Chengfei He

Climate Modeling and Dynamics, Data Science, Paleoclimate


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Somewhere on California State Route 1, USA

I’m a climate modeler, data scientist, and keyboard enthusiast with a passion for advancing our comprehension of climate change.

I received my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the Ohio State University and my Bachelor’s and Master’s in Meteorology from the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology.

My research falls broadly under two fundamental questions: (1) What are the causes of past and future changes in oceanic and atmospheric circulation and climate variability? (2) How can we quantitatively interpret these changes and their impacts? I use an interdisciplinary research approach that combines a hierarchy of climate models, isotope-enabled modeling, statistical and machine learning techniques, and observations/paleoclimate proxies, aiming toward a better understanding of the physical principles that govern climate dynamics in the past and future.

Currently, I am serving as a postdoctoral researcher at RSMAS in the University of Miami, committed to conducting impactful research on the North Atlantic climate change.





Selected Publications

Journal Articles

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    Tropical Atlantic multidecadal variability is dominated by external forcing
    Chengfei He, Amy Clement, Sydney Kramer, Mark Cane, Jeremy Klavans, Tyler Fenske, and Lisa Murphy
    Nature, 2023
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    Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation
    Chengfei He, Zhenyu Liu, BL Otto-Bliesner, EC Brady, C Zhu, R Tomas, PU Clark, J Zhu, A Jahn, S Gu, and  others
    Science Advances, 2021
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    Abrupt Heinrich Stadial 1 cooling missing in Greenland oxygen isotopes
    Chengfei He, Zhengyu Liu, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Esther C Brady, Chenyu Zhu, Robert Tomas, Christo Buizert, and Jeffrey P Severinghaus
    Science Advances, 2021
  4. Deglacial variability of South China hydroclimate heavily contributed by autumn rainfall
    Chengfei He, Zhengyu Liu, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, Esther C Brady, Chenyu Zhu, Robert Tomas, Sifan Gu, Jing Han, and Yishuai Jin
    Nature communications, 2021
  5. The transient response of atmospheric and oceanic heat transports to anthropogenic warming
    Chengfei He, Zhengyu Liu, and Aixue Hu
    Nature Climate Change, 2019