My interest and expertise lie in atmospheric physics and especially atmospheric radiation. My research aims at understanding the roles that atmospheric radiation plays in climate and weather variations and developing remote sensing methods that use radiative measurements for atmospheric sounding and climate change monitoring. At McGill, I lead a research group that integrates satellite remote sensing and numerical modeling as two major tools to address weather and climate problems.

Research interests

We strive to improve the understanding of climate and weather from a radiation perspective. We use satellite observations, global climate models and radiative transfer models to gain fundamental understanding of the physical factors that control the radiation energy budget of the climate system. The topics of the problems that we address include:

Radiative transfer theories,
Atmospheric radiation and its variation in relation to other climatic variables,
Remote sensing: using radiative measurements as a tool to infer atmospheric states and monitor weather and climate changes.

Current projects
Variability of Earth radiation energy budget
Role of radiation in global and regional climate changes, e.g., concerning Arctic sea ice
Satellite and ground-based remote sensing of atmospheric temperature and constituents

HONORS AND AWARDS
2015 NASA Langley Reid Award (as coauthor of Wielicki et al. 2013)
2012 NASA Team Achievement Award (as the CLARREO team member)
2008 NOAA Global and Climate Change Postdoctoral Fellowship
2007 NASA AIRS Team Certificate of Appreciation
2006 NASA Earth and Space Science Graduate Fellowship