Xiao Pan
| Department | Climate Dynamics |
| Group | Large-scale Coupled Dynamics |
| Position | Guest |
| phone | +49 40 41173-264 |
| xiao.pan@mpimet.mpg.de | |
| Room | B 325 |
Research Interests
Under climate change, surface warming is far from spatially uniform. Regional warming holes and asymmetric polar amplification provide important clues to how the climate system redistributes energy through atmospheric transport, and how regional dynamical processes shape large-scale circulation and temperature patterns.
My research investigates the mechanisms that shape these uneven warming patterns, with a focus on the southeast Pacific warming hole and the hemispheric asymmetry of polar amplification. Using a hierarchy of climate models, I examine how atmospheric circulation, cloud–radiative feedbacks, land–surface forcing, and topography interact to determine regional and global climate responses.
Ongoing Research Topics
- Pacific Warming Puzzle: The Southeast Pacific Warming Hole under CO₂ Forcing
- Interhemispheric Asymmetry in Polar Amplification
- Antarctic Topographic Effects on Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, 2025–present
- Ph.D. in Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, 2018–2024
- B.Sc. in Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, 2014–2018
During my doctoral studies, I investigated ENSO diversity and asymmetry, with a particular focus on the interdecadal change of the amplitude asymmetry between El Niño and La Niña events and the diverse onset mechanisms of different ENSO event types. This work aimed to clarify the nonlinear ocean–atmosphere processes that shape ENSO variability and predictability. Further details can be found on my Google Scholar profile.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wdmB27EAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiao-Pan-8