**Meet the editors**

Dr. Ma Lei-Ming (PhD from Nanjing University, China) is currently a professor of Shanghai Meteorological Center and also a joint professor of East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. He is also a member of Numerical Weather Prediction Committee of Chinese Meteorological Society. Dr. Ma has published on a range of topics such as numerical weather prediction, tropical cyclones, and atmospheric

physics. A convective parameterization scheme proposed by Ma Lei-Ming (Ma and Tan, 2009) was introduced into the US NCAR/WRF numerical model (V3.3) and was verified to be effective in improving the false alarm problem of the original Kain-Fritsch scheme. Prof. Ma Lei-Ming has been granted with several important academic prizes, including China Excellent Young Staff Awards on Meteorological Science and Technology (2006 and 2010), China Meteorological Administration (CMA) Awards on Meteorological Science and Technology, and Shanghai Science and Technology Award, etc.

Dr. Chang-Jiang Zhang (PhD from Beijing Institute of Technology, China) is currently a professor and master supervisor of the College of Mathematics, Physics and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Normal University, China. He is the Second Level of New Century 151 Talent Project of Zhejiang Province, China. He is an outstanding class teacher of Zhejiang Normal University (2010), a middle-aged

discipline leader of Zhejiang Normal University (2008), and an outstanding middle-young-aged teacher (2004). He is also a member of the Chinese Image and Graphics Society and the Chinese Meteorological Society. Dr. Zhang has published more than 80 journal and conference papers in image processing, pattern recognition, wavelet transform, multiscale geometry analysis, machine learning, and their applications in tropical cyclone center location and intensity estimation.

Dr. Feng Zhang (BS from Zhejiang Normal University; MS from Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences; and PhD from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) is currently a professor in the Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. Dr. Zhang's research focuses on atmospheric parameterization

and its application to numerical models. He has published on a range of topics, including radiative transfer theory, cloud/radiation interaction, and climate models. His current research projects pertain to the development of a new radiative transfer theory to deal with continuous cloud microphysical property and its application in climate models.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Introduction Chapter 1**

**Prediction 3** Lei-Ming Ma

Xiao-Qin Lu

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Understanding of Atmospheric Systems with Efficient Numerical Methods for Observation and**

Chapter 2 **Tropical Cyclone Center Determination Algorithm by Texture and Gradient of Infrared Satellite Image 9**

Chapter 4 **Rainfall Nowcasting by Blending of Radar Data and Numerical**

Chang-Jiang Zhang, Qi Luo, Yuan Chen, Juan Lu, Li-Cheng Xue and

**Section 2 Numerical Methods for Atmospheric Observation 7**

Chapter 3 **Polarization Remote Sensing for Land Observation 23**

Hai Chu, Mengjuan Liu, Min Sun and Lei Chen

Chapter 6 **Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Parameterizations 87**

Chapter 5 **Spectral Representation of Time and Physical Parameters in**

Feng Zhang, Yi-Ning Shi, Kun Wu, Jiangnan Li and Wenwen Li

Lei Yan, Taixia Wu and Xueqi Wang

**Numerical Weather Prediction 71** Kristoffer Lindvall and Jan Scheffel

**Section 3 Numerical Weather Prediction 51**

**Weather Prediction 53**
