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My current / recent research interests include:

• Clouds and precipitation / Satellite Meteorology and Remote sensing

  Using multispectral and data fusion approaches to improve our ability to detect and quantify cloud height with passive satellite sensors (GOES ABI, VIIRS); improving detection of multiple layered cloud systems and cloud base for aviation applications

  Improving our understanding of global precipitation processes; development of the CloudSat precipitation retrieval (2C-PRECIP-COLUMN)

  Cloud and precipitation remote sensing; millimeter wavelength radar and lidar systems (the spaceborne CloudSat and CALIPSO platforms)

  Evaluation and improvement of numerical forecast model representations of clouds and precipitation; development of a radar forward model software package to simulate radar reflectivity profiles at microwave frequencies

• Satellite product development

  Developing and improving satellite cloud products for GOES ABI and VIIRS for aviation and other operational users

  Research and simulations in preparation for GeoXO, NOAA's next-generation geostationary satellite series

• Atmospheric energetics

  Use of satellite observations to improve short-term predictions of surface solar irradiance

  Some figures I maintain related to earth's changing climate

• Machine learning / Artificial intelligence

  Application of machine learning to atmospheric science problems