Personnel - Gary J. Jedlovec

NASA Scientist / UAH Adjunct Professor

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Dr. Gary J. Jedlovec NASA/Global Hydrology and Climate Center 320 Sparkman Drive Huntsville, AL 35805 256-961-7966 gary.jedlovec@nasa.gov

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in Meteorology (1987), The University of Wisconsin - Madison, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Department, SSEC
Minor in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Emphasis on synoptics, dynamics, and remote sensing
Master of Science in Meteorology (1981), Saint Louis University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department
Bachelor of Science in Meteorology (1979), Saint Louis University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department

CURRENT POSITIONS

since 8/87 NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
Huntsville, Alabama
Title: Atmospheric Scientist

since 1/88 University of Alabama in Huntsville
College of Science
Huntsville, Alabama
Title: Adjunct Associate Professor
Atmospheric Science Department

11/89 - 5/93 Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
Title: Adjunct Assistant (Courtesy) Professor
Department of Meteorology


Dr. Jedlovec has spent most of the last 20 years developing and evaluating algorithms to retrieve geophysical parameters from remotely sensed aircraft and satellite measurements for regional climate studies and weather forecasting applications. His early work as part of the VAS Demonstration program emphasized the importance of the new water vapor channels on the GOES geostationary satellites and their application to atmospheric research. The limitations of passive infrared remote sensing for temperature and moisture profiling were evaluated and documented in the peer-reviewed literature. For his dissertation, Dr. Jedlovec developed two unique methods for the retrieval of bulk water vapor estimates that are applicable to both aircraft and satellite observations. One method, the Physical Split Window technique, has proven to be a simple, highly accurate method of retrieving integrated water content and land surface (and sea surface) temperature with just two channels of information. This technique has been applied to the GOES Imager and Sounder data in an operational environment at NASA’s Global Hydrology and Climate Center for the last 3 years, and most recently to real-time MODIS data from NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites. Real-time LST and SST data from GOES and MODIS are being incorporated into regional numerical models to prescribe the partitioning of available moisture from the surface without elaborate surface parameterizations. Most recently, Dr. Jedlovec is leading an effort to transition the use of unique NASA EOS satellite data (from MODIS and AIRS instruments) into the Huntsville NWS Forecast Office in order to improve aviation and public weather forecasts issued by that office.

Dr. Jedlovec is a member of the American Geophysical Union, American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and the American Meteorological Society. He has published numerous peer-reviewed papers on satellite remote sensing in a variety of journals.

PUBLICATIONS

Last updated on: June 18, 2003