Member Since 2004
Jonathan H. Jiang
Senior Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Jonathan H. Jiang is the Principal Scientist of Engineering and Science Directorate at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, and the Supervisor of JPL’s Aerosol and Cloud Research Group, managing a team of about 40 scientist, engineers and postdoctoral scholars. Dr. Jiang is serving as the Editor for the American Geophysical Union’s Journal of Earth and Space Science, as well as Journal of Geophysical Research -Atmosphere.
Professional Experience
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Senior Research Scientist
1999 - Present
Education
Doctorate
1996
Current Roles
President-Elect
Global Environmental Change Executive Committee
Section President-Elect
Council
Publications
Reflecting on Our Present Self‐Awareness of Not Having Found Any Life Beyond Earth

Ever gazed at the stars and wondered if we’re alone? Scientists have been on a quest to find life beyond Earth, but no aliens yet. It’s...

January 10, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Projected future warming in high climate sensitivity models is potentially overestimated based on an emergent constraint by seasonal evolution of extratropical low clouds
CLIMATE SENSITIVITY AND FEEDBACKS: ADVANCES AND NEW PARADIGMS IV ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 16 december 2022
Xianan Jiang, Hui Su, Jonathan H. Jiang, Joao Teix...
A large spread in climate model predictions of warming in response to the radiative forcing by a doubling of CO2, measured by the equilibrium climate ...
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Global 3D Climatology of Cloud Condensation Nuclei Concentrations Retrieved from Spaceborne Lidar – CALIOP/CALIPSO
GENERAL SESSION: ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, RADIATION, CLOUDS, AND AEROSOLS I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 15 december 2022
Piyushkumar N. Patel, Jonathan H. Jiang
The complicated interactions of aerosols on the global cloud system introduce the largest uncertainty in predicting climate change. As identified by t...
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The Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Eccentric Exoplanets
ATMOSPHERES, CLIMATE, AND POTENTIAL HABITABILITY OF ROCKY EXOPLANETS I ORAL
planetary sciences | 15 december 2022
Xuan Ji, Nora Bailey, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Edwin S....
The climate of a planet can be strongly affected by its orbital eccentricity as a result of variations in the incident stellar flux (S). Here we deriv...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Chair
Global Environmental Change Fellows Committee
2023 - 2024
President-Elect
Global Environmental Change Executive Committee
2023 - 2024
Section President-Elect
Council
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