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People > Tenure/Tenure-Track Faculty > Xianglei Huang

Xianglei Huang

Professor

Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

1533 Climate and Space Research Building

Climate & Space Research Building University of Michigan 2455 Hayward Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143

xianglei@umich.edu

(734) 936-0491

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Education Teaching Research Interests Biography Professional Service Awards Publications

Education:

Ph.D. (2004) , M.S. (2000), Planetary Science (minor in Applied Computation), California Institute of Technology,

B.S. (1997), Atmospheric Physics and Environmental Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China

Teaching: ^top

CLIMATE/SPACE 380 Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation
CLIMATE/SPACE 532 Radiative Transfer
CLIMATE/SPACE586 Advanced Data Analysis

Research Interests: ^top

  • Radiative transfer and its applications in both climate modeling and remote sensing
  • Diagnostic analysis of satellite observations and climate simulations
  • Cloud-radiation-climate interactions
  • High-latitude surface-atmosphere radiative coupling

Biography: ^top

Being trained at Caltech/JPL for Ph.D. and Princeton/GFDL for the postdoc, Prof. Huang has balanced expertise in space-borne observations and climate modeling. He is specialized in (1) atmospheric radiation and its application in both satellite remote sensing and climate modeling, (2) spectrally resolved measurements and its application in climate studies, (3) cloud-radiation-climate interactions, (4) radiation budgets and radiative couplings between atmosphere and surface.

Prof. Huang regularly teaches atmospheric radiation for upper-division undergraduates and for graduate students. He also teaches climate data analysis, a course tailored for analyzing large spatiotemporal datasets with strong correlational structures.

Professional Service: ^top

  • Chair, AMS Atmospheric Radiation Committee (since 01/2019)
  • Editor, Journal of Climate, AMS (since 07/2018)
  • Member of AMS Atmospheric Radiation Committee (2018)
  • Member of AMS Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology Committee (2016-2018)
  • Co-Chair of Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of Environment Conference 2015 sponsored by Optical Society of American
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Climate, AMS (2011-2018)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, AMS (2007-2016)
  • Panelist of various programs of NASA Rearth Opportunity in Space and Earth Sciences, 2009, 2010, 2014
  • Panelist of DoE Merit Review Panel and Scientific Focus Area Review Panel, 2012, 2015
  • Reviewers for leading journals including Nature Geoscience, J. Climate, J. Atmospheric Sciences, etc.
  • Conveners and Chairs for AGU Fall meeting and AOGS annual meetings.

Awards: ^top

  • Co-Investigator of Libera, the first Earth Venture Continuity mission by NASA
  • Co-Investigator of PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment), an Earth Venture mission by NASA.
  • Co-Investigator of FORUM ( The Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring), a phase-A mission study for the ninth Earth Explorer mission by ESA.
  • Recipient of NASA Langley’s 2015 Henry J.E. Reid Award
  • Winner of inaugural Amazon Climate Research Grant
  • AGU Research Spotlight on our study of the impacts of cloud overlapping assumptions on spectral fingerprinting results.
  • Science Definition Team membership for the CLARREO mission, NASA
  • Highlighted on Geophysical Research Letters on our research of the radiative effect of TTL cirrus on tropospheric-stratospheric transport has been

Publications: ^top

The full list of peer-reviewed journal publications can be found at here.

Other peer-reviewed publications

  1. R Goody and X Huang, 2015, Absorption and Thermal Emission. In: Gerald R. North (editor-in-chief), John Pyle and Fuqing Zhang (editors). Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 5, pp. 5–12. ISBN: 9780123822253
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