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Researcher's Profile

Last Name

Ackerman 

First Name

Steven 

Middle Initial

Areas of Research Expertise

* Understanding how changes in the radiation balance affect and are affected by changes in other climate variables such as clouds, aerosols, water vapor and surface properties
* Using satellites to study clouds, volcanic eruptions, and other atmospheric conditions

Web site

Steven Ackerman's University Web Page 

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

 

Current/Active Funding

  • NASA, 2008-2011, Algorithm Maintenance and Validation of Modis Cloud Mask, Cloud Top-Pressure, Cloud Phase and Atmospheric Sounding Algorithms
  • Information Manufacturing Corporation, COMM, 2008-2010, CIMSS Studies to Support NCDC Climate Data Stweardship Objectives
  • NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, 2007-2010, Comparison of A-Train Cloud Retrievals and Multi-Instrument Algorithm Studies
  • NASA Headquarters, 2004-2010, Satellite Observations in Science Education
  • University of Wisconsin Foundation, 2003-2099, Wisconsin Weather Stories
  • Science Applications International Corp., 1997-2024, Pre-Launch Standard Product Algorithm Development for the Global Imager Aboard the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite II

Issued Patent(s)

 

USPTO Published Applications

Recent Publication(s)

  • "Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction"

Pryor A, Ackerman SA, Western Folklore 68(4): 481-482 Fall 2009.  Book Review.

  • "Improvements in the data quality of the Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases"

Walden VP, Tanamachi RL, Rowe PM, Revercomb HE, et al., Applied Optics 49(3): 520-528 Jan 2010.  This paper identifies previously undocumented issues with IMG interferograms and describes procedures for correcting the majority of the affected data. 

  • "High-Spectral- and High-Temporal-Resolution Infrared Measurements from Geostationary Orbit"

Schmit, TJ; Li, J; Ackerman, SA; Gurka, JJ. JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY 26 (11): 2273-2292 NOV 2009 The first of the next-generation series of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) is scheduled for launch in 2015. The new series of GOES will not have an infrared (IR) sounder dedicated to acquiring high-vertical-resolution atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles.

  • "Convectively induced transverse band signatures in satellite imagery"

Lenz A, Bedka KM, Feltz WF, et al., Weather and Forecasting 24 (5): 1362-1372 Oct 2009. The primary objective of this paper is to characterize the transverse band signature in satellite imagery with references to storm location, movement, and life cycle.

  • "Inferring convesctive weather characteristics with geostationary high specrtal resolution IR window measurements: a look into the future"

Sieglaff JM, Schmit TJ, Menzel WP, et al., Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 26 (8): 1527-1541 Aug 2009. This paper demonstrates the potential utility of high temporal and high spectral resolution infrared radiances.

  • "Vertical distributions and relationships of cloud occurrence frequency as observed by MISR, AIRS, MODIS, OMI, CALIPSO, and CloudSat"

Wu DL, Ackerman SA, Davies R, et al., Geophysical Research Letters 36: L09821 May 2009. Multi-sensor cloud height observations are investigated and compared in terms of vertical and latitudinal distributions of monthly mean cloud occurrence frequency (COF). Keywords: Multiangle Measurements; Spaceborne Lidar; Aerosols; Mission; Radar; Top Heights.

Recent Artistic Works

 

Collaboration

 

Research Tools

  • Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)
  • Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (GIFTS)
  • High Resolution Interferometer Sounder (HIS)
  • MODIS Airborne Simulator (MAS)
  • National Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Airborne Sounder Testbed- Interferometer (NAST-I)
  • NOAA, Center for Satellite Application & Research
  • CALTECH, Jet Propulsion Lab
  • University of Auckland (New Zealand), Physics
  • Raytheon Corp., Intelligence & Information Systems
  • Colorado State University, Atmospheric Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Meteorology Institute (Netherlands), Climate Research & Seismology
  • NASA, Langley Research Center

Research Facilities

  • Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
  • Space Science and Engineering Center

E-mail Address

stevea@ssec.wisc.edu 

Phone Number

(608) 263-3647 

Current University

UW - Madison 

Department

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 

Title

Professor 

Other Appointments

Director, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

Address Line 1

251A Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Building 

Address Line 2

1225 West Dayton Street 

City

Madison 

State

WI 

Zip Code

53706 

Bachelor's Degree

BS, State University of New York, 1976

Master's Degree

MS, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, 1979

PhD

PhD, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, 1987

Other Degrees

 

Technologies Available for Licensing

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