Rong Fu
Rong Fu is a Chinese-American
climatologist,
meteorologist, researcher, professor, and published author with more than 100 articles, books, and projects detailing changes that occur in
Earth's atmosphere and how they affect climate, seasons, rainfall, and the like. Fu has been invited to present over 115 presentations and seminars, and has administered more than 32 projects that received over 11 million dollars in funding. The focus areas of Fu's research are
convection; cloud and precipitation processes and their role in climate; atmospheric transport in the upper
troposphere and lower
stratosphere; the interaction between the
atmosphere and
ocean and terrestrial vegetation; satellite remote sensing applications and retrievals; the interaction between rainfall rates and the
rainforest in regions of the
Amazon rainforest; and drought prediction in states across the
United States, including
California and
Texas. She is currently a professor in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department at
UCLA and the associate director of UCLA's Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering. She is also an adjunct professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the
University of Texas at Austin.
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