Address
Chalmers University of Technology
Department of Space, Earth and Environment
412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
Education
2018
Ph.D. in Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Toward improved regional estimates of carbon dioxide sources and sinks through coupled carbon–atmospheric data assimilation
Advisor: Fuqing Zhang | Co-advisors: Richard B. Alley and Thomas Lauvaux
2012
M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, Oceanography and Climate, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Thesis: The Barents Oscillation and its impact on the Arctic climate
Advisor: Heiner Körnich | Co-advisor: Qiong Zhang
2010
B.S. in Meteorology, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Thesis: Local impact of soot on surface temperature in India and Sweden
Advisor: Annica Ekman | Co-advisor: Henning Rodhe
Employment
2023–present
Assistant Professor, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
2020–2022
Researcher, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
2018–2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Honors and awards
2023
Young Researchers 2023, Hasselblad Foundation
Including research funding
2020
NASA Group Achievement Award, NASA Langley Research Center
For exceptional scientific achievements of the ACT-America Earth Venture Suborbital mission
2020
Stiftelsen Landshövding Per Westlings Minnesfond, Lund University
2018
Outstanding Student Paper Award, American Meteorological Society, 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
2016
Öfverdirektör Elis Sidenbladhs fond, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2016
Top 5 most highly cited papers 2014–2016 in Environmental Development, Environmental Development, Elsevier
2014
Hans Neuberger Award, The Pennsylvania State University
For excellent teaching of meteorology
Grants
2025–2028
Participating Researcher, National Natural Science Foundation of China, research grant
Variations and mechanisms of dry–wet patterns in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau over the last millennium and future projections: Insights from paleoclimate data and climate simulations
2024–2027
Participating Researcher, Formas, Research projects for early-career researchers, career grant
Drivers for rapid climate change in the Arctic: The role of warm and moist air intrusions and clouds
2023–2026
Participating Researcher, Shanghai Action Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation, International Science and Technology Cooperation Program, mobility grant
Understanding the differences in the processes driving permafrost soil carbon emissions between the Arctic and Tibetan Plateau
2022–2023
Co-Investigator, National Strategic Research Program BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate), research grant
The impact of warming-induced summer vegetation drought on the vegetation greening, tree growth and carbon fluxes in Sweden
2022–2025
Principal Investigator, Swedish National Space Agency, Call 2021-C, career grant
Monitoring anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions from space
2022–2025
Principal Investigator, Formas, Research projects for early-career researchers, career grant (declined)
Improved monitoring of carbon dioxide emissions in Scandinavia using satellite and ground-based observations
2021–2024
Principal Investigator, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, Joint China–Sweden Mobility, mobility grant
High-resolution carbon cycle data assimilation with multiple satellite observations
Peer-reviewed publications
2024
Li, T., B. He, D. Chen, H. W. Chen, L. Guo, W, Yuan, K, Fang, F, Shi, L, Liu, H, Zheng, L, Huang, X, Wu, X, Hao, X, Zhao, and W, Jiang, 2024: Increasing sensitivity of tree radial growth to precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110003, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110003.
2024
Xu, H., H. W. Chen, D. Chen, Y. Wang, X. Yue, B. He, L. Guo, W. Yuan, Z. Zhong, L. Huang, F. Zheng, T. Li, and X. He, 2024: Global patterns and drivers of post-fire vegetation productivity recovery. Nature Geoscience, 17, 874–881, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01520-3.
2024
Yan, X., C. Zuo, Z. Li, H. W. Chen, Y. Jiang, Q. Wang, G. Wang, K. Jia, Y. A, Z. Chen, and J. Chen, 2024: Substantial underestimation of fine-mode aerosol loading from wildfires and its radiative effects in current satellite-based retrievals over the United States. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 15661–15671, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c02498.
2024
Yan, X., Z. Zang, Z. Li, H. W. Chen, J. Chen, Y. Jiang, Y. Chen, B. He, C. Zuo, T. Nakajima, and J. Kim, 2024: Deep learning with pretrained framework unleashes the power of satellite-based global fine-mode aerosol retrieval. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, 14260–14270, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c02701.
2024
He, M., J. Cui, Y. Yi, H. W. Chen, Q. Zhang, L. Li, L. Huang, and S. Hong, 2024: Vegetation increases global climate vulnerability risk by shifting climate zones in response to rising atmospheric CO2. Science of The Total Environment, 949, 174810, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174810.
2024
Liu, Y., Q. Tang, C. Zhang, D. Chen, J. A. Francis, L. R. Leung, and H. W. Chen, 2024: The disproportionate impact of enhanced evaporation from melting arctic sea ice on cold-season land precipitation trends. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7, 126, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-00680-8.
2024
Cai, Z., Q. You, H. W. Chen, R. Zhang, Z. Zuo, D. Chen, J. Cohen, and J. A. Screen, 2024: Assessing Arctic wetting: Performances of CMIP6 models and projections of precipitation changes. Atmospheric Research, 297, 107124, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.107124.
2024
Lai, H.-W., D. Chen, and H. W. Chen, 2024: Precipitation variability related to atmospheric circulation patterns over the Tibetan Plateau. International Journal of Climatology, 44, 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.8317.
2023
Zhong, Z., B. He, H. W. Chen, D. Chen, T. Zhou, W. Dong, C. Xiao, L. Guo, R. Ding, L. Zhang, X. Song, L. Huang, W. Yuan, X. Hao, and X. Zhao, 2023: Reversed asymmetric warming of sub-diurnal temperature over land during recent decades. Nature Communications, 14, 7189, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43007-6.
2023
Wang, S., B. He, H. W. Chen, D. Chen, Y. Chen, W. Yuan, F. Shi, J. Duan, W. Wu, T. Chen, L. Guo, Z. Zhong, W. Duan, Z. Li, W. Jiang, L. Huang, X. Hao, R. Tang, H. Liu, Y. Zhang, and X. Xie, 2023: Fire carbon emissions over Equatorial Asia reduced by shortened dry seasons. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 129, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00455-7.
2023
Zhong, Z., B. He, Y.-P. Wang, H. W. Chen, D. Chen, Y. H. Fu, Y. Chen, L. Guo, Y. Deng, L. Huang, W. Yuan, X. Hao, R. Tang, H. Liu, L. Sun, X. Xie, and Y. Zhang, 2023: Disentangling the effects of vapor pressure deficit on northern terrestrial vegetation productivity. Science Advances, 9, eadf3166, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf3166.
2023
Yan, X., C. Zuo, Z. Li, H. W. Chen, Y. Jiang, B. He, H. Liu, J. Chen, and W. Shi, 2023: Cooperative simultaneous inversion of satellite-based real-time PM2.5 and ozone levels using an improved deep learning model with attention mechanism. Environmental Pollution, 327, 121509, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121509.
2023
Cai, Z., Q. You, H. W. Chen, R. Zhang, Z. Zuo, G. Dai, D. Chen, J. Cohen, O. Zolina, and S. K. Gulev, 2023: Interdecadal variability of the warm Arctic-cold Eurasia pattern linked to the Barents oscillation. Atmospheric Research, 287, 106712, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.106712.
2023
Chen, H. W., F. Zhang, T. Lauvaux, M. Scholze, K. J. Davis, and R. B. Alley, 2023: Regional CO2 inversion through ensemble-based simultaneous state and parameter estimation: TRACE framework and controlled experiments. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2022MS003208, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003208.
2022
Wang X., Y. Ran, Y. Pang, D. Chen, B. Su, R. Chen, X. Li, H. W. Chen, M. Yang, X. Gou, M. T. Jorgenson, J. Aalto, R. Li, X. Peng, T. Wu, G. D. Clow, G. Wan, X. Wu, and D. Luo, 2022: Contrasting characteristics, changes, and linkages of permafrost between the Arctic and the Third Pole. Earth-Science Reviewers, 230, 104042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104042.
2022
Kaminski, T., M. Scholze, P. Rayner, S. Houweling, M. Voßbeck, J. Silver, S. Lama, M. Buchwitz, M. Reuter, W. Knorr, H. W. Chen, G. Kuhlmann, D. Brunner, S. Dellaert, H. A. C. Denier van der Gon, I. Super, A. Löscher, and Y. Meijer, 2022: Assessing the constraint of atmospheric CO2 and NO2 measurements from space on city-scale fossil fuel CO2 emissions in a data assimilation system. Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 3, 887456, https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.887456.
2022
Cai, Z., Q. You, H. W. Chen, R. Zhang, D. Chen, J. Chen, S. Kang, and J. Cohen, 2022: Amplified wintertime Barents Sea warming linked to intensified Barents oscillation. Environmental Research Letters, 17, 044068, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5bb3.
2022
Fang, M., X. Li, H. W. Chen, and D. Chen, 2022: Arctic amplification modulated by Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and greenhouse forcing on multidecadal to century scales. Nature Communications, 13, 1865, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29523-x.
2022
Tang, R., B. He, H. W. Chen, D. Chen, Y. Chen, Y. H. Fu, W. Yuan, B. Li, Z. Li, L. Guo, X. Hao, L. Sun, H. Liu, C. Sun, and Y. Yang, 2022: Increasing terrestrial ecosystem carbon release in response to autumn cooling and warming. Nature Climate Change, 12, 380–385, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01304-w.
2022
He, B., C. Chen, S. Lin, W. Yuan, H. W. Chen, D. Chen, Y. Zhang, L. Guo, X. Zhao, X. Liu, Z. Zhong, R. Wang, and R. Tang, 2022: Worldwide impacts of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on the interannual variability of terrestrial carbon sinks. National Science Review, 9, nwab150, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab150.
2022
Kaminski, T., M. Scholze, P. Rayner, M. Voßbeck, M. Buchwitz, M. Reuter, W. Knorr, H. Chen, A. Agusti-Panareda, A. Löscher, and Y. Meijer, 2022: Assimilation of atmospheric CO2 observations from space can support national CO2 emission inventories. Environmental Research Letters, 17, 014015, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac3cea.
2021
Cai, Z., Q. You, F. Wu, H. W. Chen, D. Chen, and J. Cohen, 2021: Arctic warming revealed by multiple CMIP6 models: evaluation of historical simulations and quantification of future projection uncertainties. Journal of Climate, 34, 4871–4892, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0791.1.
2021
Lai, H.-W., H. W. Chen, J. Kukulies, T. Ou, and D. Chen, 2021: Regionalization of seasonal precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau and associated large-scale atmospheric systems. Journal of Climate, 34, 2635–2651, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0521.1.
2020
Cohen, J., X. Zhang, J. Francis, T. Jung, R. Kwok, J. Overland, T. J. Ballinger, U. S. Bhatt, H. W. Chen, D. Coumou, S. Feldstein, H. Gu, D. Handorf, G. Henderson, M. Ionita, M. Kretschmer, F. Laliberte, S. Lee, H. W. Linderholm, W. Maslowski, Y. Peings, K. Pfeiffer, I. Rigor, T. Semmler, J. Stroeve, P. C. Taylor, S. Vavrus, T. Vihma, S. Wang, M. Wendisch, Y. Wu, and J. Yoon, 2020: Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather. Nature Climate Change, 10, 20–29, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0662-y.
2019
Chen, H. W., L. N. Zhang, F. Zhang, T. Lauvaux, K. J. Davis, S. Pal, B. Gaudet, and J. P. DiGangi, 2019: Evaluation of Regional CO2 mole fractions in the ECMWF CAMS real-time atmospheric analysis and NOAA CarbonTracker Near-Real-Time reanalysis with airborne observations from ACT-America field campaigns. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 8119–8133, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029992.
2019
Chen, H. W., F. Zhang, T. Lauvaux, K. J. Davis, S. Feng, M. P. Butler, and R. B. Alley, 2019: Characterization of regional-scale CO2 transport uncertainties in an ensemble with flow-dependent transport errors. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 4049–4058, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081341.
2016
Chen, H. W., R. B. Alley, and F. Zhang, 2016: Interannual Arctic sea ice variability and associated winter weather patterns: A regional perspective for 1979–2014. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 121, 14433–14455, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD024769.
2016
Chen, H. W., F. Zhang, and R. B. Alley, 2016: The robustness of midlatitude weather pattern changes due to Arctic sea ice loss. Journal of Climate, 26, 7831–7849, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0167.1.
2013
Chen, H. W., Q. Zhang, H. Körnich, and D. Chen, 2013: A robust mode of climate variability in the Arctic: The Barents Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 2856–2861, https://doi.org/10.1002/grl.50551.
2013
Chen, D. and H. W. Chen, 2013: Using the Köppen classification to quantify climate variation and change: An example for 1901–2010. Environmental Development, 6, 69–79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2013.03.007.
Other publications
2020
Scholze, M., H. Chen, T. Kaminski, and M. Voßbeck, 2020: Inversion strategy based on joint QND assessments. CHE Consortium.
2018
Chen, H. and M. Scholze, 2018: Progress in characterizing uncertainty for fossil fuel emissions. CHE Consortium.
2018
Ying, Y., X. Chen, Y. Zhang, M. Minamide, R. Nystrom, H. Chen, J. Poterjoy, C. Melhauser, Y. Weng, Z. Meng, A. Aksoy, F. Zhang, 2018: PSU WRF EnKF/4DVar hybrid regional data assimilation system: Technical notes. Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, and Center for Advanced Data Assimilation and Predictability Techniques, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
2018
Cohen, J., X. Zhang, J. Francis, T. Jung, R. Kwok, J. Overland, P. C. Taylor, S. Lee, F. Laliberte, S. Feldstein, W. Maslowski, G. Henderson, J. Stroeve, D. Coumou, D. Handorf, T. Semmler, T. Ballinger, M. Hell, M. Kretschmer, S. Vavrus, M. Wang, S. Wang, Y. Wu, T. Vihma, U. Bhatt, M. Ionita, H. Linderholm, I. Rigor, C. Routson, D. Singh, M. Wendisch, D. Smith, J. Screen, J. Yoon, Y. Peings, H. Chen, and R. Blackport, 2018: Arctic change and possible influence on mid-latitude climate and weather: A US CLIVAR white paper. US CLIVAR, https://doi.org/10.5065/D6TH8KGW.
Commission of trust
2024–present
Board Member, Swedish Strategic Research Area MERGE (ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system)
2024–present
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Remote Sensing
2022–present
Young Editorial Member, Advances in Climate Change Research
2022–2023
Guest Editor, Remote Sensing
2021–2023
Deputy, Copernicus CO2 General Assembly
Invited talks
2024
Space activities to monitor greenhouse gas emissions, Kick-off for Chalmers’ new thematic areas: Towards a healthy planet – tackling the pollution of our Land, Oceans and Space
2023
Atmospheric modeling and data assimilation to support greenhouse gas emissions monitoring, National Central University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Seminar
2022
Ensemble-based simultaneous state and parameter estimation for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and removals, 2nd International Association of Meteorological Education and Sciences Annual Conference and the 9th COAA International Conference on Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Change
2021
Monitoring anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions from space, Swedish Space Researchers 2022
2021
Assessing the uncertainty in top-down greenhouse gas emissions estimates, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society Virtual 18th Annual Meeting
2020
Coupled carbon–atmospheric data assimilation through ensemble-based simultaneous state and parameter estimation, Fuqing Zhang Symposium (canceled due to Covid-19)
2018
Monitoring Earth’s carbon cycle and human fossil fuel emissions with the help of advanced data assimilation methods, Second ADAPT Symposium on Advanced Understanding, Monitoring and Prediction of Weather, Climate and Environmental systems
2018
Constraining surface carbon dioxide fluxes using advanced data assimilation techniques, 98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
2016
Nonlinear atmospheric response to Arctic sea-ice loss under different sea ice scenarios, ADAPT Symposium on Advanced Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification in BigData Research for Weather, Climate and Earth System Monitoring and Prediction
Teaching experience
2023–present
Chalmers University of Technology
- Advisor for PhD student (2023–present)
- Co-advisor for PhD student (2023–present)
- Advisor for Master’s thesis (spring 2023)
- Lead instructor
- The Earth System (Spring 2024–present)
- Instructor
- The Climate: The Science, Measures and Policy (Spring 2023–present)
- The Earth System (Spring 2023)
- Science of Environmental Change (Fall 2024–present)
2019–2022
Lund University
- Advisor for Bachelor’s thesis (Spring 2022)
- Instructor
- The Climate System (Spring 2022)
- Theory and Methods of Physical Geography (Fall 2019–2022)
2013–2017
The Pennsylvania State University
- Lead instructor
- Introduction to Programming Techniques for Meteorology (Spring 2015)
- Co-instructor
- Applications of Computers to Meteorology (Fall 2013)
- Co-advisor for research project (summer 2017)
- Teaching assistant
- Synoptic Meteorology Laboratory (Fall 2015)
- Applications of Computers to Meteorology (Fall 2014; Spring 2014)
- Introduction to Programming Techniques for Meteorology (Spring 2013)
Outreach
2024
Interview, ATL Lantbrukets Affärstidning
About recent flooding events in Italy and the connection to climate change
2023
Panel discussion, Gothenburg International Science Festival
2022
Radio interview, Radio Sweden, Vetenskapsradion Klotet
About how satellites can reveal greenhouse gas emissions
2021
Interview, Extrakt online magazine
About using satellite observations to track anthropogenic CO2 emissions
2021
Interview, European Environment Agency, COINS
About monitoring CO2 emissions on city scales using top-down and inverse approaches
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Research websites, https://climatedynamics.group and https://hanschen.org
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Service to profession
2024
Recruitment Committee Member, Division of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology
2023
Workshop Organizer, Carbon Cycle in the Climate-Vulnerable Regions: Modeling and Observations, Nanjing, China
2020–2021
Organizer of Department Seminars, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University
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Reviewer
Nature Climate Change, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal
of Geophysical Research–Atmospheres, Climate Dynamics, Geoscientific Model Development
Non-academic work
2008
Computer Programmer, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden
Other relevant experiences
2024
Leadership Training, Chalmers University of Technology
2021
Research Supervision Course, Lund University
“Research Supervision” and “Beyond Doctoral Supervision – Scholarship and Academic Values”
2022–present
NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium, Advances in Air Quality Analysis and Prediction: The Interaction of Science and Policy, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado
Computer skills
OS
Linux, Unix, Windows, macOS
Programming
Python, Fortran, C++, C
Computing
MATLAB, Mathematica
Shell scripting
Bash, Z shell
Graphics
Adobe Photoshop, Inkscape
Typesetting
LaTeX
Office
Microsoft Office, Libreoffice
Miscellaneous
Git, regular expressions, HTML, CSS
Languages
Native
Swedish
Fluent
English
Mother tongue
Mandarin, fluent speaking, basic reading and writing
Basic
German