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Overview

Fuzhong Weng is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Atmospheric Science and related subfields.

Their work spans diverse topics within atmospheric and environmental research, including Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate variability and models, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Fuzhong Weng has contributed to multiple scientific publications, with research appearing in prominent venues such as Remote Sensing, Journal of Meteorological Research, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Several recent papers authored by Weng illustrate the scope of their work:

  • Advanced Radiative Transfer Modeling System (ARMS): A New-Generation Satellite Observation Operator Developed for Numerical Weather Prediction and Remote Sensing Applications, 2020, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
  • Impacts of urban spatial layout and scale on local climate: A case study in Beijing, 2021, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Retrieval of cloud properties from thermal infrared radiometry using convolutional neural network, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Evaluation of cloud properties from reanalyses over East Asia with a radiance-based approach, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Obtaining Cloud Base Height and Phase From Thermal Infrared Radiometry Using a Deep Learning Algorithm, 2023, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Frequent collaborators include Hao Hu, Yang Han, Jun Yang, Xiuzhen Han, and Yongming Xu, with coauthorship counts ranging from 6 to 15 publications each.

Weng's publication record demonstrates a sustained focus on atmospheric science, contributing to both methodological advancements and applied studies within remote sensing, climate modeling, and environmental monitoring.

Best Publications

  • Early On-Orbit Performance of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Onboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite

    Changyong Cao;Frank J. De Luccia;Xiaoxiong Xiong;Robert Wolfe

  • Advanced microwave sounding unit cloud and precipitation algorithms

    Fuzhong Weng;Limin Zhao;Ralph R. Ferraro;Gene Poe

  • Suomi NPP VIIRS sensor data record verification, validation, and long‐term performance monitoring

    Changyong Cao;Jack Xiong;Slawomir Blonski;Quanhua Liu

  • Retrieval of cloud liquid water using the special sensor microwave imager (SSM/I)

    Fuzhong Weng;Norman C. Grody

  • An eight-year (1987-1994) time series of rainfall, clouds, water vapor, snow cover, and sea ice derived from SSM/I measurements

    Ralph R. Ferraro;Fuzhong Weng;Norman C. Grody;Alan Basist

  • MiRS: An All-Weather 1DVAR Satellite Data Assimilation and Retrieval System

    S-A Boukabara;K. Garrett;Wanchun Chen;F. Iturbide-Sanchez

  • JCSDA Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) : version 1

    Fuzhong Weng;Yong Han;Paul van Delst;Quanhua Liu

  • NOAA operational hydrological products derived from the advanced microwave sounding unit

    R.R. Ferraro;Fuzhong Weng;N.C. Grody;Limin Zhao

  • A microwave land emissivity model

    Fuzhong Weng;Banghua Yan;Norman C. Grody

  • The Global Space-Based Inter-Calibration System

    M. Goldberg;G. Ohring;J. Butler;C. Cao

  • An Improved Fast Microwave Water Emissivity Model

    Quanhua Liu;Fuzhong Weng;Stephen J English

  • Advances in Radiative Transfer Modeling in Support of Satellite Data Assimilation

    Fuzhong Weng

  • Numerical Simulation of Hurricane Bonnie (1998). Part I: Eyewall Evolution and Intensity Changes

    Tong Zhu;Da-Lin Zhang;Fuzhong Weng

  • Retrieval of Ice Cloud Parameters Using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

    Limin Zhao;Fuzhong Weng

  • Analysis of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific for 2000 and 2001

    Bing Fu;Tim Li;Melinda S. Peng;Fuzhong Weng

  • VDISORT: AN IMPROVED AND GENERALIZED DISCRETE ORDINATE METHOD FOR POLARIZED (VECTOR) RADIATIVE TRANSFER

    F.M. Schulz;K. Stamnes;F. Weng

  • Determination of precipitable water and cloud liquid water over oceans from the NOAA 15 advanced microwave sounding unit

    Norman Grody;Jiang Zhao;Ralph Ferraro;Fuzhong Weng

  • Advanced Doubling–Adding Method for Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres

    Quanhua Liu;Fuzhong Weng

  • A fast radiative transfer model for SSMIS upper atmosphere sounding channels

    Yong Han;Fuzhong Weng;Quanhua Liu;Paul van Delst

  • Uncertainties in Microwave Properties of Frozen Precipitation: Implications for Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation

    Mark S. Kulie;Ralf Bennartz;Thomas J. Greenwald;Yong Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaolei Zou
Xiaolei Zou Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Changyong Cao
Changyong Cao National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ralph Ferraro
Ralph Ferraro University of Maryland, College Park
Norman C. Grody
Norman C. Grody National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Zhanqing Li
Zhanqing Li University of Maryland, College Park
Ping Yang
Ping Yang Texas A&M University
Vijay Tallapragada
Vijay Tallapragada National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Xiaoxiong Xiong
Xiaoxiong Xiong Goddard Space Flight Center
David C. Tobin
David C. Tobin University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ivan Csiszar
Ivan Csiszar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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