Thomas J. Kleespies

Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division

Sensor Physics Branch
Research Scientist

Education:

BS Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, 1974
MS Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 1977
PhD Meteorology, University of Utah, 1994

Employment:

1993-Present. Physical Scientist, Office of Research and Applications, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs MD, Radiative Transfer, Calibration, Instrument Characterization
1984-1993, Research Meteorologist, Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Bedford MA, Retrieval of precipitable water, ground system development, cloud microphysics retrieval
1978-1984, Research Meteorologist, Naval Environmental Prediction Research Facility, Monterey CA, Retrieval science, ground system development
1977-1978, Scientific Programmer, Systems and Applied Sciences Corporation, Riverdale, MD, NIMBUS-IV BUV Ozone Processing Team

Awards:

2003: Department of Commerce Bronze Medal "For enabling early access to improved data for climate and weather applications by augmenting the post-launch checkout of the NOAA-17 sensors."
1999: Department of Commerce Silver Medal "For accelerating the use of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit satellite observations to advance the nation's capability in weather prediction."
1998: Department of Commerce Bronze Medal "For pioneering development of optimal assimilation of satellite data into global forecast models and of fast, accurate radiative transfer algorithms."
1978: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Group Achievement Award presented to the Ozone Processing Team.

Visiting Scientist Positions:

2004: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (1 month)
2001: United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Satellite Application Facility for Numerical Weather Prediction (3 months)

Recent Publications

Thomas J. Kleespies, Paul van Delst, Larry M. McMillin, John Derber, 2004: Atmospheric Transmittance of an Absorbing Gas. 6. An OPTRAN Status Report and Introduction to the NESDIS/NCEP Community Radiative Transfer Model (abstract), Applied Optics, 20 May, V43, No 15.

L. Garand, D. S. Turner, M. Larocque, J. Bates, S. Boukabara, P. Brunel, F. Chevallier, G. Deblonde, R. Engelen, M. Hollingshead, D. Jackson, G. Jedlovec, 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 2001, Radiance and Jacobian intercomparison of radiative transfer models applied to HIRS and AMSU channels, JGR,V106, D20.

B. Soden, S. Tjemkes, J. Schmetz, R. Saunders, J. Bates, B. Ellingson, R. Engelen, L. Garand, D. Jackson, G. Jedlovec, T. Kleespies, D. Randel, P. Rayer, E. Salathe, D. Schwarzkopf, N. Scott, B. Sohn, S. de Souza-Machado, L. Strow, D. Tobin, D. Turner, P. van Delst, T. Wehr, 2000. An Intercomparison of Radiation Codes for Retrieving Upper-Tropospheric Humidity in the 6.3- µm Band: A Report from the First GVaP Workshop, BAMS, April 2000, pp. 797-800.

L. M. McMillin, T. J. Kleespies, L. J. Crone, 1995. Atmospheric transmittance of an absorbing gas. 5. Improvements to the optran approach, Applied Optics, Volume 34, Issue 36, 8396 - December 1995.

L. M. McMillin, L. J. Crone, M. D. Goldberg, T. J. Kleespies, 1995. Atmospheric transmittance of an absorbing gas. 4. OPTRAN: a computationally fast and accurate transmittance model for absorbing gases with fixed and with variable mixing ratios at variable viewing angles, Applied Optics, Volume 34, Issue 27, 6269 - September 1995