Education
and Professional Experiences
Areas
of Specialization
Dr. S. C. Ou has more than 20 years of experience in
research and development of atmospheric radiative transfer theories, cloud
and climate modeling, and remote sensing of cirrus cloud and atmosphere. He
has been the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator of many
research grants and contracts sponsored by the Air Force Geophysics Directorate,
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Aeronautics and Space Admininstration,
Department of Energy, Raytheon-STX Co., and TRW. He has been involved in the
following projects.
A.
Radiative Transfer, Cloud Formation, and Climate Modeling
- Development
of broadband radiative transfer models for incorporation into 1D and 2D climate
models and general circulation models.
- Development
of 3D radiative transfer models using diffusion approximation for computing
infrared and solar radiative heating rate profiles in a finite cloud.
- Development
of 1D and 2D radiation-turbulence equlibrium climate models for investigating
cirrus cloud feedbacks on the global climate change.
- Development
of a 3D cirrus cloud formation model for incorporation into GCM models.
- Parameterization
of microphysical processes of cirrus cloud formation, including nucleation,
diffusional growth, and collision and coalescence, for incorporation into
cloud formation models.
- Investigation
of the climatic feedback effects due to variation in cloud particle sizes.
- Investigation
of the climatic feedback effects of contrails generated by sub-sonic aircraft
using a 2D climate model.
- Construction
of a radiative transfer model simulating infrared transmission through cirrus
clouds for military applications.
- Construction
of 1D and 2D radiative transfer models, simulating laser transmission through
cirrus clouds for military applications.
B.
Satellite and Airborne Remote Sensing of Cirrus Clouds and Atmosphere
- Development
of a retrieval scheme for the inference of the optical depth and cloud top
temperature of tropical cirrus clouds using airborne 6.5 and 10.5 µm
radiometer data.
- Development
of a retrieval scheme for inferring cirrus cloud temperature, optical depth,
and mean effective size usuing the AVHRR 0.63, 3.7, and 10.9 µm data.
- Development
of techniques for the detection and retrieval of multilayer cirrus clouds
using AVHRR data.
- Development
of a retrieval scheme for inferring cirrus cloud papameters using airborne
SBIRS/ARES 2-6 µm spectro-radiometer data.
- Perform
error budget studies of solar and infrared algorithms for inferring cirrus
cloud optical depths and effective particle sizes in support of the NPOESS-VIIRS
project.
- Development
of 3d cirrus cloud remote sensing algorithms based on unification of satellite
and radar/lidar data.
- Exploration
of a potential approach for the direct inference of infrared surface fluxes
and atmospheric radiative cooling rate profile usuing satellite data based
on radiative transfer theories.
