Shanshan Sun
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Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Sun’s current research focuses on studying the transient climate behaviors and the physical mechanisms governing them using both state-of-the-art General Circulation Models (GCMs) and one-column models which are computationally efficient. She also maintains and helps build the library of transient climates from GCM outputs.
Sun received her PhD from University of Connecticut in 2012.
Research Interests:
- Transient climate evolutions and its potential causes
- Land-atmosphere interaction
- Ocean-atmosphere interaction and its impacts on land-atmosphere interaction
- Dynamic vegetation’s role in the climate system
Research Projects:
Soil Moisture | Climate Variability: statistics and observation based simulations | Shadowing | Climate variability: effect of model spatial resolution
