Climate services, climate extremes, climate and climate change impact.

2013 Ph.D. in Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Science
2006 M.S. in Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Science
2003 B.S. in Applied Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology

Apr.2020-Present Professor & Director, Division of Operation, Science and Technology, National Climate Center (NCC), China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
Dec.2019-Apr.2020 Professor & Director of Climate Services Division, NCC, CMA
Jun.2018-Dec.2019 Senior Engineer (Associate Professor) & Director of Climate Services Division, NCC, CMA
Jan.2017-Jun.2018 Senior Engineer (Associate Professor) & Deputy Director of Climate Services Division, NCC, CMA
Jun.2016-Jan.2017 Senior Engineer (Associate Professor) & Deputy Director of Meteorological Disaster Risk Management Division, NCC, CMA
Sept.2015-Aug.2016 Visiting Scientist, UK Met Office Hadley Centre
Nov.2013-Jun.2016 Senior Engineer (Associate Professor) & Deputy Director of Climate and Climate Change Impact Assessment Division, NCC, CMA
May2008-Nov.2013 Secretary, Headquarter Office of CMA
Aug.2006-May2008 Assistant Researcher, Climate System Modelling Division, NCC, CMA

Jan.2015-Dec.2017 Principal investigator of “Analysis and Simulation of regional climate in Southwest China in winter and spring”, a project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41405089)
Dec.2016-Nov.2021 Principal investigator of “Energy-water nexus and key technologies for efficient and green utilization”, a China-US Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) water and energy technology project (WET) supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFE0102400 & 2018YFE0196000).
Mar.2019-Mar.2021 Principal investigator of “Impact of climate change on the coordinated development of fossil energy and water in western China”, a key consultation project of Chinese Academy of Engineering (Grant No. 2019-XZ-33).

1. Pengcheng Qin, Hongmei Xu*, Min Liu, Liangming Du, Chan Xiao*, Lvliu Liu, and Brain Tarroja (2020). Climate change impacts on Three Gorges Reservoir impoundment and hydropower generation. Journal of Hydrology, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.123922.
2. Hongling Zeng, Chan Xiao*, Xianyan Chen and Dianxiu Ye (2019). State of China’s climate in 2018. Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 12(5), 349-354; DOI:10.1080/16742834.2019.1632147
3. Linxiao Wei, Xiaoge Xin, Chan Xiao, Yonghua Li, Yao Wu, Hongyu Tang (2019). Performance of BCC-CSM models with different horizontal resolutions in simulating etreme climate events in China. J. Meteor. Res., 33 (4), 720-733.
4. Siyue Guo, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, Chan Xiao, and Ying Cui (2019). A novel approach for selecting typical hot-year (THY) weather data. Applied Energy, 242, 1634-1648.
5. Lvliu Liu, Chan Xiao, Liangmin Du, Peiqun Zhang and Guofu Wang (2019). Extended-range runoff forecasting using a one-way coupled climate-hydrological model: case studies of the Yiluo and Beijiang Rivers in China. Water, 11, 1150; DOI:10.3390/w11061150
6. Chan Xiao, Peili Wu, Lixia Zhang, et al. (2018). Increasing flash floods in a drying climate over Southwest China. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 35(8),1094-1099.
7. Chan Xiao, Weihua Yuan, Rucong Yu. 2018. Diurnal cycle of rainfall in amount, frequency, intensity, duration, and the seasonality over the UK. Int J Climatol. 38:4967-4978. DOI:10.1002/joc.5790
8. Chan Xiao, Peili Wu, Lixia Zhang, Lianchun Song (2016). Robust increase in extreme summer rainfall intensity in a warming climate. Sci. Rep., 6, 38506; DOI: 10.1038/ srep38506
9. Chan Xiao, Ye Dianxiu, and Chen Haoming (2017). Temporal and spatial characteristics of waterlogging over mainland China (In Chinese). Journal of Catastrophology, 32(1), 85-89.