Chong Shi received the M.S. in environmental science from the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2012, and the Ph.D. in atmospheric physics from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, in 2015. He was with the Earth Observation Research Center (EORC), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, Japan, from 2015 to 2020, and the Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, from 2020 to 2021. He is currently a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Aerospace Information Research Institute, CAS. His research interests include radiative transfer in the atmosphere-ocean systems and remote sensing of the atmosphere, particularly for the development of radiative transfer models, satellite retrieval of aerosols, clouds, and solar radiation. 

Atmospheric Remote Sensing: aerosols, clouds, solar radiation 

[1] C. Shi, H. Letu, T.Y. Nakajima et al., "Near-global monitoring of surface solar radiation through the construction of a geostationary satellite network observation system," The Innovation, p. 100876, 2025.

[2] C. Tang, C. Shi*, H. Letu et al., "Development of a hybrid algorithm for the simultaneous retrieval of aerosol optical thickness and fine-mode fraction from multispectral satellite observation combining radiative transfer and transfer learning approaches," Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 319, p. 114619, 2025. 

[3] W. Wang, C. Shi*, J. Xu et al., "Passive Remote Sensing of Marine Liquid Cloud Geometric Thickness Using the O2–O2 Band: First Results From TROPOMI," Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 52, no. 3, p. e2024GL113222, 2025.

[4] W. Wang, C. Shi*, H.Z. Shang et al., "Development of an Algorithm for the Simultaneous Retrieval of Cloud-top Height and Cloud Optical Thickness Combining Radiative Transfer and Multisource Satellite Information from O 4 Hyperspectral Measurements," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3385030.

[5] G. Tana, R. Xu, C. Shi* et al., "Retrieval of cloud microphysical properties from Himawari-8/AHI infrared channels and its application in surface shortwave downward radiation estimation in the sun glint region," Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 290, p. 113548, 2023.

[6] H. Letu, R. Ma, T.Y. Nakajima, C. Shi* et al., "Surface Solar Radiation Compositions Observed from Himawari-8/9 and Fengyun-4 Series," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 104, no. 10, pp. E1772-E1789, 2023.

[7] C. Shi, M. Hashimoto, K. Shiomi, and T. Nakajima, "Development of an Algorithm to Retrieve Aerosol Optical Properties Over Water Using an Artificial Neural Network Radiative Transfer Scheme: First Result From GOSAT-2/CAI-2," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 12, pp. 9861-9872, 2021.

[8] C. Shi, M. Hashimoto, and T. Nakajima, "Remote sensing of aerosol properties from multi-wavelength and multi-pixel information over the ocean," Atmos. Chem. Phys., vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2461-2475, 2019.

[9] C. Shi and T. Nakajima, "Simultaneous determination of aerosol optical thickness and water-leaving radiance from multispectral measurements in coastal waters," Atmos. Chem. Phys., vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 3865-3884, 2018.

[10] C. Shi, T. Nakajima, and M. Hashimoto, "Simultaneous retrieval of aerosol optical thickness and chlorophyll concentration from multiwavelength measurement over East China Sea," Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 121, pp. 14084-14101, 2016, doi: 10.1002/2016JD025790.