Professional Interests
Data assimilation techniques.
Observing systems.
Initialization and noise control for NWP systems.
Numerical methods.
Moist convection and cloud parameterization.
Recent publications
Lynch, P. and X.-Y. Huang. 2010.
Initialization. Chapter 9, in Data Assimilation: Making sense of observations , eds. W. Lahoz, B. Khattatov and R. Menard, Springer.
ISBN: 978-3-540-74702-4.
Huang, X.-Y., Q. Xiao, D. M. Barker, Xin Zhang, J. Michalakes, W. Huang, T. Henderson, J. Bray, Y. Chen, Z. Ma, J. Dudhia, Y. Guo, Xiaoyan Zhang,
D.-J. Won, H.-C. Lin, Y.-H. Kuo, 2009.
Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation for WRF: Formulation and Preliminary Results.
Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 299-314.
Xiao, Q., Kuo, Y., Ma, Z., Huang, W., Huang, X., Zhang, X., Barker, D. M., Michalakes, J., 2008.
Development of the WRF adjoint modeling system and its application to the investigation of the May 2004 McMurdo Antarctica severe wind event.
Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 3696-3713.
Huang, X.-Y., Hui Shao, Meral Demirtas, Zhiquan Liu, Rizvi Syed, Thomas Auligne and Dale Barker. 2008.
APPLICATIONS OF WRF DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM AT THE NCAR DATA ASSIMILATION TESTBED CENTER (DATC).
9th WRF Users' Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 23-27 June 2008.
[http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/workshops/WS2008/abstracts/5-06.pdf]
Huang, Xiang-Yu, Hongli Wang, Yongsheng Chen, Xin Zhang, Stephen A. Tjemkes, and Rolf Stuhlmann. 2008.
AN OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT (OSSE) FOR METEOSAT THIRD GENERATION INFRA-RED SOUNDING RETRIEVALS USING BOTH MM5 AND WRF.
9th WRF Users' Workshop, Boulder, Colorado, 23-27 June 2008.
[http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/workshops/WS2008/abstracts/P5-12.pdf]
Chen, M. and Huang, X.-Y. 2006.
Digital Filter Initialization for MM5.
Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 1222-1236.