Sid-Ahmed Boukabara

JCSDA Deputy Director / STAR Senior Data Assimilation Scientist

Recent Publications

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photo: Sid-Ahmed Boukabara Sid-Ahmed Boukabara received the Ingénieur degree in electronics and signal processing from the National School of Civil Aviation (ENAC), in Toulouse, France (1994), the M.S. degree from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France (1994) and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the Denis Diderot University, Paris, France (1997). Until 2005 he was a scientist with Atmospheric Environmental Research (AER) Inc., working on various projects including MonoRTM, NPOESS CrIS, CMIS and QuikSCAT. He then joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) center for SaTellite Applications and Research (STAR), where he has been leading an effort to develop variational algorithms applicable to all-weather conditions and over all surface backgrounds.

Experience

2009 - Present: Senior Data Assimilation Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, Maryland
2007 - 2009: Physical Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, Maryland
2005 - 2007: Physical Scientist, IMSG Inc, Camp Springs, Maryland
1998 - 2005: Staff Scientist, Microwave Remote Sensing Department, AER Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts
1994 - 1998: Engineer / PhD Researcher, CETP, Paris, France

Most Recent Publications

S.A. Boukabara, L. Eymard, C. Guillou, D. Lemaire, P. Sobieski and A. Guissard. Development of a modified two-scale electromagnetic model, simulating both active and passive microwave measurements. Comparison to data remotely sensed over the ocean. Radio Science, Vol. 37, N4, 10.1029/1999RS002240, 2002.

S.A. Boukabara, R.N. Hoffman, C. Grassotti and S.M. Leidner. Physically- based Modeling of QuikSCAT SeaWinds Passive Microwave Measurements for Rain Detection. J. of Geophysical Research., 107(D24):10.1029/2001JD001243, 2002.

S.A. Boukabara, S.A. Clough, J-L Moncet, A.F. Krupnov, M. Tretyakov and VV. Parshin. Uncertainties in the temperature dependence of the Line coupling parameters of the Microwave Oxygen Band: Impact Study. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, (5), 2005, 1109-1114.

S.A. Boukabara, S.A. Clough, J-L Moncet, A.F. Krupnov, M. Tretyakov and VV. Parshin. Reply to the comment on "Uncertainties in the temperature dependence of the Line coupling parameters of the Microwave Oxygen Band: Impact Study". IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, (9), 2005, 2161-2162

S.A. Boukabara, F. Weng and Q. Liu, Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Extreme Weather Events Using NOAA-18 AMSUA and MHS. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, July 2007. Vol. 45, (7), 2228-2246

S.A. Boukabara, F. Weng, Microwave Emissivity Retrieval over Ocean in All-Weather Conditions. Validation Using Airborne GPS-Dropsondes. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 46, 376-384, 2007

J.C. Liljegren, S.A. Boukabara, K. Cady-Pereira and S.A. Clough. The effect of the Half Width of the 22-GHz Water Vapor Line on Retrievals of Temperature and Water Vapor Profiles with a Twelve-Channel Microwave Radiometer. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 43, (5), 2005, 1102-1108

S.A. Clough, M. Shephard, E. Mlawer, J. Delamere, M. Iacono, K. Cady- Pereira, S.A. Boukabara and P.D. Brown. Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Modeling: a Summary of the AER Codes. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT), 91:233-244, 2005.

L. Eymard, L. Tabary, E. Gerard, S.A. Boukabara and A. LeCornec, The microwave radiometer aboard ERS-1, Part II: Validation of the geophysical products. IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1996, Vol. 34, 2, pp. 291-303.

L. Garand, D.S. Turner, M. Larocque, J. Bates, S. Boukabara, P. Brunel, F. Chevalier, G. Deblonde, R. Engelen, M. Hollingshead, D. Jackson, G. Jediovec, J. Joiner, T. Kleespies, D.S. Mckague, L. McMillin, J-L Moncet, J.R. Pardo, P.J. Rayer, E. Salathe, R. Saunders, N.A. Scott, P. Van Delst and H. Woolf. Radiance and Jacobian intercomparison of radiative transfer models applied to HIRS and AMSU channels. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 106, No. D20, pp. 24, 017-24, 031, 2001.

C. Guillou, W. Ellison, L. Eymard, K. Lamkaouchi, C. Prigent, G. Delbos, G. Balana and S.A. Boukabara. Impact of new permittivity measurements on sea surface emissivity modeling in microwaves, Radio Science, Vol. 33, n3, 1998, pages 649-667.

E-mail: Sid.Boukabara@noaa.gov