RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE

Research Interests & Expertise:

	Cloud dynamics and microphysics
	Mesoscale modeling and model development
	Microphysics parameterization in atmospheric models
	Air pollutant transport

Brief Research Experience:

	My academic activities are devoted to the numerical model development
and simulation of cloud and mesoscale weather systems. With over 10 years 
numerical modelling experience in cloud dynamics and microphysics, mesoscale 
meteorology, and transportation of air pollutants, about eighteen papers have
been published or presented in international scientific conferences in these 
fields.
	From 1989 to 1991 during my doctoral degree work, I designed and 
developed a 3D numerical cloud model with fully elastic, nonhydrostatic i
dynamics, parameterized PBL, and detail microphysics processes. A large number
of simulations based on the model had been made to investigate the influences 
of ice-phase processes, different underlying surfaces, and ambient wind shear 
on the evolution, propagation, and precipitation of various types of convective
storms. The most important achievement from these research works is to reveal 
numerically that the ice phase microphysics in clouds tends to produce more 
intensive modeling storms and, under some favorate condition, even alters their
dynamic structures and life cycle, with the implication of the significant 
importance of the inclusion of ice phase processes in cloud and mesoscale 
models.
	In 1992 and 1993, the cloud model has been modified to contain 
prognostic equations of different solubility air pollutants, and used to 
simulate the vertical transport of gases pollutants by convective clouds. 
The simulations show that deep convective storms play a key role in quick 
transport of high concentrated pollutant gas from PBL upward to the mid and 
upper troposphere in half hour time scale, and in dilution of the low level 
concentration, suggesting the necessity of parameterizing the convective 
transport process in long-range transport models.
	From 1994 to 1996, being a research associate (post-doctoral fellowship)
at the Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, my 
research, extending into mesoscale area, focus on the effects of deep 
convections on the explosive deepening of the Atlantic marine cyclones, by using
the Canadian Mesoscale Compressible Community (MC2) Model. During this work, 
a highly efficient explicit microphysics scheme has been developed for the 
national mesoscale model's mainframe, with very encouraging performance on 
simulations of both the mesoscale structures of extratropical cyclones and the 
evolution and precipitation of continental mesoscale convection systems (MCS).
	From 1997 to 2001, joined the CMRP (Coastal Meteorology Research 
Program) group at the University of Oklahoma as a Research Scientist. The major
task is to  improve the coastal weather prediction with Navy COAMPS model. Since
2002,  join CAPS (Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms) working on storm
scale ensemble forecast study and QPF verification study.
 	Strong computer background include experience on various workstations 
(such as IBM, SGI, and DEC Alpha), and high performace computing platforms such
as Linux clusters, and PCs as well, and skillful use of FORTRAN language and 
UNIX/Linux system, MSDOS and Windows 2000/XP, and working knowledge of C/C++ 
language.