Pingping Xie
CPC Development Branch
Pingping.Xie@noaa.gov
(301)763-8000 x 7572

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   Pingping Xie is a meteorologist at the Development Branch of the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC). His main duty at CPC is to perform research and development to enhance real-time monitoring and assessment activities in CPC. In particular, recently he has been coordinating a CPC working group to generate a suite of unified global and regional precipitation products for various applications both inside and outside NOAA/CPC. In addition, Dr. Xie is also involved in diagnostic studies of the cloud, precipitation and global water cycle and their representations in the NOAA operational global models (e.g. the Climate Forecast Model, CFS).

    Before joining CPC in 2001, Dr. Xie performed postdoctoral research with the University Cooperation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR), working on the examination of satellite-based precipitation estimates and the development of new objective techniques to combine in-situ observations with satellite estimates. He was a CPC on-site contractor from 1994 to 2000, developing and constructing gauge-satellite merged data sets including the CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP, Xie and Arkin 1997). Dr. Xie authored / co-authored over 20 papers in peer-reviewed scientific / technical journals. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in China in 1984, earned his Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees from Kyoto University in Japan in 1988 and 1992, respectively.