长期从事利用多观测平台多仪器探测资料开展上对流层/下平流层区域热力过程、大气成分分布多时空尺度变化特征、风能资源评估的研究。目前已发表论文28篇，发表专利1项；获得国家自然科学基金（青年项目）、安徽省自然科学基金（青年项目）、中国博士后科学基金会特别资助等多项资助；担任大气科学领域顶级杂志（Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres等）审稿人。

教育经历

2009/9 - 2014/6，中国科学技术大学，空间物理，博士

2005/9 - 2009/6，中山大学，大气科学，学士

工作经历

2014/06 - 2016/10，中国科学技术大学，博士后

2017/11-2019/11，俄克拉荷马大学，博士后（国家公派访问学者）

2016/11-2020/06，中国科学技术大学，副研究员

2020/07-至今，南方科技大学，副研究员

主持科研项目

1、国家自然科学基金青年项目：“对流层顶层高度及厚度等参数的气候变化及机理研究”，2016-2018。

2、安徽省自然科学基金青年项目：“对流层顶层垂直结构变化及其机理研究”，2016-2018。

3、中国博士后科学基金会特别资助：“穿透性对流活动及其与对流层平流层物质交换过程的研究”，2016-2017

4、中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金资助：“对流层顶厚度变化及其机理研究”，2015-2016。

代表性论文列表

[1] Xian T, Homeyer CR. Global tropopause altitudes in radiosondes and reanalyses. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 2019, 19(8):5661-78.

[2] Xian T, Fu Y. A hiatus in the tropopause layer change. International Journal of Climatology. 2017, 37(14):4972-80.

[3] Xian T, and Fu Y., Characteristics of tropopause-penetrating convection determined by TRMM and COSMIC GPS radio occultation measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 120 (2015), 7006-7024.

[4] Xian T, Sun L., Yang Y., and Fu Y., Monsoon and Eddy Forcing of Chlorophyll-a Variation in Northeast South China Sea, Int. J. Rem. Sen., 33 (2012), 7431-7443.

[5] Xian T, Yang Y., Sun L., and Fu Y., Spatiotemporal variability of satellite-derived colored dissolved and detrital organic materials in the South China Sea from 1997-2007, Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, 15 (2012), 118-126.

[6] Qin F, Xian T, Fu Y. Cloud-Precipitation Parameters and Radiative Forcing of Warm Precipitating Cloud over the Tropical Pacific Ocean Based on TRMM Datasets and Radiative Transfer Model. Atmosphere. 2018, 9(6):206.

[7] Fu Y., Xian T., Lu D., Liu G., Heng Z., Sun L., and Yang Y., Ozone vertical variations during a typhoon derived from the OMI observations and reanalysis data. Chin. Sci. Bull., 58 (2013), 3890-3894.

[8] Yang Y., Xian T, Sun L., and Fu Y., Summer monsoon impacts on Chlorophyll-a concentration in the middle of the South China Sea: Climatological mean and annual variability, Atmos. Oceanic Sci. Lett., 5 (2012), 15-19.

[9] Fu Y, Pan X, Xian T, Liu G, Zhong L, Liu Q, Li R, Wang Y, Ma M. Precipitation characteristics over the steep slope of the Himalayas in rainy season observed by TRMM PR and VIRS. Climate dynamics. 2018, 51(5-6):1971-89.

[10] Wang R, Fu Y, Xian T, Chen F, Yuan R, Li R, Liu G. Evaluation of atmospheric precipitable water characteristics and trends in mainland China from 1995 to 2012. Journal of Climate. 2017, 30(21):8673-88.

[11] Chen Y, Fu Y, Xian T, Pan X. Characteristics of cloud cluster over the steep southern slopes of the Himalayas observed by CloudSat. International Journal of Climatology. 2017, 37(11):4043-52.

[12] Sun L., Yang Y., Xian T., Lu Z., and Fu Y., Strong enhancement of chlorophyll-a concentration by a weak typhoon, Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 404 (2010), 39-50.

[13] Sun L., Yang Y., Xian T., Wang Y., and Fu Y., Ocean responses to Typhoon Namtheun explored with Argo floats and multiplatform satellites, Atmosphere-Ocean, 50 (2012), 15-26.

[14] Li Q., Sun L., Liu S., Xian T., and Yan Y., A new mononuclear eddy identication method with simple splitting strategies, Remote Sensing Letters, 5 (2014), 65-72.

[15] Yang Y., Sun L., Liu Q., Xian T., and Fu Y., The Biophysical Responses of the upper ocean to the typhoons Namtheun and Malou in 2004, Int. J. Rem. Sen., 31 (2010), 4559-4568.

[16] Martin, E.R., Homeyer, C.R., McKinzie, R.A., McCarthy, K.M. and Xian, T., Regionally Varying Assessments of Upper-Level Tropical Width in Reanalyses and CMIP5 Models Using a Tropopause Break Metric. J. Climate, (2020), in press, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0629.1

[17] Fu Y, Chen Y, Li R, Qin F, Xian T, Yu L, Zhang A, Liu G, Zhang X. Lateral Boundary of Cirrus Cloud from CALIPSO Observations. Scientific reports. 2017, 7(1):14221.

[18] Zhu H., Su Z., Xiao F., Zheng H., Wang Y., Shen C., Xian T., Wang S., Kletzing C. A., Kurth W.S., Hospodarsky G. B., Spence H. E., Reeves G. D., Funsten H. O., Blake J. B., and Baker D. N., Plasmatrough exohiss waves observed by Van Allen Probes: Evidence for leakage from plasmasphere and resonant scattering of radiation belt electrons. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42 (2015), 1012-1019.

[19] Sun L., Li Y., Yang Y., Wu Q., Chen X., Li Q., Li Y., and Xian T., Effects of super typhoons on cyclonic oceanic eddies in the western North Pacific: A satellite data-based evaluation between 2000 and 2008, J. Geophys. Res., 119.9 (2014): 5585-5598.

[20] Yang Y., Sun L., Duan A., Li Y., Fu Y., Yan Y., Wang Z., and Xian T., Impacts of the binary typhoons on upper ocean environments in November 2007, J. Appl. Remote Sens., 6.1 (2012): 063583-1.

[21] Yang Y., Sun L, Duan AM, Li YB, Fu YF, Yan YF, Wang ZQ, Xian T. Impacts of the binary typhoons on upper ocean environments in November 2007. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 2012, 6(1):063583.

[22] Fu Y, Zhu J, Yang Y, Yuan R, Liu G, Xian T, Liu P. Grid-cell aerosol direct shortwave radiative forcing calculated using the SBDART model with MODIS and AERONET observations: An application in winter and summer in eastern China. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 2017, 34(8):952-64.