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Reinhard Beer
Aura TES Principal Investigator

Education

B.Sc. in Physics, University of Manchester (UK, 1956)
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Manchester (UK, 1960)

Research Interests

Remote sensing of atmospheric chemistry
Global transport of atmospheric pollutants (especially tropospheric ozone)
Impacts of biomass burning on tropospheric chemistry

Projects

TES
TES (Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer) is one of four science instruments aboard NASA's Aura satellite, which was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on July 15, 2004.

Professional Experience

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1963 - present)

Section Staff Scientist (2006 - present)
Supervisor, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometry (1997 - 2006)
Principal Scientist (1999 - present)
Manager, Atmospheric & Oceanographic Sciences Section (1990 - 1992)
Senior Research Scientist (1985 - present)
Supervisor, Tropospheric Science Group (1972 - 1994)
Member of the Technical Staff (1967 - 1972)
Group Leader (1965 - 1967)
Senior Scientist (1963 - 1965)

University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Associate Professor of Astronomy (1973 - 1974)
University of Manchester, Turner & Newall Research Fellow (1960 - 1963)

Selected Awards

NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2008)
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1st detection of extraterrestrial deuterium) (1974)

Selected Publications

Beer, R. "TES on the Aura Mission: Scientific Objectives, Measurements, and Analysis Overview," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. 44, 1102-1105 (2006)
Beer, R., T.A. Glavich and D.M. Rider, "Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer for the Earth Observing System AURA satellite," Appl. Opt., 40, 2356-2367 (2001)
Worden, H.M., R. Beer and C.P.Rinsland, "Airborne High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Western Wildfires", J. Geophys. Res. 102, 1287-1299 (1997)
Beer, R., Remote Sensing by Fourier Transform Spectrometry, Wiley-Interscience, New York (1992)
Beer, R., and R.H. Norton, "Analysis of Spectra using Correlation Functions", Appl. Opt. 27, 1255 (1988)
Beer, R. and F.W. Taylor, "The Abundance of Carbon Monoxide in Jupiter", Astrophys. J. 221, 1100 (1978)
Norton, R.H. and R. Beer, "New Apodizing Functions for Fourier Spectrometry", J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66, 259 (1976); J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67, 419 (1977)
Beer, R. and F.W. Taylor, "The Abundance of CH3D and the D/H Ratio in Jupiter", Astrophys. J. Letters 182, L135 (1973)
Beer, R. and F.W. Taylor, "The Equilibration of Deuterium in the Jovian Atmosphere", Astrophys. J. Letters 182, L135 (1973)

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