Research interests
•Remote sensing of cloud and aerosol properties
• Aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions
• Light scattering by atmospheric cloud particles and aerosols
•Radiative transfer in cloudy atmosphere
•Water vapor and cloud radiative feedback
Education
- Ph D, Atmospheric Sciences — Texas A&M University (2008)
- MS, Atmospheric Sciences — Texas A&M University (2004)
- BS, Atmospheric Sciences — Nanjing University (2001)
Publications
- A Novel Retrieval of Global Dust Optical Depth and Effective Diameter Based on Modis Thermal Infrared Observations 2025
- Developing a Lagrangian Frame Transformation on Satellite Data to Study Cloud Microphysical Transitions in Arctic Marine Cold Air Outbreaks 2025
- A novel method for estimating shortwave direct radiative effect of above-cloud aerosols using CALIOP and MODIS data 2014
- On the influence of cloud fraction diurnal cycle and sub-grid cloud optical thickness variability on all-sky direct aerosol radiative forcing 2014
- Influence of the Three-dimensional Radiative Effects on Cloud Droplet Number Concentration Retrievals and their impacts on Aerosol Cloud Interaction Analysis
Presentations
- Developing Advanced Cloud Retrievals for PACE: Building a Joint Spectro-Polarimetric Cloud Microphysics Retrieval 2024
- Understanding the microphysical control and variability of warm rain 2023
- Shortwave Direct Radiative Effect (DRE) of Above-cloud Aerosols (ACA) based on 6 years of CALIOP and MODIS observations 2014
- Shortwave Direct Radiative Effect (DRE) of Above-cloud Aerosols (ACA) based on 6 years of CALIOP and MODIS observations 2014
Grants and Contracts
- Deepening Our Understanding of Cloud Microphysics Based on PACE Retrievals with A Special Focus on Cloud Droplet Effective Variance 2025
- Advancement of PACE polarimetric and spectral cloud retrieval algorithms of OCI and HARP-2 2024
- Remote sensing of cloud properties using PACE SPEXone and HARP-2 2020
- Retrieval Studies in Support of Cloud Property Products 2014
- Investigating how Cloud Horizontal Structure and 3-D Radiative Transfer Affect Passive Remote Sensing of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds: An Integrated Study Using NASA Field Campaign Data and Large-Eddy Simulation 2014
- Using Modis, Aster,CloudSat and Large-eddy 2014
- Quantification of Shortwave Direct Radiative Effects of Above-cloud Aerosols 2014