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Dejian Fu

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4800 Oak grove Drive
M/S 183-517E

Pasadena, CA 91109

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818 354-5858

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818 354-5148

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Aerosols And Clouds

Biography

In the past 15 years, Dejian has been serving in the international science-technology communities (atmospheric composition, instrumentation, algorithm, air quality, climate, molecular spectroscopy) and suborbital/orbital missions. Dejian's specialty is developing new remote sensing instruments and retrieval algorithms for profiling the atmospheric composition, with focus on the near surface layer (0-2 km) and the middle-upper troposphere. New global measurements in these two altitude regions are needed to address a suite of scientific objectives ranked as "MOST IMPORTANT" in the 2017 Earth Sciences Decadal Survey (ESDS), since the gaseous and aerosol pollutants in the near surface layer affect the health and economic prosperity of billions of people, and the middle-upper tropospheric constituents drive the regional-global climate changes.

Dejian has been leading the HiMAP instrument concept development since 2018. HiMAP will enable the new global measurement capability of quantifying the gaseous and aerosol pollutants in the near surface layer, via combining multiple angular, spectrally resolved, polarimetric measurements within a compact form factor (~6U). In 2019, he was funded by NASA ESTO to develop "A broadband metasurface for high spectral resolution, imaging spectropolarimetry" - HiMAP's key technology component. Dejian originated a full-physics atmospheric isoprene retrieval algorithm in 2014 when the laboratory isoprene cross sections in the thermal infrared (TIR) were first reported in an international molecular spectroscopy conference. Dejian and his team surveyed observations from the existing satellite TIR sensors (TES, CrIS, AIRS, IASI) and demonstrated that isoprene can be directly quantified from CrIS measurements to advance our understanding of the atmospheric chemistry and climate, since isoprene is a key species driving the atmospheric oxidizing capability. Dejian has also been serving in the remote sensing algorithm communities and satellite missions. His contributions include successful implementation and application of a retrieval algorithm, namely, MUSES, which enables the unique, joint NASA-NOAA-ESA multiple-spectra, multiple-species and multiple-satellite retrievals. MUSES is known as an algorithm tool that enhances near-surface sensitivity and extends the multiple-decade continuity of NASA atmospheric ozone and carbon monoxide profile data, thus supporting the new science of air quality and climate research.

Education

  • B.Eng., Physics (2000), East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China
  • M.Sc., Geography (2003), East China Normal University, Shanghai, P.R. China
  • Ph.D., Atmospheric Chemistry (2007), University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Professional Experience

  • Scientist (2010–present), Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    • Leading HiMAP instrument concept development
    • Responsible for MUSES algorithm development
    • Serving in the algorithm development teams of OCO-3/OCO-2, SuomiNPP-CrIS/OMPS, Aqua-AIRS, Aura-OMI/TES, and Sentinel-5p TROPOMI space missions
    • Served in ROSES IIP Project CARBO, Megacities carbon project CLARS-FTS instrument teams, instrument test, simulation, and characterization
  • Postdoctoral Scholar (2008–2010), Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering
    • served in Megacities carbon project CLARS-FTS instrument team
  • Graduate Research (2003–2007), University of Waterloo
    • served in Canadian SCISAT-1 mission
    • served in Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assessment (MATRAN) project
  • Graduate Research (2000–2003), East China Normal University
    • served in ocean circulation model group

Community Service

  • Journal article review: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Atmosphere
  • Proposal panel review:
    • NASA AIST COLDTECH, SBIR, Earth and Space Science Fellowship Programs, and JPL Senior review proposal for AIRS
    • NASA COLDTECH Program
    • NASA SBIR Program
    • NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship program
    • JPL Flight Project Senior review proposal for AIRS
    • NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship program

Research Interests

Retrieval algorithm

  • PI: NASA Headquarter Directed R&TD (2017-2018) "MUSES algorithm development, characterization, and science application"
  • PI: JPL R&TD Spontaneous Concept Task (2015-2016) "First direct measurements of global atmospheric isoprene from satellite observations"
  • PI: ROSES/AC-AST (2013-2017) "Tropospheric ozone profiles using multispectral measurements from OMI, MLS, and AIRS"
  • JPL-led PI (2018-2021): ROSES/TASNPP "Multi-decadal record of satellite carbon monoxide observations from Terra/MOPITT to SNPP/CrIS",
  • JPL-led PI: ROSES/AST-ACMAP (2017-2020) "Isoprene Measurements from Space: New Global Constraints on Emissions and Photochemistry from Synthesis of CrIS and OMI Data"

Instrumentation/Technology

  • PI: NASA Headquarter Directed R&TD (2019-2020) "A broadband metasurface for high spectral resolution, imaging spectropolarimetry"
  • PI: JPL Strategic Initiative R&TD (2018-2021) "Maturing HiMAP (High-resolution Imaging Multiple-species Atmospheric Profiler) System to TRL 6"
  • PI: JPL Topical R&TD (2017-2018) "High-resolution Imaging Multiple-species Atmospheric Profiler"

Selected Awards

  • William T. Pecora Award, the OMI Science Team, 2019
  • JPL Group Achievement Award, OCO-3 mission, 2019
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, the OCO-2 Science Algorithm Team, 2016
  • JPL Voyager Award, 2016
  • JPL Group Achievement Award, OCO-2 Algorithm Development 2015
  • JPL Group Achievement Award, OCO-2 Algorithm Development 2014
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, the Aura Project, 2014
  • JPL Mariner Award, 2011
  • Bruker BioSpin Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2007
  • Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, September 2003-2007
  • International Doctoral Student Award, University of Waterloo, 2003-2006

Selected Publications

  1. van Kempen T.A., Rotman, T. J., van Hees R.M., Bruegge C., Fu D., Hoogeveen R., Pongetti T. J., Rosenberg R., and Aben I.: Vicarious Calibration of the TROPOMI-SWIR module over the Railroad Valley playa, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-89, in press (2023).
  2. Taylor T.E., O'Dell C.W., Baker D., Bruegge C., Chang A., Chapsky L., Chatterjee A., Cheng C., Chevallier F., Crisp D., Dang L., Drouin B., Eldering A., Feng L., Fisher B., Fu D., Gunson M., Haemmerle V., Keller G.R., Kiel M., Kuai L., Kurosu T., Lambert A., Laughner J., Lee R., Liu J., Mandrake L., Marchetti Y., McGarragh G., Merrelli A., Nelson R.R., Osterman G., Oyafuso F., Palmer P.I., Payne V.H., Rosenberg R., Somkuti P., Spiers G., To C., Wennberg P.O., Yu S., and Zong J.: Evaluating the consistency between OCO-2 and OCO-3 XCO2 estimates derived from the NASA ACOS version 10 retrieval algorithm, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-329, in press (2023).
  3. Worden H.M., Francis G. L., Kulawik S.S., Bowman K.W., Cady-Pereira K., Fu D., Hegarty J.D., Kantchev V., Luo M., Payne V.H., Worden J.R., Commane R., and McKain K.: TROPESS/CrIS carbon monoxide profile validation with NOAA GML and ATom in situ aircraft observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 5383–5398, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5383-2022, (2022).
  4. Hsiao H.-H., Muller R.E., McGuire J.P., Nemchick D.J., Shen C.-H., van Harten G., Rud M., Johnson W.R., Nordman A.D., Wu Y.-H., Wilson D.W., Chiou Y.-P., Choi M., Hyon J.J., Fu D.: An Ultra-Broadband High Efficiency Polarization Beam Splitter for High Spectral Resolution Polarimetric Imaging in the Near Infrared. Adv. Sci. 2022, 9, 2201227. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202201227, (2022).
  5. Choi M., Sander S.P., Spurr R.J.D., Pongetti T.J., van Harten G., Drouin B.J., Diner D.J., Crisp D., Eldering A., Kalashnikova O.V., Jiang J.H., Hyon J., Fu D.: Aerosol profiling using radiometric and polarimetric spectral measurements in the O2 absorption bands: information content and measurement uncertainties estimation, Remote Sens. Envir., 253, 112179, doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112179, (2021).
  6. Kulawik S.S., Worden J.R., Payne V.H., Fu D., Wofsy S.C., Sweeney C., Manning E., Lipton A., Polonsky I., He Y., Cady-Pereira K.E., Yin Y., Dlugokencky E.J.: Evaluation of AIRS CH4 profile retrievals uncertainties using aircraft profile measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 335–354, (2021).
  7. Yu S., Rosenberg R., Bruegge C., Chapsky L., Fu D., Lee R., Taylor T.E., Cronk H., O'Dell C., Angal A., Xiong X., Crisp D., Eldering A.: stability assessment of OCO-2 radiometric calibration using Aqua MODIS as a Reference, Remote Sensing, 12, 1269, doi.org/10.3390/rs12081269, (2020).
  8. Fu D., Millet D.B., Wells K.C., Payne V.H., Yu S., Guenther A., and Eldering A.: Direct retrieval of isoprene from satellite-based infrared measurements, Nature Communication, 10, 3811, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11835-0 (2019).
  9. Shannon Kian Zareh, Miller C., Wong A., Sullivan P., Rud M., Beregovski Y., Wilson D., Wallace J.K., Sellar G., Keymeule D., Brooks C.B., Eldering A., Fu D., Mainzer A.: The Carbon Balance Observatory (CARBO) instrument for remote sensing of greenhouse gases from space, Proceedings Volume 11152, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXIV; SPIE Remote Sensing, https://doi.org/ 10.1117/12.2539078, (2019).
  10. Worden J.R., Kulawik S.S., Fu D., Payne V.H., Lipton A.E., Polonsky I., He Y., Cady-Pereira K., Moncet J.-L., Herman R.L., Irion F.W., and Bowman K.W.: Characterization and Evaluation of AIRS-Based Estimates of the Deuterium Content of Water Vapor, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 2331–2339, (2019).
  11. Fu D., Kulawik S.S., Miyazaki K., Bowman K.W., Worden J.R., Eldering A., Livesey N.J., Teixeira J., Irion F.W., Herman R.L., Osterman G.B., Liu X., Levelt P.F., Thompson A.M., and Luo M.: Retrievals of Tropospheric Ozone Profiles from the Synergic Observation of AIRS and OMI: Methodology and Validation, Atmos., Meas. Tech., 11, 5,587–5,605, (2018).
  12. Miyazaki K., Sekiya T., Fu D., Bowman K.W., Kulawik S.S., Sudo K., Walker T., Kanaya Y., Takigawa M., Ogochi K., Eskes H., Boersam F., Gaubert B., Barre J., and Emmons L.: Balance of emission and dynamical controls on ozone during KORUS-AQ from multi-constituent satellite data assimilation, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 387–413, (2018).
  13. Levelt P., Joiner J., Tamminen J., Veefkind P., Duncan B., Eskes H., Torres O., DeLand M., Marchenko S., Kleipool Q., Pickering K., Apituley A., Zweers D.S., Carn S., van der A R., Ialongo I., Arola A., Hassinen S., Hakkarainen J., McPeters R., Ziemke J., Boersma F., Krotkov N., Fu D., Liu X., Abad G.G., Chance K., Suileman R., Li C., and Bhartia P.: The Ozone Monitoring Instrument: Overview of 14 years in space, Atmos., Chem. Phys., 18, 5,699–5,745 (2018).
  14. Irion F., Kahn B., Schreier M., Fetzer E., Fishbein E., Fu D., Kalmus P., Wilson R.C., Wong S., and Yue Q.: Single-footprint retrievals of temperature, water vapor and cloud properties from AIRS, Atmos., Meas. Tech., 11, 971–995, (2018).
  15. Herman R.L., Ray E.A., Rosenlof K.H., Bedka K.M., Schwartz M.J., Read W.G., Troy R.F., Chin K., Christensen L.E., Fu D., Stachnik R.A., Bui T.P., and Dean-Day J. M.: Enhanced stratospheric water vapor over the summertime continental United States and the role of overshooting convection, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 6113–6124, (2017).
  16. Crisp D., Pollock H.R., Rosenberg R., Chapsky L., Lee R.A.M., Oyafuso F.A., Frankenberg C., O'Dell C.W., Bruegge C.J., Doran G.B., Eldering A., Fisher B.M., Fu D., Gunson M.R., Mandrake L., Osterman G.B., Schwandner F.M., Sun K., Taylor T.E., Wennberg P.O., and Wunch D.: The On-Orbit Performance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Instrument and its Radiometrically Calibrated Products, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 59–81, (2017).
  17. Eldering A., O'Dell C. W., Wennberg P. O., Crisp D., Gunson M. R., Viatte C., Avis C., Braverman A., Castano R., Chang A., Chapsky L., Cheng C., Connor B., Dang L., Doran G., Fisher B., Frankenberg C., Fu D., Granat R., Hobbs J., Lee R.A.M., Mandrake L., McDuffie J., Miller C.E., Myers V., Natraj V., O'Brien D., Osterman G. B., Oyafuso F., Payne V.H., Pollock H.R., Polonsky I., Roehl C.M., Rosenberg R., Schwandner F., Smyth M., Tang V., Taylor T.E., To C., Wunch D., and Yoshimizu J.: The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2: First 18 months of Science Data Products, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 549–563, (2017).
  18. Griffin D., Walker K.A., Conway S., Kolonjari F., Strong K., Batchelor R., Boone C.D., Dan L., Drummond J.R., Fu D., Lindenmaier R., Manney G.L., Sung K., and Weaver D.: Multi-year comparisons of ground-based and space-borne Fourier Transform Spectrometers in the high Arctic between 2006 and 2013, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3273–3294, (2017).
  19. Fu D., Bowman K.W., Worden H., Natraj V., Worden J.R., Yu S., Veefkind P., Aben I., Landgraf J., Strow L., Han Y.: High resolution tropospheric carbon monoxide profiles retrieved from CrIS and TROPOMI, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 2567–2579, (2016).
  20. Zeng Z.-C., Zhang Q., Margolis J., Shia R.-L., Newman S., Fu D., et al.: Aerosol scattering effects on water vapor retrievals over the Los Angeles Basin, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 2495–2508, (2017).
  21. Connor B., Bösch H., McDuffie J., Taylor T., Fu D., et al.: Quantification of Uncertainties in OCO-2 Measurements of XCO2: Simulations and Linear Error Analysis, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 5227–5238, (2016).
  22. Zhang Q., Natraj V., Li K-F, Shia R-L, Fu D., Pongetti T.J., et al.: Accounting for aerosol scattering in the CLARS retrieval of column averaged CO2 mixing ratios, J. Geophys. Rev., 120(14), 7205–7218, (2015).
  23. Wong K.W., Fu D., Pongetti T. J., Newman S., Kort E.A., Duren R., Y.-K. Hsu, Miller C. E., Yung Y.L., and Sander S.P.: Mapping CH4: CO2 ratios in Los Angeles with CLARS-FTS from Mount Wilson, California, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 241–252, (2015).
  24. Fu D., Pongetti T.J., Blavier J-F L., Crawford T.J., Manatt K.S., Toon G.C., Wong C., and Sander S.P.: Near-infrared remote sensing of Los Angeles trace gas distributions from a mountaintop site, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7713–7729, (2014).
  25. Fu D., Worden J.R., Liu X., Kulawik S.S., Bowman K.W., and Natraj V.: Characterization of ozone profiles derived from Aura TES and OMI radiances, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 3445–3462, (2013).
  26. Worden H.M., Edwards D.P., Deeter M.N., Fu D., Kulawik S.S., Worden J.R., Arellano A., Averaging kernel prediction from atmospheric and surface state parameters based on multiple regression for nadir-viewing satellite measurements of carbon monoxide and ozone, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 1633–1646, (2013).
  27. Bekker D.L., Blavier J.L., Fu D., Key R.W., Manatt K.S., McKinney C., Rider D.M., Sander S.P., Werne T.A., Wu A.C., Wu Y.H., Command and data handling system for the panchromatic Fourier transform spectrometer, Aerospace Conference IEEE, 1–10, (2012).
  28. Fu D., Bernath P.F., Sung K., Walker K.A., Strong K., Mittermeier R. and Fast H., Simultaneous atmospheric remote sensing using Fourier transform infrared spectrometers at Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) during Spring 2006, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 5,383–5,405, (2011).
  29. Fu D., Boone C.D., Bernath P.F., Weisenstein D.K., Rinsland C.P., Manney G.L. and Walker K.A., First global observations of atmospheric COClF from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment mission, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Rad. Trans., 110, 974–985, (2009).
  30. Fu D., Sung K., Boone C.D., Walker K.A., and Bernath P.F., Ground-based solar absorption studies for the Carbon Cycle science by Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (CC-FTS), J. Quant. Spectrosc. Rad. Trans., 109, 2,219–2,243, (2008).
  31. Fu D., Boone C.D., Bernath P.F., Walker K.A., Nassar R., Manney G.L. and McLeod S.D., Global phosgene observations from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) mission, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, (2007).
  32. Fu D., Walker K.A., Sung K., Boone C.D., Soucy M.-A. and Bernath P.F.: The Portable Atmospheric Research Interferometric Spectrometer for the Infrared, PARIS-IR, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Rad. Trans., 103, 362–370, (2007).
  33. Fraser A., Bernath P.F., Blatherwick R.D., Drummond J.R., Fogal P.F., Fu D.: et al., Intercomparison of ground-based ozone and NO2 measurements during the MANTRA 2004 campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 5,489–5,499, (2007).
  34. Wunch D., Taylor J., Fu D., Bernath P.F., Drummond J.R., et al.: Simultaneous ground-based observations of O3, HCl, N2O and CH4 over Toronto using three Fourier transform spectrometers with different resolutions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 1,275–1,292, (2006).
  35. Yu S., Fu D., Shayesteh A., Gordon I.E., Appadoo D.R.T. and Bernath P.F.: Infrared and near infrared emission spectra of SbH and SbD, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 229(2), 257–265, (2005).

Projects

Megacities Carbon Project
OCO-3 - Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3