Dakuan Yu

Department Climate Variability
Group Earth System Modelling and Predictions
Position Postdoc
phone +49 40 41173 310
Email dakuan.yu@mpimet.mpg.de
Room B 232

About me

Born in China, Bachelor’s degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Lanzhou University, Ph.D. in Oceanography at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Currently, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, focusing on climate variability and climate model tuning.

Research Interest

ENSO theory, ENSO simulation and prediction in climate model; Nonlinear Dynamics; Chaos and Fractal

Publication

Yu, D., & Zhou, M. (2025). The similarity between the seasonal predictability and persistence barrier of ENSO phenomenon. Geophysical Research Letters52(2), https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL111885

Yu, D., Zhou, M., & Hang, C. (2024). The potential role of seasonal surface heating on the chaotic origins of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation spring predictability barrier. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres129(14), https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041034

Yu, D., Zhou, M., Hang, C., & Sun, D. Z. (2022). A nonlinear cause for the seasonal predictability barrier of SST anomaly in the tropical Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans127(10), https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC018723

Yu, D., Ta, W., & Zhou, Y. (2021). Fractal diffusion patterns of periodic points in the Mandelbrot set. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2021.111599

Yu, D., & Ta, W. (2021). A new stable internal structure of the mandelbrot set during the iteration process. Fractals29(01), https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218348X2150002X