Quanhua (Mark) Liu
is a physical scientist at the NOAA/NESDIS and is leading the soundings team
at NOAA/STAR. He received a B.S. from Nanjing University of Information
Science and Technology (former Nanjing Institute of Meteorology), China,
a Master's Degree in Physics from the Chinese Academy of Science, and a
PhD in Meteorology and Remote Sensing from the University of Kiel, Germany.
He has contributed to the development of the first Chinese Meteorological
Satellite FengYin-1, the METEOSAT second generation satellite, various
NOAA/NASA meteorological satellites, JPSS and GOES-R satellites. Quanhua
(Mark) Liu was a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland
(College Park, MD), working as a co-chair of the Community Radiative Transfer
Model committee in the United States.
His expertise includes: radiative transfer models, satellite radiance
assimilation, and sensor calibration and climate studies.