Hao Fu, Ph.D.
Tenure-track associate professor
Email: haofu@nju.edu.cn
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Nanjing University | 2025 - now
School of the Atmospheric Sciences
Tenure-track associate professor
The University of Chicago | 2023 - 2025
Department of the Geophysical Sciences
T. C. Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellow
EDUCATION
Stanford University | 2018 – 2023
Ph.D. in Earth System Science
Advisor: Prof. Morgan E O'Neill
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 2015 - 2018
Master program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Advisor: Prof. Yihua Lin
Nanjing University | 2011 - 2015
B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences
Advisors: Prof. Yuan Wang and Prof. Bowen Zhou
RESEARCH INTEREST
I study geophysical fluid dynamics. Topics include:
•Tropical cyclones, waves, and convection
•The mechanics of multiphase, rotating, and stratified flow
•Symmetry breaking and pattern formation in geophysical flow
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
| • | Gu Chunlei, Anning Huang*, Xin Li, Yang Wu, 2024. Offline Correction of CMIP6 HighResMIP Simulated Surface Solar Irradiance with 3D Sub-grid Terrain Radiative Effects. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107737. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL10773 |
| 1. | Fu, H. & O'Neill, M. (2025). A quasi-2D model of convectively coupled vortices. J. Atmos. Sci., 82, 1317-1340. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-24-0155.1 |
| 2. | Fu, H., Cenedese, C., Lefauve, A., & Vallis, G. (2025). A laboratory analogy for mixing by shallow cumulus convection. J. Fluid Mech., 1011, A35. doi:10.1017/jfm.2025.173 |
| 3. | Fu, H. & Davis, C. (2025). The role of momentum transfer in tropical cyclogenesis: insights from a single-column model. J. Atmos. Sci. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-24-0069.1 |
| 4. | Fu, H. & O'Neill, M. (2025). Mean cold pool size of quasi-equilibrium convection. Part I: Why do cold pools collide? J. Atmos. Sci., 82(2):237-250. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-23-0143.1 |
| 5. | Fu, H. & O'Neill, M. (2025). Mean cold pool size of quasi-equilibrium convection. Part II: The survival competition hypothesis. J. Atmos. Sci., 82(2):251-265. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-24-0052.1 |
| 6. | Fu, H. & Sun, S. (2024). Vorticity skewness of finite-amplitude rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection. J. Fluid Mech., 997, A3. doi:10.1017/jfm.2024.571 |
| 7. | Fu, H. & O'Neill, M. (2024). The small-amplitude dynamics of spontaneous tropical cyclogenesis. Part I: Experiments with amplified longwave radiative feedback. J. Atmos. Sci., 81(2):381-399. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-23-0170.1 |
| 8. | Fu, H. & O'Neill, M. (2024). The small-amplitude dynamics of spontaneous tropical cyclogenesis. Part II: Linear stability analysis. J. Atmos. Sci. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-24-0032.1 |
| 9. | Fu, H. & O'Neill, M. (2024). The stochastic spin-up of vorticity in spontaneous tropical cyclogenesis. J. Atmos. Sci., 81(5):855-870. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-23-0186.1 |
| 10. | Fu, H. & O'Neill, M. (2021). The role of random vorticity stretching in tropical depression genesis. J. Atmos. Sci., 78(12):4143-4168. doi:10.1175/JAS-D-21-0087.1 |
| 11. | Fu, H. (2021). A linear stability analysis of two-layer moist convection with a saturation interface. J. Fluid Mech., 928, A13. doi:10.1017/jfm.2021.784 |
| 12. | Fu, H. & Lin, Y. (2019). A kinematic model for understanding rain formation efficiency of a convective cell. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 11(12):4395-4422. doi:10.1029/2019MS001707 |