Yuekui Yang, Research Associate

GEST Research Group:

Climate and Radiation Branch

GSFC Code:

613.2

Mailing Address:

Climate and Radiation Branch
Building 33, Room C305
NASA GSFC, Code 613.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6313

Fax:

Email:

yuekui.yang-1@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

Active and Passive Remote Sensing; Atmospheric Radiative Transfer; Cloud and Aerosol

Biography:

Dr. Yuekui Yang received his Ph.D. from the Unversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Atmospheric Sciences in 2007 and a MS (1990) and BS (1987) in Atmospheric Sciences from the Science and Engineering University of the Army, China. His research involves the application of the solar background from spaceborne lidar instruments, the effect of atmosphere multi-scattering on lidar altimetry, satellite cloud detection, cloud structure and its impact on climate modeling etc. Dr. Yang has extensive experience in working with spaceborne and airborne remote sensing instruments, including GLAS, MISR, CALIOP, MODIS, ASTER, AVHRR, GMS, GOES, MAS, and MASTER. During his stay at University of Illinois, he was responsible for the development, implementation and validation of the Radiometric Camera-by-camera Cloud Mask over land for the MISR mission. He also studied the impacts of 3-D radiative effects on satellite cloud detection and their consequences on cloud fraction and aerosol optical depth retrieval. Dr. Yang had 10 years of pre-doctoral working experience, holding positions from a researcher in atmospheric sciences, a meteorological radar software engineer, to a software project manager. Dr. Yang joined GEST as a research associate in March 2007.