I am currently a research meteorologist for National Severe Storm
Laboratory (NSSL)/National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA). I am also affiliated with University of
Oklahoma (OU) as Research Fellow for the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact
Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), and as adjunct faculty member for the School of Meteorology (SoM). Before
joining NSSL in 2010, I was an employee for OU Center for Analysis and
Prediction of Storms (CAPS) for 13
years. I was the primary developer of a hybrid ensemble-variational radar data
assimilation system (Gao et al, 1999, 2004, 2013, 2016; Gao and
Stensrud, 2012, 2014) which has
interface with both open-source community Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS), and Weather
Research & Forecasting model (WRF).
Unlike many other meteorologists here who love to chase storms or
even tornadoes, I would rather stay indoors and play with complex formulae and
computers. I consider myself as a part-time scientist who conducts scientific
research and part-time software engineer who develops data assimilation programs
for numerical weather prediction models.
You are welcome to view
my Google Scholar page.
