Jiarui Dong, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Hydrological Sciences

GSFC Code:

614.3

Mailing Address:

Building 22, Rm 003
NASA GSFC, Code 614.3
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-5873

Email:

Jiarui.Dong@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

Modeling of land surface and atmosphere interactions on energy, water, and carbon. Data analysis of remote sensing products and field measurements for the climate simulation.

Biography:

Dr. Jiarui Dong received a B.S. in meteorology from Beijing Institute of Meteorology in 1989, a M.S. in computational mathematics in 1992 from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences in 1997 from CAS, where he developed a coupled model for simulating drought and regional flood disasters. In addition, he earned another Ph.D. in remote sensing in 2002 from Boston University. Dr. Dong's major accomplishments include remote sensing estimates of northern boreal and temperate forest woody biomass: carbon pools, sinks and sources, improving the precision of simulated hydrologic fluxes in land surface models, developing and analyzing vegetation data sets from NOAA global data, and evaluating the utility of satellite-based vegetation parameters for climate simulation. Dr. Dong joined the GEST center at the Hydrological Science Branch at GSFC in 2002, working on assimilating the global land surface remote sensing products into land surface models to generate optimal global land products. and improving the capability of land data assimilation system.