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Luke Chen

Education
  • BS in Engineering, California State University, Los Angeles. (Sept 1987)
Research Interests
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Remote Sensing
  • Greenhouse Gas and Climate Change
  • Atmospheric CO2 Retrieval
  • Software Development
Projects

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The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS, is an instrument whose goal is to support climate research and improved weather forecasting.

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Member Of Technical Staff (1989 - Present)
  • Mainstream Engineering Co, Inc., Program Analyst (1987 - 1989)
  • California Institute of Technology, Research Assistant (1984 - 1987)
  • Pasadena City College, Teacher's Aide (1983 - 1984)
Selected Awards
  • JPL Level C Bonus Award (2005)
  • AIRS Level 2 Integration and Validation Team Bonus Award (2004)
  • AIRS Group Achievement Award (2003)
  • Aqua Mission Group Achievement Award (2003)
  • NOVA (Notable Organizational Value-Added) Award, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1998)
  • Administration Honor, Pasadena City College.
Selected Publications
  1. Moustafa Chahine, Christoher Barnet, Edward T. Olsen, Luke Chen, and Eric Maddy, "On the Determination of Atmospheric Minor Gases by the Method of Vanishing Partial Derivatives with Application to CO2," Geophysical Research Letters(GRL), 32, L22803, doi10.1029/2005GL024165, (2005)
  2. Moustafa T. Chahine, Thomas S. Pagano, Hartmut H. Aumann, Robert Atlas, Christopher Barnet, Luke Chen, Eric J. Fetzer, Mitch Goldberg,William F. Irion, Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, Sung-Yung Lee, John Lemarshall, Wallace McMillan, Larry McMllin, Edward T. Olsen, L. Larrabee Strow, Joel Susskind, "The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS): Improving Weather Forecasting and Providing New Insights into Climate," submitted to Bulletin of American Meteorological Society (BAMS) (2005)
  3. Chen, Luke and Crofton B. Farmer, A Case Study of the Retrieval of Tropospheric Water-vapor Profiles from AIRS Radiances, The 8-th HITRAN Database Conference (2004)
  4. Robert Haskins, Richard Goody, and Luke Chen, "Radiance Covariance and Climate Models," Journal of Climate, 12, 1409-1422 (1999)
  5. Robert Haskins, Richard Goody, and Luke Chen, "A Statistical Method for Testing a General Circulation Model with Spectrally Resolved Satellite Data," J. of Geophy. Research, 102, 16563-16581 (1997)
  6. Richard Goody, Robert Haskins, W. Abdou, and Luke Chen, "Detection of Climate Forcing Using Emission Spectra," Earth Obs. Remote Sens., 5, 22-33 (1995)
  7. Robert West, David Crips, and Luke Chen, "Mapping Transformations for Broadband Atmospheric Radiation Calculations," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 43, 191-199 (1990)
  8. Richard Goody, Robert West, Luke Chen, and David Crips, "The Correlated-k Method For Radiation Calculations in Nonhomogeneous Atmospheres," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 42, 539-550 (1989)

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