Tianning Su

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Email: su10@llnl.gov

I am a Postdoctoral Research Staff Member at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States. I received my Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of Maryland, College Park.

My research focuses on convection within the planetary boundary layer (PBL), a highly turbulent and chaotic system that connects clouds and the Earth's land surface. Rather than viewing clouds and land as separate entities, I approach them as components of a tightly coupled system, with the PBL acting as the critical medium of interaction. Turbulence within the PBL drives vertical mixing of aerosols, moisture, and heat, facilitating these coupling processes. By studying these interactions, I aim to deepen our understanding of the PBL's role in climate systems, urbanization impacts, and air pollution formation.

Employing remote sensing technologies (i.e., ground-based and spaceborne lidar), alongside multi-scale modeling tools and deep learning methodologies, I have developed several interconnected research topics for studying the cloud-PBL-land system.