Dr. FAN Chengyan

Dr. FAN Chengyan 范成彦

Supervisor: Prof. LIU Lin

Room 308, 3/F, Mong Man Wai Building
Dr. FAN Chengyan

Education

2020 - 2025 Ph.D. Earth System Science Lanzhou University
2018 - 2020 M.Sc. Physical Geography Lanzhou University
2014 - 2018 B.Sc. Geographic Information Science Lanzhou University

Academic Employments

2025 - present Research Assistant, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2023 - 2024 Junior Research Assistant, Earth and Environmental Sciences Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields and Current Research Interests

  • InSAR
  • Permafrost
  • Ground Ice

Representative Publications

2025 Fan, C., Mu, C., Liu, L., Zhang, T., Jia, S., Wang, S., Sun, W., Zhao, Z., 2025. Time-series models for ground subsidence and heave over permafrost in InSAR processing: a comprehensive assessment and new improvement. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 222, 167–185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.02.019
2025 Fan, C., Liu, L., Zhao, Z., Mu, C., 2025. Pronounced underestimation of surface deformation due to unwrapping errors over tibetan plateau permafrost by sentinel-1 InSAR: identification and correction. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. 130, e2024JF007854. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF007854
2025 Sun, Z., Liu, L., Fan, C., Hu, Y., Baldacchino, F., Bhattacharya, A., Wood, E., Bolch, T., 2025. Unveiling large-scale velocity characteristics of rock glaciers in the tibet-pamir-karakoram region using InSAR. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 142, 104733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104733
2025 Mu, C., Lei, P., Mu, M., Zhang, C., Zhou, Z., Song, J., Jia, Y., Fan, C., Peng, X., Zhang, G., Yang, Y., Wang, L., Li, D., Song, C., Wang, G., Zhang, Z., 2025. Methane emissions from thermokarst lakes must emphasize the ice-melting impact on the Tibetan Plateau. Nature Communications. 16, 2404. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57745-2
2022 Xia, Z., Huang, L., Fan, C., Jia, S., Lin, Z., Liu, L., Luo, J., Niu, F., Zhang, T., 2022. Retrogressive thaw slumps along the Qinghai–Tibet Engineering Corridor: a comprehensive inventory and their distribution characteristics. Earth System Science Data.14, 3875–3887. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3875-2022

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