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Sep 6, 2024 | 
eos.org | Jiwen Fan
Radiative transfer (RT) in plant canopies is an important process to represent in land surface models. Canopy RT determines how much global solar energy is reflected (albedo) and how much is absorbed by canopy (foliage and stem) elements and the ground (soil) surface. Moon and Fuentes [2024] introduce a new method for high-resolution spectral solar radiative transfer modeling in plant canopies, addressing critical gaps in current ecological and environmental numerical modeling.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
eos.org | Skyler Ware |Min Huang |Jiwen Fan |Grace van Deelen
Posted inNews Concentrations of the cancer-causing chemical far surpass EPA threshold levels for safety in southeastern Louisiana.
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May 20, 2024 | 
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Stephen M. Griffies |Jiwen Fan |Yuanyuan Huang |CSIRO Oceans
As the editors of a scientific journal, we have the honor of front-row seats to the peer review process. We watch as reviewers bring fresh and frank perspectives to authors' work, identifying weakness in conception or expression, suggesting refinements, and urging authors to clarify a point or to better support an argument. The process is occasionally uncomfortable but almost always respectful, constructive, and productive.
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May 10, 2024 | 
eos.org | Jiwen Fan
In the United States, air pollution includes contributions from multiple local human and natural sources plus remote sources such as wildfire smoke transported from Canada, dust plumes from Africa, and intercontinental pollution from Asia.
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May 9, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Jiwen Fan
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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May 9, 2024 | 
eos.org | Jiwen Fan
Earth Systems Models are unable to resolve all the processes affecting climate, so important unresolved processes are represented by parameterizations. The traditional approach is to hand-tune these parameters using expert knowledge, a time-consuming process that involves matching climate model output to observational data as closely as possible. Yarger et al.
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May 8, 2024 | 
eos.org | Jiwen Fan
Future urban energy demand projections are subject to considerable uncertainty brought upon by climate change, socioeconomic development, and our adaptation to climate change. Existing tools have not been able to fully capture the global-to-local scale interactions between climate change and energy use (see figure above) which harms our climate preparedness and action. Li et al.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Jiwen Fan
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
eos.org | Jiwen Fan
Accurately simulating and appropriately representing the aerosol-cloud-precipitation system poses significant challenges in weather and climate models. These challenges are particularly daunting due to knowledge gaps in crucial processes that occur at scales smaller than typical large-eddy simulation model grid sizes (e.g., 100 meters). Particle-resolved direct numerical simulation (PR-DNS) models offer a solution by resolving small-scale turbulent eddies and tracking individual particles.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
eos.org | Jiwen Fan
Urban vegetation, while subjected to distinctive environmental conditions including urban heat island effects, elevated CO2 concentration, and intensive landscaping practices, plays a pivotal role in the carbon dynamics of cities. However, estimating the net CO2 exchange over urban vegetated terrains remains a complex challenge.
