Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., Meteorology, Florida State University, 2012–2017
• M.S., Meteorology, Florida State University, 2012–2014
• M.S., Meteorology, Peking University, 2009–2012
• B.S., Physics, Peking University, 2005–2009

Employment

• 2023–Present: Research Faculty I, EOAS, Florida State University
• 2019–2023: Postdoctoral Scholar, EOAS, Florida State University
• 2018–2019: Postdoctoral Scholar, COAPS, Florida State University
• 2015–2017: Teaching Assistant, EOAS, Florida State University
• 2012–2015: Research Assistant, EOAS, Florida State University
• 2009–2012: Research Assistant, School of Physics, Peking University

Honors & Awards

• 2014: CESM Tutorial Travel Award
• 2016: AMS Tropical Meteorology Committee Travel Award

Awarded Fundings as PI/CO-PI

• NSF-AGS(2427321) Collaborative Research: Predictive Understanding of Wildfire Spotting and Smoke Transport within the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
  Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Selected Publications

• Sun, J., Cai, M., Hu, X., Feng, J., Ding, F., 2025: Energy Gain Kernel for Climate Feedbacks. Part III: Reconciliation of the apparent “negative” nature of lapse-rate feedback. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. [DOI]
• Hu, X., Cai, M., Sun, J., Ding, F., Feng, J., 2025: Energy Gain Kernel for Climate Feedbacks. Part II: Spatial pattern of surface amplification factor and its dependency on climate mean state. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. [DOI]
• Cai, M., Hu, X., Sun, J., Hu, Y., Liu, G., Wu, Z., Ding, F., Kang, W., 2024: Principles-Based Adept Predictions of Global Warming from Climate Mean States. National Science Review, 12, nwae442. [DOI]
• Cai, M., Hu, X., Sun, J., Ding, F., Feng, J., 2024: Energy Gain Kernel for Climate Feedbacks. Part I: Formulation and Physical Understanding. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 81, 1033–1047. [DOI]
• Sun, J., Cai, M., Liu, G., Zhang, D.L., 2024: A comparative study of mathematical models for tropical cyclone intensity-size relation. Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research. [DOI]
• Sun, J., Secor, M., Cai, M., Hu, X., 2023: A quasi-linear relation between planetary outgoing longwave radiation and surface temperature in a radiative-convective-transportive climate model of gray atmosphere. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. [DOI]
• Cai, M., Sun, J., Ding, F., Kang, W., Hu, X., 2023: The quasi-linear relation between planetary outgoing longwave radiation and surface temperature: a climate footprint of radiative and non-radiative processes. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. [DOI]
• Secor, M., Sun, J., Yang, F., Zou, X., Wu, Z., 2023: Global Warming and Topography Impact the Amplitude of the Synoptic Scale Surface Temperature Variability over the US. Atmosphere, 14(6): 979. [DOI]
• Yu, Y., Sun, J., Secor, M., Cai, M., Luo, X., 2023: A Parametric Model of Elliptic Orbits for Annual Evolutions of Northern Hemisphere Stratospheric Polar Vortex and Their Interannual Variability. Atmosphere, 14(5): 870. [DOI]
• Ma, J., Sun, J., Wu, Z., Huang, J., Xu, X., Deng, Y., Cai, M., 2023: Pushing the boundary of seasonal prediction with the lever of varying annual cycles. Science Bulletin, 68(1), 105–116. [DOI]
• Sun, J., Cai, M., Liu, G., Yan, R., Zhang, D.L., 2022: Uncovering the Intrinsic Intensity–Size Relationship of Tropical Cyclones. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79(11), 2881–2900. [DOI]
• Sun, J., Wu, Z., 2020: Isolating spatiotemporally local mixed Rossby-gravity waves using multi-dimensional ensemble empirical mode decomposition. Climate Dynamics, 54(3), 1383–1405. [DOI]
• Liu, Q., Tan, Z.M., Sun, J., Hou, Y., Fu, C., Wu, Z., 2020: Changing rapid weather variability increases influenza epidemic risk in a warming climate. Environmental Research Letters, 15(4).
• Sun, J., Tan, B., 2013: Mechanism of the wintertime Aleutian low–Icelandic low seesaw. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(15), 4103–4108. [DOI]

Presentations

• 2025 – 105th AMS Annual Meeting (Oral Presentation): Billow-like Vortices within the Smoke Plume Generated in a Prescribed Fire: Radar Observation and Numerical Simulations
• 2024 – AGU Fall Meeting (Poster): Billow-like Vortices within the Smoke Plume Generated in a Prescribed Fire: Radar Observation and Numerical Simulations
• 2023 – AGU General Assembly (Poster): Systematic Evaluations of Mathematical Models for Tropical Cyclone Intensity–Size Relation [Abstract]
• 2023 – 40th Conference on Radar Meteorology (Poster): High-Resolution Radar Observation of a Prescribed Fire Plume
• 2022 – 35th AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology (Oral Presentation): Uncovering the Intrinsic Intensity–Size Relationship of Tropical Cyclones

Teaching

Instructor:

• 2024 & 2025: Synoptic Lecture-Laboratory II, FSU

Teaching Assistant:

• 2016–2017: Atmospheric Dynamics I & II, Meteorological Computations