Xianglei Huang

Office:

1541A Space Research Bldg.

Phone:

(734) 936-0491

Fax:

(734) 936-0503

Email:

xianglei@umich.edu

Web:

http://www.umich.edu/~xianglei

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

Research:

Infrared radiative transfer and remote sensing; diagnostic analysis of satellite observations and climate simulations; hydrological cycle and its interaction with atmospheric radiation and dynamics; planetary atmospheres

Specializations and Research Interests

• Infrared radiative transfer and remote sensing
• Diagnostic analysis of satellite observations and climate simulations
• Hydrological cycle and its interaction with atmospheric radiation and dynamics
• Climate diagnostics
• Remote sensing of planetary atmospheres

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

• Science Definition Team membership for the CLARREO mission, NASA
• Highlight article on Geophysical Research Letters for the research on radiative effect of TTL cirrus on tropospheric-stratospheric transport
• Being the first to demonstrate the superiority of spectral resolved measurements over broadband longwave flux in the GCM evaluation and diagnostics
• Developed and validated the first algorithm to directly estmate the spectral flux over the entire longwave spectrum from the spectrally resolved radiance measurements
• AOS postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University

Professional Service

• Associate Editor, Journal of Climate, AMS (Since Feb 2011)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, AMS (Since Jan 2007)
• Panelist of various programs of NASA Rearth Opportunity in Space and Earth Sciences, 2009 and 2010
• Panelist of DoE Merit Review Panel, 2012
• Science Definition Team Member for NASA CLARREO mission
• Science Team members for NASA CERES and NASA AIRS
• Members of Sigma Xi, American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union

Publications

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

Other peer-reviewed publications

1. R Goody and X Huang, Absorption and Thermal Emission, in the 2^nd Edition of the Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Sciences, edited by G. North, Academic Press, in publisher.