Dr. Anning Cheng

Scientist III

Lynker, Office of Modeling and Development

National Weather Service

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Maryland

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2001 Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, USA

1996 M.Sc., Atmospheric Science, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. R. China

1991 B.Sc., Atmospheric Science, Department of Atmospheric Science, Beijing Institute of Meteorology, P. R. China

Research Interests

Aerosol, radiation, and cloud interactions

Numerical modeling

Cloud physics

Monsoon dynamics

Planetary processes and turbulences

Publications (Selected)

1. Cheng, A., Pan, L., Bhattacharjee, P. S., & Yang, F., 2026: Direct and Indirect Effects of Aerosols During the 2023 Canadian Wildfires. Atmosphere, 17(4), 337. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos17040337
2. Cheng A., and F. Yang, 2025: Aerosol, Clouds and Radiation Interactions in the NCEP Unified Forecast Systems. Meteorology 4, no. 2: 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/meteorology4020014
3. Cheng A., and F. Yang, 2023: Direct radiative effects of aerosols on numerical weather forecast -- a comparison of two aerosol datasets in the NCEP GFS. Weather and forecasting, 38, 753–772.
4. Cheng A., K.-M. Xu, 2015: Improved low-cloud simulation from the Community Atmosphere Model with an advanced third-order turbulence closure. J. Climate, 28, 5737–5762.
5. Painemal D., K-M Xu, A. Cheng, P. Minnis, and R. Palikonda, 2015: Mean structure and diurnal cycle of Southeast Atlantic boundary layer clouds: Insights from satellite observations and multiscale modeling framework simulations, J. Clim., 28, 324-341.
6. Cheng A., K.-M. Xu, 2014: An explicit representation of vertical momentum transport in a multiscale modeling framework model through its 2D cloud-resolving component. J. Geophys. Res., 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD021078.
7. Ovchinninkov, M., M., A. Cheng, and Coauthors, 2014: Intercomparison of large-eddy simulation of Arctic mixed-phase clouds. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 6, doi:10.1002/2013MS000282.
8. Zhang, M., A. Cheng, and Coauthors, 2013: CGILS: First results from an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in general circulation models. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst.,  5, doi:10.1002/2013MS000246.
9. Cheng, A., and Xu, K.-M., 2013: Diurnal variability of low clouds in the southeast Pacific simulated by an upgraded multiscale modeling framework model. J. Geophys. Res., 118, 9191-9208, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50683).
10. Cheng, A., and Xu, K.-M., 2013: Improving low-cloud simulation from an upgraded multiscale modeling framework model. Part III: Tropical and subtropical cloud transitions over the northern Pacific.  J. Clim., 26, 5761-5781.
11. Cheng A., K.-M. Xu, Y. Hu, and S. Kato, 2012: Climate simulation with a liquid and ice mixed-phase parameterization based on CALIPSO observations. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D09103, doi:10.1029/2011JD017263.
12. Cheng A., and K.-M. Xu, 2011: Preliminary results from a multiscale modeling framework with a third-order turbulence closure in its cloud-resolving model component. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D14101, doi:10.1029/2010JD015362.
13. Cheng, A., K.-M. Xu and B. Stevens, 2010: Effects of resolution on the simulation of boundary-layer clouds and the partition of kinetic energy to subgrid scales. J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 2, Art. #3, 21 pp., doi:10.3894/JAMES.2010.2.3.
14. Cheng, A., and K.M. Xu, 2009: A PDF-Based Microphysics Parameterization for Simulation of Drizzling Boundary Layer Clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2317–2334.
15. Cheng A., and K.-M. Xu, 2008: Simulation of boundary-layer cumulus and stratocumulus clouds using a cloud-resolving model with low- and third-order turbulence closures. J. Meteor. Soc.  Jpn., 86A, 67-86.
16. Cheng A., and K.-M. Xu, 2006: Simulation of shallow cumuli and their transition to deep convective clouds by cloud-resolving models with different third-order turbulence closures. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 132, 359-382.
17. Cheng A., 2005: Organization of Mesoscale Convective Systems (Part I: Numerical Experiments). J. Geophys. Res., 110, D15S11, DOI:10.1029/2004JD005444.
18. Cheng A., 2005: Organization of Mesoscale Convective Systems (Part II: Linear Theory). J. Geophys. Res., 110,  D15S12, DOI:10.1029/2004JD005450.
19. Cheng A., K.-M. Xu, and J.-C. Golaz, 2004: The liquid-water oscillation in modeling boundary-layer cumuli with third-order turbulence closure models. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1621-1629.

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