First US-China Symposium on Meteorology: Mesoscale Meteorology and Data Assimilation

February 26-28, 2008

National Weather Center

Norman, Oklahoma U.S.A.

Keynote Speaker Bios

Dr. Huizhi Liu
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science

Huizhi LIU graduated from geophysical department, Peking University in 1992(for bachlor and master degree) and graduated from the graduate school of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing in 1998(Ph D degree). He has been working in Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), CAS since 1992. He was the scientific researcher of state key laboratory of atmospheric boundary layer physics and atmospheric chemistry (LAPC), IAP, CAS, 1992-. Also, he is the concurrent professor; graduate school of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006-. Professor Liu Huizhi's main areas of research interest are: Atmospheric Boundary layer Physics, Micrometeorology, Field experiment on the land surface-atmosphere interaction processes, Urban wind environment and urban micro-climate; and Meso-scale Meteorological Modeling. He has published about 40 papers.

Dr. Robert Houze
University of Washington

Professor Houze received his B.S. in Meteorology from Texas A&M University in 1967. He attended graduate school Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his Master's in 1969 and Ph.D. 1972. He joined the faculty of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 1972 and was promoted to full Professor of Atmospheric Sciences in 1982. In 1988-89 he was Guest Professor in the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. In 1996 he was Houghton Lecturer at the Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2006 he was Thompson Lecturer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He has published about 200 research articles and has written a graduate textbook entitled Cloud Dynamics.
In 1982, Professor Houze was awarded both the American Meteorological Society's Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award for his research and the Society's Editor's award for his reviews of papers for the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. In 1989 he won the NOAA Environmental Research Laboratories' Distinguished Author's Award. In 2002, he was designated as a "Highly Cited Researcher" by the Institute of Scientific Information, publisher of the Science Citation Index.
In 2006, Professor Houze received the American Meteorological Society's Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, which is the highest honor that the Society can bestow on an atmospheric scientist. He has been a member of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Science (TRMM) team since 1985. He has participated in thirteen field observational programs, including the Global Atmospheric Research Programme's Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) in 1974, the Mesoscale Alpine Program (MAP) in 1999, and the Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX) in 2005. The RAINEX experiment featured flights in Hurricanes Katrina a Rita. His current research focuses hurricanes, mesoscale convective systems, and orographic precipitation. His recent papers include a review paper on mesoscsale convective systems in Reviews of Geophysics (2004), a review on orographic precipitation (with R. Rotunno, 2007) and an article in Science on hurricane eyewall replacement.

Dr. Richard Rotunno
National Center for Atmospheric Research

Richard Rotunno received a Ph. D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Princeton University in 1976. He has spent most of the past 31 years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, where he has been a Senior Scientist since 1989. He has worked on the fluid dynamics of atmospheric flows, in particular tornadoes, rotating thunderstorms (supercells), convective systems (squall lines), hurricanes, polar lows, midlatitude cyclones and fronts, density-stratified flow past mountains, sea breezes, and variety of related problems such as the dynamics of density currents, vortex stability and atmospheric predictability. Through a combination of theory and numerical modeling, his work is directed at the understanding needed to make progress in the forecasting of mesoscale weather phenomena. In 2004 he was the recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Jule G. Charney Award.

Academician Rongsheng Wu
Nanjing University

Academician Rongsheng Wu graduated from The Department of Meteorology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 1956. He has been a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Nanjing University since 1985. He has been the Honorary President for the Chinese Meteorological Society since 2006 and was President for the Chinese Meteorological Society from 2002 to 2006. He has been an Academician of Chinese Academy Sciences since 1999.
Wu's research areas include Atmospheric dynamics andMeso-scale dynamics, Planetary boundary layer dynamics, and Atmospheric wave dynamics.
Wu has published more than 100 Papers and 6 books in atmospheric dynamics.

Dr. Jiang Zhu
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Jiang Zhu is a senior scientist at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently he also serves as deputy director of IAP. He got his PhD from Lancaster University, UK in the field of Mathematics in 1991. Since then he has been working on data assimilation with applications to oceanography and atmospheric environment. He leads a group that is developing data assimilation systems of global weather forecast, coastal ocean forecast and regional air quality forecast for different national agencies. His current research interest is ensemble methods.

Dr. Chris Snyder
National Center for Atmospheric Research

Chris Snyder received a B.S. in Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. He spent the next two years as a fellow in the Advanced Study Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He has continued at NCAR since that time, becoming a Senior Scientist in 2004.
Dr. Snyder was a visiting scientist at the Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques in Toulouse, France, In 1994 and at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, California, in 2005. He is an editor of Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.
Dr. Snyder was active in testing adaptive observing strategies during the Fronts and Atlantic Storm Tracks Experiment in 1995. His research interests lie in atmospheric dynamics, including cyclones, fronts and the interaction of balanced flows and inertia-gravity waves; data assimilation, particularly Monte Carlo or ensemble-based techniques for the mesoscale; and atmospheric predictability.

Dr. Shuyi Chen
University of Miami

Shuyi S. Chen is a Professor of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at the Rosenthal School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) of the University of Miami. She served as an Editor for Weather and Forecasting journal of the American Meteorological Society.
Professor Chen is a widely published author whose research interests include mesoscale and tropical meteorology, air-sea interactions, high-resolution coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean modeling of tropical cyclones, and numerical weather prediction.
Professor Chen leads a research group at RSMAS/UM that has developed a high-resolution, fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean, vortex-following, nested-grids model for hurricane research and prediction. These efforts contribute directly to the development of the next-generation hurricane forecasting models.
Professor Chen is a lead scientist for the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST)-Hurricane modeling team sponsored by the Office of Naval Research. She is also a lead principal investigator for the National Science Foundation funded Hurricane Rainbands and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX) using three Doppler radar aircraft collected unprecedented in-situ data in Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ophelia during the 2005 Hurricane Season.
In 2006, Professor Chen was awarded the NASA Group Achievement Award.
Most recently, Professor Chen is a speaker on a panel of experts for the Congressional Briefing on the National Hurricane Initiative at the U.S. House and Senate in July 2007.
Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. in Meteorology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1990.

Professor Zhao Sixiong
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Zhao Sixiong graduated from geophysical department, Peking University in 1964 and graduated from the graduate school of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing in 1968.
Professor Zhao Sixiong has been working in Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), CAS since 1968. He was the executive director, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences (ICCES), IAP, CAS, 1991--2003; department head of mesoscale dynamics and high impact weather, IAP, CAS, 1986—1999. Also, he is the concurrent professor, graduate school of Chinese University of Science and Technology, 1988-2012.
Professor Zhao Sixiong's main areas of research interest are: severe storm and mesoscale dynamics, including heavy rainstorm, snowstorm, tropical cyclone, monsoon depression, cut-off low, squall line and interaction between multi-scale systems in Asian- Australian monsoon area; numerical prediction and modeling, including the development and improvement of the mesoscale numerical prediction models and various physical process parameterization schemes suitable to East Asia in models; environment study, including dust storm formation mechanism, numerical simulations and its influence on the environment.
Professor Zhao Sixiong has published about 100 papers and four books. He was elected as academician, International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) in 1999 and won the Prize of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation for Scientific and Technological Progress in 2000.

Meiyan JIAO

Meiyan graduated from Nanjing Meteorological Institute, Bachelor in 1983 and Master in 1989. From 1989-2001, she worked in Anhui Provincial Meteorological Bureau. Since 2001 she has worked at the China Meteorological Administration, first in Weather Forecast and Service. She is currently Director-General of National Meteorological Center, CMA and Director-General of Department of Forecasting Service and Disaster Mitigation, CMA. In her current position, she is responsible for the research and development of weather forecasting techniques and managing forecasting service and meteorological related disaster mitigation.

Dr. Lance Bosart
University at Albany, State University of New York

Dr. Lance F. Bosart is a distinguished professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University at Albany/SUNY. He joined the University at Albany faculty after he received his Ph.D. in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969. He was promoted to full professor in 1983 and distinguished professor in 2004. His research specialty is synoptic-dynamic meteorology.
Dr. Bosart works on a variety of observationally driven large-scale, synoptic-scale and mesoscale basic research problems that focus on gaining a better understanding of the behavior of tropical, midlatitude and polar weather systems. This research, supported mostly by the National Science Foundation, includes studies of:
   1) hurricane formation and hurricane interactions with midlatitdue weather systems,
   2) life cycles of organized midlatitude severe-weather thunderstorm systems,
   3) continental and marine cyclones and anticyclones,
   4) mesoscale frontogenesis processes, and
   5) high-latitude cold surges into midlatitudes.
He also works on operationally oriented research problems through cooperative research projects with staff members of the National Weather Service under the auspices of the Cooperative Meteorology Education and Training program run by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research Program sponsored by the National Weather Service
Dr. Bosart is a Fellow (1983) of the American Meteorological Society and a member of the Royal Meteorological Society. He received the American Meteorological Society's Jule Charney Research Award in 1992. He was also the first recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Teaching Excellence Award in January 2002. He received the University at Albany/SUNY Award for Excellence in Research, 2001, and the SUNY/Research Foundation Board of Directors Award Honoring Research in Science, Engineering and Medicine, 2001. He is a past editor of Monthly Weather Review, and a past associate editor of Weather and Forecasting, two journals published by the American Meteorological Society. He has held an affiliate scientist appointment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, since 1998.

Dr. Harold Brooks
National Severe Storms Laboratory

Dr. Brooks is a research meteorologist and Head of the Mesoscale Applications Group at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma. He grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri.
As an undergraduate, Dr. Brooks majored in physics and math at William Jewell College, with a year at the University of Cambridge studying Archaeology and Anthropology. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and a M.A. from Columbia University. After graduating from Illinois, he was a National Research Council Research Associate at NSSL and joined the permanent staff there in 1992.
During his career, Dr. Brooks's work has focused on why, when, and where severe thunderstorms occur and what their effects are, and on how to evaluate weather forecasts. He has given numerous public and scientific lectures and been an author on over 130 formal and informal scientific papers. He has been an invited speaker on severe thunderstorms at scientific meetings on five continents. He has given hundreds of interviews for print and broadcast media.
In 2002, Dr. Brooks received the United States Department of Commerce’s Silver Medal for his work on the distribution of severe thunderstorms in the United States. He is a lead author on the US Climate Change Science Program report on extreme weather and climate change, contributed to the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, and is a member of the World Meteorological Organization’s Joint Working Group on Verification.

Professor Wang Huijun
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Wang Huijun, born in January 4, 1964, received PhD degree in 1991 in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences (IAP/CAS). He is now working as the director-general of the IAP/CAS.
Professor Wang received Zhao Jiu-Zhang Award for young geo-scientists (1994), Outstanding Young Scientists Awards of Chinese Academy of Sciences (1997, Second grade), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Natural Science Awards (1998, First Grade, the 5th contributor), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Outstanding Young Scientist Awards (2001), and the National Science Awards (2005, Second Grads, the 2nd contributor).
Professor Wang is now the chief editor of the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, editor of the Science in China, Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Science, Acta Meteorologica Sinica. Professor Wang is a standing member of steering committee of the Chinese Meteorological Society.