CURRICULUM VITAE

Li Liu

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025 Phone: (212) 678-5579 E-mail: [email protected]

Research Interests

Atmospheric Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Direct and Indirect Aerosol Forcing of Climate, Cloud and Aerosol Physics, Atmospheric Radiation, Electromagnetic Scattering

Education

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, February, 2004 Minor: Statistics and Climatology Dissertation title: Optical characterization of complex aerosol and cloud particles: remote sensing and climatological implications Advisors: Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko, and Dr. James E. Hansen Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY

M.S. in Atmospheric Physics and Atmospheric Environment, 1999 Department of Geophysics, Beijing University, Beijing, China

B.S. in Atmospheric Science, 1996 Department of Geophysics, Beijing University, Beijing, China

Professional Experience

1999-2003 Graduate Research Assistant Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY Teaching Assistant W4950: Math methods in earth sciences, Fall, 2001 W4917: The earth/human system, Fall, 2002 V3003: The earth’s climate, Spring, 2003 1996-1999 Graduate Research Assistant Beijing University, Beijing, China Teaching Assistant Atmospheric radiation and atmospheric optics, Fall, 1998

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Liu, L., Optical characterization of complex aerosol and cloud particles: remote sensing and climatological implications, Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University, New York, 2004. 2. Liu, L., M. I. Mishchenko, I. Geogdzhayev, A. Smirnov, S. M. Sakerin, D. M. Kabanov, and O. A. Ershov, Global validation of two-channel AVHRR aerosol optical thickness retrievals over the oceans, submitted to J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer special issue on “Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing”, 2004. 3. Geogdzhayev, I.V., M. I. Mishchenko, L. Liu, L. Remer, and R. Kahn, Global two-channel AVHRR aerosol climatology: effects of stratospheric aerosols and preliminary comparisons with MODIS and MISR retrievals, submitted to J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer special issue on “Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing”, 2004. 4. Mishchenko, M. I., L. Liu, L. D. Travis, and A. A. Lacis, Scattering and radiative properties of semi-external versus external mixtures of different aerosol types, accepted by J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer special issue on “Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing”, 2004. 5. Mishchenko, M. I., I. V. Geogdzhayev, L. Liu, J. A. Ogren, A. A. Lacis, W. B. Rossow, J. W. Hovenier, H. Volten, and O. Muñoz, Aerosol retrievals from AVHRR radiances: effects of particle nonsphericity and absorption and an updated long-term global climatology of aerosol properties, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 79-80, 953-972, 2003. 6. Liu, L., M. I. Mishchenko, J. W. Hovenier, H. Volten, and O. Muñoz, Scattering matrix of quartz aerosols: comparison and synthesis of laboratory and Lorenz-Mie results, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 79-80, 911-920, 2003. 7. Liu, L., M. I. Mishchenko, S. Menon, A. Macke, and A. A. Lacis, The effect of black carbon on scattering and absorption of solar radiation by cloud droplets, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 74, 195-204, 2002. 8. Liu, L., and M. I. Mishchenko, Constraints on PSC particle microphysics derived from lidar observations, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 70, 817-831, 2001. 9. Mao, J., L. Liu, and J. Zhang, GMS5 remote sensing of aerosol optical thickness over chaohu lake, Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 59, 352-359, 2001. 10. Zhang, J., L. Liu, and J. Mao, Features of aerosol optical depth in Dangxiong region observed by Multi-wavelength Sun Photometer, Chinese J. Atmos. Sci., 24, 549-558, 2000.

Conference presentations

• Liu, L., M. I. Mishchenko, S. Menon, A. Macke, and A. A. Lacis, The effect of black carbon on scattering and absorption of solar radiation by cloud droplets, in the 6th International Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles: Theory, Measurements, and Applications, March 4-8, 2002, Gainesville, Florida. • Liu, L., M. I. Mishchenko, S. Menon, A. Macke, and A. A. Lacis, Estimation of black carbon effect on light scattering and absorption by cloud water droplets, in the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation of the American Meteorological Society, June 3-7, 2002, Ogden, Utah. • Liu, L., M. I. Mishchenko, J. W. Hovenier, H. Volten, and O. Muñoz, Scattering matrix of nonspherical mineral aerosols: Remote sensing implications, in 2002 Optical Society of America Annual Meeting and Exhibit/LS-XVIII, September 29 – October 3, 2002, Orlando, Florida.

Computer Skills

Programming languages: Fortran 77/90, IDL, Matlab, C Operating systems: Unix, Windows, Mac OS, Linux Software: MS Office, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, S-plus

Other Related Experience

Reviewed two manuscripts for Applied Optics, one for Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, and one for Optics Letters.

Honors and Awards

• Faculty Fellowship of Columbia University, 1999-2003 (Columbia’s highest honor at entrance to students in the Natural Sciences) • American Meteorological Society Student Travel Grant for the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, 2002 • 2002 New Focus Student Travel Grant for the Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, 2002 • Outstanding Student award, Beijing University, 1997-1998 (The highest honor awarded to students at Beijing University)

Memberships

• American Geophysical Union • American Meteorological Society