Long S. Chiu:

Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, MSN 5C3

School of Computational Sciences

George Mason University, Fairfax VA 22030

Education:

Sc.D. 1980, Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

B.S. 1974, Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.

Professional Experience::

Associate Professor of Computational Sciences and Remote Sensing (tenured), Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (January 2001- present);

Research Professor of Computational Sciences and Remote Sensing, Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (August, 1998- December 2000)

Member of Hydrology Data Support Team at the GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center (1996-present);

Member of Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Polar Satellite Precipitation Data Center (PSPDC) (1995-present)

Senior Scientist and Group Manager, SAIC/General Sciences Corporation, Beltsville, Maryland (1989-1998);

Senior Support Scientist for TRMM Data and Information system (TSDIS) (1994-1996),

Scientist, Applied Research Corporation (1982-1989);

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts (1980-1982).

Professional and Honorary Membership

Electromagnetics Academy

American Meteorological Society

American Geophysical Union

Sigma Xi

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing (Senior Member)

Chinese American Ocean Atmosphere Association (Program Director, 2002-2003)

Research Activities and Interests

Served as PI (in 9 proposals) or Co-I in 18 NASA grants and proposals that totaled a few million dollars. Research interests include satellite and radar sensing; remote sensing of hydrological parameters, climate diagnostics, statistical data analysis; rain field modeling and estimation, large scale scientific computing systems, and dissemination and application of remote sensing data and information

Recent Publications (out of 38 refereed journal and book chapters)

El Askary, H., et al., 2002: Rain Gauge Derived Precipitation Variability over Virginia and its Relation with the EL NINO Southern Oscillation. Adv. in Space Research, CORSPAR, (to appear)

McManus, J., M.Kafatos, G. Vicente, L. Chiu, J.Qu, and R. Yang, 2002: Analysis of bi-directional reflectance effects on 20 years of AVHRR NDVI data for agricultural regions in Ukraine and Russia, SPIE, Greece, September 2002. (to appear)

Qu, J., M. Kafatos, L. Chiu, R. Yang, A. Riebau, 2002: Global pollution monitoring of the atmospheric boundary layer using future Earth observing satellite remote sensing, SPIE, Greece, September 2002, (to appear)

Shin, Dong-Bin, and L. Chiu, “Radiometric signatures to rainfall structures from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite over the different climate regime,” Conf. Satellite Meteorology, AMS, Feb 9-13, 2003, Long Beach, CA.

Liu, Z., L. Chiu, W. Teng, and H. Rui, “Online analysis and visualization of TRMM and QUIKSCAT products,” Conf. Satellite Meteorology, AMS, Feb 9-13, 2003, Long Beach, CA.

Chiu, L. and A. Chang, 2001: “Precipitation from TMI and SSM/I: annual mean and sampling errors,” WCRP/SCOR workshop on Intercomparison and Validation of Ocean-Atmosphere Flux Fields, Washington D.C.

Acker, J., L. Chiu, et al., 2001: “Remote Sensing of Earth from Satellites,” in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Academic Press.

Chang, A., and L. Chiu, 2001: Nonsystematic errors of oceanic monthly rainfall derived from microwave radiometry, Geophys. Research Letters, 28(7), 1223-1226.

Shin, D-B, L. Chiu and M. Kafatos, 2001: Comparison of the monthly precipitation derived from the TRMM satellite, Geophys. Research Letter, 28(5), 795-798.

Chiu, L. S. and A. T-C Chang, 2000: Oceanic rain column height derived from SSM/I, J. Climate, 13 (23), 4125-4136.

Shin, D-B, L S. Chiu, and M. Kafatos, 2001: Comparison of monthly precipitation derived from the TRMM Satellite, Geophysical Research Letters,.

Chang, A. T. C., L. S. Chiu, C. Kummerow, J. Meng, T. Wilheit, 1999: “First results of TRMM Microwave Imager monthly oceanic rainfall: Comparison with SSM/I,” Geophysical Research Letters, 26 (15), 2379-2382.

Chang, A. T. C., and L. S. Chiu, 1999: “Non-systematic errors of monthly rainfall derived from SSM/I,” Monthly Weather Review, 127, 1630-1638.

Chiu, L. S., G. North, D. Short, and A. McConnell, 1990: “Rain estimation from space: Effect of finite field of view,” J. Geophys. Res., 95, D3, 2177-2185.

Chiu, L.S., and B. Kedem: 1990: “Estimating the exceedance probability of rain rates by logistic regression,” J. Geophys. Res., 95, D3, 2117-2227.

Kedem, B. L. S. Chiu and G. North, 1990: “Estimation of mean rain rate: Application to satellite observation,” J. Geophys. Res., 95, D2, 1965-1972.

Kedem, B., and L. S. Chiu, 1987: “On the lognormality of rain rate,” Proc. Nat’l Acad., Sci., 84, 901-905.

Wilheit, T. T., A. T. C. Chang, and L. S. Chiu, 1991: “Retrieval of monthly rainfall indices from microwave radiometric measurements using probability distribution functions,” J. Atmo. and Ocean Tech., 8, 118-136.