Xiong Liu

About Xiong Liu

Specialties: Remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases (e.g, ozone, SO2), aerosols, and clouds, data validation, analysisAtmospheric radiative transfer modeling and instrument calibrationTropospheric chemistry studies integrating satellite measurements, chemical transport models, and in situ observationsInvestigation of chemical, radiative, and biological effects of natural and human activities on air quality and climate change

Experience

1. Principal Investigator, Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (Tempo)

   Center For Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

   Aug 2024 — Present · Cambridge, MA, US

   TEMPO, NASA\'s first Earth Venture Instrument mission, measures pollution of North America, from Mexico City to the Canadian oil sands, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific hourly and at the neighborhood scale. TEMPO observations are from the geostationary vantage point, flying on Intelsat-40e launched on April 7, 2023. The TEMPO instrument is a UV-visible spectrometer, and is the first ever space-based instrument to monitor air pollutants hourly across the North American continent during daytime. It collects high-resolution measurements of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants data that revolutionize air quality observations. More information can be found at: http://tempo.si.edu/

Education

• The University of Alabama in Huntsville

  M.S., Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

• Research Center for Eco-envrionmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  M.S., Environmental Chemistry

  1995 — 1998

• Chinese Academy of Sciences

  Master of Science (M.S.), Atmospheric Chemistry

  1995 — 1998

• Nankai University

  BS, Environmental Science

  1991 — 1995

• The University of Alabama in Huntsville

  Ph.D., Atmospheric Science

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Chemistry
• Remote Sensing
• Matlab
• Environmental Science
• Spectroscopy
• Fortran
• Scientific Writing
• Aerosol
• High Performance Computing
• Climate Change
• Ozone
• Statistics
• Idl
• Mathematical Modeling
• Science
• Numerical Analysis
• Analysis
• Physics
• Data Validation
• Scientific Computing
• Atmospheric Chemistry