Xiaohong Liu

Aerosol Modeling, Cloud Modeling, Global-Scale Modeling
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• Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University

• PhD, Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, 1992
• MS, Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, 1989
• BS, Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, 1986

My research interests include cloud-aerosol-precipitation-radiation interactions and effects on climate change; multi-scale modeling of clouds and aerosols and their interactions; and development of cloud and aerosol parameterizations for earth system models. I have published over 160 peer-reviewed papers. The paper Liu et al. (2012), documenting a modal aerosol module in NCAR CESM, was featured as a “Hot Paper in the field of Geosciences” by Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge in 2013.

At the University of Wyoming, I held the endowed chair in climate science. Before joining UWy in 2013, I was a senior scientist for eight years at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. I was a key member of the development team of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5), the atmospheric component of the Community Earth System Model (CESM). With colleagues, I have been developing aerosol and ice nucleation parameterizations, which have been adopted by the latest NCAR CESM v2 and DOE E3SM v1 models.