Dr. Xiping Zeng
Associate Research Scientist
University of Maryland at Baltimore County/Goddard Environmental Sciences and Technology (GEST) Center
Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch (Code 613.1)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Email: zeng@agnes.gsfc.nasa.gov
Phone: (301) 614-6095

Experience
2004-Present, Assistant Research Scientist, UMBC/GEST and NASA/GSFC, MD
2002-2004, Research Associate, UMBC/GEST and NASA/GSFC, MD
Jan. 2002-May 2002, Postdoc Research Physicist, Physics Department, New Mexico Tech
1995, Associate Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China
1987-1994, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China

Education
Ph.D., Atmospheric Physics, New Mexico Tech (2001)
Dissertation title: Ensemble simulation of tropical convection.
Thesis advisor: David J. Raymond
M.S., Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China (1986)
B.S., Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China (1984)

Membership
Associate Fellow of Royal Meteorological Society
Member of American Geophysical Union

Recent Scientific Awards
Best Senior Author Publication Award, 2008, NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheres, for ÒEvaluating clouds in long-term cloud resolving model simulations with observational data.
Outstanding Scientific Support Award, 2006, NASA/GSFC Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch, for ÒOutstanding scientific research using ARM and the Land Information System to validate and improve the Goddard Cumulus Ensemble (GCE) model.

Referred Publications

• Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, A. Y. Hou, S. Xie, S. Lang, X. Li, D. Starr, and X. Li, 2009: A contribution by ice nuclei to global warming. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. (accepted).
• Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, A. Y. Hou, S. Xie, S. Lang, X. Li, D. Starr, X. Li, and J. Simpson, 2009: An indirect effect of ice nuclei on atmospheric radiation. Atmos. Sci., 66, 41-61.
• Matsui, T., X. Zeng, W.-K. Tao, H. Masunaga, W. S. Olson, and S. Lang, 2009: Evaluation of long-term cloud-resolving model simulations using satellite radiance observations and multi-frequency satellite simulators. Atmos. Oce. Tech. (in press).
• Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, S. Lang, A. Y. Hou, M. Zhang and J. Simpson, 2008: On the sensitivity of atmospheric ensembles to cloud microphysics in long-term cloud-resolving model simulations. Meteor. Soc. Japan. 86A, 45-65.
• Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 2008: A choice of prognostic variables for long-term cloud-resolving model simulations. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86, 839-856.
• Norris, P. M., L. Oreopoulos, A. Y. Hou, W.-K. Tao, and X. Zeng, 2008: Representation of 3D heterogeneous cloud fields using copulas: Theory for water clouds. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 134, 1843-1864. DOI: 10.1002/qj.321.
• Zeng, X., 2008: The influence of radiation on ice crystal spectrum in the upper troposphere. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 134, 609-620.
• Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao, M. Zhang, C. Peters-Lidard, S. Lang, J. Simpson, S. Kumar, S. Xie, J. L. Eastman, C.-L. Shie and J. V. Geiger, 2007: Evaluating clouds in long-term cloud-resolving model simulations with observational data. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4153-4177.
• Juang, H.-M., W.-K. Tao, X. Zeng, C.-L. Shie and J. Simpson, 2007: Implementation of a message passing interfacing into a cloud-resolving model for massive parallel computing. Atmos. Ocean Sci., 18, 593-622.
• Zeng, X., W.-K. Tao and J. Simpson, 2005: An equation for moist entropy in a precipitating and icy atmosphere. Atmos. Sci., 62, 4293-4309.
• Raymond, D. J. and X. Zeng, 2005: Modeling tropical atmospheric convection in the context of the weak temperature gradient approximation. J. Roy. Soc., 131, 1301-1320.
• Raymond, D. J. and X. Zeng, 2000: Instability and large scale circulations in a two-column model of the troposphere. J. Roy. Soc., 126, 3117-3135.
• Zeng, X., 1996: Numerical simulation of tropical cyclones by an axisymmetric nonhydrostatic model. Atmos. Phys., 60, 207-224.
• Zeng, X. and Z. Ren, 1995: Quantitative Analysis of the discretization errors of the horizontal pressure gradient force over sloping terrain. J. Atmos. Sci., 19, 722-732.
• Zeng, X., 1994: A nonhydrostatic axisymmetric numerical model of tropical cyclones with its preliminary results. Nan. Inst. Meteor., 17, 263-275
• Zhou, J., W. Zhou and X. Zeng, 1994: A scheme for processing Doppler radar velocity data. Nan. Inst. Meteor., 17, 211-218.
• Zeng, X., 1992: An axisymmetric, nonhydrostatic numerical model for tropical cyclone. Climate, Environment and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Ye Duzheng et al. eds., China Meteor. Press, 254-264.
• Zeng, X., and C. Zhang, 1990: Radar observation of the precipitation fluctuation and its maximum entropy analysis. Nan. Inst. Meteor., 13, 50-56.
• Zeng, X., and C. Zhang, 1989, A fast, accurate numerical method for integrating the equation of coalescence and breakup of water droplets. J. Atmos. Sci., 13, 87-96.
• Wu, Z., and Zeng, 1988: A preliminary study of the evolution model for the nocturnal surface inversion height over the plain. Scitenia Meteor. Sinica, 17, 38-44.