PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Jan. 2022 – present Project Scientist II, NSF NCAR
Oct. 2019 – Jan. 2022 Project Scientist I, NSF NCAR
Oct. 2017 – Sept. 2019 ASP Postdoctoral Fellow, NSF NCAR
Jun. 2017 – Sept. 2017 Postdoctoral Scholar, JIFRESSE, UCLA
Jul. 25 – Aug. 5 2016 Visiting Graduate Student, ASP Summer Colloquium, NSF NCAR
EDUCATION
2017.6 Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
2013.12 M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
2012.6 B.S. in Environmental Sciences and Applied Mathematics (double major), Peking University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
land surface modeling, land-atmosphere interaction, hydrology, urban modeling, extreme events, atmospheric chemistry and modeling, air pollution, aerosol-snow/cloud-radiation Interactions, radiative transfer and light scattering, machine learning Application
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
2024-2025 UCAR NextGen Research Mentor, NCAR, USA
May – Aug. 2024 UCAR SOARS Research Mentor, NCAR, USA
Jan 27, 2024 AMS Noah-MP model short course, USA
May 25, 2023 Noah-MP model tutorial instructor, NCAR, USA
May – Aug. 2018 UCAR SOARS Research Mentor, NCAR, USA
Jan. – Jul. 2016 Teaching Assistant, Course “AOS2 (Air Pollution)”, UCLA, USA
Summer, 2013–2017 Mentor for undergraduate research intern, UCLA, USA
Spring 2016 Guest Lecturer, Course “AOS141 (Intro. to Atmos. Chem. and Air Pollution)”, UCLA, USA
Jan. 30, 2017 Volunteer Teacher in the Citizens of the World Charter School, Los Angeles, USA
Mar. 23–24, 2016 Volunteer Teacher in the 20th annual Children's Water Education Festival, Irvine, USA
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Topic Editor for Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)
Associate Editor for Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Associate Editor for Frontiers in Environmental Science
Proposal Reviewer: NSF, DOE, NASA, NOAA, Austrian Science Fund
Journal Reviewer: Nature Climate change, Nature Communications, PNAS, Geophys. Res. Lett., Atmos. Chem. Phys.,
J. Geosphys. Res.-Atmos., Environ. Res. Lett., J. Climate, J. of Atmos. Sci., Atmos. Environ.,
Geosci. Model Dev., International Journal of Climatology, The Cryosphere, Environ. Pollut, JQSRT,
Remote Sensing of Environment, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Scientific Report, etc.
Co-chair of an international activity for IGAC “Urban Air Pollution and Interaction with Climate (U-APIC)”
Lead developer for Noah-MP model and leading the international Noah-MP community activities
Committee chair for Noah-MP model strategic development and code review committees
Lead and coordinate international community efforts for WRF-Urban model development
Co-lead for land-atmosphere interaction working group of GEWEX Regional Hydroclimate Project (H2US)
Co-lead for land-water working group of UCAR Africa Initiative
Main developer for land component of coupled UFS/Noah-MP, LIS/Noah-MP, WRF/Noah-MP, and MPAS/Noah-MP systems
NOAA Unified Forecast System (UFS) land working group
Lead the NCAR Snow Affinity Group​
NSF NCAR’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) Allocation Panel (CHAP)
Committee for WRF community model release
NSF NCAR’s data Assimilation, Infrastructure, and Modeling (AIM) Working Group
Organizer for international Noah-MP Users’ Workshop and Tutorial
Volunteer Judge for AMS & AGU Student Presentations
AGU Session Chair and Convener​
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TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Language: Fortran, R, IDL, Matlab, Python
Relevant Tool/Software: Latex, Rmarkdown, SPSS, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel
Working Platform/System: Linux, Mac OS, Windows
Mathematical Technique: Matrix algebra, Numeric computation, Statistics, Optimization, Machine learning
OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
Feb. 2018: Volunteer for UCAR Explorer Series Event Preparation
Nov. 2017: Volunteer for UCAR Explorer Series Event Preparation
Jan. 2017: Volunteer for teaching at Citizens of the World Charter School, Los Angeles, CA
Mar. 2016: Volunteer for the 20th annual Children's Water Education Festival (UC Irvine)
CONTACT ME
Email: cenlinhe@ucar.edu
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