Dr. Fuqing Zhang, an associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and Chris Snyder, a senior scientist for the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL), received the 2007 Outstanding Publication Award from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) for their collaborative study published in the Monthly Weather Review.

The article, titled "Assimilation of simulated Doppler radar observations with an ensemble Kalman filter," discusses a new method of assimilating convective-style radar data to improve short-term modeling of thunderstorms. The article was published in 2003 and has since stimulated many research efforts on the subject.

Dr. Zhang has been teaching at Texas A&M since 2001 and has coauthored more than 50 peer-refereed publications.

Kim Corrette