Xuanyu Chen

I am a physical oceanographer who is fascinated by weather and clouds. My interest in connecting the oceans and extreme weather has led me to study air-sea interactions at scales of 100 km and smaller. In particular, I want to understand better the ocean's imprint on the atmospheric boundary layer and to improve its representation in high-resolution Earth System Prediction Models.

My current research focuses on shallow convection, which I think it is one of the important building blocks (or fuels) for tropical weather, ranging from a single raining cumulonimbus to mesoscale convective systems to tropical cyclones. In the past, I have also done research about air-sea momentum fluxes and storm surge. While numerical modeling is the central pillar of my research, I also value analyzing observations and have successfully integrated both components in my work.