Christine Chiu

Cloud Measurements, Radiative Transfer
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• Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

• PhD, Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, 2003
• MS, Atmospheric Physics, National Center University, Taiwan
• BS, Atmospheric Science, National Center University, Taiwan

My research interests lie in remote sensing, radiative transfer, and cloud-aerosol-precipitation-radiation interactions. I have worked extensively on retrievals of cloud and precipitation properties using the synergy between passive radiometers and active radar/lidar. I have used these novel observations to investigate 3D cloud distributions and their radiative impact, to quantify aerosol impacts on precipitation, and to provide constraints for precipitation formation processes.

I have been an associate professor at Colorado State University since 2017. Before that I was a lecturer (2010), then associate professor (2014), at the University of Reading. Before joining Reading, I was an associated scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Earlier, I held research positions at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology and the Department of Physics, University of Maryland. I have been active in the ARM/ASR community since 2003, working closely with instrument mentors and science team members for data products and observational strategies. I now serve as a member of the ARM science board, and chair the AMS Atmospheric Radiation Committee. I am also an associate editor for Journal of Geophysical Research–Atmospheres and a co-editor for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.