Xianglei Huang
Associate Professor
- 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
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R Goody and X Huang, Absorption and Thermal Emission, in the 2nd Edition of the Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Sciences, edited by G. North, Academic Press, in publisher.
Updated: 2012-09-01
