Wenying Su
Ground Networks, Calibration Labs, and Crowdsourcing Program Scientist, Climate Science Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center
About
Dr. Wenying Su is currently serving on detail at NASA Headquarters since fall 2024 as the Program Scientist for PREFIRE and crowdsourcing, and the Associate Program Scientist for CLARREO Pathfinder. She also supports the Earth Science Division in developing strategy and priorities for NASA’s chairmanship of the CEOS Strategic Implementation Team.
Dr. Su has represented NASA on the joint Committee on Earth Observation Satellites/Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CEOS/CGMS) Working Group on Climate (WGClimate) since 2016 and currently serves as the Working Group Chair. She was also a Coordinating Lead Author for the “Climate Trends” chapter of the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
Prior to joining NASA Headquarters, Dr. Su was a Senior Scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where she spent more than 20 years conducting research in atmospheric radiation. Her expertise includes the Earth’s radiation budget, climate variability, aerosol radiative forcing, and aerosol–cloud interactions.
Dr. Su chaired the Angular Distribution Model Working Group for the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project for over a decade and is a member of the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) science team.
She received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 2016 and was part of the Terra mission team that received the Pecora Team Award in 2019.
Publication Bibliography
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- Wenying Su, L. Liang, H. Wang, Z. A. Eitzen, Uncertainties in CERES Top-of-Atmosphere Fluxes Caused by Changes in Accompanying Imager, 12(2040), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12122040, Remote Sens., 2020.
- Wenying Su, P. Minnis, L. Liang, D. P. Duda, K. V. Khlopenkov, M. Thieman, Y. Yu, A. Smith, S. Lorentz, D. Feldman, F. P. J. Valero, Determining the daytime Earth radiative flux from National Institute of Standards and Technology Advanced Radiometer (NISTAR) Measurements, 13, 429-443, Atmos. Meas. Tech., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-429-2020, 2020.
- Wenying Su, L. Liang, D. R. Doelling, P. Minnis, D. P. Duda, K. V. Khlopenkov, M. Thieman, N. G. Loeb, S. Kato, F. P. J. Valero, H. Wang, and F. G. Rose. Determining the shortwave radiative flux from Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera. J. Geophys. Res., 123, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029390, 2018.
- Wenying Su, Lusheng Liang, Walter Miller, and Victor Sothcott, The effects of different footprint sizes and cloud algorithms on the top-of-atmosphere radiative flux calculation from CERES instrument on Suomi-NPP, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 4001-4011, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-4001-2017, 2017.
- Wenying Su, Norman Loeb, Lusheng Liang, Nana Liu, Chuntao Liu, The El Nino-Southern Oscillation Effect on Tropical Outgoing Longwave Radiation: A Daytime Versus Nighttime Perspective, JGR, 122, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027002.
- Wenying Su, Joseph Corbett, Zachary Eitzen, Lusheng Liang, Next-Generation Angular Distribution Models for Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Flux Calculation from the CERES Instruments: Validation, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Disscuss., 8, https://doi.org/10.5194/amtd-8-4489-2015, 4489-4536, 2015.
- Wenying Su, Joseph Corbett, Zachary Eitzen, Lusheng Liang, Next-Generation Angular Distribution Models for Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Flux Calculation from the CERES Instruments: Methodology, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-611-2015, 611-632, 2015.
- Wenying Su, Norman G. Loeb, Gregory L. Schuster, Mian Chin, Fred Rose, Global all-sky shortwave direct radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols from combined satellite observations and GOCART simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 118, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JD018294, 2013.
- Wenying Su, Norman Loeb, Kuan-Man Xu, Gregory Schuster, Zachary Eitzen, An estimate of aerosol indirect effect from satellite measurements with concurrent meteorological analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D18219, https://doi.org/10.1029/2010JD013948, 2010.
- Wenying Su, Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo, Kuan-Man Xu, Thosmas Charlock, Comparison of the tropical radiative flux and cloud radiative effect profiles in a climate model with the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) data, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D01105, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012490, 2010.
- Wenying Su, Greg Schuster, Norman Loeb, Raymond Rogers, Richard Ferrare, Chris Hostetler, Johnathan Hair, Michael Obland, Aerosol and cloud interaction observed from High Spectral Resolution Lidar data, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D24202, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD010588, 2008.
- Wenying Su, Ellsworth Dutton, Thomas Charlock, and Warren Wiscombe, Performance of commercial radiometers in very low temperature and pressure environments typical of polar regions and of the stratosphere: A laboratory study, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 25(4), 558-569, https://doi.org/10.1175/2007JTECHA1005.1, 2008.
Awards
- NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2016)
National/International Leadership
- Member of the joint Committee on Earth Observation Satellites/Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CEOS/CGSM) Working Group on Climate (WGClimate)
- CEOS representative for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Climate Change Working Group