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I am a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
My principal research interest lies in the microphysical processes in clouds, such as the formation, growth, and decay of cloud particles (aerosol, droplets and ice crystals), how dynamics and thermodynamics influence the process and thus impact clouds and precipitation at small and large scales. I use high resolution models, such as DNS, LES, and cloud-scale resolving model, and convective permitting models, with the help from in-situ and remote sensing measurements and laboratory experiments to improve the representations of clouds and precipitation in atmospheric models across the scales. Besides fundamental research, I am also keen on transforming the fundamental knowledge to applied science. One application of study cloud physics is to evaluate the impacts of weather modification. I use various numerical models to study the glaciogenic cloud seeding and summer convective cloud seeding. In addition, I also study the clouds and precipitation at regional climate scales and how they are affected by climate change and large-scale meteorology.
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