Yudong Tian, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory

GSFC Code:

614.3

Mailing Address:

Hydrological and Biospheric Sciences
Building 22, Room 002
NASA GSFC, Code 614.3
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 286-2275

Fax:

(301) 286-8624

Email:

yudong.tian@nasa.gov

Most Recent Publication:

Tian, Y., C. D. Peters-Lidard, B. Choudhury, and M. Garcia (2007), Multitemporal analysis of TRMM based satellite precipitation products for land data assimilation applications, J. Hydrometeor., 8, 1165-1183, doi: 10.1175/2007JHM859.1.

Research Interests:

Biography:

Dr. Yudong Tian received a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences in 1999 from UCLA, where he conducted research in climate dynamics and geophysical fluid dynamics. He was also one of the developers at UCLA for the popular advanced spectral analysis SSA-MTM Toolkit. Prior to joining GEST, he had been working in the Internet industry, holding such positions as systems manager and chief technology officer. In addition to his atmospheric research background, he has extensive professional experience in network architecture, software engineering, database design and system and network security. Since early 2002, he has been working on GSFC's Land Information System (LIS), which won NASA's Software of the Year Award in 2005. Currently he is working on flood warning with NWP precipitation forecasts and on integrating LIS with the emerging sensor web technologies.