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Xia Sun works on the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Weather Models and the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP). Xia is interested in topics aiming at improving the forecasting of high-impact weather events and air quality. Specifically, she has research experiences in land-atmosphere interactions, boundary layer structures, atmospheric composition, and wildfire smoke exposure assessment.
Research Interests
- Physics parameterization improvement in numerical weather prediction models
- Land-atmosphere interactions
- Turbulent mixing and boundary layer meteorology
- Air quality modeling
- Interdisciplinary research to investigate air pollution and extreme weather events impacts on public health
Education
- Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, University of Nevada, Reno, 05/2019
- M.S. in Atmospheric Physics and Environment, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China, 06/2013
- B.S in Atmospheric Physics and Environment, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China, 06/2010
Experience
- Research Scientist at NOAA/GSL, Developmental Testbed Center, CIRES at CU Boulder, 12/2019-present
- Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Nevada, Reno, 07/2019-11/2019
- Meteorologist, Hebei Meteorological Disaster Prevention Center, Shijiazhuang, China, 07/2013-12/2015
Peer-Reviewed Publications (Selected)
- X. Sun, H. A. Holmes, and H. Xiao (2020). Surface turbulent fluxes during Persistent Cold Air Pool Events in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah. Part II: Simulations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2020, 59(6): 1029-1050. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0250.1
- X. Sun, H. A. Holmes (2019). Surface turbulent fluxes during Persistent Cold Air Pool Events in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah. Part I: Observations. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 58(12), 2553–2568. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0053.1
- X. Sun, H. A. Holmes, O. O. Osibanjo, Y. Sun, and C. E. Ivey (2017). Evaluation of surface fluxes in the WRF model: case study for farmland in rolling terrain. Atmosphere, 8(10), 197. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos8100197
- S. Kong, B. Wen, K. Chen, Y. Yin, L. Li, Q. Li, … & X. Sun (2014). Ion chemistry for atmospheric Size-segregated Aerosol and depositions at an offshore site of Yangtze River Delta region, China. Atmospheric Research, 147, 205-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2014.05.018
- X. Sun, Y. Yin, Y. Sun, Y. Sun, W. Liu, and Y. Han (2013). Seasonal and vertical variations in aerosol distribution over Shijiazhuang, China. Atmospheric Environment, 81, 245-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2013.08.009
