Satellite Remote Sensing of Trace Gases from UV-Vis Spectrometers

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity focuses on exploring and developing innovative methods that have the potential to significantly advance satellite remote sensing of trace gases from UV-Vis spectrometers. The research will address challenges in satellite remote sensing of trace gases, including ensuring timely delivery of retrieval products from increasingly capable instruments, producing coherent long-term datasets from instruments with different characteristics, and accounting for aerosol and cloud effects on trace gas retrievals. Efforts will focus on new techniques including machine learning and AI to accelerate trace gas retrievals, advanced radiative transfer modeling to improve accuracy under large aerosol loading, methods to reduce inter-sensor biases, and new retrieval methods exploiting multi-spectral and multi-angle measurements. This opportunity is closed to applicants who are Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD).