Yuying Xie
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Seminar Information
Engineering Building Unit 2 (EBU2)
Room 479 (4th Floor, through hallway doors)
Seminar Recording Available: Please contact seminar coordinator, Jake Blair at (j1blair@ucsd.edu)
Clouds are integral components of the earth-atmosphere system and play a crucial role in the reflection, absorption, and scattering of solar radiation. A deep understanding and accurate characterization of cloud optical properties is indispensable for enhancing solar energy applications. In this work, a multi-layer Spectral Cloud Optical Property Estimation (SCOPE) method is developed for real-time, direct estimation of cloud optical properties from high-resolution longwave remote sensing data. By considering only the longwave spectrum, the method provides a unified approach to estimate cloud properties during both daytime and nighttime without the need to consider the satellite view angle and solar geometry.
Yuying is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is also a visiting PhD student at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Master's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, a joint Master's degree from MINES ParisTech, and Bachelor's degree from Changsha University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include wind and solar energy forecasting, deep learning, and radiative transfer modelling.