Chongxing Fan

Chongxing Fan

Graduate Student

Contact

Location

Climate & Space Research Building

2455 Hayward Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143

Education

B.S. (2019), Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University

Biography

Chongxing Fan successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation in March 2024 and will graduate from the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan in April 2024. In the past four-and-a-half years, he has been working in Prof. Xianglei Huang’s research group on topics related to atmospheric radiative transfer. Chongxing’s 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. Chongxing has published two papers on these projects. 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. He obtained his Certificate of Graduate Studies in Computational Discovery and Engineering in April 2022.

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.

Current and Previous Grants (* for current grants)

  1. *Impacts of Solar Farming on Surface Energy Budget and Climate from Long-Term NASA Satellite Observations, NASA, 9/2022-8/2024, $150,000

Conferences, Proceedings, and Abstracts

[O] Oral Talks; [P] Posters

  1. [O] Fan, C., Chen, Y.-H., Chen, X., Lin, W., Huang, X, & Yang, P. Address Climate Model Bias by Refining Radiation Scheme: Examples and Future Perspectives. AGU Fall Meeting 2023. San Francisco, CA, USA. December 11-15, 2023.
  2. [O] Huang, X., Chen, X., Strow, L., Fan, C., Loeb, N., Kato, S., Yue, Q. The Insights from Twenty Years of AIRS Radiances and an Outlook for the Incoming Decade: A Climate Perspective. 20th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Singapore. July 30 – August 4, 2023.
  3. [P] Fan, C., & Huang, X. Understanding How Solar Farms Modify Radiation Budget and Regional Climate Based onSatellite-observation Constrained Climate Modeling. 20th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Singapore. July 30 – August 4, 2023.
  4. [O] Fan, C., Chen, Y., Chen, X., Lin, W., Huang, X, & Yang, P. Including Ice-cloud Longwave Scattering and Surface Spectral Emissivities in Climate ModelsLeads to More Impacts on Mean-state Climate Than Climate Feedbacks. 20th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society. Singapore. July 30 – August 4, 2023.
  5. [P] Fan, C., Chen, Y., Chen, X., Lin, W., Huang, X, & Yang, P. Ice-Cloud Longwave Scattering in Climate Models Leads to More Impacts on Mean-State Climate than Climate Feedbacks. GRC Radiation and Climate. Lewiston, Maine, USA. July 23-28, 2023.
  6. [O] Fan, C., Chen, Y., Chen, X., Lin, W., Huang, X, & Yang, P. Including Ice-Cloud Longwave Scattering and Surface Spectral Emissivities in Climate Models Leads to More Impacts on Mean-State Climate than Climate Feedbacks. EGU General Assembly 2023. Vienna, Austria. April 23-28, 2023.
  7. [O] Fan, C., Chen, Y., Jing, X., Chen, X., Lin, W., Huang, X, & Yang, P. An Overall Assessment of the Ice-Cloud Longwave Scattering Effects on the Simulated Global Climate. 36th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 103rd AMS Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, USA. January 8-12, 2023.
  8. [O] Fan, C., & Huang, X., Satellite-observed changes of surface reflectance, emissivity, and temperature due to solar farming and the implication for radiation budget. 14th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, 103rd AMS Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, USA. January 8-12, 2023.
  9. [O] Fan, C., Chen, Y., Jing, X., Chen, X., Lin, W., Huang, X, & Yang, P. An Overall Assessment of the Ice-Cloud Longwave Scattering Effects on the Simulated Global Climate. AGU Fall Meeting 2022. Chicago, IL, USA. December 12-16, 2022.
  10. [P] Fan, C., & Huang, X., Satellite-Observed Changes of Surface Radiative Properties due to Solar Farming and the Implication for Radiation Budget. Midwest Student Conference on Atmospheric Research 2022. Urbana, IL, USA. October 1-2, 2022.
  11. [P] Fan,C.,Chen,Y.,Jing,X.,Chen,X.,Lin,W.,Huang,X.,&Yang,P.,Cloudscattering and surface spectral emissivities in climate model: Performance evaluation and feedback analysis. 2022 CFMIP Meeting on Clouds, Precipitation, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity. Seattle, WA, USA. July 19-22, 2022
  12. [O] Fan, C., & Huang, X., Satellite-Observed Changes of Surface Radiative Properties due to Solar Farming and the Implication for Radiation Budget. 2022 International Radiation Symposium. Thessaloniki, Greece. July 4-8, 2022.
  13. [P] Fan, C., & Huang, X., Solar Farm as an ideal test bed for satellite surface emissivity and temperature retrieval algorithms. AGU Fall Meeting 2021. New Orleans, LA, USA. December 13-17, 2021.
  14. [O] Fan, C., & Huang, X., Use different machine-learning algorithms for clear-sky detections in infrared hyperspectral observations: assessment and physical interpretability. 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences. Online. September 13-17, 2021.
  15. [P] Fan,C.,&Huang,X.,Satellite-observedchangesofsurfacespectralreflectancesdue to solar farming and the implication for radiation budget. AGU Fall Meeting 2020. Online. December 1-17, 2020.

Awards

  • (2024) AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Award
  • (2023) Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement Award
  • (2020) Rackham International Students Fellowship
  • (2019) MICDE 2019-2020 Fellow

Professional Services

  1. Peer reviewer for Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (2022; 2023)
  2. Peer reviewer for Journal of Climate (2023)
  3. Peer reviewer for Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres (2 manuscripts in 2023)
  4. Peer reviewer for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2023)
  5. Peer reviewer for Environmental Research: Climate (2024; selected as IOP Trusted Reviewer)

Links

Website: https://cxfan1997.github.io/cxfan_starfan/

CV: https://cxfan1997.github.io/cxfan_starfan/uploads/CV_Chongxing_Fan_Mar28_2024.pdf

Mindmap Portal: https://public.websites.umich.edu/~cxfan/Files/index.html