Dr. Larrabee Strow
Non-Tenure Track
About
Dr. Strow has over forty years of experience in infrared atmospheric remote sensing 10-years as a civil servant at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center then moving to the UMBC Physics Department, where he was a teaching professor for 20 years. Dr. Strow has worked very closely with teams associated with all of the existing operational hyperspectral infrared remote sensing weather satellites, especially with regard to radiative transfer and instrument calibration.
Research interests
I lead the Atmospheric Spectroscopy Laboratory (ASL) group at UMBC. We are also affiliated with the UMBC/NASA Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET). Our research centers on the development and use of high-spectral resolution infrared satellite sounders. These relatively new instruments provide critical observational information to numerical weather prediction centers for preparing forecasts, while also providing new space-borne global measurements of various minor constituents (carbon monoxide, methane, dust, volcanic ash and sulpher dioxide, carbon dioxide). ASL participated in the development of all three existing hyperspectral sounders (AIRS, IASI, and CrIS), especially with regard to the pre- and post-launch calibration of the two U.S. instruments (AIRS, CrIS). Our current research centers on using these sensors for global measurements of climate change.
Education
- , Physics — University of Maryland College Park (1981)
Publications
- Spectral calibration and validation of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder on the Suomi NPP satellite 2013
- Suomi NPP CrIS measurements, sensor data record algorithm, calibration and validation activities, and record data quality 2013