Jie Song

Special Term Appointee-Meteorologist
Atmospheric Research Section, Environmental Research Division
jsong@anl.gov

Department of Geography
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

EDUCATION BACKGROUND:

B.S., Meteorology, 1985, Beijing University, China
M.S., Climatology, 1988, Academic Institute of Meteorology, National Meteorological Bureau, China
Ph.D., Climatology, 1995, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Simulation of dynamic interactions between the land surface and the atmosphere under various scenarios produced by regional and global models, to improve understanding of the impacts of potential climate change. Examination of the watershed water balances involving precipitation, evapotranspiration, and runoff.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Song, J., Wesely, M. L., "One comparison of modeled surface fluxes variations to aircraft observations," Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 117:159-171 (2003).

Song, J., Lu, D., Wesely, M. L., "A simplified atmospheric correction procedure for the normalized difference vegetation index," Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 69, no. 5: 521-529 (2003).

Wesely, M. L., Song, J., McMillen, R. T., and Meyers, T. P., "Effects of soil moisture variation on deposition velocities above vegetation," Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus 1, No. 5-6:5-15 (2000).

Song, J., Wesely, M. L., Coulter, R. L., and Brandes, E. A., "Estimating watershed evapotranspiration with PASS. Part I: infering root-zone moisture conditions using satellite data," Journal of Hydrometeorology 1:447-461 (2000).

Song J., Wesely, M. L., LeMone, M. A., and Grossman, R. L., "Estimating watershed evapotranspiration with PASS. Part II: moisture budgets during drydown periods," Journal of Hydrometeorology 1:462-473 (2000).

Song, J., "Changes in Dryness/wetness in China during the last 529 years," International Journal of Climatology 20:1003-1015 (2000).

Song, J. and Gao, W., "An Improved Method to Derive Surface Albedo from Narrowband AVHRR Satellite Data: Narrowband to Broadband Conversion," J. Appl. Meteorol. 38:239-249 (1999).

Song, J., "Reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation from Dryness/Wetness in China for the Last 500 Years," Int. J. Biometeorol. 18:1345-1355 (1998).

Song, J., "Diurnal Asymmetry in Surface Albedo," Agr. Forest Meteorol. 92:181-189 (1998).

Song, J., "Phenological Influences on the Albedo of Prairie Grassland and Crop Fields," Int. J. Biometeorol. 42, No. 3:153-157 (1998).

Song, J., Willmott, C. J., and Hanson, B., "Influence of Heterogeneous Land Surfaces on Surface Energy and Mass Fluxes," Theor. Appl. Clim. 58:175-188 (1997).

Song, J., Willmott, C. J., and Hanson, B., "Simulating the Surface Energy and Mass Fluxes over the Konza Prairie with a Mesoscale Model," Agr. Forest Meteorol. 87:105-118 (1997).

Song, J., "Biophysical Influences of a Prairie on the Energy Fluxes," in Preprints of the 12th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology, Atlanta, GA, 28 Jan. - 3 Feb. 1996, American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. J77-J78 (1996).

Song, J., Willmott, C. J., and Hanson, B., "Influence of Heterogeneous Land Surfaces on Surface Energy Fluxes, Soil Moisture, and Vegetation," in Preprints of the 6th Conference on Climate Variation, Nashville, TN, 23-28 Jan. 1994, American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 414-417 (1994).

Song, J., and Zhang, X., "The Reconstruction of ENSO Events Since the 15th Century," Quart. J. Appl. Meteorol. 1: (1990).

Zhang, X., Song, J., and Zhao, Z., "Southern Oscillation Reconstruction and Drought/Flood in China," Acta Meteorol. Sinica 3:288-301 (1989).