Ivy Tan

  • Visiting Assistant Professor
  • PHYSICS
Address

Office: DUAN F717

Research Interests:

I am a geophysicist researching Earth’s clouds, radiation, and climate. I apply remote sensing and in situ observations as well as Earth system models to study the formation and dissipation of small-scale processes associated with clouds, their interactions with radiation, and how they in turn influence the large-scale climate system. I am particularly interested in cold clouds that are comprised of supercooled liquid droplets and ice crystals. These clouds are ubiquitous and play an important role in the climate of Earth’s polar regions, which are experiencing accelerated warming relative to the rest of the globe.

Selected Publications:

  1. Stauffer, C., Tan, I., Matrosov, S. Aerosol and meteorological influences on mixed‐phase stratiform clouds at North Slope of Alaska. Geophys. Res. Lett., in press (2025)
  2. Tan., I., Zhou, C., Lamy, A., Stauffer, C. L. Moderate climate sensitivity due to opposing feedbacks in observationally-constrained mixed-phae clouds. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8, 1, (2025)
  3. Tan, I., Zelinka, M. D., Coopman, Q., Kahn, B. H., Oreopoulos, L., Tselioudis, G., McCoy, D. T., Li, N. Contributions from cloud morphological changes to the interannual cloud feedback based on MODIS and ISCCP satellite observations. J. Geophys. Res.: Atmospheres, 129, 8, (2024)
  4. Coopman, Q., Tan, I. Characterization of the spatial distribution of mixed-phase cloud thermodynamic phase with satellite observations. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, 24, (2023)
  5. Tan, I. Sotiropoulou, G., Taylor, P., Zamora, L., Wendisch, M. A review of the factors influencing Arctic liquid-containing clouds: progress and outlook. Clouds and their Climatic Impacts: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation, Chapter 5, (2023)
  6. Tan, I., Barahona, D., Coopman, Q. Potential link between ice nucleation and climate model spread in Arctic amplification. Geophys. Res. Lett. 49, 4, (2022)
  7. Tan, I., Oreopoulos, L., Cho, N. The role of thermodynamic phase shifts in cloud optical depth variations with temperature. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46, 8, 4502-4511, (2019)
  8. Tan, I., Storelvmo, T. Evidence of strong contributions from mixed-phase clouds to Arctic climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46, 5, 2894-2902, (2019)
  9. Tan, I., Storelvmo, T. Sensitivity study on the influence of cloud microphysical parameters on mixed-phase cloud thermodynamic phase partitioning in CAM5, J. Atmos. Sci. 73, 2, 709-728 (2016)
  10. Tan, I., Storelvmo, T., Zelinka, M. D. Observational constraints on mixed-phase clouds imply higher climate sensitivity. Science. 352, 6282, 224-227, (2016)