Hongbin Yu, Associate Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Climate and Radiation

GSFC Code:

613.2

Mailing Address:

Climate and Radiation Group
Building 33, Room C317
NASA GSFC, Code 613.2
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6209

Fax:

(301) 614-6307

Email:

Hongbin.Yu@nasa.gov

Most Current Publication:

Hongbin Yu, Mian Chin, Lorraine A. Remer, Richard G. Kleidman, Nicolas Bellouin, Huisheng Bian, and Thomas Diehl, 2009. Variability of marine aerosol fine-mode fraction and estimates of anthropogenic aerosol component over cloud-free oceans from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), J. Geophys. Res., 114, D10206, doi:10.1029/2008JD010648, 2009

Research Interests:

Using satellite observations and model simulations to understand climate forcing of atmospheric aerosols, aerosol-cloud interactions, and intercontinental/hemispheric transport of aerosols.

Biography:

Dr. Hongbin Yu received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry (2000) from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, and a MS (1992) and a BS (1989) both in Atmospheric Physics from the Nanjing University in China. He was the faculty member at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of the Nanjing University from 1992 to 1996, where he taught and conducted research on air pollution and atmospheric boundary layer. Dr. Yu worked at Georgia Tech as a postdoctoral fellow from August 2000 through December 2002, and as a research scientist from January 2003 to October 2004. Dr. Yu then joined Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, as a member of the research faculty. His current research task is to assess the measurement-based estimates of the aerosol climate forcing and aerosol intercontinental transport. Dr. Yu's publications cover topics of global aerosol assimilation and direct radiative forcing, intercontinental transport of aerosol, aerosol-cloud interactions, impacts of aerosols on ecosystems, land-atmosphere interactions, and atmospheric dynamics, tropospheric ozone and nitrogen chemistry, and air pollution and boundary layer meteorology.