Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences professor Larry Di Girolomo has been named a 2027 American Meteorological Society Fellow for his “outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years."
Di Girolamo's research focuses on understanding clouds, aerosols, and Earth's radiation balance using satellite remote sensing and advanced computational modeling.
Throughout his career, he has been a leader in NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) mission, helping design the instrument before its launch aboard the Terra satellite in 1999 and continuing to serve as a co-investigator for more than 25 years. His research uses multi-angle satellite observations to better understand how clouds and aerosols influence weather, climate, and human health. In addition to MISR, he is a co-investigator on NASA's Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) mission and a science team member for NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS).
His work also relies on close collaboration with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to analyze massive Earth science datasets.
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