Dr. Pan joined Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) at NASA GSFC in 2020 as a senior scientific software developer, working on data services including curating NASA's earth data (e.g., MERRA-2 and hydrology data such as GLDAS, NLDAS, and FLDAS) and developing software. She also actively writes scientific articles and data recipes, and interacts with data user communities. She had worked on understanding the interaction of air pollution with climate using models and satellite observations in the NASA GSFC Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory as a research scientist during 2009-2020, and as a NASA NPP postdoc fellow during 2013-2015. Dr. Pan received her Ph.D. majoring in Climate Dynamics in 2009 from George Mason University.
Xiaohua Pan
(SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPER)
| Email: | xiaohua.pan@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6002 |
| Org Code: | 619 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 619 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | ADNET SYSTEMS INC |
Brief Bio
Education
- Ph.D. Climate Dynamics
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Virginia
Dissertation: The impact of mean climate on ENSO simulation and prediction
Advisor: Jagadish Shukla and Bohua Huang
- M.Sc. Meteorology
Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science, Beijing, China,
Thesis: The study on the temperature and precipitation extremes for 1951-1999 in China
Advisor: Panmao Zhai
- B.Sc. Meteorology
Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, China
Research Interests
Including but not limited to
Earth Science: Aerosols- Data analysis in the cloud platform
- Study extreme events and their impacts on society
- Data find-ability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR)
- Study the climate-fire-drought-land use change-air pollution interaction;
- Improve fire emission (source strength and plume height);
- Improve regional and global aerosol model simulation;
- Study Asian pollutants-monsoon interaction;
- Study the impact of absorbing aerosol on sea ice melting;
- Study Air-sea interaction (e.g., El Nino and Indian Ocean Dipole);Study climate Variability and Prediction (e.g., El Nino);
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
2009 - Present
Aerosol Comparison between observations and models (AeroCom)
2009 - Present
Atmospheric Composition and the Asian Monsoon (ACAM)
Co-lead of the modeling and analysis working group
2015 - Present
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
2002 - Present
Professional Service
- Committee of NASA GSFC Earth Science Division Group Mentoring Program (2023-present)
- Member of NASA GSFC Earth Science Division Early Mid Career Council (2022-present)
- Topic Editor for Journal of Remote Sensing (2021-present)
- Atmospheric Composition and the Asian Monsoon (ACAM) Scientific Steering Group (2019-present)
- Reviewer of journals including Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), Remote Sensing, Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Scientific Report –Nature, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Aerosol and Air Quality Research, remote sensing, and Climate (2009-present)
- Judge of AGU Outstanding Student Paper Award
Awards
- Customer Recognition of Exemplary Work (CREW) awards, NASA Space and Earth Science Data Analysis (SESDA) program, 2023
- Best Paper Award, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), 2019
- Senior Author Publication Award, NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Division Atmospheres, 2019
- NASA NPP postdoc fellow, NASA, 2013-2015
- Travel award for attending NOAA’s 33rd Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop/CLIVAR Drought Workshop, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2008
- The Best Thesis Award, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, 2002
- Honor Student Award, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, China 1999
Current Projects
Past and Current
Aerosols
- NASA AURA: 2020-2023 (Co-Investigator)
Effects of the Asian summer monsoon dynamics on aerosol composition and interannual variability in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere
- NASA MAP: 2017-2021 (Co-Investigator)
Aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in a changing climate: Processes, multidecadal variations, and effects on surface radiation trends
- NASA Carbon Cycle: 2018-2019 (Co-Investigator)
A Fine-Scale Global Fossil Fuel and Biomass Burning Emissions Using Suomi-NPP VIIRS Satellite Data
- NASA ACMAP: 2014-2017 (Co-Investigator)
Interactions between Asian air pollution and monsoon system – a multi-scale modeling and analysis
- NASA ESDRUA: 2011-2016 (Co-Investigator)
Coherent uncertainty analysis of aerosol data products from multiple satellites
- NASA NPP project: 2013-2015 (PI)
Improving aerosol simulation over South Asia for climate and air quality studies
- NASA MAP project: 2009-2012 (Co-Investigator)
A global modeling of nitrate and ammonium at present day and the year 2050: implication for atmospheric radiation, chemistry, and ecosystems
Publications
Refereed
2020. "Six Global Biomass Burning Emission Datasets: Inter-comparison and Application in one Global Aerosol Model." Atmos. Chem. Phys 20 (2): 969–994 [10.5194/acp-20-969-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Asian and Trans‐Pacific Dust: A Multimodel and Multiremote Sensing Observation Analysis." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2019JD030822 [10.1029/2019jd030822] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "HTAP2 multi-model estimates of premature human mortalitydue to intercontinental transport of air pollution." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 1-35 [10.5194/acp-18-10497-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Connecting Indonesian fires and drought with the type of El Niño and phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole during 1979-2016." Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres [10.1029/2018JD028402] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Investigation of global particulate nitrate from the AeroCom phase III experiment." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17 (21): 12911-12940 [10.5194/acp-17-12911-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Connection Between East Asian Air Pollution and Monsoon System." Air Pollution in Eastern Asia: An Integrated Perspective 87-103 [10.1007/978-3-319-59489-7_5] [Article in Book]
2016. "The MERRA-2 Aerosol Assimilation." Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 45 [Report]
2015. "A multi-model evaluation of aerosols over South Asia: common problems and possible causes." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 15 5903-5928 [10.5194/acp-15-5903-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Multi-decadal aerosol variations from 1980 to 2009: a perspective from observations and a global model." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14 (7): 3657-3690 [10.5194/acp-14-3657-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Source attributions of pollution to the Western Arctic during the NASA ARCTAS field campaign." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 13 (9): 4707-4721 [10.5194/acp-13-4707-2013] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Anthropogenic, biomass burning, and volcanic emissions of black carbon, organic carbon, and SO2 from 1980 to 2010 for hindcast model experiments." Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 12 (9): 24895-24954 [10.5194/acpd-12-24895-2012] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Sensitivity of the tropical Pacific seasonal cycle and ENSO to changes in mean state induced by a surface heat flux adjustment in CCSM3." Climate Dynamics 37 (1-2): 325-341 [10.1007/s00382-010-0923-y] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Trends in Total Precipitation and Frequency of Daily Precipitation Extremes over China." J. Climate 18 (7): 1096–1108 [10.1175/JCLI-3318.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Change in Extreme Temperature and Precipitation over Northern China During the Second Half of the 20th Century." Acta Geographica Sinica 58 1-10 [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Trends in temperature extremes during 1951–1999 in China." Geophysical Research Letters 30 (17): 1913 [10.1029/2003GL018004] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Analyses of surface air temperature extremes." Meteoro. Monthly 28 28-31 [Journal Article/Letter]