Speaker: Songhua Wu

Affiliation: Ocean University of China

Academic title: Professor

Abstract:

By utilizing Level 2A products and Level 2C products provided by the Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument (ALADIN) onboard the Aeolus mission, and vertical feature mask products provided by CALIOP/CALIPSO, three remote ocean areas are selected and the optical properties at 355 nm of marine aerosol are derived. The combined analysis of marine aerosol optical properties at 355 nm and instantaneous co-located wind speeds above the remote ocean areas are conducted. A long-term large-scale Saharan dust transport event is tracked with the spaceborne lidars ALADIN and CALIOP together with ECMWF and HYSPLIT analysis.

Biography:

Songhua Wu is currently the Dean of Department of Marine Technology, group leader of OUC lidar laboratory which develop the Direct Detection and coherent Doppler wind lidar, HSRL, Raman and Polarization LIDAR for marine and atmosphere dynamics and environmental research. He got his PhD degree in 2004 in laser remote sensing. He is the PI of several international and national research projects supported by MOST and NSFC, etc. Songhua Wu served as full Professor at OUC since 2010, DAAD visiting senior scientist in DLR/IPA Germany in 2013, and served as Topical Editor for Applied Optics published by OSA since 2017.