Yongxiang Hu

Yongxiang Hu is a research scientist at NASA Langley Research Center. His research interests include radiative transfer theory and modeling, climate modeling, measurements of phytoplankton, aerosols and clouds. His discovery of the relations between lidar depolarization and multiple scattering for water cloud droplets and ocean lead to new lidar retrieval concepts such as accurate estimates of particulate beam attenuation and phytoplankton biomass, as well as retrievals of water cloud microphysical properties and retrievals of properties of aerosol above water clouds. This study earned him the INABA prize at the ICLAS (International Coordination for Laser Atmospheric Studies) society in 2006. Dr. Hu received NASA’s exceptional achievement award in 2008 for his super-resolution laser altimetry technique. Dr. Hu is involved in a joint South Korean – NASA polarimeter study project, POLCAM, for ocean, aerosol and cloud measurements.