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Jupiter's infrared image
What stir up Jupiter's unearthly jet streams and storms?
Credit: Gemini Observatory

Research theme

  • Astronomy and astrophysics
  • Exoplanets and planetary physics

Sub department

  • Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics

Research groups

  • Planetary Climate Dynamics
xianyu.tan@physics.ox.ac.uk
Atmospheric Physics Clarendon Laboratory, room 209 G
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I am a postdoc fellow in atmospheric, oceanic, and planetary physics at university of Oxford. I am a member of the exocondense team led by Halley Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert.

Position
2019 - current, Postdoc researcher, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Education
Ph.D. 2013 - 2018 in Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, AZ, USA
M.S. 2010 - 2013 in Planetary Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
B.S. 2006 - 2010 in Geophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, China

Research interests

Exoplanet, brown dwarf, planetary atmosphere
Atmospheric dynamics, cloud formation, convection

Selected publications

Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: effects of rotation

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 502:1 (2021) 678-699
Xianyu Tan, Adam P Showman

Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: global and equatorial dynamics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 502:2 (2021) 2198-2219
Xianyu Tan, Adam P Showman

The atmospheric circulation of ultra-hot Jupiters

Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 886:1 (2019) 1-20
Xianyu Tan, T Komacek

Convection Modeling of Pure-steam Atmospheres

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS 923:1 (2021) ARTN L15
Xianyu Tan, Maxence Lefevre, Raymond T Pierrehumbert
200947 200950
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