Jiafu Mao, a research scientist with the Ecosystems Simulations Science group in the Environmental Sciences Division and the Climate Change Science Institute, has joined the Editorial Board of the Nature Partner Journal Climate and Atmospheric Science.
He is currently working on different projects like the incorporation of the GLM/GCAM model systems in the CESM model (iESM project), the replication and parameter improvement of soil biogeochemical module for CLM (CSSEF project), the improvement of CLM dynamic carbon allocation using the Partitioning in Trees and Soils (PiTS) observations (SFA project), single-factor simulation and remote sensing evaluation of CLM and CESM at various spatial-temporal scales (SFA project).
Mao earned a combined MA-PhD in atmospheric sciences at Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS) in 2007.