Drs. Xiquan Dong and Baike Xi Receive NASA Research Grant

Drs. Xiquan Dong and Baike Xi have been awarded funding from NASA for work proposed under the title “Improvement of CERES Science Team cloud retrieval algorithms using both ground-based and space-based radar-lidar observations over Polar regions”. Total funding will be $124K from May 2009 to May 2011 and will support the new graduate student for a MS degree in the department of Atmospheric Sciences.