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Meng Huang is an Earth system modeler specializing in the land–atmosphere–aerosol nexus across scales from large-eddy simulations and mesoscale models to general circulation models. Her research integrates numerical modeling and observational data to deepen understanding of the physical and chemical processes that drive the Earth system. She focuses on the development and evaluation of the cloud-resolving Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), with an emphasis on improving the representation of turbulence, convection, clouds, aerosols, and their complex interactions. She has contributed to the development of parameterizations for subgrid heterogeneity in the land and atmosphere and has led high-resolution modeling efforts to establish regional cloud testbeds supporting parameterization and emulator development. 

• Earth system modeling
• Land–atmosphere interactions 
• Atmospheric boundary layer turbulence
• Aerosol–cloud interactions 

• PhD, Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• BS, Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

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2024

• Findell K., Z. Yin, E. Seo, P. Dirmeyer, N. Arnold, N. Chaney, and M. Fowler, et al. 2024. "Accurate Assessment of Land-Atmosphere Coupling in Climate Models Requires High Frequency Data Output." Geoscientific Model Development 17, no. 4:1869 - 1883. PNNL-SA-190077. doi:10.5194/gmd-17-1869-2024
• Fowler M., R. Neale, R. Neale, T. Waterman, D. Lawrence, P. Dirmeyer, and V.E. Larson, et al. 2024. "Assessing the Atmospheric Response to Subgrid Surface Heterogeneity in the Single-Column Community Earth System Model, Version 2 (CESM2)." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16, no. 3:e2022MS003517. PNNL-SA-190271. doi:10.1029/2022MS003517
• Muelmenstaedt J.H., A. Ackerman, A. Fridlind, M. Huang, P. Ma, N.G. Mahfouz, and S.E. Bauer, et al. 2024. "Can general circulation models (GCMs) represent cloud liquid water path adjustments to aerosol-cloud interactions?" Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24, no. 23:13633-13652. PNNL-SA-197852. doi:10.5194/acp-24-13633-2024
• Ovchinnikov M., P. Ma, C.M. Kaul, K.G. Pressel, M. Huang, J. Shpund, and S. Tang. 2024. "Evaluation of Autoconversion Representation in E3SMv2 using an Ensemble of Large-Eddy Simulations of Low-Level Warm Clouds." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16, no. 10:Art. No. e2024MS004280. PNNL-SA-194806. doi:10.1029/2024MS004280

2022

• Hao D., G. Bisht, M. Huang, P. Ma, T.K. Tesfa, W.L. Lee, and Y. Gu, et al. 2022. "Impacts of Sub-Grid Topographic Representations on Surface Energy Balance and Boundary Conditions in the E3SM Land Model: A Case Study in Sierra Nevada." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14, no. 4:e2021MS002862. PNNL-SA-167225. doi:10.1029/2021MS002862
• Huang M., P. Ma, N. Chaney, D. Hao, G. Bisht, M. Fowler, and V.E. Larson, et al. 2022. "Representing surface heterogeneity in land-atmosphere coupling in E3SMv1 single-column model over ARM SGP during summertime." Geoscientific Model Development 15, no. 16:6371-6384. PNNL-SA-177124. doi:10.5194/gmd-15-6371-2022
• Ma P., B.E. Harrop, V.E. Larson, R. Neale, R. Neale, A. Gettelman, and H. Morrison, et al. 2022. "Better calibration of cloud parameterizations and subgrid effects increases the fidelity of E3SM Atmosphere Model version 1." Geoscientific Model Development 15, no. 7:2881-2916. PNNL-SA-166161. doi:10.5194/gmd-15-2881-2022

2020

• Huang M., H. Xiao, M. Wang, and J.D. Fast. 2020. "Assessing CLUBB PDF closure assumptions for a continental shallow-to-deep convective transition case over multiple spatial scales." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12, no. 10:e2020MS002145. PNNL-SA-152632. doi:10.1029/2020MS002145