Huilin GAO
Research Scientist II
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: huilin.gao@eas.gatech.edu
Phone:
(404)385-1515; Fax: (404)385-1510
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton
University, 2005
M.A., Civil and Environmental
Engineering,
M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, Peking University, 2000
B.S., Atmospheric Sciences,
MEMBERSHIP
American
Geophysical
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
American Meteorology Society (AMS)
PUBLICATIONS
McCabe, M. F., M. Pan, R. , J. Sheffield, H. Gao, H. Su, E. F. Wood, Multi-sensor Remote Sensing Data for Water and Energy Balance Studies: Towards Hydrological Consistency through Observation and Data Assimilation, Remote Sensing of Environment, 2006, in review.
Pan, M., E. F. Wood, and H. Gao, A Data Assimilation System for Land Surface Models and Microwave Satellite Measurements, 2006, Remote Sensing of Environment, in review.
Gao, H., E. F. Wood, and M. Drusch, Copula
Derived Observation Operators for Assimilating TMI and AMSR-E Soil Moisture
into Land Surface Models, 2006, J. Hydromet., in press.
Gao, H., E. F. Wood, M. Drusch, T. Jackson,
R. Bindlish, Using
TRMM/TMI to retrieve soil moisture over the southern United States from 1998 to
2002. J. Hydromet., 7, 23–38, 2006.
McCabe, M. F., Gao, H. and Wood, E. F., An evaluation of AMSR-E derived soil moisture retrievals using ground based, airborne and ancillary data during SMEX 02, Hydromet., 6, 864-877, 2005.
McCabe, M.F., Wood, E. F., and Gao, H., Initial soil moisture retrievals from AMSR-E: Large scale comparisons
with SMEX 02 field observations and rainfall patterns over
M. Drusch, Wood, E. F., and Gao, H., Observation operators for the direct Assimilation of satellite retrieved soil moisture into land surface models. Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L15403, doi:10.1029/2005GL023623, 2005.
Gao, H., E. F. Wood, M. Drusch, W. Crow, T. J. Jackson, Using a Microwave Emission
Model to Estimate Soil Moisture from ESTAR Observations During SGP99, J. Hydromet., (5), 49-63, 2004.
Drusch, M., E. F. Wood, H. Gao, Soil moisture retrieval during the Southern Great Plains Hydrology experiment 1999: A comparison between experimental remote sensing data and operational products, Water Resource Research, 40 (2): Art. No.W02504FEB 122004, 2004.
Bindlish, R., T. J. Jackson, E. F.
Wood, H. Gao, P. Starks, D. Bosch and V. Lakshmi, Soil moisture estimates from TRMM Microwave Imager
observations over the Southern United States, Rem. Sens. Envir., (85),507-515,2003.
Gu,S., H. Gao, Y. Zhu, B. Zhao, N. Lu, W. Zhang, Remote Sensing Land Surface Wetness by use of TRMM/TMI Microwave data, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., (80),59-63, 2002.
Zhao, B. L., Z. Y. Yao, W. B. Li, J. Yuan, Y. Chen, H. L. Gao, and Y. J. Zhu, Rainfall retrieval and flooding monitoring in China using TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 79, 301-315, 2001.
CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATIONS
Drusch, M., H. Wilker, E. F. Wood, H. Gao, On the impact of microwave observations on analysed soil moisture and turbulent surface fluxes, Spring EGU, 2005.
Gao, H., M. Pan, E. F. Wood, C. De Michele, The potential of assimilating remotely sensed soil moisture into land surface models, EOS Trans. AGU Suppl. 85(47), 2004.
Gao, H., E. F. Wood, M. Drusch, M. McCabe, T. J. Jackson, R. Bindlish, Using TRMM/TMI to retrieve soil moisture over Southern United States from 1998 to 2002, EOS Trans. AGU Suppl. 84(46), 2003.
Wood, E. F., H. Gao, M. Drusch, T. Jackson, R.
Bindlish, Soil
moisture retrievals over the Southern Great Plains: Comparisons between
experimental remote sensing data and operational products. Proc. IGARSS, 2003.
McCabe, M. F., E. F. Wood,
Su, H., Gao, H. and
Gao, H., E. F. Wood, Calibration of a Microwave Emission Model Using 10.7GHz Brightness Temperature, poster at Spring AGU, 2002
Last edited on Oct. 15, 2005