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Longtao Wu

Education
  • Ph.D., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009)
  • M.S., Atmospheric Sciences, Beijing University (2004)
  • B.S., Atmospheric Sciences, Beijing University (2001)

Research Interests
  • Mesoscale modeling
  • Aerosol impact on cloud, precipitation and climate
  • Cloud and precipitation processes
  • Satellite data analysis
  • Polar low

Professional Experience
    • Assistant Researcher, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, UCLA, CA (2012- present)
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (2010-2011)
    • Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin -Madison, Madison, WI (2004-2009)
    • Research Assistant, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China (2001-2004)

Selected Publications
  1. Wu, L., H. Su, and J. T. Shen et al., 2012: Relationship of environmental relative humidity with hurricane intensity and intensification rate. In preparation.
  2. Wu, L., H. Su, J. H. Jiang and W. G. Read, 2011: Hydration or dehydration: competing effects of upper tropospheric cloud radiation on the TTL water vapor. Submitted to ACPD.
  3. Hu, X.-M., F. Zhang, G. Yu, J. D. Fuentes, and L. Wu, 2011: Contribution of mixed-phase boundary layer clouds to the termination of ozone depletion events in the Arctic. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L21801, doi:10.1029/2011GL049229.
  4. Wu, L., H. Su and J. H. Jiang, 2011: Regional simulations of deep convection and biomass burning over South America. 1. Model evaluations using multiple satellite datasets. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D17208, doi:10.1029/2011JD016105.
  5. Wu, L., H. Su and J. H. Jiang, 2011: Regional simulations of deep convection and biomass burning over South America. 2. Biomass burning aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D17209, doi:10.1029/2011JD016106.
  6. Wu, L., Martin, J. E. and Petty, G. W., 2011: Piecewise potential vorticity diagnosis of the development of a polar low over the Sea of Japan. Tellus A, 63:198-211. doi: 10.1111/j.1600- 0870.2011.00511.x.
  7. Wu, L. and G. W. Petty, 2010: Intercomparison of Bulk Microphysics Schemes in Simulations of Polar lows. Mon. Wea. Rev., 138, 2211-2228. doi: 10.1175/2010MWR3122.1.
  8. Wu L., H. Wu, L. Sun etc., 2006: Retrieval of Sea Ice in the Bohai Sea from MODIS Data, Periodical of Ocean University of China, Vol. 36, No. 2, 173~179.
  9. Wu L., H. Wu, W. Li, etc., 2005: Sea Ice Drifts in Response to Winds in the Bohai Sea, Acta Oceanologica Sinica, No. 5, 15~21.
  10. Li W., L. Wu, C. Zhang, J.-Y. Yu, 2003: Retrieval of Atmospheric Vertical Temperature Profile above Sea Level with Satellite Remote Sensing, Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, Vol.39, No.5, 656~665.

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