First prize of 2004 Beijing Science & Technology Progress Award
First prize of 2006 China Meteorological Administration Scientific & Technological Achievements Award

Sept. 1994 - Jul. 1998 B.S. in Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China
Sept. 1998-June 2001 M.S. in Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China

Jul.2001-June 2006  Research Assistant in Meteorology, Beijing Meteorological Service
Jul. 2006-Oct. 2013   Associate Professor in Meteorology, National Climate Center
Nov.2013-Present    Professor, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration.

1. Climate monitoring and evaluation of climate extremes
2. Climate application
3. Climate resource assessment

1. “Key technology of climate effect analysis and evaluation for Three Gorges Reservoir”, a project supported by China Special Fund for Meteorology (Grant No. GYHY201306023).
2. “Objective quantitative assessment technology of regional rainstorm process with intensity”, a project supported by China Special Fund for Meteorological Service (Grant No. JCZX2020024).
3. “Study of the influence of Three Gorges Reservoir impoundment on local climate and its mechanism”, a project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41105053).

1. Zou Xukai, Chen Xianyan, et al. (2019). “State of the climate over the Three Gorges Region of the Yangtze River in 2018.” Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, 13(1), 48-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/16742834.2020.1693879
2. Chen Xianyan, Mei Mei, Ding Yihui, et al. (2015). “The impacts of climate change on several major projects in China (in Chinese).” Advances in Climate Change Research, 11(5), 337-342.
3. Chen Xianyan, Song Lianchun, et al. (2013). “Climate change over the Three Gorge Reservoir and Upper Yangtze with its possible effect (in Chinese).” Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin, 22(11), 1466-1471.
4. Chen Xianyan, Zhou Bing, Zhong Hailing, et al. (2014). “Climate characteristics of the 2011 spring drought in the mid-lower Yangtze Basin (in Chinese).” Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin, 23(1), 39-145.
5. Chen Xianyan, Zhang Qiang, Ye Dianxiu, et al. (2009). “Regional climate change over Three Gorges Reservoir Area (in Chinese).” Resources and Environment in the Yangtze Basin, 18(1), 47-51.
6. Chen Yu, Chen Xianyan, and Ren Guoyu (2011). “Variation of extreme precipitation over large river basins in China.” Advances in Climate Change Research, 2(2), 108-118.
7. Chen Xianyan, Liao Yaoming, and Zhang Qiang. Ecological and Environmental Monitoring System of the Three Gorges Project (in Chinese). Beijing: China Meteorological Press, 2011.