Arun Gopalan

Arun Gopalan received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 1991, and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook, NY, USA, in 1993. He has also completed all Ph.D. requirements, excluding dissertation defense, as of 1997 at SUNY. His dissertation focused on the research and development of an optimal retrieval algorithm for simultaneous extraction of diurnal stratospheric nitrogen dioxide and aerosol extinction profiles using earth limb infrared mission measurements from the NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite CLAES instrument. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist with Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA, USA, in support of the NASA Langley Research Center’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) and Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory projects. He has worked in the area of satellite remote sensing for over 15 years with earth science research groups at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA. He has coauthored a number of journal articles. His research interests include the studies of postlaunch calibration techniques to understand satellite sensor performance, science retrieval algorithm development, remotely sensed data processing methods, aerosol–cloud–climate feedback mechanisms, and visualization of large-scale earth science data sets and data mining.