Y. (2020). Compiling magnetosheath statistical data sets under specific solar wind conditions: Lessons learnt from the dayside kinetic southward IMF GEM challenge. Earth and Space Science. 7, e2020EA001095. doi:10.1029/2020EA001095
  • Li, T. C., Liu, Y.-H., Hesse, M., & Zou, Y. (2020). Three-Dimensional X-line Spreading in Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125(2), e2019JA027094. doi:10.1029/2019JA027094
  • Hosokawa, K., Kullen, A., Milan, S., Reidy, J., Zou, Y., Frey, H. U., et al. (2020). Aurora in the Polar Cap: A Review. Space Science Reviews, 216(1), 15. doi:10.1007/s11214-020-0637-3
  • Hietala, H., Dimmock, A. P., Zou, Y., & Garcia‐Sage, K. (2020). The Challenges and Rewards of Running a Geospace Environment Modeling Challenge. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125(3), e2019JA027642. doi:10.1029/2019JA027642
  • Walsh, B. M., Bhakyapaibul, T., & Zou, Y. (2019). Quantifying the Uncertainty of Using Solar Wind Measurements for Geospace Inputs. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(5), 3291–3302. doi:10.1029/2019JA026507
  • Nishimura, Y., Gallardo‐Lacourt, B., Zou, Y., Mishin, E., Knudsen, D. J., Donovan, E. F., et al. (2019). Magnetospheric Signatures of STEVE: Implications for the Magnetospheric Energy Source and Interhemispheric Conjugacy. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(11), 5637–5644. doi:10.1029/2019GL082460
  • Hosokawa, K., Zou, Y., & Nishimura, Y. (2019). Airglow Patches in the Polar Cap Region: A Review. Space Science Reviews, 215(8), 53. doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0616-8
  • Goodwin, L. V., Nishimura, Y., Zou, Y., Shiokawa, K., & Jayachandran, P. T. (2019). Mesoscale Convection Structures Associated With Airglow Patches Characterized Using Cluster-Imager Conjunctions. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124(9), 7513–7532. doi:10.1029/2019JA026611
  • Frey, H. U., Han, D., Kataoka, R., Lessard, M. R., Milan, S. E., Nishimura, Y., et al. (2019). Dayside Aurora. Space Science Reviews, 215(8), 51. doi:10.1007/s11214-019-0617-7
  • Wang, B., Nishimura, Y., Hietala, H., Shen, X.-C., Shi, Q., Zhang, H., et al. (2018). Dayside Magnetospheric and Ionospheric Responses to a Foreshock Transient on 25 June 2008: 2. 2-D Evolution Based on Dayside Auroral Imaging. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123(8), 6347–6359. doi:10.1029/2017JA024846
  • Walsh, B. M., Welling, D. T., Zou, Y., & Nishimura, Y. (2018). A Maximum Spreading Speed for Magnetopause Reconnection. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(11), 5268–5273. doi:10.1029/2018GL07823
  • Lyons, L. R., Zou, Y., Nishimura, Y., Gallardo-Lacourt, B., Angelopulos, V., & Donovan, E. F. (2018). Stormtime substorm onsets: occurrence and flow channel triggering. Earth, Planets and Space, 70(1), 81. doi:10.1186/s40623-018-0857-x
  • Lyons, L. R., Gallardo-Lacourt, B., Zou, Y., Nishimura, Y., Anderson, P., Angelopoulos, V., et al. (2018). Driving of strong nightside reconnection and geomagnetic activity by polar cap flows: Application to CME shocks and possibly other situations. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 177, 73–83. doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2017.09.013
  • Liu, J., Lyons, L. R., Archer, W. E., Gallardo‐Lacourt, B., Nishimura, Y., Zou, Y., et al. (2018). Flow Shears at the Poleward Boundary of Omega Bands Observed During Conjunctions of Swarm and THEMIS ASI. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(3), 1218–1227. doi:10.1002/2017GL076485