Dr. Isaac Moradi is a remote sensing scientist with almost twenty years of experience specializing in radiative transfer modeling; Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSE); data assimilation; satellite data analysis and bias correction; inverse methods and retrieving geophysical variables from satellite observations; and developing new instrument concepts especially for measuring tropospheric humidity.
Prior to joining University of Maryland, Dr. Moradi worked at Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology (LTU, Sweden). While at LTU, in addition to giving lectures on Atmospheric Physics, hr conducted research on microwave remote sensing, radiative transfer modeling, and validation of in-situ radiosonde measurements.
Dr. Moradi joined UMD/ESSIC in 2010 where he led the calibration and validation of microwave humidity sounders in collaboration with the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). In addition, Dr. Moradi served as the Principal Investigator of several projects on calibration and validation of microwave satellite measurements. Meanwhile, Isaac worked at the NOAA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation where he led the development of the Community Global Observing System Simulation Experiment Package (CGOP). CGOP is currently used by several NOAA divisions for generating satellite radiances, GPS-RO, and in-situ measurements for conducting OSSE experiments. Dr. Moradi joined the NASA GMAO in 2016 where his research is focused on radiative transfer modeling, OSSE, all-sky radiance data assimilation, and severe weather prediction.