Principal Research Fellow in Tropical Cyclones (NCAS)

Responsibilities:

• Joint Research Scientist in Tropical Cyclones at University of Reading and Imperial College London
• Asia-Pacific Elite Typhoon Scholar, the Asia-Pacific Typhoon Collaborative Research Center
• Visiting Professor in climate extremes and coastal hazardsi, Hohai University

Research Interests:

• Tropical cyclone variability and predicability
• Extreme weather and climate
• Coastal extremes (sea level, ocean waves)
• Improving high-impact weather forecasts

Current Research Projects:

• SEA-COAST (PI, with Co-Is: Prof John Methven, Dr Kevin Hodges): Understanding and Prediction of Compound Ocean-Atmosphere Storms in the Tropics, the Met Office WCSSP Southeast Asia project, 2025–2028
• Climate risk in the Southeast and East Asia (a tropical cyclone group led by Prof Ralf Toumi), Imperial College London, 2022–
• FORWARDS (Reading PI, with a group of Co-Is): FORcasting high-impact Weather And extreme Rainfall Drivers and dynamics for Southeast Asia, the Met Office WCSSP Southeast Asia project, 2024–2027
• HURACAN (Co-I, led by Prof Pier Luigi Vidale): HUrricane Risk Amplification and Changing North Atlantic Natural disasters, NSFGEO-NERC Large Grant project, 2023–2027

Previous Research Projects:

• WESTPAC (PI): Waves and ENSO: Seasonal Teleconnections to Predict the Activity of Cyclones, the Met Office WCSSP Southeast Asia project, 2020–2022
• FORSEA-FO-CO (TC WP leader): FORecasting for SouthEast Asia follow on continuation, the Met Office WCSSP Southeast Asia project, 2022–2024
• WWRP Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone Forecast Products Project, in support of the World Meteorological Organization TCPFP Project (Co-I), 2021–2022
• ERA-CLIM2 project
• LRF Global Network to Improve Prediction of Extreme Marine Events

Meet our current PDRAs & PhD students:

• Pau Luque is developing a new high-resolution modelling framework to predict storm surges and ocean surface waves up to 7 days ahead in the SEA-COAST project
• Sam Ferrett is working on prediction of high impact weather in Southeast Asia in the FORWARDS project (continued after FORSEA project)
• Leo Chow is an AFESP PhD student researching tropical cyclone genesis and atmospheric waves, at University of Reading
• Yicheng Tan is a PhD student studying global climate risk of sea level extremes caused by tropical cyclones, currently at Hohai University
• Hui Lv is a PhD student studying coastal compound extremes caused by heatwaves and tropical cyclones, currently at Imperial College London and Hohai University

  Centaur Publications

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  Number of items: 45.

  2025

  Marcos, M., Agulles, M., Amores, A., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Robson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X (2025) Constraining extreme storm surges along the European coasts from a large ensemble of climate models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130 (12). e2025JC022863. ISSN 2169-9291 doi: 10.1029/2025JC022863

  Wang, Z., Rios-Berrios, R., Stern, D. P., Baker, A. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-1350, Beucler, T., Camargo, S. J., Duvel, J.-P., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Lee, C.-Y., Leroux, M.-D., Li, H., Macholl, J., Molina, M. J., Ocasio, K. M. N., Ramsay, H. A., Ritchie, E. A., Schenkel, B. A., Stansfield, A. M., Ayar, P. V. and Wisinski, E. (2025) On the definition and tracking of tropical cyclone seeds from a climate perspective. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106 (9). E1815-E1822. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: 10.1175/bams-d-24-0200.1

  Zhao, J., Zhan, R., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Sun, W., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Liu, S. (2025) Tropical volcanic eruptions enhance Pacific-driven global tropical cyclone genesis. Environmental Research Letters, 20 (8). 084040. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ade895

  Wang, F., Zhao, J., Zhan, R., Yuan, C., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Tan, Y. (2025) Seasonal contrasts in the trends of landfalling tropical cyclone track density in China (1949–2023). Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (10). e2024GL114482. ISSN 1944-8007 doi: 10.1029/2024GL114482

  Marcos, M., Amores, A., Agulles, M., Robson, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3467-018X and Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X (2025) Global warming drives a threefold increase in persistence and 1°C rise in intensity of marine heatwaves. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 (16). e2413505122. ISSN 1091-6490 doi: 10.1073/pnas.2413505122

  Monerie, P.-A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5304-9559, Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Hodges, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X and Toumi, R. (2025) High prediction skill of decadal tropical cyclone variability in the North Atlantic and East Pacific in the met office decadal prediction system DePreSys4. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8. 32. ISSN 2397-3722 doi: 10.1038/s41612-025-00919-y

  2024

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X (2024) Translation speed slowdown and poleward migration of western North Pacific tropical cyclones. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 7. 196. ISSN 2397-3722 doi: 10.1038/s41612-024-00748-5

  Peng, Y., Guo, Y.-P., Zhao, J., Tan, Z.-M., Chen, X. and Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X (2024) Tropical cyclogenesis bias over the central North Pacific in CMIP6 simulations. Journal of Climate, 37 (4). pp. 1231-1248. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0224.1

  Shi, J., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Toumi, R., Zhang, C., Hodges, K. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Tao, A., Zhang, W. and Zheng, J. (2024) Global increase in tropical cyclone ocean surface waves. Nature Communications, 15. 174. ISSN 2041-1723 doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43532-4

  2023

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Toumi, R., Roberts, M., Hodges, K. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X and Vidale, P. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-8460 (2023) An approach to link climate model tropical cyclogenesis bias to large-scale wind circulation modes. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (15). e2023GL103838. ISSN 1944-8007 doi: 10.1029/2023GL103838

  Liao, X., Holloway, C. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989, Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Liu, C., Lyu, X., Xue, Y., Bao, R., Li, J. and Qiao, F. (2023) Observed interannual relationship between ITCZ position and tropical cyclone frequency. Journal of Climate, 36 (16). pp. 5587-5603. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0865.1

  Yang, G.-Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7450-3477, Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Hodges, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X (2023) Seasonal and interannual variation of equatorial waves in ERA5 and GloSea5. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 149 (752). pp. 1109-1134. ISSN 1477-870X doi: 10.1002/QJ.4460

  Feng, Z., Lv, S., Sun, Y., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Zhai, P., Lin, Y., Shen, Y. and Zhong, W. (2023) Skillful seasonal prediction of typhoon track density using deep learning. Remote Sensing, 15 (7). 1797. ISSN 2072-4292 doi: 10.3390/rs15071797

  Racoma, B. A. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7778-7273, Holloway, C. E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9903-8989, Schiemann, R. K. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9856, Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Bagtasa, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5433-7122 (2023) The effect of the Cordillera mountain range on tropical cyclone rainfall in the Northern Philippines. Atmosphere, 14 (4). 643. ISSN 2073-4433 doi: 10.3390/atmos14040643

  Conroy, A., Titley, H., Rivett, R., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Methven, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7636-6872, Hodges, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Brammer, A., Burton, A., Chakraborty, P., Chen, G., Cowan, L., Dunion, J. and Sarkar, A. (2023) Track forecast: operational capability and new techniques - summary from the Tenth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC-10). Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 12 (1). pp. 64-80. ISSN 2225-6032 doi: 10.1016/j.tcrr.2023.05.002

  Hallam, S., McCarthy, G. D., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Josey, S. A., Harris, E., Düsterhus, A., Ogungbenro, S. and Hirschi, J. J.-M. (2023) The relationship between sea surface temperature anomalies, wind and translation speed and North Atlantic tropical cyclone rainfall over ocean and land. Environmental Research Communications, 5 (2). 025007. ISSN 2515-7620 doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/acb31c

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Yang, G.-Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7450-3477, Hodges, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X and Methven, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7636-6872 (2023) Equatorial waves as useful precursors to tropical cyclone occurrence and intensification. Nature Communications, 14 (511). ISSN 2041-1723 doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-36055-5

  Tan, Y., Zhang, W., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Guo, Y. and Hoitink, A. J. F. (2023) Storm surge variability and prediction from ENSO and tropical cyclones. Environmental Research Letters, 18 (2). 024016. ISSN 1748-9326 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/acb1c8

  2022

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Hodges, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X, Hoang, L., Pura, A. G., Yang, G.-Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7450-3477, Luu, H., David, S. J., Duran, G. A. M. W. and Guo, Y.-p. (2022) A new approach to skillful seasonal prediction of Southeast Asia tropical cyclone occurrence. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127 (12). e2022JD036439. ISSN 2169-8996 doi: 10.1029/2022JD036439

  Castillo, J. M., Lewis, H. W., Mishra, A., Mitra, A., Polton, J., Brereton, A., Saulter, A., Arnold, A., Berthou, S., Clark, D., Crook, J., Das, A., Edwards, J., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Gupta, A., Joseph, S., Klingaman, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303, Momin, I., Pequignet, C., Sanchez, C., Saxby, J. and Valdivieso da Costa, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1738-7016 (2022) The Regional Coupled Suite (RCS-IND1): application of a flexible regional coupled modelling framework to the Indian region at km scale. Geoscientific Model Development, 15 (10). pp. 4193-4223. ISSN 1991-9603 doi: 10.5194/gmd-15-4193-2022

  2021

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Klingaman, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303 and Hodges, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X (2021) Poleward migration of western North Pacific tropical cyclones related to changes in cyclone seasonality. Nature Communications, 12. ISSN 2041-1723 doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26369-7

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Zhang, W., Zhu, Z., Chevuturi, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-7221 and Chen, W. (2021) Variability and changes in Pearl River Delta water level: oceanic and atmospheric forcing perspectives. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 22 (9). pp. 2407-2422. ISSN 1525-7541 doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-21-0037.1

  Liu, H., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Tao, A. and Zhang, W. (2021) Intraseasonal variability of sea level in the Western North Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 126 (6). e2021JC017237. ISSN 0148-0227 doi: 10.1029/2021JC017237

  Feng, X., Li, H., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Zhao, J. and Feng, W. (2021) Dependence of ocean wave return levels on water depth and sampling length: a focus on the South Yellow Sea. Ocean Engineering, 219. 108295. ISSN 0029-8018 doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.108295

  2020

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Klingaman, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303, Hodges, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X and Guo, Y.-P. (2020) Western North Pacific tropical cyclones in the Met Office Global Seasonal Forecast System: performance and ENSO teleconnections. Journal of Climate, 33 (24). pp. 10489-10504. ISSN 1520-0442 doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0255.1

  Guo, Y.-P., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Klingaman, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303 and Tan, Z.-M. (2020) Impact of Indo-Pacific warm pool Hadley circulation on the seasonal forecast performance for summer precipitation over the western North Pacific. Environmental Research Letters, 15 (10). ISSN 1748-9326 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aba97c

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Klingaman, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303, Zhang, S. and Guo, L. (2020) Building sustainable science partnerships between early-career researchers to better understand and predict East Asia water cycle extremes. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101 (6). E785-E789. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0039.1

  2019

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Klingaman, N. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2927-9303 and Hodges, K. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-229X (2019) The effect of atmosphere-ocean coupling on the prediction of 2016 western North Pacific tropical cyclones. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 145 (723). pp. 2425-2444. ISSN 1477-870X doi: 10.1002/qj.3571

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Cheng, Y. (2019) Observing sea levels in the China seas from satellite altimetry. In: Barale, V. and Gade, M. (eds.) Remote Sensing of the Asian Seas. Springer, pp. 321-338. ISBN 978-3-319-94067-0 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-94067-0_18

  Storto, A., Bonaduce, A., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Yang, C. (2019) Steric sea level changes from ocean reanalyses at global and regional scales. Water, 11 (10). 1987. ISSN 2073-4441 doi: 10.3390/w11101987

  2018

  Buizza, R., Brönnimann, S., Haimberger, L., Laloyaux, P., Martin, M. J., Fuentes, M., Alonso-Balmaseda, M., Becker, A., Blaschek, M., Dahlgren, P., de Boisseson, E., Dee, D., Doutriaux-Boucher, M., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, John, V., Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Jourdain, S., Kosaka, Y., Lea, D., Lemarié, F., Mayer, M., Messina, P., Perruche, C., Peylin, P., Pullainen, J., Rayner, N., Rustemeier, E., Schepers, D., Saunders, R., Schulz, J., Sterin, A., Stichelberger, S., Storto, A., Testut, C.-E., Valente, M.-A., Vidard, A., Vuichard, N., Weaver, A., While, J. and Ziese, M. (2018) The EU-FP7 ERA-CLIM2 project contribution to advancing science and production of Earth-system climate reanalyses. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (5). pp. 1003-1014. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0199.1

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374, Liu, C., de Boisséson, E. and Polo, I. (2018) Improved SST-precipitation intraseasonal relationships in the ECMWF coupled climate reanalysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (8). pp. 3664-3672. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: 10.1029/2018GL077138

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Haines, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2374 and Boisseson, E. (2018) Coupling of surface air and sea surface temperatures in the CERA-20C reanalysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144 (710). pp. 195-207. ISSN 0035-9009 doi: 10.1002/qj.3194

  2017

  Zhang, H., Cheng, W., Qiu, X., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Gong, W. (2017) Tide-surge interaction along the east coast of the Leizhou Peninsula, South China Sea. Continental Shelf Research, 142. pp. 32-49. ISSN 0278-4343 doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2017.05.015

  2016

  Martínez-Asensio, A., Marcos, M., Tsimplis, M. N., Jorda, G., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Gomis, D. (2016) On the ability of statistical wind-wave models to capture the variability and long-term trends of the North Atlantic winter wave climate. Ocean Modelling, 103. pp. 177-189. ISSN 1463-5003 doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2016.02.006

  Martínez-Asensio, A., Tsimplis, M. N., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Marcos, M., Gomis, D., Jordà, G. and Josey, S. A. (2016) Response of the North Atlantic wave climate to atmospheric modes of variability. International Journal of Climatology, 36 (3). pp. 1210-1225. ISSN 0899-8418 doi: 10.1002/joc.4415

  2015

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Tsimplis, M. N., Marcos, M., Calalfat, F. M., Zheng, J., Jorda, G. and Cipollini, P. (2015) Spatial and temporal variations of the seasonal sea level cycle in the northwest Pacific. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120 (10). pp. 7091-7112. ISSN 2169-9291 doi: 10.1002/2015JC011154

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Tsimplis, M. N. and Woodworth, P. L. (2015) Nodal variations and long-term changes in the main tides on the coasts of China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120 (2). pp. 1215-1232. ISSN 2169-9291 doi: 10.1002/2014JC010312

  2014

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X and Tsimplis, M. N. (2014) Sea level extremes at the coasts of China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119 (3). pp. 1593-1608. ISSN 2169-9291 doi: 10.1002/2013JC009607

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Tsimplis, M.N., Yelland, M.J. and Quartly, G.D. (2014) Changes in significant and maximum wave heights in the Norwegian Sea. Global and Planetary Change, 113. pp. 68-76. ISSN 0921-8181 doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.12.010

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Tsimplis, M.N., Quartly, G.D. and Yelland, M.J. (2014) Wave height analysis from 10 years of observations in the Norwegian Sea. Continental Shelf Research, 72. pp. 47-56. ISSN 0278-4343 doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.10.013

  2013

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Shaw, A. G. P. and Zhang, W. (2013) Study on reverse calculation for unidirectional waves from shallow water. Journal of Coastal Research, 65. pp. 219-224. ISSN 0749-0208 (Special Issue)

  2012

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Zheng, J. and Yan, Y. (2012) Wave spectra assimilation in typhoon wave modeling for the East China Sea. Coastal Engineering, 69. pp. 29-41. ISSN 0378-3839 doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2012.05.007

  Parada, J., Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Hauerhof, E., Suzuki, R. and Abubakar, U. (2012) The deep sea energy park: harvesting hydrothermal energy for seabed exploration. In: The deep sea energy park: harvesting hydrothermal energy for seabed exploration. University of Southampton, Southampton. ISBN 9780854329519

  2011

  Feng, X. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-107X, Yan, Y.-x. and Zhang, W. (2011) Application of two-dimensional wavelet transform in near-shore X-band radar images. Journal of Hydrodynamics Series B, 23 (2). pp. 179-186. ISSN 1001-6058 doi: 10.1016/S1001-6058(10)60102-3

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