Kenneth Sassen
Biographical Sketch:
Positions Held:
- Professor, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks (May 2002 - present)
- Chair of the Atmospheric Science Program (2002 – 2005)
- Adjunct Professor of Meteorology, U. of Utah (April 2002 to present)
- Research Professor of Meteorology, U. of Utah (July 1988 – April 2002)
- Research Associate Professor of Meteorology, U. of Utah (July 1980 - June 1988)
- Research Assistant Professor of Meteorology, U. of Utah (July 1977 - June 1980)
- Research Instructor, University of Utah (November 1976 - June 1977)
Selected Publications:
- Sassen, K., and Z. Wang, 2008: Classifying clouds around the globe with the CloudSat radar: 1-year of results. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L04805, doi:10.1029/2007GL032591.
- Campbell, J. R., K. Sassen, and E. J. Welton, 2008: Elevated cloud and aerosol layer retrievals from micropulse lidar signal profiles. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., (in press).
- Webley, P. W., D. Atkinson, R. L. Collins, K. Dean, J. Fochesatto, K. Sassen, C. F. Cahill, A. Prata, C. J. Flynn, and K. Mizutani, 2008: Predicting and validating the tracking of a volcanic ash cloud during the 2006 eruption of Mt. Augustine volcano, Alaska, USA. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 89, (in press).
- Wang, L., and K. Sassen, 2008: Wavelet analysis of cirrus multiscale structures from lidar backscattering: A cirrus uncinus complex case study. J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., (submitted).
- Campbell, J. R., and K. Sassen, 2008: Polar stratospheric clouds at the South Pole from five years of continuous lidar data: Macrophysial and thermodynamic properties. J. Geophys. Res. (submitted).
- Sassen, K., and V. I. Khvorostyanov, 2008: Indirect cloud effects from boreal forest fire smoke: Evidence for ice nucleation from polarization lidar data and cloud model simulations. Environ. Res. Lett., (submitted).
- Sassen, K., Z. Wang, and D. Liu. 2008: The global distribution of cirrus clouds from CloudSat/CALIPSO measurements. J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).
- Sassen, K., and V. I. Khvorostyanov, 2007: Microphysical and radiative properties of mixed phase altocumulus: A model evaluation of glaciation effects. Atmos. Res., 84, 390-398.
- Sassen, K., J. Zhu, P. Webley, K. Dean, and P. Cobb, 2007: Volcanic ash plume identification using polarization lidar: Augustine Eruption, Alaska. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L08803, doi:10.1029/2006GL027237.
- Comstock, J. M., R. d’Entrement, D. DeSlover, G. G. Mace, S. Y. Matrosov, S. A. McFarlane, P. Minis, D. Mitchell, K. Sassen, M. D. Shupe, D. D. Turner, and Z. Wang, 2007: An intercomparison of microphysical retrieval algorithms for upper tropospheric ice clouds. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 191-204.
- Verlinde, J., J. Y. Harrington, G. M. McFarquhar, V. T. Yannuzzi, A. Avramov, S. Greenberg, N. Johnson, G. Zhang, M. R. Poellot, J. H. Mather, D. D. Turner, E. W. Eloranta, B. D. Zak, A. J. Prenni, J. S. Daniel, G. L. Kok, D. C. Tobin, R. Holz, K. Sassen, D. Spangenberg, P. Minnis, T. P. Tooman, M. D. Ivey, C. P. Bahrmann, P. J. DeMott, A. J. Heymsfield, and R. Schofield, 2007: The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 205-221.
- Sassen, K., L. Wang, D. O’C. Starr, J. M. Comstock, and M. Quante, 2007: A midlatitude cirrus cloud climatology from the Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing: V. Cloud structural properties. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2483-2501.
- Mölders, N., H. Luijting, and K. Sassen, 2007: Use of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program data from Barrow, Alaska, for evaluation and development of snow albedo parameterizations. Meteorol. Appl. Phys., doi: 10.1007/s00708-007-0271-6.
- Sassen, K., S. Matrosov, and J. Campbell, 2007: CloudSat spaceborne 94 GHz radar bright bands in the melting layer: An attenuation-driven upside-down lidar analog. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L16818, doi:10.1029/2007GL030291.
