Yan Feng | Argonne National Laboratory

Aerosols and interactions with radiation, chemistry and clouds. Global and regional climate modeling. Wildfire prediction.

Biography

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005

M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002

Dr. Feng is a principal atmospheric and climate scientist at Argonne. She also holds a scientist at large appointment with Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering, University of Chicago and a Graduate Faculty Scholar appointment at the Northern Illinois University. Currently, Yan serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), and committee member for the AGU James R. Holton Award and Science For Solutions Award.

Her research focuses on global and regional modeling of aerosols, clouds, and interactions with climate change, air pollution, and biogeochemical cycle. She has 40+ peer-reviewed journal publications including Nature Geoscience, PNAS, Environmental Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, and co-authored three book chapters. Her work has 5800+ citations in Google Scholar and she has a H-index of 32. Yan joined Argonne as an assistant Atmospheric Scientist in 2010, after she did the postdoctoral study at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.

Publications

2024

Xie, Y., T Mallick, JD Bergerson, JK Hutchison, DR Verner, J Branham, MR Alexander, RB Ross, Y. Feng, LA Levy, W. Su (2024). WildfireGPT: Tailored Large Language Model for Wildfire Analysis, arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07877.

Demasy, C., M. Boye, B. Lai, P. Burckel, Y. Feng, R. Losno, S. Borensztajn and P. Besson (2024). Dissolution of Patagonian iron dust in the actual and future Southern Ocean, Frontiers in Marine Science,11:1363088. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1363088

Wan H., K. Zhang , C. J. Vogl , C. S. Woodward , R. C. Easter , P. J. Rasch, Y. Feng, and H. Wang (2024). Numerical coupling of aerosol emissions, dry removal, and turbulent mixing in the E3SM Atmosphere Model version 1 (EAMv1), part I: dust budget analyses and the impacts of a revised coupling scheme. Geoscientific Model Development,17 (3), 1387-1407, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1387-2024

Getter, D., J. Bessac, J. Rudi, and Y. Feng (2024). Statistical treatment of convolutional neural network super-resolution of inland surface wind for subgrid-scale variability quantification, Artificial Intelligence for Earth Systems, 3, e230009, https://doi.org/10.1175/AIES-D-23-0009.1.

2023

Yu, G., Y. Feng, J. Wang, and D. Wright: Performance of Fire Danger Indices and Their Utility in Predicting Future Wildfire Danger over the Conterminous United States. Earth’s Future, Earth’s Future, 11(1), e2023EF003823. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF003823, 2023.

Wu, X., Y. Feng, C. He, R. Kumar, C. Ge, D. Painemal, Y. Xu, Implementing CBMZ-MAM3 Chemistry and Aerosol Modules in the Regional Climate Model WRF-CAM5: an evaluation over Western US and Eastern North Pacific. Atmosphere, 14, 1122. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14071122, 2023.

Tang, Q., Golaz, J.-C., Van Roekel, L. P., Taylor, M. A., Lin, W., Hillman, B. R., Ullrich, P. A., Bradley, A. M., Guba, O., Wolfe, J. D., Zhou, T., Zhang, K., Zheng, X., Zhang, Y., Zhang, M., Wu, M., Wang, H., Tao, C., Singh, B., Rhoades, A. M., Qin, Y., Li, H.-Y., Feng, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, C., Zender, C. S., Xie, S., Roesler, E. L., Roberts, A. F., Mametjanov, A., Maltrud, M. E., Keen, N. D., Jacob, R. L., Jablonowski, C., Hughes, O. K., Forsyth, R. M., Di Vittorio, A. V., Caldwell, P. M., Bisht, G., McCoy, R. B., Leung, L. R., and Bader, D. C.: The fully coupled regionally refined model of E3SM version 2: overview of the atmosphere, land, and river results, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 3953–3995, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3953-2023, 2023.

Chang, I., L. Gao, C. J. Flynn, Y. Shinozuka, S. J. Doherty, M. S. Diamond, K. M. Longo, G. A. Ferrada, G. R. Carmichael, P. Castellanos, A. M. da Silva, P. E. Saide, C. Howes, Z. Xue, M. Mallet, R. Govindaraju, Q. Wang, Y. Cheng, Y. Feng, S. P. Burton, R. A. Ferrare, S. E. LeBlanc, M. S. Kacenelenbogen, K. Pistone, M. Segal-Rozenhaimer, K. G. Meyer, J-M Ryoo, L. Pfister, A. A. Adebiyi, R. Wood, P. Zuidema, S. A. Christopher, and J. Redemann, On the differences in the vertical distribution of modeled aerosol optical depth over the southeast Atlantic, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 4283–4309, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-4283-2023.

2022

Golaz,et al. (including Y. Feng): The DOE E3SM Model Version 2: Overview of the physical model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2022MS003156, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003156, 2022.

Zhang, K., W. Zhang, H. Wan, P. J. Rasch, S. J. Ghan, R. C. Easter, X. Shi, Y. Wang, H. Wang, P-L Ma, S. Zhang, J. Sun, S. Burrows, M. Shrivastava, B. Singh, Y. Qian, X. Liu, J.-C. Golaz, Q Tang, X. Zheng, S. Xie, W. Lin, Y. Feng, M. Wang, J.-H Yoon, and R. L. Leung, Effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols in E3SMv1: historical changes, causality, decomposition, and parameterization sensitivities. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 9129–9160, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-9129-2022, 2022.

Feng, Y., H. Wang, P. J. Rasch, K. Zhang, W. Lin, Q. Tang, S. Xie, D. S. Hamilton, N. Mahowald and H. Yu, Global dust cycle and direct radiative effect in the E3SM version 1: Impact of increasing model resolution. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2021MS002909. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002909, 2022.

2021

Brown, E., J. Wang and Y. Feng, U.S. Wildfire Potential: a Historical View and Future Projection using High-resolution Climate Data, Environ. Res. Lett., 16 034060, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba868, 2021.

2020

Wu, M., Liu, X., Yu, H., Wang, H., Shi, Y., Yang, K., Darmenov, A., Wu, C., Wang, Z., Luo, T., Feng, Y., and Ke, Z.: Understanding Processes that Control Dust Spatial Distributions with Global Climate Models and Satellite Observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 13835-13855, https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/20/13835/2020/, 2020.

Shinozuka, Y., P. E. Saide, G. A. Ferrada, S. P. Burton, R. Ferrare, S. J. Doherty, H. Gordon, K. Longo, M. Mallet, Y. Feng, et al., Modeling the smoky troposphere of the southeast Atlantic: a comparison to ORACLES airborne observations from September of 2016, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 11491-11526, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-11491-2020, 2020.

Painemal, D., F. Chang, R. Ferrare, S. Burton, Z. Li, W. L. Smith Jr., P. Minnis, Y. Feng, and M. Clayton, Reducing uncertainties in satellite estimates of aerosol-cloud interactions over the subtropical ocean by integrating vertically resolved aerosol observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 7167–7177, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7167-2020, 2020.

Zheng, G., A. J. Sedlacek, A. C. Aiken, Y. Feng, T. B. Watson, S. Raveh-Rubin, J. Uin, E. R. Lewis and J. Wang, Long-range transported North American wildfire aerosols observed in marine boundary layer of eastern North Atlantic, Environment International, 139, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.105680, 2020.

2019

Wang, H., R. C. Easter, R. Zhang, P.‐L. Ma, B. Singh, K. Zhang, D. Ganguly, P. J. Rasch, S. M. Burrows, S. J. Ghan, S. Lou, Y. Qian, Y. Yang, Y. Feng, M. Flanner, L. R. Leung, X. Liu, M. Shrivastava, J. Sun, Q. Tang, S. Xie, and J. Yoon: Aerosols in the E3SM version 1: New developments and their impacts on radiative forcing, J. Adv. Mod. Earth Sys., doi:10.1029/2019MS001851, 2019.

Caldwell, P. M., Mametjanov, A., Tang, Q., Van Roekel, L. P., Golaz, J. C., Lin, W. Y., Bader, D. C., Keen, N. D., Feng, Y., Jacob, R., Maltrud, M. E., Roberts, A. F., Taylor, M. A., Veneziani, M., Wang, H. L., Wolfe, J. D., Balaguru, K., Cameron-Smith, P., Dong, L., Klein, S. A., Leung, L. R., Li, H. Y., Li, Q., Liu, X. H., Neale, R. B., Pinheiro, M., Qian, Y., Ullrich, P. A., Xie, S. C., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y. Y., Zhang, K., and Zhou, T., : The DOE E3SM coupled model version 1: Description and results at high resolution, J. Adv. Mod. Earth Sys., 11, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001870, 2019.

McDaniel, M. F.; Ingall, E.; Morton, P.; Castorina, E.; Weber, R.; Shelley, R.; Landing, W.; Longo, A.; Feng, Y.; Lai, B., Relationship between atmospheric aerosol mineral surface area and iron solubility, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, DOI: 10.1021/
acsearthspacechem.9b00152, Publication Date (Web): 18 Sep, 2019.

Meskhidze, N., C. Voelker, H. Al-Abadleh, K. Barbeau, M. Bressac, C. Buck, R. Bundy, P. Croot, Y. Feng, A. Ito, A. M. Johansen, W. Landing, J. Mao, S. Myriokefalitakis, Daniel Ohnemus, Benoît Pasquier, and Y. Ye, 2019: Perspective on Identifying and Characterizing the Processes Controlling Iron Speciation and Residence Time at the Atmosphere-Ocean Interface, Marine Chemistry, Volume 217, 103704, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2019.103704, 2019.

Hamilton, D. S., Scanza, R. A., Feng, Y., Guinness, J., Kok, J. F., Li, L., Liu, X., Rathod, S. D., Wan, J. S., Wu, M., and Mahowald, N. M.: Improved methodologies for Earth system modelling of atmospheric soluble iron and observation comparisons using the Mechanism of Intermediate complexity for Modelling Iron (MIMI v.1.0), Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 3835-3862. doi:10.5194/gmd-12-3835-2019, 2019.

Sullivan, R. C., V. R. Kotamarthi, and Y. Feng, Recovering evapotranspiration trends from biased CMIP5 simulations and sensitivity to changing climate over North America, Journal of Hydrometeorology, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-18-0259.1, 2019.

A. Ito, S. Myriokefalitakis, M. Kanakidou, N. M. Mahowald, R. A. Scanza, D. S. Hamilton, A. R. Baker, T. Jickells, M. Sarin, S. Bikkina, Y. Gao, R. U. Shelley, C. S. Buck, W. M. Landing, A. R. Bowie, M. M. G. Perron, C. Guieu, N. Meskhidze, M. S. Johnson, Y. Feng, J. F. Kok, A. Nenes, R. A. Duce, Pyrogenic iron: The missing link to high iron solubility in aerosols. Science Advances, 5, eaau7671, 10.1126/sciadv.aau7671, 2019.

Golaz, J.-C., P.M. Caldwell, L.P. Van Roekel, M.R. Petersen, Q. Tang, J.D. Wolfe, G. Abeshu, V. Anantharaj, X. S. Asay‐Davis, D. C. Bader, S. A. Baldwin, G. Bisht, P. A. Bogenschutz, M. Branstetter, M. A. Brunke, S. R. Brus, S. M. Burrows, P. J. Cameron‐Smith, A. S. Donahue, M. Deakin, R. C. Easter, K. J. Evans, Y. Feng et al: The DOE E3SM coupled model version 1: Overview and evaluation at standard resolution, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001603, 2019.

Sullivan, R. C., D. R. Cook, V. P. Ghate, V. R. Kotamarthi, Y. Feng, Improved Spatiotemporal Representativeness and Bias Reduction of Satellite-Based Evapotranspiration Retrievals via Use of In Situ Meteorology and Constrained Canopy Surface Resistance, JGR-Biogeosciences, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004744, 2019.

2018

Brown, H., X. Liu, Y. Feng, Y. Jiang, M. Wu, Z. Lu, C. Wu, S. Murphy, and R. Pokhrel, Radiative forcing and climate impacts of Brown Carbon with the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 17745-17768, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17745-2018, 2018.

Ingall, E., Y. Feng, A. Longo, B. Lai, R. Shelley, W. Landing, P. Morton, A. Nenes, N. Mihalopoulos, K. Violaki, Y. Gao, S. Sahai, and E. Castorina, Enhanced Iron Solubility at Low pH in Global Aerosols, Atmosphere, 9, 201; doi:10.3390/atmos9050201, 2018.

Creamean, J. M., Maahn, M., de Boer, G., McComiskey, A., Sedlacek, A. J., and Feng, Y.: The influence of local oil exploration and regional wildfires on summer 2015 aerosol over the North Slope of Alaska, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 555-570, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-555-2018, 2018.

Mirocha, J. D., Churchfield, M. J., Muñoz-Esparza, D., Rai, R. K., Feng, Y., Kosović, B., Haupt, S. E., Brown, B., Ennis, B. L., Draxl, C., Sanz Rodrigo, J., Shaw, W. J., Berg, L. K., Moriarty, P. J., Linn, R. R., Kotamarthi, V. R., Balakrishnan, R., Cline, J. W., Robinson, M. C., and Ananthan, S.: Large-Eddy Simulation Sensitivities to Variations of Configuration and Forcing Parameters in Canonical Boundary-Layer Flows for Wind Energy Applications, Wind Energ. Sci., 3, 589-613, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-3-589-2018, 2018.

2016

Cai, H., J. Wang, Y. Feng, M. Wang, Z. Qin, and J. B. Dunn, Consideration of Land Use Change-Induced Surface Albedo Effects in Life-Cycle Analysis of Biofuels, Energy & Environmental Science, doi: 10.1039/C6EE01728B, 2016.

Feng, Y., V. R. Kotamarthi, R. Coulter, C. Zhao, and M. Cadeddu, Radiative and Thermodynamic Responses to Aerosol Extinction Profiles during the Pre-monsoon Month over South Asia, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 247–264, doi:10.5194/acp-16-247-2016, 2016.

Longo, A. F., Y. Feng, B. Lai, W. M. Landing, R. U. Shelley, A. Nenes, N. Mihalopoulos, K. Violaki, and E. Ingall, Influence of Atmospheric Processes on the Solubility and Composition of Iron in Saharan Dust, Environ. Sci. Technol., 50 (13), 6912–6920, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02605, 2016.

Feng, Y., M. Cadeddu, V. R. Kotamarthi, R. Renju and C. Suresh Raju, Humidity Bias and Effect on Simulated Aerosol Optical Properties during the Ganges Valley Experiment, Current Science, Vol. 111, No. 1, 93-100, 2016.

2015

Feng, Y., V. R. Kotamarthi, R. Coulter, C. Zhao, and M. Cadeddu, Radiative and Thermodynamic Responses to Aerosol Extinction Profiles during the Pre-monsoon Month over South Asia, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 16901–16943, doi:10.5194/acpd-15-16901-2015, 2015.

Lu, Z., D. G. Streets, E. Winijkul, F. Yan, Y. Chen,T. Bond, Y. Feng, M. Dubey, S. Liu, J. Pinto, and G. Carmichael, Light Absorption Properties and Radiative Effects of Primary Organic Aerosol Emissions, Environ. Sci. Technol., DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00211, 2015.

2014

Manoharan, V. S., R. Kotamarthi, Y. Feng., and M. P. Cadeddu, Increased absorption by coarse aerosol particles over the Gangetic–Himalayan region, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 1159-1165, doi: 10.5194/acp-14-1159-2014, 2014.

2013

Feng, Y., Ramanathan, V., and Kotamarthi, V. R., Brown Carbon: a Significant Atmospheric Absorber of Solar Radiation?, Atms. Chem. Phys., 13, 8607–8621, 2013.

2012

Ito, A., J. F. Kok, Y. Feng, and J. E. Penner, Does a theoretical estimation of the dust size distribution at emission suggest more bioavailable iron deposition? Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2011GL050455, 39, 5807-5807, 2012.

2011

Ito, A., and Y. Feng. Iron mobilization in North African dust, Procedia Environmental Sciences, 6, 27-34, doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2011.05.004, 2011.

Bahadur, R., Y. Feng, L. M. Russell, and V. Ramanathan, Response to comments on “Impact of California’s Air Pollution Laws on Black Carbon and its Direct Radiative Forcing” by R. Bahadur et al., Atmos. Environ., Vol 45, 24, 4119-4121, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.04.043, 2011.

Bahadur, R., Y. Feng, L. M. Russell, and V. Ramanathan, Impact of California’s Air Pollution Laws on Black Carbon and its Direct Radiative Forcing, Atmos. Environ., Vol 45, 5, 1162-1167, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.10.054, 2011.

2010

Ramana, M. V., V. Ramanathan, Y. Feng, S.-C. Yoon, S.-W. Kim, G. R. Carmichael, and J. J. Schauer, Warming influenced by the ratio of black carbon to sulphate and the black-carbon source, Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/ngeo918, 2010.

Ito A., and Y. Feng, Role of dust alkalinity in acid mobilization of iron, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 9237-9250, 2010.

Feng Y., and V. Ramanathan “Investigation of aerosol-cloud interactions using a chemical transport model constrained by satellite observations”, Tellus B – Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 62, 69-86, 2010.

Rotstayn, L. D., M. A. Collier, M. R. Dix, Y. Feng, H. B. Gordon, S. P. O’Farrell, I. N. Smith, J. Syktus. Improved simulation of Australian climate and ENSO-related climate variability in a GCM with an interactive aerosol treatment. Int. J. Climatol., 30, 1067-1088, doi: 10.1002/joc.1952, 2010.

2009

Stith, J. L., V. Ramanathan, W. A. Cooper, G. Roberts, P. J. DeMott, G. Carmichael, C. D. Hatch, B. Adhikary, C. H. Twohy, D. C. Rogers, D. Baumgardner, A. J. Prenni, T. Campos, R. Gao, J. Anderson, and Y. Feng “An overview of aircraft observation from the Pacific Dust Experiment campaign”, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D05207, doi:10.1029/2008JD010924, 2009.

Ramanathan, V., and Y. Feng “Air pollution, greenhouse gases and climate change: global and regional perspectives”, Atmos. Environ., 43, 37-50, 2009.

2008

Ramanathan, V., and Y. Feng “On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system: formidable challenges ahead”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105, 14245-14250, 2008.

2007

Feng Y., and J. E. Penner “Global modeling of nitrate and ammonium: Interaction of aerosols and tropospheric chemistry”, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D01304, doi:10.1029/2005JD006404, 2007.

Rotstayn, L. D., W. Cai, M. R. Dix, G. D. Farquhar, Y. Feng, P. Ginoux, M. Herzog, A. Ito, J. E. Penner, M. L. Roderick, and M. Wang “Have Australian rainfall and cloudiness increased due to the remote effects of Asian anthropogenic aerosols?” J. Geophys. Res., 112, D09202, doi:10.1029/2006JD007712, 2007.

Liu, X., J. E. Penner, B. Das, D. Bergmann, J. M. Rodriguez, S. Strahan, M. Wang, and Y. Feng “Uncertainties in global aerosol simulations: Assessment using three meteorological data sets”, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11212, doi:10.1029/2006JD008216, 2007.

2002-2006

Liu, H., J.H. Crawford, R.B. Pierce, P. Norris, S.E. Platnick, G. Chen, J.A. Logan, R.M. Yantosca, M.J. Evans, C. Kittaka, Y. Feng, and X. Tie “Radiative effect of clouds on tropospheric chemistry in a global three-dimensional chemical transport model”, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D20303, doi:10.1029/2005JD006403, 2006.

Feng, Y., J.E. Penner, S. Sillman, and X. Liu “Effects of Cloud Overlap in Photochemical Models”, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D4, D0431010.1029/2003JD004040, 2004.

Penner, J.E., S.Y. Zhang, M. Chin, C.C. Chuang, J. Feichter, Y. Feng, et al., “A comparison of model- and satellite-derived aerosol optical depth and reflectivity”, J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 441-460, 2002.