CURRICULUM VITAE
LIAN XIE

Professor
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, U.S.A.

Tel. OFFICE (Research III) (919) 515-1435 -

 Fax: (919) 515-7802 or (919) 515-1683


lian_xie@ncsu.edu - EMAIL


RESEARCH INTERESTS:

CURRENT AND RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS:

a)     Current Grants:

     Serve as PI and Co-PI on 12 current grants (active between 2003 and 2004) totaling $7.1 million. 

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Investigators

Project Title

Source

Type of award

Funding Amount ($)

Project Duration

(Start/End Dates)

 

1

Pietrafesa, Xie

 

Climate and Weather Impacts on Society and the Environment.

NOAA

N

1.575

million

09/03 - 08/07

2

Xie

 

Intercontinental Transport of air pollution

EPA

R

40,000

07/03 – 07/04

 

3

Pietrafesa, Xie

 

Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction System

NOAA

N

2.4

million

06/02 - 05/04

4

Pietrafesa, Xie

 

Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program (CORMP)

NOAA

N

550,000

06/02 – 05/04

 

5

Semazzi,

Xie

Variability of the eastern Africa regional coupled climate system.

NSF

R

555,875

09/01 – 08/04

 

6

Lackmman, Riordan, Xie

 

Improving cold season quantitative precipitation forecasting in the Carolinas and Virginia

NOAA

N

375,000

07/03 – 06/06

 

7

Pietrafesa, Xie, Morrison, Dickey

Determination of a recruitment index

NOAA

R

75,000

09/02 – 08/04

 

8

Morrison, Xie, Kamykowsky

Connectivity and Upwelling Dynamics In the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR)

NASA

N

1million

05/04 – 04/07

 

9

Jin and Xie

Development of a sediment transport model for Chesapeake Bay adjacent to the lower and upper western shore of Maryland

VIMS

N

10,000

3/04 – 02/06

10

Dickey, Xie, Pietrafesa

Project IFLOW – Storm surge model integration component

Sea Grant

N

60,000

08/03 – 07/04

 

11

Xie

Support for international workshop on dust storms and their effects on human health

USDA

C

5,000

10/02 – 07/03

 

12

Pietrafesa, Xie

A Risk Assessment Tool: Predicting Coastal Flooding for Operational Purposes

NOAA

C

465,000

01/01 – 12/03

       Grant types: R=Renewal; N=New; C=Continuing.

b)     Recent Grants:


EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:


PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND AWARDS

Co-Chair, Sino-US Workshop on Dust Storms and Their Effects on Human Health, Raleigh, NC. November 25-26, 2002 (Co-sponsored by NASA, NOAA, EPA, NIEHS, and USDA-Forest Services)

2000 - 2004: Editorial Board, Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.

1998 - 2000: Associate Editor, Weather and Forecasting.

1996 - 1997: Member of U.S. Weather Research Program Prospectus Development Team on Landfalling Hurricanes (PDT5).

1995 - 1996: Member of U.S. Weather Research Program Prospectus Development Team on Coastal Meteorology (PDT3).

1998: National Weather Service Certificate of Appreciation Award.

2003: National Weather Service Award for Collaborative Research.

2002 – present: Departmental representative to the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences’ Computer Committee, North Carolina State University.

2000 – present: Chair, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences’ Computing and network Facility Committee. North Carolina State University.

2003 -  present: Member of PAMS Computing Commitee

Member of American Meteorological Society, American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma-Xi.


COURSES TAUGHT:


GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED

As Advising Committee Member for:


PUBLICATIONS:

Over 100 publications in referreed journals, scientific monographs, and conference proceedings, including major journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Physical Oceanography, Journal of Marine Research, and Advances in Atmospheric Sciences.

Papers in Review

 

1.       Xu, X., L. Xie, X. Shi and Q. Miao, 2004: Regional decadal climatic changes in China from 1861-200. J. of Climate, (in review).

2.       Xu, X. and L. Xie, 2004: The Beijing City Air Pollution Observation Experiment (BECAPEX). Bulletin of American Meteorological Society, (in review).

3.       Xie, L. and T. Yan, 2004: The climatology and interannual variability of West Pacific typhoon tracks. J. of Climate, (in review).

4.       Xie, L., T. Yan, L. J. Pietrafesa, J. Morrison, and T. Karl, 2004: The climatology and interannual variability of regional hurricane landfall frequency and its association with North Atlantic hurricane tracks. J. of Climate, (in review).

5.       Guan, C. and L. Xie, 2004: A unified linear parameterization of the drag coefficient over the surface of the ocean. J. Physical Oceanography, (conditionally accepted, in revision).

6.       Guan, C., L. Xie, and L.J. Pietrafesa, 2004: Effect of depth-induced wave breaking on computation of wind waves generated by hurricanes in coastal ocean. J. Geophysical Research, (in review).

7.       Peng, M., L. Xie, L. J. Pietrafesa, 2004: Simulation of storm surge and inundation in Charleston Harbor during Hurricane Hugo 1989 Using A Three-dimensional nested-grid hydrodynamic model. J. Geophysical Research, (in review).

8.       Bright, R., L. Xie, L.J. Pietrafesa, D.A. Dickey, 2004: An intensity prediction scheme for tropical cyclones over the Gulf Stream. Weather and Forecasting, (in review).

 

Refereed Journal Papers and Book Chapters on Hurricanes, Hurricane Impacts and Tropical Air-Sea Interactions

9.       Xie, L., L.J. Pietrafesa, and M. Peng, 2004: Incorporation of a mass-conserving inundation scheme into a three-dimensional storm surge model.  J. Coastal Research, 20, 282-296.

10.    Bao, S., L. Xie and S. Raman, 2004: A numerical study of a TOGA-COARE Squall-line using a coupled mesocale atmosphere-ocean model. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, (in press).

11.    Peng, M., L. Xie, and L.J. Pietrafesa, 2004: A numerical study of storm surge and inundation in the Croatan-Albemarle-Pamlico Estuary System. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 59, 121-137.

12.    Song, Y., F. Semazzi, L. Xie, and L. Ogallo, 2004: A coupled regional climate model for the Lake Victoria basin of East Africa. International J. of Climatology, 24, 57-75.

13.    Bao, S. S. Raman, and L. Xie, 2003: Numerical simulation of the response of the ocean surface layer to precipitation. Pure and Applied Geophysics, 160, 2419-2446.

14.    Xie, L., L.J. Pietrafesa, and K. Wu, 2003: A numerical study of wave-current interaction through surface and bottom stresses: Coastal ocean response to Hurricane Fran 1996.  J. Geophys. Res., 108, (C2, 3049).

15.    Bright, R., L. Xie, and L. J. Pietrafesa, 2002: Evidence of the Gulf Stream's influence on tropical cyclone intensity. Geophysical Research Letters, 29, 48/1-48/4.

16.    Xie, L., L.J. Pietrafesa, and K. Wu, 2002: Interannual and decadal variability of landfalling tropical cyclones in the Southeast coastal states of the United States. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 19, 677-686.

17.    Xie, L., L.J. Pietrafesa, C. Zhang, 1999: Subinertial Response of the Gulf Stream system to Hurricane Fran 1996. Geophysical research Letters, 26, 3457-3460.

18.    Xie, L., L.J. Pietrafesa E. Bohn, C. Zhang, and X. Li, 1998: Evidence and mechanism of hurricane Fran-induced oceanic cooling in the Charleston trough. Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 769-772.

19.    Pietrafesa, L.J., L. Xie, J. Morrison, G.S. Janowitz, J. Pelissier, K. Keeter, and R. Neuherz, 1997: Numerical modeling of the storm surge in and around the Croatan-Albemarle-Pamlico estuary system by hurricane Emily of August 1993. Mausam, 48, 567-578.

20.    Marks, F.D., L.K. Shay, G. Barnes, P. Black, M. DeMaria, B. McCaul, J. Molinari, M. Montgomery, M. Powell, J.D. Smith, B. Tuleya, G. Tripoli, Lian Xie and R. Zehr, 1997: Landfalling tropical cyclones: Forecast problems and associated research opportunities. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 79, 305-318.

 

Refereed Journal Papers and Book Chapters on Regional Climate Variability and Modeling

 

21.    Song, Y., F. Semazzi, L. Xie, and L.J. Ogallo, 2004: A coupled regional climate model for Lake Victoria basin of east Africa. International Journal of Climate, 24, 57-75.

22.    Song, Y., F. Semazzi, and L. Xie, 2002: Development of a coupled regional climate simulation model for the Lake Victoria basin.  In The East African great Lakes: Limnology, Paleolimnology and Biodiversity, E.O Odada and D.O. Olago (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, 153-186.

23.    Indeje, M., F. Semazzi, L. Xie, and J. Ogallo, 2001: Mechanistic simulations of the East Africa climate using NCAR Regional Climate Model: The influence of large-scale orography on the Turkano low-level jet. J. of Climate, 14, 2710-2724.

24.    Zhu Q. and Lian Xie, 1988: 1986-87 Northern winter Asia/Australia circulation anomalies with their relation to the western Pacific SST. J. Tropical Meteorology, 4, 254-262.

25.    Xie Lian and Q. Zhu, 1987: The numerical experiments for sensitivity of the South China Sea monsoon activity to differential heating in summer. Collected Papers of Meteorological Science and Technology, No. 10 (Monsoon Meteorology), China Meteorology Press, Beijing, 183-194.

26.    Tang, D. and Lian Xie, 1986: Numerical experiments of the effects of diabatic heating on the low-level cross-equatorial flows. J. Tropical Meteorology, 2, 311-319.

27.    Xie, Lian, 1986: A diagnostic study of the South China Sea monsoonal circulation during 1986 summer. J. Nanjing Inst. of Meteorology, 1986, 2, 129-135.

 

Refereed Journal Papers and Book Chapters on Coastal Air-Sea Interaction and Marine Environment Modeling and Prediction

 

28.    Pietrafesa, L.J., C.N. Flagg, L. Xie, G.L. Weatherly, J.M. Morrison, 2002: The winter/spring 1996 OMP current, meteorological, sea state and coastal sea level fields, Deep-Sea Research, 49, 4331-4354.

29.    Pietrafesa, L.J. Xie, L., D. Dickey, M. Peng, S.Bao. 2003. The North Carolina State University coastal and estuary storm surge and flood prediction system. Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, 4, 100-109.

30.    Xie, L., L.J. Pietrafesa, and D. Dickey, 2002: The mathematical architecture for a coastal estuary modeling and environmental prediction system.  Solutions to Coastal Disasters, 441-455.

31.    Pietrafesa, L.J., L. Xie, E. Buckley, D. Hilderbrand, M. Peng, 2002: The need for a coastal estuary/inland flood risk index. Chapter in Computer Simulation in Hazard and Risk Mitigation. Wit Press.

32.    Xie, L., K. Wu, L.J. Pietrafesa, and C. Zhang, 2001: A numerical study of wave-current interaction through surface and bottom stresses: Part I: Wind-driven circulation in the South Atlantic Bight under uniform winds.  J. Geophys. Res., 106, 16841-16856.

33.    Pietrafesa, L.J., D. Dickey, L. Xie, 2001: Flooding due to Hurricanes Dennis and floyd.  Chapter 2 in Environmental and Socio-economic impacts of Hurricane Floyd.  Carolina Coastal Press.

34.    Xie, L., L.J. Pietrafesa, 1999: Systemwide modeling of wind and density driven circulation in the Croatan-Albemarle Pamlico estury system. Part I: Model configuration and testing. J. Coastal Research, 15, 1163-1177.

35.    Xie, L., and D. Eggleston, 1999: Computer simulation of wind-induced esturine circulation pattern and estury-shelf exchange processes: The potential role of wind forcing on larval transport. Esturine, Coastal and Shelf Sciences, 49, 221-234.

36.    Xie, Lian, L.J. Pietrafesa and S. Raman, 1997: Interaction between surface wind and ocean circulation in the Carolina Capes in a coupled low-order model. Continental Shelf Research, 17, 1483-1511.

37.    Xie, Lian, L.J. Pietrafesa and S. Raman, 1997: Coastal ocean-atmosphere coupling. Chapter 11, Coastal Ocean Prediction, CRC Press. C.N.K. Mooers edited.