Email: huangx@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8975
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

Data assimilation techniques. Observing systems. Initialization and noise control for NWP systems. Numerical methods. Moist convection and cloud parameterization.

Recent publications

Wang, H., Mu, M., Huang, X.-Y. 2011. Application of Conditional Nonlinear Optimal Perturbation to Tropical Cyclone Adaptive Observation using the Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model. Tellus, 63A, 939-957.

Zhang, M., Zhang, F., Huang, X.-Y. and Zhang, X. 2011. Inter-comparison of an ensemble Kalman filter with three- and four-dimensional variational data assimilation methods in a limited-area model over the month of June 2003. Mon. Wea. Rev., 139, 566-572.

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.

Chen, M. and Huang, X.-Y. 2006. Digital Filter Initialization for MM5. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 1222-1236.







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