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  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Ping Yang is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research spans several fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science and related subfields.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these areas, their work further specializes in the following subfields:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Biomedical Engineering

Ping Yang's research topics cover a broad range of atmospheric and climate-related themes:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ping Yang include:

  • Jiachen Ding
  • Masanori Saito
  • Tong Ren
  • Xianglei Huang
  • Xiuhong Chen

Publications by Ping Yang have appeared notably in these venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Optics Express
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Examples of recent published papers include:

  • CERES MODIS Cloud Product Retrievals for Edition 4-Part I: Algorithm Changes (2020), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • A comprehensive database of the optical properties of irregular aerosol particles for radiative transfer simulations (2021), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Advanced Bulk Optical Models Linking the Backscattering and Microphysical Properties of Mineral Dust Aerosol (2021), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Spaceborne Middle- and Far-Infrared Observations Improving Nighttime Ice Cloud Property Retrievals (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Generalization of Atmospheric Nonspherical Particle Size: Interconversions of Size Distributions and Optical Equivalence (2022), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Ping Yang was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Application of spheroid models to account for aerosol particle nonsphericity in remote sensing of desert dust

    Oleg Dubovik;Oleg Dubovik;Alexander Sinyuk;Tatyana Lapyonok;Brent N. Holben

  • The MODIS Cloud Optical and Microphysical Products: Collection 6 Updates and Examples From Terra and Aqua

    Steven Platnick;Kerry G. Meyer;Michael D. King;Galina Wind

  • Geometric-optics-integral-equation method for light scattering by nonspherical ice crystals.

    Ping Yang;K. N. Liou

  • CERES Edition-2 Cloud Property Retrievals Using TRMM VIRS and Terra and Aqua MODIS Data—Part I: Algorithms

    P. Minnis;Szedung Sun-Mack;D. F. Young;P. W. Heck

  • Spectrally Consistent Scattering, Absorption, and Polarization Properties of Atmospheric Ice Crystals at Wavelengths from 0.2 to 100 um

    Ping Yang;Lei Bi;Bryan A. Baum;Kuo-Nan Liou

  • Non‐spherical aerosol retrieval method employing light scattering by spheroids

    O. Dubovik;O. Dubovik;B. N. Holben;T. Lapyonok;A. Sinyuk;A. Sinyuk

  • Finite-difference time domain method for light scattering by small ice crystals in three-dimensional space

    Ping Yang;K. N. Liou

  • Scattering and absorption property database for nonspherical ice particles in the near- through far-infrared spectral region.

    Ping Yang;Heli Wei;Hung-Lung Huang;Bryan A. Baum

  • Parameterization of the scattering and absorption properties of individual ice crystals

    Ping Yang;K. N. Liou;Klaus Wyser;David Mitchell

  • Remote sensing of cloud properties using MODIS airborne simulator imagery during SUCCESS: 1. Data and models

    Bryan A. Baum;David P. Kratz;Ping Yang;S. C. Ou

  • Bulk Scattering Properties for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds. Part I: Microphysical Data and Models.

    Bryan A. Baum;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Ping Yang;Sarah T. Bedka

  • CALIPSO/CALIOP Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm

    Yongxiang Hu;David Winker;Mark Vaughan;Bing Lin

  • Bulk Scattering Properties for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds. Part II: Narrowband Models

    Bryan A. Baum;Ping Yang;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Steven Platnick

  • Remote sensing of cloud properties using MODIS airborne simulator imagery during SUCCESS: 2. Cloud thermodynamic phase

    Bryan A. Baum;Peter F. Soulen;Kathleen I. Strabala;Michael D. King

  • Single-scattering properties of complex ice crystals in terrestrial atmosphere

    Ping Yang;K. N. Liou

  • Water-vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003-2008

    A. E. Dessler;Z. Zhang;P. Yang

  • MODIS Cloud-Top Property Refinements for Collection 6

    Bryan A. Baum;W. Paul Menzel;Richard A. Frey;David C. Tobin

  • Improvements in Shortwave Bulk Scattering and Absorption Models for the Remote Sensing of Ice Clouds

    Bryan A. Baum;Ping Yang;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Carl G. Schmitt

  • Modeling of the scattering and radiative properties of nonspherical dust-like aerosols

    Ping Yang;Qian Feng;Gang Hong;George W. Kattawar

  • Accurate simulation of the optical properties of atmospheric ice crystals with the invariant imbedding T-matrix method

    Lei Bi;Ping Yang

  • Mountain wave PSC dynamics and microphysics from ground-based lidar measurements and meteorological modeling

    J. Reichardt;J. Reichardt;J. Reichardt;A. Dörnbrack;S. Reichardt;S. Reichardt;P. Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan A. Baum
Bryan A. Baum University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kuo-Nan Liou
Kuo-Nan Liou University of California, Los Angeles
Steven Platnick
Steven Platnick Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael D. King
Michael D. King University of Colorado Boulder
Yongxiang Hu
Yongxiang Hu Langley Research Center
Michael I. Mishchenko
Michael I. Mishchenko Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Patrick Minnis
Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center
Kerry Meyer
Kerry Meyer Goddard Space Flight Center
Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Andrew E. Dessler
Andrew E. Dessler Texas A&M University

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