Xin Lan
Research Scientist
Research Interests
Dr. Xin (Lindsay) Lan is a carbon cycle and greenhouse gas scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences of University of Colorado Boulder, working in the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory. Her research focus on the global and regional carbon cycles, with a particular focus on understanding the sources and sinks of CH4 and other long-lived greenhouse gases (LLGHGs).
Xin is the scientific PI of discrete atmospheric CO2, CH4, N2O and SF6 measurements from over 50 sites of NOAA's cooperative global measurement network, part of NOAA’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network (GGGRN): https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/about.html
She leads the reporting of NOAA’s global CO2, CH4, N2O and SF6 trends: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/global.html
She also serves as a Subject-Matter Expert for communicating greenhouse gas measurements and research findings with a wide range of audience including students, journalists, and the public.
Dr. Lan is the Chair of the World Meteorological Organization’s Scientific Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases of the Global Atmosphere Watch Program: https://community.wmo.int/en/governance/commission-membership/research-board/ssc-epac/sag-ghg
Current Research
Dr. Lan regularly performs quality assurance/quality control of CO2, CH4, N2O and SF6 measurement datasets and produce data releases. She help data users to interprete these GHG measurement data. She also help international collaborators to build their own GHG measurement capacity.
She currently leads a project to investigate the recent increases in global methane and their sectoral attribution using isotopic and remotely sensed measurements of atmospheric methane.
Research Categories
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