Dr. Feng Li's research focuses on chemistry-climate interactions. Dr. Li investigates how stratospheric ozone layer evolution affects climate in the troposphere and ocean, and how atmosphere-ocean coupling affects stratosphere. Dr. Li's research interests also include stratospheric dynamics and transport, stratospheric water vapor and chemical feedback, and Antarctic sea ice.
Feng Li
(Senior Research Scientist)
| Email: | feng.li-1@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6052 |
| Org Code: | 614 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 614 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO |
Brief Bio
Current Projects
Impact of Stratospheric Polar Vortex and Interactive Ozone on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecasts and Atmospheric and Oceanic Variability
Understanding Antarctic Sea Ice Change in a Warming Climate
Sea Ice
This project is supported by NASA Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction (MAP).
Understanding Stratospheric Water Vapor and Ozone Feedbacks and Their Impacts on Global Warming
Atmospheres
This project is supported by NASA Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis (ACMAP) program.
Positions/Employment
Senior Research Scientist
University of Maryland Baltimore County - Baltimore, MD
December 2021 - Present
Senior Scientist, Earth Science
Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Universities Space Research Association - Columbia, MD
October 2018 - November 2021
Research Scientist
Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Universities Space Research Association - Columbia, MD
May 2011 - September 2018
Assistant Research Scientist
Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Baltimore, MD
June 2007 - May 2011
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Princeton University, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Labortory - Princeton, NJ
June 2005 - May 2007
Research Assistant
University of Illinois - Urbana, IL
August 2000 - May 2005
Education
Ph.D. (2005), Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
M.S. (1996), Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
B.S. (1993), Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Professional Service
Committee member of the American Meteorological Society Committee on Middle Atmosphere, 2011-2014
Organizing committee for the 16th AMS Conference on the Middle Atmosphere
Reviewer for scientific journals: Nature Geoscience, Scientific Reports, Geophysical Research Letter, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics, Journal of Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Climate Dynamics, Advance in Space Research, Annales Geophysicae, Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
Reviewer for National Science Foundation
Awards
Editers' Citations for Excellence in Referring, Journal of Geophysical Research, 2006
Grants
Impact of Stratospheric Polar Vortex and Interactive Ozone on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Forecasts and Atmospheric and Oceanic Variability
MAP - NASA - Awarded: 2021-06-16
Dates: -
Understanding Antarctic Sea Ice Change in a Warming Cimate
NASA MAP - NASA (NNH16ZDA001N-MAP) - Awarded: 2017-07-26
Dates: 2017-07-26 - 2021-07-25
Coverage: 0.4
Understanding Stratospheric Water Vapor and Ozone Feedbacks and Their Impacts on Global Warming
NASA ACMAP - NASA (NNH16ZDA001N) - Awarded: 2017-01-26
Dates: 2017-03-01 - 2020-02-28
Coverage: 0.4
Global modeling of nitrous oxide and its isotopologues in the GEOS-5 atmosphere-ocean model
NASA MAP - NASA (NNH16ZDA001N-MAP) - Awarded: 2017-10-04
Dates: 2017-10-04 - 2021-10-03
Coverage: 0.2
Investigating the Influences of Antarctic Ozone Depletion and Recovery on Climate Change in the Southern Hemisphere Troposphere ad Southern Ocean Using the Goddard Earth Observing System - Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Chemistry Climate Model
NASA MAP - NASA (NNH12ZDA001N) - Awarded: 2012-07-26
Dates: 2013-07-25 - 2018-01-25
Coverage: 0.5
Interactions of Stratospheric Ozone with Northern Hemisphere Tropospheric Climate
NASA MAP - NASA (NNH12ZDA001N) - Awarded: 2013-06-30
Dates: 2013-06-30 - 2017-06-29
Coverage: 0.4
Understanding the Role of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in Climate and Stratospheric Modification
NASA ACMAP - NASA (NNH12ZDA001N) - Awarded: 2013-04-01
Dates: 2013-04-01 - 2016-03-31
Publications
Refereed
2023. "Impacts of Stratospheric Ozone Recovery on Southern Ocean Temperature and Heat Budget." Geophysical Research Letters 50 (18): [10.1029/2023gl103951] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Prescribing stratospheric chemistry overestimates southern hemisphere climate change during austral spring in response to quadrupled CO2." Climate Dynamics [10.1007/s00382-022-06588-4] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Response of the Upper‐Level Monsoon Anticyclones and Ozone to Abrupt CO 2 Changes." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126 (21): [10.1029/2021jd034903] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Impacts of the Eruption of Mount Pinatubo on Surface Temperatures and Precipitation Forecasts With the NASA GEOS Subseasonal‐to‐Seasonal System." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126 (16): [10.1029/2021jd034830] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Stratospheric impacts of continuing CFC‐11 emissions simulated in a chemistry‐climate model." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres [10.1029/2020jd033656] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Stratospheric water vapor feedback and its climate impacts in the coupled atmosphere–ocean Goddard Earth Observing System Chemistry-Climate Model." Climate Dynamics 55 (5-6): 1585-1595 [10.1007/s00382-020-05348-6] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Nonlinear response of tropical lower-stratospheric temperature and water vapor to ENSO." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 (7): 4597-4615 [10.5194/acp-18-4597-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Effects of Greenhouse Gas Increase and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion on Stratospheric Mean Age of Air in 1960-2010." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123 (4): 2098-2110 [10.1002/2017jd027562] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Early action on HFCs mitigates future atmospheric change." Environmental Research Letters 11 (11): 114019 [10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114019] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Impacts of Interactive Stratospheric Chemistry on Antarctic and Southern Ocean Climate Change in the Goddard Earth Observing System - Version 5 (GEOS-5)." Journal of Climate 29 (9): 3199–3218 [10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0572.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Air-Mass Origin in the Arctic. Part II: Response to Increases in Greenhouse Gases." J. Climate 28 (23): 9105–9120 [10.1175/jcli-d-15-0296.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Ozone Depletion by Hydrofluorocarbons." Geophysical Research Letters 42 [10.1002/2015GL065856] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Airmass Origin in the Arctic. Part I: Seasonality." J. Climate 28 (12): 4997-5014 [10.1175/jcli-d-14-00720.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Seasonal ventilation of the stratosphere: Robust diagnostics from one-way flux distributions." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (1): 293-306 [10.1002/2013JD020213] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Seasonal variations of stratospheric age spectra in the Goddard Earth Observing System Chemistry Climate Model (GEOSCCM)." J. Geophys. Res. 117 (D5): D05134 [10.1029/2011JD016877] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Long-term changes in stratospheric age spectra in the 21st century in the Goddard Earth Observing System Chemistry-Climate Model (GEOSCCM)." J Geophys Res 117 (D20): D20119 [10.1029/2012JD017905] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Chemistry–Climate Model Simulations of Twenty-First Century Stratospheric Climate and Circulation Changes." J. Climate 23 (20): 5349-5374 [10.1175/2010JCLI3404.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Relationships between the Brewer-Dobson circulation and the southern annular mode during austral summer in coupled chemistry-climate model simulations." J Geophys Res 115 (D15): D15106 [10.1029/2009JD012876] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Narrowing of the upwelling branch of the Brewer-Dobson circulation and Hadley cell in chemistry-climate model simulations of the 21st century." Geophys Res Lett 37 (13): L13702 [10.1029/2010GL043718] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Assessment of the breakup of the Antarctic polar vortex in two new chemistry-climate models." J Geophys Res 115 (D7): D07105 [10.1029/2009JD012788] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Stratospheric ozone in the post-CFC era." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 9 (6): 2207-2213 [10.5194/acp-9-2207-2009] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "The Strength of the Brewer–Dobson Circulation in a Changing Climate: Coupled Chemistry–Climate Model Simulations." J Climate 21 (1): 40-57 [10.1175/2007JCLI1663.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "The frequency and dynamics of stratospheric sudden warmings in the 21st century." J. Geophys. Res. 113 (D16): D16116 [10.1029/2007JD009571] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Observationally derived and general circulation model simulated tropical stratospheric upward mass fluxes." J Geophy Res 113 (D00B07, doi:101029/): [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Investigation of a “wall” wave event." Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (D4): D04104 [10.1029/2006jd007213] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "On the relationship between the strength of the Brewer-Dobson circulation and the age of stratospheric air." Geophysical Research Letters 33 (17): L17807 [10.1029/2006gl026867] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Observations of gravity wave breakdown into ripples associated with dynamical instabilities." Journal of Geophysical Research 110 (D9): D09S11 [10.1029/2004jd004849] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Characteristics of instabilities in the mesopause region over Maui, Hawaii." Journal of Geophysical Research 110 [10.1029/2004JD005097] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "High frequency atmospheric gravity wave damping in the mesosphere." Advances in Space Research 32 (5): 785-793 [10.1016/s0273-1177(03)00399-5] [Journal Article/Letter]