Dr. Ian Stuart Adams is the Earth Sciences Division Technologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Adams' research is focused on active and passive microwave remote sensing of the Earth, particularly of clouds and precipitation. He is the PI of the Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (CoSMIR) and the Configurable Scanning Submillimeter-wave Instrument/Radiometer (CoSSIR), and he is the project instrument scientist for the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) microwave radiometers.
Ian S Adams
(Rsch AST, Earth Sciences Remote Sens)
Org Code: 612
NASA/GSFCMail Code: 612
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: NASA
Brief Bio
Positions/Employment
Earth Sciences Division Technologist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt MD
March 2022 - Present
Research Physical Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
March 2017 - Present
Electronics Engineer
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory - Washington, DC
December 2006 - March 2017
Education
2007 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida
2005 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida
2001 B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida
Publications
Refereed
Kneifel, S., J. Dias Neto, D. Ori, et al. D. Moisseev, J. Tyynelä, I. S. Adams, K.-S. Kuo, R. Bennartz, A. Berne, E. E. Clothiaux, P. Eriksson, A. J. Geer, R. Honeyager, J. Leinonen, and C. D. Westbrook. 2018. Summer Snowfall Workshop: Scattering Properties of Realistic Frozen Hydrometeors from Simulations and Observations, as well as Defining a New Standard for Scattering Databases Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 99 (3): ES55-ES58 [10.1175/bams-d-17-0208.1]
Adams, I. S., and M. H. Bettenhausen. 2016. Brightness Temperature Simulation of Observed Precipitation Using a Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Model Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 33 (10): 2053-2064 [10.1175/jtech-d-15-0241.1]
Adams, I. S., M. H. Bettenhausen, and W. Johnston. 2014. The Impact of Radio-Frequency Interference on WindSat Ocean Surface Observations IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 52 (10): 6665-6673 [10.1109/tgrs.2014.2300345]
Bettenhausen, M. H., and I. S. Adams. 2013. The impact of passband characteristics on imaging microwave radiometer brightness temperatures over the ocean Radio Science 48 (3): 352-357 [10.1002/rds.20041]
Adams, I. S., and M. H. Bettenhausen. 2012. The scattering properties of horizontally aligned snow crystals and crystal approximations at millimeter wavelengths Radio Science 47 (5): [10.1029/2012rs005015]
Adams, I. S., M. H. Bettenhausen, P. W. Gaiser, and W. Johnston. 2010. Identification of Ocean-Reflected Radio-Frequency Interference Using WindSat Retrieval Chi-Square Probability IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 7 (2): 406-410 [10.1109/lgrs.2009.2037446]
Adams, I. S., P. Gaiser, and W. L. Jones. 2008. Simulation of the Stokes vector in inhomogeneous precipitation Radio Science 43 (5): [10.1029/2007rs003744]
Adams, I., C. Hennon, W. Jones, and K. Ahmad. 2006. Evaluation of hurricane ocean vector winds from WindSat IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 44 (3): 656-667 [10.1109/tgrs.2005.862506]
Ahmad, K. A., W. L. Jones, T. Kasparis, et al. S. W. Vergara, I. S. Adams, and J. Park. 2005. Oceanic rain rate estimates from the QuikSCAT Radiometer: A Global Precipitation Mission pathfinder Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 110 (D11): [10.1029/2004JD005560]