Dr. Donald J. Cavalieri
Donald J. Cavalieri received a B.S. degree in physics from the City College
of New York in 1960, an M.A. degree in physics from Queens College of New York
in 1967, and the Ph.D. degree in meteorology and oceanography from New York
University in 1974. He is a senior research scientist within the Oceans and
Ice Branch of the Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes at NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center. His research interests include sea ice algorithm development
and validation for satellite microwave radiometers, air-sea-ice interactions
associated with coastal polynyas in both the Arctic and Antarctic, and decadal
sea ice variability. The current focus of his work centers on the development
and validation of sea ice algorithms for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
(AMSR). Dr. Cavalieri is a principal investigator on both the EOS Aqua AMSR-E
and the ADEOS II AMSR Instrument Science Teams. Most recently, he was chief
scientist for Meltpond2000, an EOS Aqua AMSR-E aircraft campaign to validate
the AMSR-E sea ice algorithms under summer melt conditions in the Arctic. Dr.
Cavalieri also serves on the DMSP Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)
Calibration/Validation Team. The SSMIS, scheduled for launch in the fall of
2000, is the follow-on to the DMSP Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSMI) series
of sensors. Previously, he led the development of the NASA Team sea ice algorithm
for the Nimbus 7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer and later modified
the algorithm for use with the DMSP SSMI. Following the launch of the first
SSMI, Dr. Cavalieri led a NASA sponsored aircraft campaign to validate the modified
NASA Team sea ice algorithm.
Recent Publications:
Markus, T. and D. J. Cavalieri, An enhancement of the NASA Team sea ice algorithm, IEEE Trans. Geosci. and Remote Sensing, 38, 1387-1398, 2000.
Vinnikov, K. Y., A. Robock, R. J. Stouffer, J. E. Walsh, C. L. Parkinson, D. J. Cavalieri, J. F. B. Mitchell, D. Garrett, and V. F. Zakharov, Global warming and Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent, SCIENCE, 236, 1934-1937, 1999.
Cavalieri, D. J., C. L. Parkinson, P. Gloersen, J. C. Comiso, and H. J. Zwally, Deriving long-term time series of sea ice cover from satellite passive-microwave multisensor data sets, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 15,803-15,814, 1999.
Parkinson, C. L., D. J. Cavalieri, P. Gloersen, H. J. Zwally, and J. C. Comiso, Variability of the Arctic sea ice cover 1978-1996, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 20,837-20,856, 1999.
Gloersen, P., C. L. Parkinson, D. J. Cavalieri, J. C. Comiso, and H. J. Zwally, Spatial distribution of trends and seasonality in the hemispheric sea ice covers: 1978-1996, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 20,827-20,836, 1999.
