Qiang Fu
Calvin Professor in Atmospheric Sciences
Ph.D, 1991, University of Utah
Office:
604 Atmospheric Science Building
Phone: (206) 685-2070 Fax: (206) 543-0308
Email: qfu@uw.edu
Mailing Address:
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Interests:
Light scattering and radiative transfer, atmospheric radiation and clouds, atmospheric aerosols, remote sensing, climate and climate change.
Selected Recognitions:
- Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (2024)
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2024)
- AMS Jule G. Charney Medal (2020)
- Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2015)
- Fellow of American Geophysical Union (2014)
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2013)
- Fellow of American Meteorological Society (2009)
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PF9lCrkAAAAJ&hl=en
Web of Science ResearcherID:
https://publons.com/researcher/3079912/qiang-fu
BAMS Letter to the Editor:
- Serra, Y.L., J.S. Haase, D.K. Adams, Q. Fu, T.P. Ackerman, M.J. Alexander, A. Arellano, L. Back, K. Emanuel, Z. Kuang, B. Mapes, D. Neelin, D. Raymond, A.H. Sobel, P.W. Staten, A. Subramanian, D.W. Thompson, G. Vecchi, R. Wood, and P. Zuidema, 2018: The Risks of Contracting the Acquisition and Processing of the Nation's Weather and Climate Data to the Private Sector. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99, 869-870, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0034.1.
Selected Publications since 2004:
- Sweeney, A., Fu, Q., Solomon, S., Po-Chedley, S., Randel, W. J., Steiner, A., Lin, P., Birner, T., Davis, S., Wang, P., 2025: Recent Warming of the Southern Hemisphere Subtropical Lower Stratosphere and Antarctic Ozone Healing AGU Advances, 10.1029/2025AV001737 Editor's Highlight on Eos
- Sweeney, A., Fu, Q., Po-Chedley, S., Wang, H., Wang, M., 2024 Unique Temperature Trend Pattern Associated with Global Cooling and Arctic Warming During 1980-2022.Geophys. Res. Lett., 51, doi:10.1029/2024GL108798
- Sweeney, A., Fu, Q., Po-Chedley, S., Wang, H., Wang, M., 2023: Internal Variability Increased Arctic Amplification During 1980-2022. Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, doi:10.1029/2023GL106060.
- Fu, Q., R. H. White, M. Wang, B. Alexander, S. Solomon, A. Gettleman, D. S. Battisti and P. Lin, 2020: The Brewer‐Dobson Circulation During the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, 5, doi:10.1029/2019GL086271.
- Fu, Q., S. Solomon, H. A. Pahlavan, and P. Lin, 2019: Observed changes in Brewer–Dobson circulation for 1980–2018. Environ. Res. Lett., 14, 11, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab4de7
- Fu, Q., M. Smith, and Q. Yang, 2018: The Impact of Cloud Radiative Effects on the Tropical Tropopause Layer Temperatures. Atmosphere, 9, 377, doi:10.3390/atmos9100377.
- Ding, Q. and Q. Fu, 2018: A warming tropical central Pacific dries the lower stratosphere. Clim. Dyn., 50, 2813-2827, doi:10.1007/s00382-017-3774-y.
- Tseng, H.-H., and Q. Fu, 2017: Temperature control of the variability of tropical tropopause layer cirrus clouds. J. Geophys. Res., 122, doi:10.1002/2017JD027093.
- Fu, Q., L. Lin, J. Huang, S. Feng, and A. Gettelman, 2016: Changes in terrestrial aridity for the period 850-2080 from the Community Earth System Model. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD024075.
- Fu, Q., P. Lin, S. Solomon, and D. L. Hartmann, 2015: Observational evidence of strengthening of the Brewer-Dobson circulation since 1980, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 10, 214-10, 228, doi:10.1002/2015JD023657.
- Fu, Q., and S. Feng, 2014: Responses of terrestrial aridity to global warming. J. Geophys. Res. 119, doi:10.1002/2014JD021608.
- Sherwood, S., and Q. Fu, 2014: A Drier Future? Science, 343 (6172), 737-739, doi: 10.1126/science.1247620.
- Fu, Q., 2013: Bottom up in the tropics. Nature Clim. Change, 3, 957 - 958, doi:10.1038/nclimate2039.
- Wallace, J.M., Q. Fu, B.V. Smoliak, P. Lin, and C.M. Johanson, 2012: Simulated versus observed patterns of warming over the extratropical Northern Hemisphere continents during the cold season. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 14337-14342, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1204875109.
- Fu, Q., S. Manabe, and C.M. Johanson, 2011: On the tropical upper tropospheric warming: Models versus observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38 L15704, doi:10.1029/2011GL048101
- Fu, Q., S. Solomon, and P. Lin, 2010: On the seasonal dependence of tropical lower-stratospheric temperature trends. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 2643-2653.
- Fu, Q., T.J. Thorsen, J. Su, J.M. Ge, and J.P. Huang, 2009: Test of Mie-based single-scattering properties of non-spherical dust aerosols in radiative flux calculations. J. Quan. Spectro. Rad. Trsnsfer, 110, 1640-1653, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.03.010.
- Seidel, D.J., Q. Fu, W.J. Randel, T.J. Reichler, 2008: Widening of the tropical belt in a changing climate. Nature Geoscience, 1, 21-24.
- Fu, Q., 2007: A new parameterization of an asymmetry factor of cirrus clouds for climate models. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4144-4154.
- Fu, Q., Y.X. Hu, and Q. Yang, 2007: Identifying the top of the tropical tropospause layer from vertical mass flux analysis and CALIPSO lidar cloud observations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L14813, doi:10.1029/2007GL030099.
- Fu, Q., C.M. Johanson, J.M. Wallace, and T. Reichler, 2006: Enhanced mid-latitude tropospheric warming in satellite measurements. Science, 312, 1179.
- Fu, Q., and C.M. Johanson, 2005: Satellite-derived vertical dependence of tropical tropospheric temperature trends. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L10703, doi:10.1029/2004GL022266.
- Fu, Q., C.M. Johanson, S.G. Warren, and D.J. Seidel, 2004: Contribution of Stratospheric Cooling to Satellite-Inferred Tropspheric Temperature Trends. Nature, 429, 55-58.
Obituaries:
- Yang, P., Y. Gu, and Fu, Q.: Kuo-Nan Liou, 1943-2021. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, August, 2021.