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Prof. Di Girolamo is a Blue Waters Professor of Atmospheric Sceinces at the Univesity of Illinois. His research aims at understanding cloud, aerosol, and radiation processes within the Earth system, with specializations in satellite remote sensing techniques and 3-D radiative transfer models. His current particular interests lie in characterizing the global nature of cloud, aerosol, and radiation properties, how they have changed over the satellite era, the drivers of these changes in the context of weather and climate research, and what impact these changes may have on human health. He works extensively with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with a focus on developing and exploiting multi-angle technologies for studying Earth from space. He is a Co-Investigator for NASA’s Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) mission, which was launched in 1999 on the Terra satellite and remains in excellent health, and for NASA’s Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA) that has been selected for launch in 2022. He is also a Science Team Member for the NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra and Aqua satellites. He has participated in numerous field campaigns across various agencies, most recently NASA’s Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes – Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex). Since his work is computationally expensive and often involves processing petabytes of data, he maintains close collaboration with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where they work together in solving some grand challenge problems faced by the Earth Science community in the era of Big Data.
Education
- Ph.D. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, 1996
- M.Sc. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, 1992
- B.Sc. (Hons.) Astrophysics, Queen's University at Kingston, 1989
Office Address
3064 Natural History Building
Office Phone
+1.217.333.3080
Honors & Awards
Sheth Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement, University of Illinois (2019)
William T. Pecora Group Award, Outstanding Achievement in Earth Remote Sensing, Terra Team (2019)
Research highlight, Front Cover, IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 54(7) (2016)
NASA Group Achievement Award for SEAC4RS (2015)
NASA Group Achievement Award for AirMSPI (2014)
Conferred, Blue Waters Professor, NCSA and University of Illinois (2014)
Alan Berman Research Publication Award, Naval Research Laboratory (2013)
Daniel Shapiro Professorial Scholar Award, University of Illinois (2011)
NASA Group Achievement Award for CRYSTAL-FACE (2003)
University of Illinois’ List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (2002, ’04-‘05, ‘10-‘12, ‘14, ’16, ’18-‘19)
NASA New Investigator Award in Earth Science (2002)
NASA Group Achievement Award for MISR Team (2001)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow (1996-1998)
Teaching
ATMS 100 Introduction to Meteorology
ATMS 304 Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing
ATMS 411 Satellite Remote Sensing
ATMS 492 Capstone Undergraduate Research
ATMS 504 Physical Meteorology
ATMS 511 Atmospheric Radiation
ATMS 571 Professional Development
ATMS 591 Atmospheric Sciences Seminars
ATMS 597 Advanced Methods in Radiative Transfer
ATMS 599 Thesis Research
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Research Output 1992 2019
Indian annual ambient air quality standard is achievable by completely mitigating emissions from household sources
Chowdhury, S., Dey, S., Guttikunda, S., Pillarisetti, A., Smith, K. R. & Girolamo, L. D., May 28 2019, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 166, 22, p. 10711-10716 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Tracking ambient PM2.5 build-up in Delhi national capital region during the dry season over 15 years using a high-resolution (1 km) satellite aerosol dataset
Chowdhury, S., Dey, S., Di Girolamo, L., Smith, K. R., Pillarisetti, A. & Lyapustin, A., May 1 2019, In : Atmospheric Environment. 204, p. 142-150 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Advances in multiangle satellite remote sensing of speciated airborne particulate matter and association with adverse health effects: From MISR to MAIA
Diner, D. J., Boland, S. W., Brauer, M., Bruegge, C., Burke, K. A., Chipman, R., Di Girolamo, L., Garay, M. J., Hasheminassab, S., Hyer, E., Jerrett, M., Jovanovic, V., Kalashnikova, O. V., Liu, Y., Lyapustin, A. I., Martin, R. V., Nastan, A., Ostro, B. D., Ritz, B., Schwartz, J. & 2 others, , Oct 1 2018, In : Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. 12, 4, 042603.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Design and verification of a new monochromatic thermal emission component for the I3RC community Monte Carlo model
Jones, A. L. & Di Girolamo, L., Mar 1 2018, In : Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 75, 3, p. 885-906 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Improving Cloud Optical Property Retrievals for Partly Cloudy Pixels Using Coincident Higher-Resolution Single Band Measurements: A Feasibility Study Using ASTER Observations
Werner, F., Zhang, Z., Wind, G., Miller, D. J., Platnick, S. & Di Girolamo, L., Nov 16 2018, In : Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 123, 21, p. 12,253-12,276Research output: Contribution to journal › Article