University of Maryland, College Park, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Ph. D (2011)
University of Maryland, College Park, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, M.S. (2007)
University of Maryland, College Park, Physical Sciences, B.S. (2005)
Edward Paul Nowottnick
(Rsch AST, Earth Sciences Remote Sens)
| Email: | edward.p.nowottnick@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6553 |
| Org Code: | 612 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 612 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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Missions & Projects
Current Projects
Program Manager, Radiation Sciences Program, Atmospheric Composition
Project Scientist for the Goddard Lidar Observation Validation Experiment (GLOVE)
Positions/Employment
Research Physical Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
June 2020 - Present
Scientist, Earth Sciences
GESTAR/USRA - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
August 2014 - June 2020
Post-doc Fellow
NASA Post-Doctoral Program Oak Ridge Associated Universities - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
September 2011 - August 2014
Education
Research Interests
Aerosols
Atmospheric Dynamics
Remote Sensing
Theory & Modeling
Data Assimilation
Atmospheric Lidar
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
2005 - Present
American Meteorological Society
2005 - Present
European Geophysical Union
2014 - Present
Professional Service
- Associate Editor, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
- Referee, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres
- Referee, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Referee, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Referee, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Awards
- Robert H. Goddard Award, Leadership, 2024
- NASA Group Achievement Award: Convective Processes Experiment - Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) Team, 2023
- NASA Group Achievement Award: Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Team, 2023
- NASA Group Achievement Award: Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) Team, 2019
- NASA GSFC Code 610 Outstanding Performance in Science Software Development, 2016
- NASA Group Achievement Award: Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS) Team, 2015
- NASA Group Achievement Award: Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Team, 2014
- NASA NPP Fellowship, 2011-2014
- NASA Earth System Science Student Fellowship, 2007-2010
- Best AeroCenter Seminar, 2012
Other Professional Information
- American Meteorological Society Committee on Laser Atmospheric Studies Member, 2024 - Present
- NASA GSFC Science Director's Committee Member, 2023 - Present
- NASA GSFC AeroCenter Committee Member, 2017 - 2019
- NASA GSFC Early Career Scientist Forum Committee Member, 2017 - 2019
Selected Publications
Refereed
2025. "Enhancing Surface PM2.5 Air Quality Estimates in GEOS Using CATS Lidar Data." Earth and Space Science 12 (5): [10.1029/2024ea004078] [Journal Article/Letter]
2025. "Evaluation of ICESat-2 ATL09 Atmospheric Products Using CALIOP and MODIS Space-Based Observations." Remote Sensing 17 (3): 482 [10.3390/rs17030482] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Dust, Convection, Winds and Waves: The 2022 NASA CPEX-CV Campaign." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society [10.1175/bams-d-23-0201.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "A Deep Learning Lidar Denoising Approach for Improving Atmospheric Feature Detection." Remote Sensing 16 (15): 2735 [10.3390/rs16152735] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Investigation of observed dust trends over the Middle East region in NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model simulations." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24 (4): 2443-2464 [10.5194/acp-24-2443-2024] [Journal Article/Letter]
2024. "Mineral dust optical properties for remote sensing and global modeling: A review." Remote Sensing of Environment 303 113982 [10.1016/j.rse.2023.113982] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "An Investigation of Non‐Spherical Smoke Particles Using CATS Lidar." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128 (23): [10.1029/2023jd038805] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "The coupling between tropical meteorology, aerosol lifecycle, convection, and radiation, during the Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex)." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (6): [10.1175/bams-d-21-0285.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "A SmallSat Concept to Resolve Diurnal and Vertical Variations of Aerosols, Clouds, and Boundary Layer Height." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (4): E815–E836 [10.1175/bams-d-21-0179.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2023. "First Mapping of Monthly and Diurnal Climatology of Saharan Dust Layer Height Over the Atlantic Ocean From EPIC/DSCOVR in Deep Space." Geophysical Research Letters 50 (5): [10.1029/2022gl102552] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "An evaluation of biomass burning aerosol mass, extinction, and size distribution in GEOS using observations from CAMP2Ex." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22 (24): 16091-16109 [10.5194/acp-22-16091-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2022. "Aerosol Detection from the Cloud–Aerosol Transport System on the International Space Station: Algorithm Overview and Implications for Diurnal Sampling." Atmosphere 13 (9): 1439 [10.3390/atmos13091439] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Planetary Boundary Layer Height Estimates From ICESat-2 and CATS Backscatter Measurements." Frontiers in Remote Sensing 2 [10.3389/frsen.2021.716951] [Journal Article/Letter]
2021. "Aerosol and Cloud Detection Using Machine Learning Algorithms and Space-Based Lidar Data." Atmosphere 12 (5): 606 [10.3390/atmos12050606] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "EARLINET evaluation of the CATS Level 2 aerosol backscatter coefficient product." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 (18): 11743-11764 [10.5194/acp-19-11743-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Dust Impacts on the 2012 Hurricane Nadine Track during the NASA HS3 Field Campaign." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences JAS-D-17-0237.1 [10.1175/jas-d-17-0237.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "An overview of the CATS level 1 processing algorithms and data products." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (9): 4632-4639 [10.1002/2016gl068006] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "The MERRA-2 Aerosol Assimilation." Technical Report Series on Global Modeling and Data Assimilation 45 [Report]
2015. "Use of the CALIOP vertical feature mask for evaluating global aerosol models." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 8 3647-3669 [10.5194/amt-8-3647-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "The fate of Saharan dust across the Atlantic and implications for a Central American dust barrier." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (16): 8415-8431 [10.5194/acp-11-8415-2011] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Online simulations of mineral dust aerosol distributions: Comparisons to NAMMA observations and sensitivity to dust emission parameterization." J Geophys Res 115 (D3): D03202 [10.1029/2009JD012692] [Journal Article/Letter]