Jing Zeng, Ph.D. EDUCATION RESEARCH AREAS EXPERIENCES

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1 Jing Zeng, Ph.D. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE, Office: EDUCATION Ph.D. May, 2006 Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville M.S. May, 2004 Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville M.S. July, 2000 Meteorology, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences B.S. July, 1997 Meteorology, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology RESEARCH AREAS Meso-scale numerical modeling Satellite remote sensing of aerosol and cloud Aerosol climate forcing and aerosol property retrieval using polarization. Land surface modeling of precipitation, soil moisture and radiation. Radiative transfer modeling Research interests include: (a) Assimilation of aerosol and cloud optical thickness, and particle size data into climate/weather/air quality models to improve representation of aerosol/cloud forcing and interactions; (b) Using aerosol information derived from satellites such as MODIS, MISR, GOES, and CALIPSO to improve the 3D air quality modeling; (c) Investigating the potential of aerosol and cloud products for the improvement of NWP; (d) Using land surface model to study the precipitation, soil moisture and radiation. (e) Statistical analysis of precipitation data including satellite derived data (SSM/I, CMORPH, GEOPRECIP) and gauge observations (f) Coupling of two stream radiative transfer model with the land surface model. EXPERIENCES August, 2013~now, Lecture and Research Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska- Lincoln. May 2010 ~August 2013, Research assistant professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Research on aerosol retrieval with the polarization method in Analysis of Radiation energy estimate from ECMWF, AGRMET and GFS models in Building retrieval radiative transfer model for spherical and nos-spherical particles in Collaborate with SNR faculties on research of relationship between radiation (measured from satellite measurements) and agriculture production in Teaching of remote sensing class in fall Developed and teaching Environment, Energy, and climate change in Spring 2013.

2 September, 2006 ~ April, 2010, Research scientist, Hydrological Sciences Branch, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (contractor, affiliation: Earth Resource Technology, Inc.). R&D support to the project of application of NASA land model to Air Force Weather Agency operations. Working on LIS-coupling the RTM model into LIS and case test run with LIS model. Couple the atmospheric process with the land surface process to study the impact of clouds and precipitation on soil moisture, surface temperature, and agriculture. Improve the radiative transfer scheme in Land surface model. Statistical analysis of precipitation data and radiative flux data for operational and research land surface model. Using CRTM to study the land surface emissivity in near IR and microwave. September, 2001 ~ May, 2006, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville. Major research projects included: Assembled a high spectrum resolution vector polarized radiative transfer model (HSV-RTM). Sensitivity analysis on the retrieval of aerosol property (particle size, effective radius, effective variance, real part and imaginary part of refractive index) from polarization data simulated from HSV-RTM. Investigated ice crystal shape using bi-axial radiance data collected by the CERES at its rotating-scan mode. Developed algorithms in applying spectral radiance data collected from MODIS/Terra, MODIS/Aqua, AVHRR, MISR, and ASTER to detect aerosol and cloud, and retrieve aerosol optical thickness, cloud optical thickness and cloud effective radius. Applied the ray tracing method to study the cloud ice crystal particle properties (single scattering albedo, phase function and asymmetry factor), and examined their implication for the radiative flux calculations. Advanced data assimilation techniques such as the 3D-Var, 4D-Var and Kalman filter methods ~ 2001, Graduate Research Assistant, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. Major research project was numerical modeling of tropical cyclone landfall using MM5: PUBLICATIONS Section 1: Journal Paper 1. Yang, Z.*, J. Wang, C. Ichoku, E. Hyer, and J. Zeng, Mesoscale modeling and satellite observation of transport and mixing of smoke and dust particles over northern sub-saharan African region, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 12,139-12,157, doi: /2013jd020644, Anderson, J.C.*, J. Wang, J. Zeng, G. Leptoukh, M. Petrenko, C. Ichoku, C. Hu, Long-term statistical assessment of Aqua-MODIS aerosol optical depth over

3 coastal regions: bias characteristics and uncertainty sources, Tellus B, 65, 20805, doi: /tellusb.v65i , Wang, J., S. Park, J. Zeng, K. Yang, S. Carn, N. Krotkov, and A. Omar, Modeling of 2008 Kasatochi volcanic sulfate direct radiative forcing: assimilation of OMI SO2 plume height data and comparison with MODIS and CALIOP observations, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, , Spurr, R., J. Wang, J. Zeng, and M. Mishchenko, Linearized T-matrix and Mie scattering computations, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer., 113, , Wang, J., X. Xu, D. K. Henze, J. Zeng, Q. Ji, S-C Tsay, J. Huang, Top-Down Estimate of Dust Emissions through Integration of MODIS and MISR Aerosol Retrievals with the GEOS-Chem adjoint model, Geophys. Res. Lett., L08802, doi: /2012GL051136, Tian, Y., C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. B. Eylander, R. J. Joyce, G. J. Huffman, R. F. Adler, K. Hsu, F. J. Turk, M. Garcia, and J. Zeng (2009), Component analysis of errors in satellite-based precipitation estimates, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D24101, doi: /2009jd Zeng, J., Q. Han, and J. Wang (2008), High-spectral resolution simulation of polarization of skylight: Sensitivity to aerosol vertical profile, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L20801, doi: /2008gl Zeng, J., C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. B. Eylander, and B. J Choudhury Evaluation of Three Downward Shortwave Radiative Flux Datasets for Near Real-time Land Surface Modeling. for Journal of Geophys. Res., to be submitted in August Yueqin Dou,; Tian C Zhang; Jing Zeng; John Stansbury; Massoum Moussavi; Dana L Richter-Egger, Polyurethane Foam (PUF) Passive Samplers for Monitoring Phenanthrene in Stormwater. submitted to Water Research, Yueqin Dou; Mitch Klain; Tian C. Zhang; John Stansbury; Massoum Moussavi; Dana L. Richter-Egger; Jing Zeng, Development of a Passive Sampler with Amberlite IRC748 Iron Exchange Resin for Sampling Heavy Metals in Runoff. submitted to Environmental Pollution, 2015 Section 2: Conference paper 11. Zeng, J., Y. Yue, and J. Wang, An Ensemble Approach to Improve Surface PM2.5 Estimate from Space, poster, GC11H-1121, AGU 2015 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec., Section 3: Thesis and Dissertation Zeng, J., Study of aerosol properties using polarization: model development, simulation, validation and retrieval, PhD dissertation, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Section 4: Teaching Regular teaching Course # Course name Credit hrs. Enrollment Co-taught?

4 2011: Metr Satellite Remote Sensing : spring METR-180 ENVR,ENGR&CLIMATE CHG 3 5 Fall METR ENVR,ENGR&CLIMATE CHG 3 17 Fall METR ENVR,ENGR&CLIMATE CHG 3 9 Fall METR-465 Satellite remote sensing 3 2 Fall METR-865 Satellite remote sensing spring METR-180 Environment,energy & climate change 3 17 Spring METR-140 Severe and unusual weather 3 49 Fall METR Environment,energy & climate change 3 20 Fall METR Environment,energy & climate change 3 8 Fall METR Severe and unusual weather 3 2 Fall METR Severe and unusual weather : Spring METR Environment,energy & climate change 3 21 Spring METR Environment,energy & climate change 3 2 Spring METR Severe and unusual weather 3 40 Spring METR Severe and unusual weather 3 49 Spring AGRO 419/819 Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources : Fall METR Severe and unusual weather 3 29 Fall METR Severe and unusual weather : Spring AGRO 419/819 Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources 5 17 Funded post-doc, graduate and undergraduate laboratory or field research name year project title (abbr.) Funding Source Amy Gehring graduate 2013 Study aerosol property NE Space grant With Satellite measurement Chase Calkins graduate 2013 Pollution in China NE Space grant Carly Baumann undergraduate 2013 Assist on developing NE Space grant Levi Boggs undergraduate 2013 Assist on developing NE Space grant Kristina Alas undergraduate 2013 Assist on developing NE Space grant Taylor Whitney undergraduate 2014 Assist on developing NE Space grant Connor Dennhardt undergraduate 2014 Assist on research NE Space grant Teaching Workshop Learning by Design Program University of Nebraska Lincoln, Fall, 2015 Peer Instruction Workshop University of Nebraska Lincoln, Fall, 2015

5 ARISE Faculty Learning Community University of Nebraska Lincoln, Fall, 2015 Section 4: Funding 1. UCAR (subcontracted from Department Of Transportation), Improving the road weather forecast by assimilating the mobile weather observations with WRF- Chem. Jing Zeng (PI), $20,900, December July, UNO-Univ of Nebraska-Omaha for a project entitled UNO-NASA Space Grant: Building Weather-Climate Online Course and Improving the Undergraduate and Graduate Education on NASA Satellite Data Utilization. Jing Zeng (PI) $6,000, 09/01/2014 through 03/31/ UNO-Univ of Nebraska-Omaha for a project entitled UNO-NASA Space Grant: Continuing Study the Relationship between Crop Yield and Precipitation, Photosynthetically Active Radiation in Nebraska Area. Jing Zeng (PI), $19,978, 09/01/2014 through 03/31/ UNO-Univ of Nebraska-Omaha for a project entitled UNO-NASA Space Grant Consortium: Using Satellite Data to Study the Relationship between Crop Yield and Precipitation, Surface Radiative Flux in Nebraska Area. Jing Zeng (PI), $6,000,September 2013 May UNO-Univ of Nebraska-Omaha for a project entitled UNO-NASA Space Grant Consortium: Improving the Undergraduate and Graduate Education on NASA Satellite Data Utilization and Teaching the Numerical Modeling Methods. Jing Zeng(PI), $6,091, January 2013 Dec NASA, Evaluate and Enhance the VIIRS Aerosol EDRs for Air Quality and Public Health Applications, Jing Zeng(Co-I), etc, $418,712, NASA, AERONET Skylight Retrievals Using Polarimetric Measurements: Toward Physically Consistent Validation of APS Aerosol Products. Jing Zeng (Co-I), $80,000, UNO-NASA Space Grant Consortium: Advancing Undergraduate and Graduate Research with Hands-On Field Experiences to Support the Validation of NASA's Satellite-Based Products. Jing Zeng (Co-PI), $9,999