Knut Stamnes
Professor
School: School of Engineering and Science
Department: Physics
Building: Burchard
Room: 627
Phone: (201) 216-8194
Fax: (201) 216-5638
Email: kstamnes@stevens.edu
Atmospheric/Space Research
Ionospheric response to particle precipitation and solar EUV radiation
Ionospheric thermal structure and composition
Plasma heating
Electron transport and thermalization
Optical auroras
Kinetic theory of planetary atmospheres
Radiation transport in planetary media including the coupled atmosphere-snow/ice-ocean system
Atmospheric radiative energy balance and climate
Tropospheric, stratospheric heating and cooling by solar and terrestrial radiation,
Atmospheric photodissociation rates and their impact on composition
Satellite remote sensing of the environment
Numerical modeling of geophysical phenomena and comparison with measurements
Radiation transport in turbid such as biological tissue
Aerosol-cloud-radiation-climate interactions and feedbacks.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), 1978-1980.
Research Associate, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), 1980-1983.
Associate Professor, University of Tromsø, 1983-1988.
Chairman, Dept. of Physics, University of Tromsø, 1984-1986.
Sabbatical: University of Alaska and University of Colorado, June 1987-June 1988.
Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), 1983-1988.
Professor of Physics, University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), 1988-1999.
Head of Atmospheric Science Group at Geophysical Institute/UAF, 1993-1995.
Sabbatical: University of Bergen, Norway, September 1995-June 1996.
Head of Atmospheric Science Group at Geophysical Institute/UAF, 1996-98.
Head of Environmental Optics Group at Geophysical Institute/UAF, 1998-1999.
Professor Emeritus, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2000-.
Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1999-present.
Director, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2007-2011.
Director, Light and Life Laboratory, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2000-present.
- Physics department graduate student evaluation committee Member
- Physics department P&T committee Member
- FY19 SES Honors & Awards Committee Member
- SES HPC Committee Member
- Scientific advisor of Balter Medical AS
- Several agencies and profesional journals Associate Editor
Recipient of the 1991 Terris and Katarina Moore Prize at the University of Alaska
Member of Science Working Group for Surface Heat and Energy Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) Program, 1992-96
Site Scientist of DOE's Arctic ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Measurements) Research Site, 1992-2002
Science Team Member of the Japanese ADEOS Program, 1995-present
Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in the West
Awarded Professor Emeritus status at the University of Alaska in 2000
Recipient of an SPIE Excellence Award in 2001
Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America, 2002
Honorary Professor, Yantai University, 2002-present
Elected Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, 2009
- IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Member
- NTVA – Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences Fellow
- EGU – European Geosciences Union Member
- OSA – Optical Society of America Fellow
- Oceanography Society Member
- AMS – American Meteorological Society Member
- AGU – American Geophysical Union Member
- Published Conference Proceeding – Gatebe, C.; Li, W.; Chen, N.; Fan, Y.; Poudyal, R.; Brucker, L.; Stamnes, K. (2018). Snow-covered area using machine learning techniques. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) (vol. 2018-July, pp. 6291-6293).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85064194187.
- Published Journal Article – Tanikawa, T.; Kuchiki, K.; Aoki, T.; Ishimoto, H.; Hachikubo, A.; Niwano, M.; Hosaka, M.; Matoba, S.; Kodama, Y.; Iwata, Y.; Stamnes, K. (2020). Effects of Snow Grain Shape and Mixing State of Snow Impurity on Retrieval of Snow Physical Parameters From Ground-Based Optical Instrument (15 ed., vol. 125).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85089365033. - Published Journal Article – Fan, Y.; Li, S.; Han, X.; Stamnes, K. (2020). Machine learning algorithms for retrievals of aerosol and ocean color products from FY-3D MERSI-II instrument (vol. 250).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85084637270. - Published Journal Article – Sztipanov, M.; Tumeh, L.; Li, W.; Svendby, T.; Kylling, A.; Dahlback, A.; Stamnes, J. J.; Hansen, G.; Stamnes, K. (2020). Ground-based measurements of total ozone column amount with a multichannel moderate-bandwidth filter instrument at the Troll research station, Antarctica (1 ed., vol. 59, pp. 97-106).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85077325496. - Published Journal Article – He, M.; Hu, Y.; Chen, N.; Wang, D.; Huang, J.; Stamnes, K. (2019). High cloud coverage over melted areas dominates the impact of clouds on the albedo feedback in the Arctic (1 ed., vol. 9).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85068425582. - Published Journal Article – Nima, C.; Frette, Ø.; Hamre, B.; Stamnes, J. J.; Chen, Y. C.; Sørensen, K.; Norli, M.; Lu, D.; Xing, Q.; Muyimbwa, D.; Ssenyonga, T.; Stamnes, K.; Erga, S. R. (2019). CDOM absorption properties of natural water bodies along extreme environmental gradients (10 ed., vol. 11).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85073254671. - Published Journal Article – Stamnes, K.; Hamre, B.; Stamnes, S.; Chen, N.; Fan, Y.; Li, W.; Lin, Z.; Stamnes, J. (2018). Progress in forward-inverse modeling based on radiative transfer tools for coupled atmosphere-snow/ice-ocean systems: A review and description of the AccuRT model (12 ed., vol. 8).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85058677834. - Published Journal Article – Chen, N.; Li, W.; Gatebe, C.; Tanikawa, T.; Hori, M.; Shimada, R.; Aoki, T.; Stamnes, K. (2018). New neural network cloud mask algorithm based on radiative transfer simulations (vol. 219, pp. 62-71).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85054464404. - Published Journal Article – Tang, Q.; Hu, Y.; Li, W.; Huang, J.; Stamnes, K. (2018). Optimizing cirrus optical depth retrievals over the ocean from collocated CALIPSO and AMSR-E observations (26 ed., vol. 57, pp. 7472-7481).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85052956408.
- Published Review, Journal – Jamet, C.; Ibrahim, A.; Ahmad, Z.; Angelini, F.; Babin, M.; Behrenfeld, M. J.; Boss, E.; Cairns, B.; Churnside, J.; Chowdhary, J.; Davis, A. B.; Dionisi, D.; Duforêt-Gaurier, L.; Franz, B.; Frouin, R.; Gao, M.; Gray, D.; Hasekamp, O.; He, X.; Hostetler, C.; Kalashnikova, O. V.; Knobelspiesse, K.; Lacour, L.; Loisel, H.; Martins, V.; Rehm, E.; Remer, L.; Sanhaj, I.; Stamnes, K.; Stamnes, S.; Victori, S.; Werdell, J.; Zhai, P. W. (2019). Going beyond standard ocean color observations: Lidar and polarimetry (May ed., vol. 6).
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85066803696.