Kai Yang, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics

GSFC Code:

613.3

Mailing Address:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics
Building 33, Room
NASA GSFC, Code 613.3
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6006

Fax:

(301) 614-xxxx

Email:

Kai.Yang.1@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

Remote sensing of trace gases (including ozone and sulfur dioxide) and aerosols, and the study of their effects on atmospheric chemistry and climate.

Biography:

Dr. Kai Yang received a B.S. in physics from Sun Yat-Sen University (China) in 1984 and a Ph.D. in physics from Kansas State University in 1991. He has extensive experience in satellite remote sensing, covering science algorithm development and its operational implementation for multi-spectral (MODIS, TOMS) and hyper-spectral (OMI, GOME, AIRS) instruments. In 1994 he came to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and performed radiative transfer simulations from MODIS measurements and developed the MODIS level 2 gridded products. Later he joined the OMI science support team in 2001, developed and implemented the current operational OMI total ozone and sulfur dioxide retrieval algorithms and their automatic quality assessment (QA) schemes. He developed an advanced combo algorithm for retrieval for ozone and sulfur dioxide from backscattered UV measurements and introduced an alternative UV aerosol index for aerosol detection.