Chongxing Fan

Graduate Student

Contact

cxfan@umich.edu

Location

Climate & Space Research Building

2455 Hayward Street

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143

Education

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

Biography

Chongxing Fan is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. His past research experiences were related to aerosol-climate interactions when he was an undergraduate student at Nanjing University. He is now advised by Prof. Xianglei Huang, and his research interests include satellite data analysis and machine learning application in climate sciences. He has published two papers about solar farms’ radiative effects observed by satellites and one paper about the aerosol-climate interaction. His proposal on studying solar farms’ effects based on climate models was selected by the NASA FINESST program and received a $150,000 grant. He has received Rackham International Students Fellowship due to his academic achievements. Chongxing is also a MICDE 2019-2020 Fellow. He obtained his Certificate of Graduate Studies in Computational Discovery and Engineering in April 2022.

Publications

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)

*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

[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.