My research focuses on paleoclimate data assimilation (PDA), climate field reconstruction, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with data assimilation. I am currently working on climate reconstructions of the Last Millennium to improve our understanding of climate variability and dynamics across multiple timescales.

Themes: Paleoclimate DAEnsemble DA Deep Learning

In Preparation

Multi-timescale Localization for Paleoclimate Data Assimilation
Haohao Sun, Lili Lei, Zhe-Min Tan, Liang Ning, and Zhengyu Liu
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 2026 Multi-scale DAEnsemble DA

Selected Publications

An Ensemble Kalman Smoother for Online Paleoclimate Data Assimilation
Haohao Sun, Lili Lei, Zhe-Min Tan, Liang Ning, and Zhengyu Liu
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 2026 Paleoclimate DAOnline AssimilationDeep LearningEnsemble Smoothing

Strongly Coupled Data Assimilation for Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using Deep Learning-Based Models
Lili Lei, Haohao Sun, Zhe-Min Tan, Liang Ning, and Zhengyu Liu
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 2026 Paleoclimate DACoupled DADeep Learning

An Online Paleoclimate Data Assimilation with a Deep Learning-Based Network
Haohao Sun, Lili Lei, Zhengyu Liu, Liang Ning, and Zhe-Min Tan
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 2025 Paleoclimate DAOnline AssimilationDeep Learning

A Hybrid Gain Analog Offline EnKF for Paleoclimate Data Assimilation
Haohao Sun, Lili Lei, Zhengyu Liu, Liang Ning, and Zhe-Min Tan
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 2024 Paleoclimate DA Offline Assimilation Hybrid DA

An Analog Offline EnKF for Paleoclimate Data Assimilation
Haohao Sun, Lili Lei, Zhengyu Liu, Liang Ning, and Zhe-Min Tan
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 2022 Paleoclimate DA Offline AssimilationAnalog Ensemble

The importance of data assimilation components for initial conditions and subsequent error growth
Zhongrui Wang*, Haohao Sun*, Lili Lei, and Zhe-Min Tan
Science China Earth Sciences, 2023 Ensemble DA

* Denotes joint authorship.

Academic Service

Reviewer, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), 2026
Reviewer, Atmospheric Science Letters (ASL), 2025