AS&M staff of researchers have supported meteorological, climatological, and atmospheric radiation studies. The AS&M staff has made significant contributions to major NASA projects such as the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) and the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) component of the Earth Observing System (EOS).
Areas of specialization include: 
Operational algorithm development for radiation budget experiments Surface and atmosphere radiation budget Remote sensing of cloud optical properties from satellites Orbital sampling and mission analyses Planning and scientific support for field experiments Code development and validation
Achievements: Developed improved temporal averaging techniques for CERES Performed orbital sampling and mission analyses for proposed CERES underflights Designed and produced graphical tools for interactive cloud algorithm development and validation Derived cloud climatological statistics in support of field experiments Developed analysis programs for satellite data sets Performed ERBE data validation studies Developed global surface reflectance maps from vegetation data Produced analytically-derived anisotropic models of shortwave and longwave radiation Tested CERES Surface and Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) algorithms Developed algorithms for cloud detection in polar areas Constructed climatologies of surface-detected contrails over the US Provided field support for ARM Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle ( UAV) field programs Provided field support for FIRE Arctic Cloud Experiment (ACE ) field program Supported the Subsonic aircraft Contrail and Cloud Effects Special Study field program
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