Ping Yang is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and the David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences. Yang has published 309 journal papers, 11 book chapters, and 3 books. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Lanzhou University and Lanzhou Institute of Plateau Atmospheric Physics/Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in 1995. Yang is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), American Geophysical Union (AGU), and American Meteorological Society (AMS).

• Sections covered:Aerosols and cloudsObservational methods - generalApplied meteorologyModeling and predictionAtmospheric dynamicsAtmospheric physicsAtmospheric chemistry, composition, & structureClimate and climate changeMiddle, upper, & planetary atmospheresObservational methods - satellitesWeather phenomena

Ping Yang is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and the David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences. Yang has published 309 journal papers, 11 book chapters, and 3 books. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Lanzhou University and Lanzhou Institute of Plateau Atmospheric Physics/Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in 1995. Yang is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), American Geophysical Union (AGU), and American Meteorological Society (AMS).

• Sections covered:Aerosols and cloudsObservational methods - generalApplied meteorologyModeling and predictionAtmospheric dynamicsAtmospheric physicsAtmospheric chemistry, composition, & structureClimate and climate changeMiddle, upper, & planetary atmospheresObservational methods - satellitesWeather phenomena

Ping Yang is Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX and the David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences. Yang has published 309 journal papers, 11 book chapters, and 3 books. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Lanzhou University and Lanzhou Institute of Plateau Atmospheric Physics/Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, in 1995. Yang is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), American Geophysical Union (AGU), and American Meteorological Society (AMS).

• Sections covered:Aerosols and cloudsObservational methods - generalApplied meteorologyModeling and predictionAtmospheric dynamicsAtmospheric physicsAtmospheric chemistry, composition, & structureClimate and climate changeMiddle, upper, & planetary atmospheresObservational methods - satellitesWeather phenomena