Xingang Fan Faculty fan@gri.msstate.edu Office: HPC 221 Phone: (662) 325-8429 Box 9652 Mississippi State, MS 39762-9652

Biography:	Trained in meteorology and climatology and interested in the research areas of Global/Regional Climate Change and Weather Forecast. Joined the Geosystems Research Institute at Mississippi State University in January 2008.
Research Interest:	Regional/global climate change; Climate downscaling and regional applications; Interactions among climate system components; Numerical weather and climate modeling; Satellite data assimilation; Regional reanalysis projects; Precipitation, water cycle, and hydrometeorology; Geothermal, soil, land surface, earthquake, and climate; Nonlinear climate dynamics.

Fan, X. (2009). Impacts of Soil Heating Condition on Precipitation Simulations in the Weather Research and Forecasting Model. Monthly Weather Review. 137(7), 2263-2285.

Luo, Y., Houser, P. R., Anantharaj, V. G., Fan, X., De, G. J., Lannoy, Dabbiru, L., Turlapaty, A., & Aanstoos, J.V. (2008). Potential L-Band Aquarius Radiometer and Scatterometer Soil Moisture Products from an Observing System Simulation Experiment. 2008 Fall Meeting. San Francisco, California, USA: American Geophysical Union. [Abstract]

Fan, X., Walsh, J. E., & Krieger, J. R. (2008). A one-year experimental Arctic reanalysis and comparisons with ERA-40 and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses. Geophysical Research Letters. 35, L19811, doi:10.