Kuo-Nan Liou (simplified Chinese: 廖国男; traditional Chinese: 廖國男; pinyin: Liào Guónán; 16 November 1943 – 20 March 2021) was a Taiwanese American meteorologist.
He did post-doctoral research at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
He joined the faculty of University of California, Los Angeles in 1997 and was promoted to director of Department of Atmospheric and Marine Sciences in 2000.
[1] In 2006 he was appointed the first dean of the newly founded Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering.
He was elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on November 28, 2017.