Education
and Professional Association
Professional
Activities and Recognition:
A.
Member: American
Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, Optical Society of America,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Engineering
B.
Recognitions:
- Received
a Distinguished Visiting Scientist appointment from JPL/Caltech, 2004
- Received
an Honorable Professorship, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy
of Sciences, 2002
- Elected
a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, 2000
- Elected
a member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1999
- Received
the Jule G. Charney Award, American Meteorological Society, 1998
- Received
a Special Creativity Award, Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Science
Foundation, 1996
- Elected
a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1996
- Elected
a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, 1987
- Elected
a fellow of the Optical Society of America, 1983
- Received
David P. Gardner Fellow Award from the University of Utah, 1978
- Received
Founder's Day Award from New York University, 1971
C.
Committee and Conference Affiliation:
- Member
of the Atmospheric Sciences Program Reconfiguration Panel, Department of Energy,
November, 2003
- Chair
of the External Review Committee, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences,
Georgia Institute of Technology, October, 2003
-
Member of the Peer Committee, Section 12, National Academy of Engineering,
2003-2006
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Member of the Union Fellows Committee, American Geophysical Union, 2002-2004
- Report
Review Coordinator, Division of Earth and Life Studies, National Research
Council, 2002-2003
- Member
of the Scientific Committee for the Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Absorption
of Solar Radiation, American Geophysical Union, January-August, 2001
- Chair
of the Advisory Committee for the Environmental Change Research Center, Academia
Sinica, Taiwan, ROC, 2000-present
- Convener
for Radiative Transfer Theory, International Radiation Symposium, Saint Petersburg,
Russia, July 24-29, 2000
- Keynote
speaker of the Second International Ocean and Atmosphere Conference, COAA
2000, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, July 10-12, 2000
- Member
of the Review Committee for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, 1999
- Chair
of the Review Committee for the Atmospheric Sciences Department, National
Taiwan University, March, 1999
- Chair
of the First International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing: Atmosphere,
Environment, and Space, Beijing, China, 14-17 September 1998
- Member
of the Atmospheric Sciences Section Executive Committee, American Geophysical
Union, 1996-present
- Convener
for Radiative Properties of Clouds, International Radiation Symposium, Fairbanks,
Alaska, August 19-24, 1996
- Elected
a member of International Radiation Commission of IAMAP, 1992-2000
- Chairman
of the scientific committee for the Inner Mongolia Grassland Surface-Atmosphere
Experiment, 1992-present
- U.S.
Steering Committee Chairman for the Heihe Basin Field Experiment (HEIFE) in
western China, 1986-1989
- Chairman
for the Beijing International Radiation Symposium, Beijing, China, August
26-30, 1986
- Member
of the Panel of International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program, Climate
Research Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, 1984-1987
- Member
of the committee on Clouds and Radiation of the IAMAP/IAPSO Joint Assembly,
1985
- Chairman
of the AMS Fifth Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, Baltimore, directing
a special Symposium on Clouds, Radiation and Climate, October 31-November
4, 1983
- Chairman
of the Committee on Atmospheric Radiation of the American Meteorological Society,
1982-1984
- Member
of the Committee on Atmospheric Radiation of the American Meteorological Society,
1977-1984, 1992-1995
D.
Editorial Affiliation:
- Reviewer
of National Research Council reports, Commission on Geosciences, Environment,
and Resources, and the Policy Division, 2000-present
- Editor
of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological
Society, 1999-present
- Review
Editor of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, 1998-1999.
- One
of the Advisory Editors of the Journal of Terrestrial, Atmospheric and
Oceanic Sciences (Rep. of China), 1998-present
- Associate
Editor of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer,
1997-present
- One
of the editors for Theoretical and Applied Climatology, and Meteorology
and Atmospheric Physics, 1985-present
- Member
of the editorial board for Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (China),
1984-present
- Guest
editor for the special volume on Clouds and Radiation, Journal of Geophysical
Research, 1987
- Editor
of the book volume entitled, Atmospheric Radiation Progress and Prospects,
Science Press, Beijing and the American Meteorological Society, 1987
- Associate
Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, 1997-2001
- Associate
editor of the Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, 1982-1983
E.
Consultant and Research Affiliations:
- Past
consultant for the Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory, White Sands Missile
Range, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and NASA Ames Research Center in the
areas of radiative transfer and remote sensing
- Past
President of Liou and Associates, a spin-off software company from the University
of Utah, 1991-1995.
- Previously
and currently a principal investigator on numerous grants and contracts from
NSF, AFGL, AFOSR, NOAA, DOE, NASA, and private companies
F.
Graduate Students Supervised:
- 25
Ph.D. and 17 M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
G.
Authorial Activities:
- Authored
and co-authored more than 140 scientific papers in various refereed journals
- Author
of a text and reference book entitled, An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation,
published by the Academic Press as a volume (#26) in the International Geophysics
Series, 1980. Translated into Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. 2nd edition published
in 2002 (583 pp, 70% new material)
- Author
of a monograph entitled, Radiation and Cloud Processes in the Atmosphere:
Theory, Observation, and Modeling, published by the Oxford University
Press in November 1992
- Presented
more than 130 invited and contributed papers at national and international
conferences and symposiums and various academic and research institutions
