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Andrew HeidingerDr. Andrew Heidinger's research at NOAA is focused primarily on cloud and aerosol remote sensing using imagers. His projects include the development of new algorithms for operational satellites (AVHRR and GOES).  In addition, he is involved with projects developing new remote sensing techniques and radiative transfer models for advanced sensors (VIIRS and ABI).  He is also interested in satellite calibration and analysis of long term imager data sets.

Dr. Heidinger is stationed at the Cooperative Institute of Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.   He received his Ph.D. from Colorado State University in 1998. His Ph.D. research was focused on using measurements in the A-band of oxygen to perform nadir sounding of clouds and aerosol and his advisor was Professor Graeme Stephens. Dr. Heidinger also serves as an adjunct professor in the AOS department at the University of Wisconsin and is advising one student (Amato Evan).

Specifically, his current projects are


Recent Publications

Pavolonis, M. J., A. K. Heidinger and T. Uttal, 2004: Daytime Global Cloud Typing from AVHRR and VIIRS: Algorithm Description, Validation, and Comparisons. submitted to Journal of Applied Meteorology May 2004. (view draft)

Heidinger, A. K, M. J. Pavolonis, 2004: Global Daytime Distribution of Overlapping Cloud from NOAA's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.  submitted to Journal of Climate April 2004. (view draft)

Thomas, S., A. K. Heidinger, 2004: Comparison of NOAA's Operational AVHRR Derived Cloud Amount to other Satellite Derived Cloud Climatologies. accepted by  the Journal of Climate. November 2003.(view draft)

Pavolonis, M. J., A. K. Heidinger, 2004: Daytime Cloud Overlap Detection from AVHRR and VIIRS.  43, Number 5, pages 762-778. (view)*

Heidinger, A. K,  R. Frey and M. J.  Pavolonis, 2004: Relative Merits of the 1.6 and 3.75 micron channels of the AVHRR/3 for cloud detection. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 30, 182-194. (view)

Heidinger, A. K., 2003: Rapid Day-time Estimation of Cloud Properties over a Large Area from Radiance Distributions, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 20, 1237-1250.(view)*

P. Yang, M. G. Mlynczak, H.L. Wei, D. P. Kratz, B,A. Baum , Y. X. Hu, W. J. Wiscombe, A. Heidinger, and M. I. Mishchenko, 2003: Spectral signature of cirrus clouds in the far-infrared region: single-scattering calculation and radiative sensitivity study. J. Geophys. Res. 108(D18),4569,doi:10.1029/2002JD2002JD003291

Jacobowitz, Herbert, Stowe, Larry L., Ohring, George, Heidinger, Andrew, Knapp, Kenneth, Nalli, Nicholas R. 2003: The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Pathfinder Atmosphere (PATMOS) Climate Dataset: A Resource for Climate Research. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society: Vol. 84, No. 6, pp. 785–793. (view)*

Heidinger, A. K., C. Cao, and J. T. Sullivan, Using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) to calibrate advanced very high resolution radiometer reflectance channels, J. Geophys. Res., 107(D23), 4702, doi:10.1029/2001JD002035. (view pdf copyright AGU)

Heidinger, A. K., J. T. Sullivan and N. Rao, 2003: Calibration of visible and near-infrared channels of the NOAA-12 AVHRR using time-series of observations over deserts. Int. J. Rem. Sens., 24, 3635-3649.

Full Publication List

Lectures and other non published works

E-mail: Andrew.Heidinger@noaa.gov

This page last updated 23 November 2004