Xin Jin

 

Assistant Researcher

 

Space Science and Engineering Center
1225 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Phone: (608) 890-0619
Email: xjin@ssec.wisc.edu

 

 

 

 

ß August 2005, Devon Island

 

 

Welcome to my homepage! I am working in Dr Jun Li’s sounding team at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My major task is to develop algorithms to retrieve temperature/moisture profiles, atmospheric trace gases (ozone, SO2) and aerosols (dust) by Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) which will be onboard the next generation of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-R and beyond). Also I am working on the retrieval of surface parameters, such as the surface emissivity, surface skin temperature and etc. The algorithms I am developing will be part of the GOES-R Algorithm Working Group (AWP). Some of them have already been in use by ABI’s counterpart Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) onboard the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites.

 

I am also experienced in cloud and radiative process in the atmosphere, especially in the Polar Region. As an atmospheric physicist I have been involved in the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES) and ArcticNet for three years, including several field works in the Canadian Arctic Oceans. I witnessed the quick change of the fragile Polar climate system. I am very willing to cooperate with colleagues in this field.

 

I did my Ph.D. project in Academian Bolin Zhao’s remote sensing group at Peking University. My Ph.D. thesis is about the remote sensing of precipitation by satellite-based active/passive microwave instruments (i.e., Precipitation Radar and TMI) onboard the NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite; and its application in the meso-scale storm forecast system.

 

Apart from these satellite instruments, I am also skillful in another instrument: guitar. You are very welcome on this topic J

 

 

EDUCATION

 

PhD (2000-2003) Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, China

M.S. (1997-2000) Department of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China

B.S. (1993-1997) Department of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Journal papers:

 

  1. Jun Li, Jin, Xin, Timothy J. Schmit, James Nelson, Jinlong Li, 2007: Retrieving surface emissivity at SEVIRI IR bands.  Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, ready to submit.
  2. Jin, Xin, Jun Li, Timothy J. Schmit, Zhenglong Li, James Nelson, Jinlong Li, 2007: Evaluation of total precipitable water derived from SEVIRI with AMSR-E and ground-based measurements.  Geophys. Res. Lett., ready to submit.
  3. Jin, Xin, Jun Li, Timothy J. Schmit, Jinlong Li, Mitchell D. Goldberg, and James J. Gurka, 2008: Retrieving Clear Sky Atmospheric Parameters from SEVIRI and ABI infrared radiances. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15310, DOI:10.1029/2008JD010040. (download)
  4. Jin, Xin, J. Li, C. C. Schmidt, T. Schmit, and J. Li, 2008: Retrieval of total column ozone from Imagers onboard a Geostationary Satellite, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 46(2), 479 – 488, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.910222.(download)
  5. Jin, Xin, John Hanesiak, and David Barber, 2007: Time series of daily-averaged cloud fractions over landfast first year sea ice from multiple data sources, J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 46, 1818 – 1827, DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1472.1. (download)
  6. Jin, Xin, D. Barber, and T. Papakyriakou, 2006: A new clear-sky downward longwave radiative flux parameterization for Arctic areas based on rawinsonde data, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D24104, doi:10.1029/2005JD007039. (download)
  7. Jin, Xin, John Hanesiak, and David Barber, 2007: Detecting cloud vertical structures from radiosondes and MODIS during CASES field experiment. Atmos. Res., 83(1), 64-76, doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2006.03.003. (download)
  8. Jin, Xin, Li Wanbiao, Zhu Yuanjing and Zhao Bolin, 2005: A numerical study on the contribution of melting layer composed by coated ice spheres to the upwelling brightness temperatures in TMI channels using VDISORT algorithm. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 91, 437-452. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2004.07.020. (download)
  9. Jin, Xin, Li Zhenglong, Zhu Yuanjing, Wang Zhenhui, 2004, Dipole Model of Spherical Hydrometeors and Its Application on the Space-borne Precipitation Radar Sounding, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 83, 629-639. doi:10.1016/S0022-4073(03)00109-2. (download)
  10. Liu, Wenming, Xin Jin, Zhu Yuanjing, 2004, Study on the Vertical Structure of Precipitable Cloud in HUAIHE River Basin Area with Spaceborne Radar and radiometer, Journal of Peking University (Science Edition), Beijing, China, 40(1) pp.56-65.
  11. Jin, Xin, Zhu Yuanjing et al. 2003: A Study On The Meiyu Front by TRMM/PR Data During The 1998 GAME/HUBEX. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 20(2), 293-298. DOI:10.1007/s00376-003-0015-6.
  12. Li, Zhenglong, Xin Jin, Li Wanbiao, Zhu Yuanjing, 2002, A study on the relationship between GMS-5 Infrared data and precipitation sounded by TRMM/PR, Acta Meteor. Sinica, 16(3), 317-326.
  13. Jin, Xin, Zhu Yuanjing and Wang Zhenhui, 2001: The Study of Sounding Rain Profile by the Combination of Ground-based and Space-borne Radar. Chinese Climatic and Environmental Research, 6(2), 191-196.

 

Selected conference papers:

 

  1. Jin, Xin, Jun Li, Timothy J. Schmit, Jinlong Li, Allen H. Huang, and Mitchell D. Goldberg, 2008: GOES-R/ABI legacy profile algorithm evaluation using MSG/SEVIRI and AMSR-E, Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization IV: Readiness for GEOSS II, edited by Mitchell D. Goldberg, Hal J. Bloom, Allen H. Huang, Philip E. Ardanuy. Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7085, 70850F (2008); DOI:10.1117/12.791886
  2. Xin Jin, Jun Li, Timothy J. Schmit, Jinlong Li, Elisabeth Weisz, Zhenglong Li, and Mitchell D. Goldberg, 2008: GOES-R/ABI Legacy Profile Algorithm Evaluation Using MSG/SEVIRI, 2008 NOAA STAR GOES-R AWG Review, 23-26 June 2008, Madison, WI.
  3. Jin, Xin, Jun Li, Timothy J. Schmit, Jinlong Li, Elisabeth Weisz, and Zhenglong Li, 2008: GOES-R/ABI legacy profile algorithm evaluation with MSG/SEVIRI, 5th GOES Users' Conference, 88th AMS Annual Meeting 20-24 January 2008, New Orleans, LA.
  4. Jin, Xin, Jun Li, Timothy J. Schmit, Zhenglong Li, James P. Nelson, Jinlong Li, and Mitchell D. Goldberg, 2007: An Improved Atmospheric Profile Retrieval System for SEVIRI and ABI data, Atmospheric and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization III: Readiness for GEOSS, edited by Mitchell D. Goldberg, Hal J. Bloom, Allen H. Huang, Philip E. Ardanuy. Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6684, 66840K, (2007).0277-786X/07/$18. doi: 10.1117/12.732683
  5. Jin, Xin, J. Li, C. C. Schmidt, T. Schmit, and J. Li, 2007: Study of High Temporal Ozone Product from Imagers Onboard Geostationary Satellites, Fourier Transform Spectroscopy & Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment Topical Meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA February 12-15, 2007.
  6. Jin, Xin, John Hanesiak, and David Barber, 2005: The cloud vertical structure in winter Arctic, the 39th CMOS Annual Congress, 31 May – 3 June, 2005, Vancouver/Richmond, BC, Canada.
  7. Jin, Xin, and David Barber, 2005: On the sensitivity of cloud related radiative processes on the initiation and rate of melt over snow covered landfast first year sea ice, 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, 85th AMS Annual Meeting 11-15 January 2005, San Diego, CA.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

 

June 2007 – current Assistant researcher

Developing algorithms for temperature/moisture profiles and surface emissivity retrieval by SEVIRI

 

May, 2006 – June 2007  Research associate

Developing an algorithm for total column ozone retrieval by MSG/SEVIRI; integrating the computer codes for dust storm retrieval by MSG/SEVIRI into GEOCAT system; testing the GOES legacy algorithm for atmospheric profile retrieval by SEVIRI.

 

Sep., 2003 – May, 2006 Research assistant

Analyzing atmospheric water vapor and cloud liquid water content in the Arctic Region according to the data gathered both in the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES) and in ArcticNet.

 

Aug-Sep., 2005 Scientist

The field work as a meteorologist in the Canadian Arctic region, doing standard weather observations in the first leg of ArcticNet, in charge of ceilometer, all-sky camera and meteor-station.

 

May-Jun., 2004 Scientist

The field work as a meteorologist in the Canadian Arctic region, doing weather observations, releasing radiosondes and maintaining ceilometer, all-sky camera, and microwave radiometer.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2003-2004

Teaching Assistant of Prof. Zhu Yuanjing in course ‘Remote Sensing of Atmosphere’ 2002

 

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