Research Interests:

• Aerosol-cloud interactions for marine boundary layer clouds.
• Cloud microphysical and macrophysical property retrieved from satellite and ground-based remote sensing.
• Land-atmosphere interaction and boundary layer turbulence.
• Resilience of Arctic mixed-phase clouds and their interactions with the Arctic environment.

Professional Employment:

• 2022/01 — present       Postdoctoral research scholar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• 2019/01 — 2021/12      Postdoctoral research scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ph.D. Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

M.S. Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota

B.S. Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

• Qiu, S., X. Zheng, D. Painemal, C. R. Terai, and X. Zhou. Daytime variation of aerosol indirect effect for warm marine boundary layer clouds in the eastern north Atlantic (Accepted by ACP).
• Williams, I. N., and S. Qiu, (2022). Long-term observations of turbulence vertical velocity spectra in a convective mixed layer: Dependence on land-surface forcing in the U.S. Southern Great Plains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037137. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037137.
• Dai, Y., I. N. Williams, and S. Qiu, (2021). Simulating the effects of surface energy partitioning on convective organization: Case study and observations in the US Southern Great Plains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033821. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033821.
• Qiu, S., I. N. Williams, (2020). Observational evidence of state-dependent positive and negative land surface feedback on afternoon deep convection over the Southern Great Plains. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2019GL086622. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086622
• Qiu, S., B. Xi, and X. Dong (2018), Influence of wind directions on thermodynamic properties and Arctic mixed-phase clouds at Barrow, Alaska in autumn season, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 123, 9589–9603, 2018.
• Dong, X., B. Xi, S. Qiu, P. Minnis, S. Sun, and F. Rose (2016), A Radiation Closure Study of Arctic Stratus Cloud Microphysical Properties using the collocated satellite-surface data and Fu-Liou Radiative Transfer Model, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121,10,175-10,198, doi:10.1002/2016JD025255.
• Qiu, S., X. Dong, and B. Xi (2015), Characterizing Arctic mixed-phase cloud structure and its relationship with humidity and temperature inversion using ARM NSA observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 7737-7746. doi:10.1002/2014JD023022.