Jake Gristey

Since September 2018 I have been working with NOAA's ASRE program. The aim of this work is to advance understanding of sunlight variability beneath low-level clouds over land. These cloudy conditions are very frequent but challenging to simulate in weather prediction models. Observations, large eddy simulations, and 3D radiative transfer are providing new process level understanding to inform the weather prediction model errors, ultimately leading to improved weather forecasts that society is becoming increasingly reliant on. 

Since September 2020 I have been working on the Libera project. Libera is a satellite mission selected by NASA, due to launch in the mid-to-late 2020s, to continue the crucial observations of the top-of-atmosphere energy flows (i.e. Earth's Radiation Budget: ERB). I am interested in the innovative capabilities that Libera will provide to advance ERB science, including a wide-field-of-view camera and a spectral separation of the reflected sunlight. Algorithms are under development to ensure the full scientific potential of these new capabilities can be extracted once the satellite instrument is launched.