Title: Applications of Radiative Transfer Calculations to Satellite Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere
Time: 2:30 pm on January 12, 2010
Venue: Meeting Room on the Second Floor, Zutong Building

Speaker: Professor Yang Ping

Speaker Profile: In 1995, Professor Yang Ping got the doctorate in meteorology in University of Utah, USA. Now he is the professor in Department of Atmospheric Science and Department of Physics and Astronomy, of Texas A & M University, USA. He is engaged in the studies in Atmospheric Radiation Transmission Characteristics, Light Scattering Properties, Cloud Properties Simulation and Inversion Cloud Properties of Remote Sensing Spectral Data. He has published more than 130 papers and participated in editing 3 monographs: Weather Climatology, Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, and Atmospheric Science.

Summary: The report will introduce theoretical principles of Simulated Atmospheric Single and Multiple Scattering Processes. And then it will discuss the latest progress of optical performance calculation of the irregular particles (such as ice crystal, dust aerosol) and the applications of Radiative Transfer Simulation (including Scattering Calculation) to satellite remote sensor. The report will focus on the research of Inversion Cloud Properties in the direction of Earth’s Reflectivity, Polarization (POLDER) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and the new progress in the research of Cloud Strength.