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Lazaros Oreopoulos Lazaros.Oraiopoulos@nasa.gov (301) 614-6128 Curriculum Vitae |
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Background
Dr. Lazaros Oreopoulos (a.k.a Lazaros Oraiopoulos) received his B. Sc. in Physics with honors from Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1989. He received M. Sc. (1992) and Ph. D. (1996) degrees from McGill University, Montreal. After working for a year as a researcher for the Cloud Physics Research Division of the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), he was offered a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science and Engineering and Research Council of Canada, but chose instead to join JCET in October 1997. Soon thereafter he established an affiliation with the UMBC Department of Physics where he regularly teaches a graduate atmospheric radiative transfer course. Dr. Oreopoulos has served as the leader of the JCET Radiation Focus Group for three years. He currently holds the rank of Research Associate Professor and conducts research on the modeling and remote sensing of clouds, cloud-aerosol interactions, and three-dimensional radiative transfer.
Latest Publications
Norris, P. M., L. Oreopoulos, A. Y. Hou, W. K. Tao, and X. Zeng, 2008: Representation of 3D heterogeneous cloud fields using copulas: Theory for water clouds. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. (In press) [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Sotiropoulou, R.-E. P., N. Meskhidze, J. Kouatchou, B. Das, L. Oreopoulos, J. M. Rodriguez, and A. Nenes, 2008: Aerosol - cloud interactions in the NASA GMI: Model development and indirect forcing assessments. Atmos. Chem. Phys. (Submitted)
Platnick, S., and L. Oreopoulos, 2008: The radiative susceptibility of cloudy atmospheres to droplet number perturbations: 1. Theoretical analysis and examples from MODIS. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D14S20, doi:10.1029/2007JD009654. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Oreopoulos, L., and S. Platnick, 2008: The radiative susceptibility of cloudy atmospheres to droplet number perturbations: 2. Global analysis from MODIS. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D14S21, doi:10.1029/2007JD009655. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Koren, I., L. Oreopoulos, G. Feingold, L. A. Remer, and O. Altaratz, 2008: How small is a small cloud?. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 3855-3864. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Oreopoulos, L., S. Platnick, G. Hong, P. Yang, and R. F. Cahalan, 2008: The shortwave radiative forcing bias of liquid and ice clouds from MODIS observations. J. Climate. (Submitted) [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Oreopoulos, L., R. Cahalan, and S. Platnick, 2007: The plane-parallel albedo bias of liquid clouds from MODIS observations. J. Climate, 20, 5114-5125. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Oreopoulos, L., A. Marshak, R. F. Cahalan, T. Varnai, A. B. Davis, and A. Macke, 2006: New Directions in the Radiative Transfer of Cloudy Atmospheres. EOS, 87, No. 5, 31 January 2006. [Full Text (PDF)]
Oreopoulos, L., and R. F. Cahalan, 2005: Cloud inhomogeneity from MODIS. J. Climate, 18, No. 23, 5110–5124, doi: 10.1175/JCLI3591.1. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Cahalan, R. F., L. Oreopoulos, A. Marshak, K. F. Evans, A. Davis, R. Pincus, K. Yetzer, B. Mayer, R. Davies, T. Ackerman, H. Barker, E. Clothiaux, R. Ellingson, M. Garay, E. Kassianov, S. Kinne, A. Macke, W. OHirok, P. Partain, S. Prigarin, A. Rublev, G. Stephens, F. Szczap, E. Takara, T. Varnai, G. Wen, and T. Zhuravleva, 2005: The International Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes (I3RC): Bringing together the most advanced radiative transfer tools for cloudy atmospheres. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86 (9), 1275-1293. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
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Cloud inhomogeneity from MODIS (Sep 26, 2004)