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Rong Fu is a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) specializing in Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Physics, Atmospheric Dynamics, and Climate Science. Her research investigates critical climate phenomena including drought-fire-weather interactions, monsoon systems, and tropical rainforest hydrology, with significant contributions to understanding climate change impacts in the American Southwest, Amazon, and Congo basin.
Her work reveals how deforestation disrupts moisture cycles in the Congo rainforest and quantifies anthropogenic contributions to western US fire weather. She employs advanced climate modeling to analyze North American Monsoon failures, Amazon hydrological extremes, and agricultural climate risks, emphasizing the interconnectedness of drought, heat, and wildfires in changing climate systems.
Recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward interdisciplinary climate risk assessment, integrating meteorology, hydrology, and ecology to address agricultural vulnerability and ecosystem resilience. Her research consistently bridges fundamental atmospheric processes with real-world environmental challenges through robust data analysis and modeling frameworks.
Her scientific leadership has been recognized through election to the National Academy of Engineering.
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Professor Fu mentors an accomplished research group including Annie Rosen (JSIP Best Presentation Award winner), Alex Chang (AMS student award and AGU OSPA recipient), and Yizhou Zhuang (JIFRESSE Leadership Award winner). Her team secures funding from agencies like NASA and NOAA for projects on drought prediction, climate model evaluation, and causal effect networks in tropical meteorology.
She leads an active research collective focused on climate dynamics, with regular group meetings exploring Atlantic climate biases, homogeneous Markov models, and Niño-related atmospheric dynamics, fostering collaborative investigations into pressing climate questions.
