Postdoctoral scholar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (2015 - 2017)
Postdoctoral scholar, SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research (2014-2015)
Research Interests
Polarimetric instrumentation: development and characterization
Remote sensing of aerosols and clouds
Level 0, 1 and 2 data analysis
Selected Publications
Smit, J. M., Rietjens, J. H. H., van Harten, G., Di Noia, A., Laauwen, W., Rheingans, B. E., Diner, D. J., Cairns, B., Wasilewski, A. P., Knobelspiesse, K. D., Ferrare, R. A., Hasekamp, O. P., SPEX airborne spectropolarimeter calibration and performance, Applied Optics 58, 2019
Knobelspiesse, K., Tan, Q., Bruegge, C., Cairns, B., Chowdhary, J., van Diedenoven, B., Diner, D., Ferrare, R., van Harten, G., Jovanovic, V., Ottaviani, M., Redemann, J., Seidel, F., Sinclair, K., Intercomparison of airborne multi-angle polarimeter observations from the Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX), Applied Optics 58, 2019
Van Harten, G., Diner, D. J., Daugherty, B. J. S., Rheingans, B. E., Bull, M. A., Seidel, F. C., Chipman, R. A., Cairns, B., Wasilewski, A. P., Knobelspiesse, K. D., Calibration and validation of Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI) polarization measurements, Applied Optics 57, 2018
Xu, F., van Harten, G., Diner, D. J., Davis, A. B., Seidel, F. C., Rheingans, B. E., Tosca, M. G., Alexandrov, M. D., Cairns, B., Ferrare, R. A., Burton, S. P., Fenn, M. A., Hostetler, C. A., Wood, R., Redemann, J., Coupled Retrieval of Liquid Water Cloud and Aerosol Above Cloud Properties using the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI), Journal of Geophysical Research 123, 2018
Xu, F., van Harten, G., Diner, D. J., Kalashnikova, O. V., Seidel, F. C., Bruegge, C. J., Dubovik, O., Coupled retrieval of aerosol properties and land surface reflection using the Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager, Journal of Geophysical Research 122, 2017
Van Harten, G., De Boer, J., Rietjens, J. H. H., Di Noia, A., Snik, F., Volten, H., Smit, J. M., Hasekamp, O. P., Henzing, J. S., and Keller, C. U., Atmospheric aerosol characterization with a ground-based SPEX spectropolarimetric instrument, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 7, 2014
Snik, F., Rietjens, J. H. H., Apituley, A., Volten, H., Mijling, B., Di Noia, A., Heikamp, S., Heinsbroek, R. C., Hasekamp, O. P., Smit, J. M., Vonk, J., Stam, D. M., van Harten, G., de Boer, J., Keller, C. U., Mapping atmospheric aerosols with a citizen science network of smartphone spectropolarimeters, Geophysical Research Letters 41, 2014
Van Harten, G., Snik, F., Rietjens, J. H. H., Smit, J. M., and Keller, C. U., Spectral line polarimetry with a spectral modulation polarimeter, Applied Optics 53, 2014
Van Harten, G., Snik, F., and Keller, C. U., Polarization Properties of Real Aluminum Mirrors, I. Influence of the Aluminum Oxide Layer, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 121, 2009