Jianan Chen

About Me

I am Chen Jianan, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of Hong Kong. My research involves numerical weather forecasting, turbulence parameterization and extreme orographic precipitation under global warming. I obtained Ph.D in Atmospheric Environmental Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology under supervision of Prof Xiaoming Shi.

I spend my lesisure time in playing badminton and body building. After moving to Hong Kong, I also developed a new hobby- hiking. At most weekends, I visit various hiking trails with friends :- ).

Research Interests

• Extreme preciptation: Tropical cyclone, orographic precipitation, gloabl warming
• Numerical weather forecasting: Numerical advection scheme, turbulence parameterization, turbulence gray zone

News

• [June. 2026] One paper about tropical cyclone rainfall is accepted to Nature Geoscience.
• [Nov. 2025] One paper about tropical cyclone rainfall temporal variability is accepted to Journal of Geophysical Research:Atmospheres.
• [April 2025] One paper about tropical cyclone precipitation is accepted to Geophysical Reseach Letters.
• [March 2025] One paper about impacts of numerical advection scheme on squall line simulation is accepted to Monthly Weather Review.
• [July 2023] One paper about extreme orographic precipitation is accepted to Journal of Climate.

Publications

Teaching

• Climate Change: Science, Policy and Management (Instructor: Prof. Xiaoming Shi) Teaching Assistant. Division of Environment and Sustainability, HKUST, 2023 Spring

• Climate Change Impacts and Extreme Weather Events (Instructor: Prof. Eun Soon IM) Teaching Assistant. Division of Environment and Sustainability, HKUST, 2022 Fall

• Introduction to Sustainability (Instructor: Prof. Xiaoming Shi) Teaching Assistant. Division of Environment and Sustainability, HKUST, 2022 Spring