Chongxing Fan

Chongxing Fan

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he/him/his
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program
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Chongxing Fan

Pronouns
he/him/his
Position
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Affiliation
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program
About
Bio/Description

Chongxing recently joined Dr. David Paynter's research group at Princeton AOS / GFDL in June 2024. He received his Ph.D. degree in Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering from the University of Michigan. His research interests include satellite data analysis, climate modeling, and machine learning applications in climate sciences. Chongxing's past research experiences include aerosol-climate interactions during his undergraduate study at Nanjing University in China. At the University of Michigan, he used satellite observations to quantify the changes in surface radiative properties due to the construction of solar farms, leading to two research papers. Sponsored by the NASA FINESST fellowship, he has been working on modeling solar farms with a better physical representation in global climate models. In addition, he has published two research articles on the impact of cloud longwave scattering on climate simulation and infrared remote sensing.

Curriculum Vitae
Education
  • Ph.D. (2024), Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
  • BSc (2019), Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University
Selected Publications
  1. Fan, C., Chen, Y.-H., Chen, X., Lin, W., Yang, P., & Huang, X. (2023). A refined understanding of the ice cloud longwave scattering effects in climate model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2023MS003810. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003810.
  2. Fan, C., & Huang, X. (2023). Infrared scattering of cloud in an isothermal atmosphere. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. Early Online Version. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0050.1.
  3. Huang, X., Chen, X., Fan, C., Kato, S., Loeb, N., Bosilovich, M., et al. (2022). A synopsis of AIRS global-mean clear-sky radiance trends from 2003 to 2020. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037598. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037598.
  4. Fan, C., & Huang, X. (2021). Direct impact of solar farm deployment on surface longwave radiation. Environmental Research Communications, 3(12), 125006. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ac40f1.
  5. Fan, C., & Huang, X. (2020). Satellite-observed changes of surface spectral reflectances due to solar farming and the implication for radiation budget. Environmental Research Letters, 15(11), 114047. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abbdea.
  6. Fan, C., Wang, M., Rosenfeld, D., Zhu, Y., Liu, J., & Chen, B. (2020). Strong Precipitation Suppression by Aerosols in Marine Low Clouds. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(7), e2019GL086207. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086207.