- Sewanhaka High School, Floral Park, NY (1973).
B.S. Physics - State Univ. of New York at Albany (1978).
M.S. Atmospheric Science - University of Oklahoma (1986).
- Passed Ph.D. qualifying exam.
1/86 to Present: Research Associate - NOAA/OAR/ESRL* (Earth System Research Laboratory)
Extensive development and implementation of
meteorological analyses
of wind,
clouds, temperature, and microphysical variables for
the
Local Analysis and Prediction System.
A variety of remotely sensed
and in-situ data is ingested, quality controlled, and merged
in the analyses. The analyses
are used for initializing NWP models and are displayed on workstations
for nowcasting.
Installation of analysis systems at ESRL and other government agencies
and private companies.
Satellite image processing algorithms, including photometric correction that depends
on viewing geometry.
Image processing to produce
global planetary, meteorological, and geophysical maps
using IDL and other display software
for NOAA's Science On A Sphere TM (SOS).
Gave numerous SOS presentations.
Meteorological workstation and World Wide Web display software.
Development of radar Doppler velocity de-aliasing algorithm.
Testing and evaluation of
algorithms to be run on the Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD).
Radar data interfacing for the Regional Radar Volume Project.
40+ journal and conference publications. Participating in the Data Assimilation
Working Group of the Forecast Research Division.
CIRA/LAPB personnel supervisor.
* (jointly affiliated with the Cooperative Institute for Research in
the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University)
9/83 to 1/86: Research Assistant -
School of Meteorology,
University of Oklahoma
Research Topic: Development of a statistical severe weather forecast package.
Teaching Assistant for Meteorological Measurements.
Storm Chasing.
Summers 1980-1985: Field Meteorologist - North Dakota Cloud Modification Project. Directed hail suppression and rain enhancement cloud seeding with fleet of six aircraft utilizing ice nucleation seeding materials. Operated Enterprise WR-100 5cm weather radar.
1/82 to 5/82: Adjunct Professor - Nassau Community College. Taught Numerical Analysis.
7/76 to 4/77: "Post" Viking Intern - Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Brown University. Image processing of Viking Mars Lander Images at JPL's Image Processing Laboratory as part of the Viking Lander Imaging Team. Helped maintain photo library. Meteorology Team data reduction.
Summer 1975: Optical Fabrication - A. Jaegers, Lynbrook NY. Ground telescope objectives and blocked prisms.
Programming in FORTRAN, IDL, LINUX/UNIX/VAX scripting, Perl, VICAR, BASIC, PASCAL, AND "C". AVS visualization. NCAR graphics. WWW development.
Published "Mutual Occultations of Planets, 1557-2230", SKY and TELESCOPE; March 1979. Accurate calculations of mutual planetary occultations (using numerical integration) led to the realization that Galileo prediscovered Neptune in 1613 as cited in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN; December, 1980.
I enjoy observational astronomy with my 6" and 16" reflecting telescopes.
A general optical design program which applies non-linear optimization to a set of spot diagrams, which define performance, by automatically varying the optical configuration.
Lunar eclipse ray tracing model to simulate the appearance of the umbra.
Light Pollution Modeling to produce a skyglow map of the United States
Email: Steve.Albers@noaa.gov