Professor and Department Chair
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
San Diego
San Diego,
Office: GMCS 415
Tel:: 619-594-6191
Fax: 619-594-6746
Email: shen@math.sdsu.edu
Website: www.ualberta.ca/~shen
Education
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1987), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
M.A. in Applied Mathematics (1985), University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics (1982), Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Research interest
I am an applied mathematician with research interests in statistical climatology and nonlinear waves. My group is working on a variety of research projects, including statistical optimal averaging and interpolation of climate parameters, error estimation in climate data analysis, development of agroclimate datasets and drought monitoring, optimal blending of satellite remote sensing data with in situ observations, weather risk analysis and statistical decision theory, Hilbert-Huang signal analysis for nonlinear and non-stationary processes, climate informatics, internal and surface waves in water flows over a topography, and nonlinear evolution equations and solitons. Together with Gerald North and K.-Y. Kim, we established a spectral theory to estimate the sampling errors in the average of an inhomogeneous field. The United Nations' Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) adopted our theory to estimate the uncertainties in global warming assessment from 1861 to 2000 (IPCC Report 2001, Figures 2.7 and 2.8).
My research
projects have been supported by many agencies, including US National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
US National Research Council, Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Environment Canada,
Alberta Agriculture, Alberta Innovation and Sciences, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, University of
Tokyo, University of Alberta, and San Diego State University.
Teaching interest
I do not teach this semester. Please check this website for my future
course offering.
Selected
publications
I have published over 70 refereed papers, 4 books, and many governmental
technical reports. Selected publications are below. For the complete publication
list, please click here.
Monographs
1. Huang, N.E. and S.S.P. Shen (ed.), 2005: Hilbert-Huang Transform and
Its Applications, World Scientific, 360pp.
2. Chetner, S., and the Agroclimatic Atlas Working Group, 2003: Agroclimatic
Atlas of Alberta, 1971 to 2000. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development,
Agdex071-1, Edmonton, Alberta, 89pp. (S.S.P. Shen is a lead scientist
in the Working Group.)
3. Shen, S.S.P., 1995: Climate Sampling Errors, Lecture Notes at University
of Tokyo, 74pp.
4. Shen, S.S.P., 1993: A Course on Nonlinear Waves, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
327pp.
Journal
Papers
1. Zeng, X.D., X.B. Zeng, S.S.P. Shen, R.E. Dickenson, and Q.C. Zeng,
2005: Vegetation-soil water interaction within a dynamical ecosystem model
of grassland in semi-arid areas, Tellus 57B, 189-202.
2. Folland, C.K., N.A. Rayner, S.J. Brown, T.M. Smith, S.S.P. Shen, D.E.
Parker, I. Macadam, P.D. Jones, R.N. Jones, N. Nicholls, and D.M.H. Sexton,
2001: Global temperature change and its uncertainties since 1861, Geophys.
Res. Lett. 28, 2621-2624.
3. Smith, T.M., R.E. Livezey, and S.S.P. Shen, 1998: An improved method
for interpolating sparse and irregularly distributed data onto a regular
grid, J. Climate 11, 1717-1729.
4. Shen, S.S.P., T.M. Smith, C.F. Ropelewski, and R.E. Livezey, 1998:
An optimal regional averaging method with error estimates and a test using
tropical Pacific SST data, J. Climate 11, 2340-2350.
5. North, G.R., K.Y. Kim, S.S.P. Shen, and J.W. Hardin, 1995: Detection
of forced climate signals, Part I: theory, J. Climate 8, 401-408.
6. Shen, S.S.P., G.R. North, and K.-Y. Kim, 1994: Spectral approach to
optimal estimation of the global average temperature, J. Climate 7, 1999-2007.
7. Gong, L., and S.S.P. Shen, 1994: Multiple supercritical solitary wave
solutions of the stationary forced Korteweg-de Vries equation and their
stability, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 54, 1268-1290.
8. Shen, S.S.P., 1992: Forced solitary waves and hydraulic falls in two-layer
flows, J. Fluid Mech. 234, 583-612.
