Dongmei Xu is an Associate Professor at the College of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China. She completed her PhD studies at the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology in 2014, and her postdoctoral research studies at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). She recently led the key project of the National Key Research and Development Program (NKRDP), “Hyperspectral cloud profile inversion technology based on Fengyun-4” (2018YFC1506600; 2019.10–2022.09). Prof. Dongmei Xu is a Lecturer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Summer Course on Data Assimilation and has been responsible for teaching data assimilation at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Radar Weather Workshop. Her research interests include Satellite Data Assimilation; Satellite Data Cloud Inversion; Ensemble Variational Data Assimilation Methods; Radar Data Assimilation.