Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3150
Tel: 979-845-4923, Fax: 979-862-4466
Email: pyang@ariel.met.tamu.edu
Ph.D., 1995, Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, Utah, U.S.A.
M.S., 1988, Atmospheric Physics,
Lanzhou Institute of Plateau Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science,
Lanzhou, China
B.S., 1985, Theoretical Physics, Lanzhou University,
Lanzhou, China
Associate Professor,
09/2005-present, Dept. of
Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
Assistant Professor,
09/2001-08/2005, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University
Associate Research Scientist, 03/2001-09/2001, Goddard
Earth Sciences and Technology Center, University of Maryland Baltimore County,
Baltimore, Maryland
Research Scientist, 01/1999-02/2001, Science and System
Application, Inc. Lanham, Maryland (worked on-site in code 913, NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland)
Assistant Research Scientist, 12/1997-01/1999, Department
of Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles
Research Associate, 01/1996-11/1997, Department of
Meteorology/Center for Atmospheric Remote Sensing Study, University of Utah
¥ Best Paper Award, Climate and Radiation
Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, 2000
¥ National Science Foundation
(NSF) CAREER Award, 2003
¥ NASA Group Achievement Award to
CRYSTAL-FACE Science Team, 2003
¥ DeanÕs
Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty Research, College of Geosciences,
Texas A&M University, 2004.
Associate
Editor: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (01/2004- present)
Associate
Editor: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer (term: 01/2007-12/2008)
¥
Member of American Geophysical Union
¥
Member of the Optical Society of America
¥
Member of American Meteorology Society
Panelist, Program Committee Chair/Member, Science Team
member
¥ Panelist of the NASA New Investigator Program (NIP) Panel, April 11-13, 2006, Greenbelt, Maryland.
¥ Panelist of the NASA Energy Budget & Radiative Transfer sub panel of the Energy Balance & Atmospheric Composition Panel of the Earth Observing System Re-competition, August 6-7, 2003, Washington, D.C.
¥ Chair of Program Committee,
Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of Environment Topical Meeting sponsored by
the Optical Society of America (OSA) January 31-February 3, 2005, Alexandria,
Virginia, U.S.A.
¥ Chair of Program Committee,
Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of Environment Topical Meeting sponsored by
the Optical Society of America (OSA), to be held, February 12-15, 2007, Santa
Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.
¥ Convener and Chairperson of an AGU session: Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer: Basic Research and Applications, AGU 2006-Fall Meeting to be held, 11-15 December, 2006, San Francisco.
¥ One of two organizers (Ping
Yang and Warren J. Wiscombe) of a session entitled ÒScattering and Radiative
Transfer: Basic Research and ApplicationsÓ for the Progress in Electromagnetics
Research Symposium (PIERS), 22-26 August 2005Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
¥ Member of Program (AE101) committee of SPIEÕs 3rd international Asia-Pacific Symposium on remote sensing of the atmosphere, environment, and space. 23-27, October, 2002, Hangzhou, China.
¥ Member of Program (AM107) committee of SPIEÕs Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data processing and utilization: an end-to-end system perspective, Denver, Colorado, 2-6, August, 2004.
¥ Member of Program (AE101)
Committee in SPIE's Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ocean, Environment and
Space 2004 (Honolulu, Hawaii, November 8-12, 2004).
¥ Member of NASA MODIS Science Team (April, 2004-present)
Completed Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations
Completed
Graduate StudentsÕ MasterÕs Degree Theses:
¥ Kerry Meyer, M.S.
Thesis entitled ÒThe Study of Cirrus Clouds Using Airborne and Satellite DATAÓ.
Thesis defense: March 9, 2004.
¥ Zhibo Zhang, M.S.
Thesis entitled ÒComputation of the Scattering Properties of Nonspherical
CrystalsÓ. Thesis defense: June 4, 2004.
¥ Jacqueline Kinney, M.S. Thesis entitled ÒRetrieval
of Optical and Microphyiscal Properties of Ice Clouds Using Atmospheric
Radiation Measurement (ARM) DataÓ. Thesis defense: June 14, 2005.
¥ Ryan Lawless, M.S. Thesis entitled ÒSensitivity of the
Mueller Matrix to the Optical and Microphysical Properties of Cirrus Clouds.Ó
Thesis defense: June 15, 2005.
¥ Christopher Yost,
M.S. Thesis entitled ÒUse of AIRS
and MODIS Thermal Infrared Channels to Retrieve Ice Cloud Properties.Ó Thesis
defense: September 29, 2006.
Completed
Graduate StudentsÕ Ph.D. Dissertations:
¥ Peng-Wang Zhai, Ph.D.
dissertation entitled ÒA Forth-Order Symplectic FDTD Method for Light
Scattering and A 3D Monte Carlo Code for Radiative Transfer in Scattering
SystemsÓ. Dissertation defense: May 16, 2006 (co-advised by Drs. George
Kattawar and Ping Yang).
¥ Yong-Keun Lee, Ph.D.
dissertation entitled ÒStudy of Cloud Properties from Single-Scattering,
Radiative Forcing, and Retrieval PerspectivesÓ. Dissertation defense, May 24,
2006.
Current Graduate Students (Chair or co-chair)
Kerry Meyer Ph.D. (Chair) in
progress
Yu You (Dept.
of Physics) Ph.D.
(Co-Chair) in progress
Guang Chen Ph.D. (Chair) in
progress
Zhibo Zhang Ph.D. (Chair) in
progress
Joonsuk Lee Ph.D. (Chair) in
progress
Qian Feng Ph.D. (Chair) in
progress
Lei Bi (Dept.
of Physics) Ph.D. (Co-Chair) in progress
Yu Xie M.S. (Chair) in
progress
Kevin Garrett M.S. (Chair) in progress
Graduate Students (Committee Member)
Changhui
Li (Dept. of Physics) Ph.D. August
2006
Joshua
Santarpia Ph.D. May
2005
Yong-Seob
Lee Ph.D. May
2005
Kyoung-Wook
Jin Ph.D. May
2006
Dylan
Copeland (Dept. of Mathematics) Ph.D. May
2006
Kelsey
Sippel, M.S. August
2006
Stephanie
Grounds M.S. in
progress
Research Staff (Support or
Supervisory Role)
Dr. Jiangguo Niu, Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2/2004-present
Dr. Guang Hong, Postdoctoral Research Associate/Research
Associate, 3/2005-present
Dr. Guang Guo, Postdoctoral Research Associate, 5/2002-7/2004
Mr. Heli Wei, Research Associate/Senior Research Associate,
4/2002-3/2005
Visiting Scientist
Sponsored/Hosted
Prof. Lei Zhang
Associate Dean
College of Atmospheric Sciences,
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China,
Period of scientific visit to Texas A&M: 9/2005-5/2006.
Undergraduate Advisor
Academic advisor for several undergraduate students majoring in atmospheric sciences.
METR-335 (Atmospheric Thermodynamics), Spring 2002
ATMO-612 (Atmospheric Physics II), Spring 2003
ATMO-446 (Physical Meteorology), Fall 2003
ATMO-612 (Atmospheric Physics II), Spring 2004
ATMO-446 (Physical Meteorology),
Spring 2005
ATMO-612 (Atmospheric Physics II),
Spring 2005
ATMO-655 (Satellite Data in
Meteorology), Fall 2005
ATMO-612 (Atmospheric Physics II)
, Spring 2006
ATMO-655 (Satellite Data in
Meteorology), Fall 2006
¥ Chair,
Undergraduate Committee, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, 2005-present
¥ Co-Chair,
Teaching Committee, Dept. of Atmospheric
Sciences, 2006-present
¥ Member,
Curriculum Committee, College of Geosciences, 2005-present
¥ Member,
Budget Committee, Dept. of Atmospheric
Sciences, 2005-
¥ Member,
Graduate Committee, Dept. of Atmospheric
Sciences, 2001-2005
¥ Departmental
Seminar coordinator, Spring, 2003 and Fall, 2005
¥ Co-Chair,
Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, 2004
External Services
¥ Reviewer for:
J. of Atmos. Sci.
J. Appl.
Meteor.
J. Climate
J. Geophys. Res.
Geophy. Res. Lett.
Appl. Opt.
J. Opt. Soc.
Amer. A
Optics Letter
Optics Express
Optical Engineering
J. Quant.
Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer
IEEE Trans.
Geosci. Remote Sens.
IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Letter
Medical Physics
Atmos. Chem. Phys.
Atmos. Res.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc.
Appl.
Spectroscopy
J. of
Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
¥ Reviewer of numerous
proposals for NSF, NASA, DOE and NERC (Natural Environmental Research Council,
United Kingdom)
¥ External Evaluator for Promotion
of NCAR Scientist III
Book Chapters
[Book Chapter -- 1]:
Yang, P.,
and K. N. Liou, 2000: Finite difference time domain method for light scattering
by nonspherical particles. Chapter 7 in Light scattering by nonspherical
particles: theory, measurements, and geophysical applications, Eds. M. I. Mishchenko, J. W. Hovenier, and L. D. Travis,
Academic Press, pp.173-221.
[Book Chapter -- 2]:
Liou, K.
N., Y. Takano, and P. Yang, 2000: Light scattering and radiative transfer
by ice crystal clouds: Applications to climate research. Chapter 15 in Light
scattering by nonspherical particles: theory, measurements, and geophysical
applications, Eds., M. I. Mishchenko,
J. W. Hovenier, and L. D. Travis, Academic Press, pp.417-449.
[Book-chapter --3]:
Liou, K.
N., Y. Takano, P. Yang, and Y. Gu, 2001: Radiative transfer in cirrus clouds:
Light scattering and spectral information, in Cirrus, Eds. D.
Lynch, K. Sassen, D. O. Starr, and G. Stephens. Oxford University Press, New
York, pp. 265-296
[Book Chapter -- 4]:
Yang, P.
and B. A. Baum, 2002: Satellite remote sensing of cloud properties, in Encyclopedia
of Atmospheric Sciences, Eds. J.
Holton, J. A. Curry, and J. Pyle, Academic Press, pp. 1955-1965.
[Book Chapter -- 5]:
Yang, P.
and K. N. Liou, 2006: Light Scattering and Absorption by Nonspherical Ice
Crystals, in Light Scattering Reviews: Single and Multiple Light
Scattering, Ed. A. Kokhanovsky,
Springer-Praxis Publishing, Chichester, UK, 31-71.
[Book Chapter -- 6]:
Lu, J. Q., R. S. Brock, P. Yang, and X.-H. Hu, 2006: Modeling of
Light Scattering by Single Red Blood Cells With the FDTD Method, invited
chapter in Optics of Biological Particles, to be published by Springer in 2006.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers
(* Denotes work involving a graduate
student, a postdoctoral or a research staff member when they were/are in Texas
A&M University)
2006 (25 papers)
*[Peer-reviewed paper -- 99]:
*Niu,
J., P. Yang, H. Huang, J. Davis, J. Li, B. Baum and Y. Hu, 2007: A fast
infrared radiative transfer model for overlapping clouds, J. Quant. Spectros. Rad.
Transfer, 103,
447-459.
*[Peer-reviewed paper -- 98]:
Carey, L. D., *J. Niu, P. Yang, J. A. Kankiewicz, and T. H. Vonder
Haar, and
V. E. Larson, A typical vertical propfile of liquid and ice water content in
mid-latitude mixed-phase clouds, Geophys. Res. Lett., (submitted).
*[Peer-reviewed paper -- 97]:
*Zhang, Z., P. Yang, G. W. Kattawar, H.-L. Huang, T. Greenwald, J.
Li, B. A. Baum, D. K. Zhou, and Y. X. Hu, 2006: A fast infrared radiative transfer model based on the adding-doubling
method for hyperspectral remote sensing applications, J. Quant. Spectros.
Rad. Transfer, (submitted).
*[Peer-reviewed paper -- 96]:
*Zhang, Z., P. Yang, G. W. Kattawar, and W. J. Wiscombe, 2006: Single-scattering properties of Platonic solids in
Geometric-Optics regime,
J. Quant. Spectros. Rad. Transfer, (submitted).
*[Peer-reviewed paper -- 95]:
*You, Y, G. W. Kattawar, *C. Li, and P. Yang, 2006: Internal dipole radiation as a tool for particle identification, Appl. Opt., (subm