Anthony Reale
Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division
Operational Products Development Branch
Research Scientist
 Anthony Reale received B.S. degrees in Meteorology
and Physics from the State University of New York, College at Oswego
in 1976. Following three years as a research fellow at the University
of Nevada, Reno, he received his M.S. degree in Atmospheric Physics
in 1979. Mr. Reale then spent three years in the field conducting
remote sensing measuremenst programs to establish background
air-quality and meteorological profiles at selected locations in
the pristene eastern Mohave Desert. Mr Reale was hired as a NOAA
support contractor in 1983 where he began working on the problem of
deriving atmospheric sounding products from remote satellite sensors
onboard NOAA operational polar orbiting satellites, and was hired on
as federal employee in 1984. Since that time he has provided
technical guidance and direction to government and support contractor
staff in the development of scientific algorithms and graphical evaluation
techniques to respectively derive and and evaluate global weather
products NOAA polar satellites.
During his career at NOAA, Mr. Reale has contributed numerous achievements
in the area of operational satellite derived products including:
- Algorithm Development.
Mr. Reale has participated in the development of numerous approaches
for deriving temperature and moisture sounding products beginning
with the early statistical based approaches of the 1980's to the
more dynamic physical approaches of the 1990's using the TOVS and
after 1998 the Advanced-TOVS sounder radiometer data.
- Algorithm Validation.
Since his earliest days at NOAA, Mr. Reale has been a primary
contributor in the development and deployment of analytical
and graphical techniques in support of scientifc algorithm
development, validation and resulting product performance in
conjunction with operational systems, including advances in the
use of collocated satellite, ground-truth radiosonde and numerical
weather prediction observations for tuning and/or quantifying
derived product integrity. A sampling of his contributions
can be found at the web site: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/poes.
- CAL/VAL.
Mr. Reale's most recent contributions have expanded to
international coordination activities to deploy a global
program of standardized upper air observations concurrent
with operational polar satellite measurements. Referred
to as the Satellite Upper Air Network (SUAN), its goal is
to provide a reference set of observations conducive to the
short and long-term monitoring of observational errors,
required for their use in weather forecast and in particular
climate applications. For more information see: http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/poes/suan.
Mr. Reale is also a co-investigator on a SEARCH program effort
to measure Arctic climate changes using historical TOVS data
(http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/smcd/opdb/poes/polarsearch),
and currently serves as a co-chairperson of the Working Group on
Satellite Sounder Science and Products (SSSP) of the International
TOVS Study Conference.
Recent Presentations (in PowerPoint format)
- Satellite
Upper Air Network and the Climate Retrieval Problem. Presented at Workshop
on Long-term Temperature Trends, UKMO, Exeter, 13-19 September, 2004.
- Satellite
Upper Air Network. Presented at SPIE Technical Conference on Atmospheric
and Environmental Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization: an End-to-End
System Perspective, 4-6 August, 2004.
- The
Proposed ATOVS_System 2005. Presented to the NESDIS Sounding Product
Oversight Panel (SPOP), September 29, 2004.
- ATOVS
Operational Sounding Products and Future Plans. Presented at the
13th International TOVS
Study Conference, in Ste. Adele, Canada, 29 October-4 November, 2003.
Publications
- Reale, A.L and Peter Thorne, 2004: Satellite upper air network (SUAN).
Proceedings of SPIE Volume: 5548, Atmospheric and Environmental Remote
Sensing Data Processing and Utilization, p 128-140.
- Reale, A.L., 2003: Scientific status for NOAA operational ATOVS
sounding products. Technical Proceedings of the 13th International TOVS
Study Conference, Ste. Adele, Canada, Oct. 29 - Nov. 4th, 2003, 13 pp.
- Reale, A.L., 2002: NOAA operational sounding products for advanced-TOVS:
2002. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 107, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington,
D.C., 29 pp.
- Reale, A.L., M.W. Chalfant and T.J. Kleespies, 2001: HIRS/3 scan mirror
misalignment onboard NOAA-16. NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS 46, U.S.
Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 12 pp.
- Reale, A.L., 2001: NESDIS operational soundings in the upper stratosphere.
NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS 45, U.S. Dept of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 12 pp.
- Reale, A.L., 2001: NOAA operational sounding products from advanced-TOVS
polar orbiting environmental satellites. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 102,
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington D.C., 61 pp.
- Reale, A.L., H.J. Bloom, and D.R. Donahue, 2003: Scientific status for
NOAA and DMSP operational soundings. Technical Proceedings of the 8th
International TOVS Study Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, pp. 395-4044.
- Reale, A.L. 1995: Departures between derived satellite soundings and
numerical weather forecasts: present and future. Tech. proceeding of the
8th International TOVS Study Conf., Queenstown, New Zealand, 395-404.
- Reale, A.L., M.W. Chalfant, and R.V. Wagoner, 1994: TOVS operational
sounding upgrades: 1990-1992. NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 76, U.S. Dept.
of Comm., Washington. D.C., 67 pp.
- Reale, A.L., D.G. Gray, M.W. Chalfant, A. Swaroop, and A. Nappi, 1986:
Higher resolution operational satellite retrievals. 2nd Conference on
satellite meteorology/Remote Sensing and Applications, AMS, Willimamsburg
E-mail: Tony.Reale@noaa.gov
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