Huilin Gao

Research Associate
hgao at hydro.washington.edu
206.685.1796

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2005
M.A., Princeton University, 2002
M.S., Peking University, 2000
B.S., Peking University, 1997

Professional positions

Jan. 2008-present: Research Associate at Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington.

Sep. 2005-Dec. 2007: Research Scientist II at School of Earth and Atmos. Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Publications

R. I. Negron Juarez, M. Goulden, R. Myneni, R. Fu, S. Bernardes, H. Gao, 2008: An empirical approach to retrieve monthly evapotranspiration over Amazonia, Int. J. Rem. Sen., in press.

H. Gao, R. Fu, R. Dickinson, R. I. Negron Juarez: A Practical Method for Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from AMSR-E over the Amazon Forest, IEEE Trans. Geos. Rem., 46, 193-199, 2008.

McCabe, M. F., M. Pan, R. , J. Sheffield, H. Gao, H. Su, E. F. Wood, Multi-sensor Remote Sensing Data for Water and Energy Balance Studies: Towards Hydrological Consistency through Observation and Data Assimilation, Remote Sensing of Environment, 112, 430-444, 2008.

Pan, M., E. F. Wood, and H. Gao, A Data Assimilation System for Land Surface Models and Microwave Satellite Measurements, 2007, Remote Sensing of Environment, in review.

Gao, H., E. F. Wood, and M. Drusch, Copula-Derived Observation Operators for Assimilating TMI and AMSR-E Soil Moisture into Land Surface Models, J. Hydromet., 8, 413-429, 2007.

Gao, H., E. F. Wood, M. Drusch, T. Jackson, R. Bindlish, Using TRMM/TMI to retrieve soil moisture over the southern United States from 1998 to 2002. J. Hydromet., 7, 23-38, 2006.

McCabe, M. F., Gao, H. and Wood, E. F., Evaluation of AMSR-E derived soil moisture retrievals using ground based, airborne and ancillary data during SMEX 02, Hydromet., 6, 864-877, 2005.

McCabe, M.F., Wood, E. F., and Gao, H., Initial soil moisture retrievals from AMSR-E: Large scale comparisons with SMEX 02 field observations and rainfall patterns over Iowa, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L06403, doi:10.1029/2004GL021222, 2005.

M. Drusch, Wood, E. F., and Gao, H., Observation operators for the direct Assimilation of satellite retrieved soil moisture into land surface models. Geophysical Research Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L15403, doi:10.1029/2005GL023623, 2005.

Gao, H., E. F. Wood, M. Drusch, W. Crow, T. J. Jackson, Using a Microwave Emission Model to Estimate Soil Moisture from ESTAR Observations During SGP99, J. Hydromet., 5, 49-63, 2004.

Drusch, M., E. F. Wood, H. Gao, Soil moisture retrieval during the Southern Great Plains Hydrology experiment 1999: A comparison between experimental remote sensing data and operational products, Water Resource Research, 40 (2): Art. No.W02504FEB 122004, 2004.

Bindlish, R., T. J. Jackson, E. F. Wood, H. Gao, P. Starks, D. Bosch and V. Lakshmi, Soil moisture estimates from TRMM Microwave Imager observations over the Southern United States, Rem. Sens. Envir., 85,507-515,2003.

Gu,S., H. Gao, Y. Zhu, B. Zhao, N. Lu, W. Zhang, Remote Sensing Land Surface Wetness by use of TRMM/TMI Microwave data, Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 80,59-63, 2002.

Zhao, B. L., Z. Y. Yao, W. B. Li, J. Yuan, Y. Chen, H. L. Gao, and Y. J. Zhu, Rainfall retrieval and flooding monitoring in China using TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI). Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 79, 301-315, 2001.