Postdoctoral Fellow
Chen studies climate variability and how it changes under external forcings, using climate models and large ensembles. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she investigated historical changes in Pacific climate variability driven by greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols using single-forcing large-ensemble simulations. Her Ph.D. work also examined how solar geoengineering could influence the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Before UCSB, she studied how large volcanic eruptions affect ENSO, including how the response depends on the ocean’s initial state.
At UTIG, Chen is exploring hydroclimate predictability using very large atmosphere-only ensemble simulations and investigating sources of tropical Pacific model bias.
Interests
Climate dynamics, climate modeling, climate variability and change, air-sea interactions
Academics
Ph.D., Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara
B.S., Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology