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Kyle Hilburn |
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Kyle A. Hilburn
Scientist
Remote Sensing Systems
444 Tenth Street, Suite 200
Santa Rosa, CA, 95401
Tel: (707) 545-2904 x13
fax: (707) 545-2906
hilburn@remss.com
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Research
Kyle Hilburn joined Remote Sensing Systems in 2002, after completing a M.S. in Meteorology from Florida State University and a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of North Dakota. Kyle’s research has focused on satellite remote sensing of winds, rain, and the water cycle over the ocean using a variety of passive and active microwave sensors. He developed a model for rain contamination of scatterometer winds based on physical models of attenuation, backscatter, and surface roughening by rain. This work produced a dataset that provides scatterometer winds corrected for the effects of rain contamination using the synergy of the SeaWinds and AMSR sensor combination. Kyle made improvements to the REMSS rain algorithm that brought consistency to rain retrievals from SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, and SSMIS. A major part of the improvement involved the development of a model for nonuniform beamfilling by rain that accounts for radiometer saturation and footprint size. The model was developed by simulating lower resolution SSM/I data with higher resolution AMSR-E data. His latest work is the development of a water cycle dataset that provides a complete and balanced characterization of the atmospheric branch of the water cycle over the ocean; including the parameters: water vapor, water vapor transport speed and direction, water vapor transport divergence, evaporation, and precipitation. Kyle has also been involved with a variety of projects supporting intercalibration and algorithm development activities; most notably his correction for RADCAL contamination of F15 SSM/I retrievals. Kyle’s research has been supported by the Ocean Vector Wind Science Team (OVWST), the NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS), and the NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team.
Publications and Reports
Levinson DH, KA Hilburn, MC Kruk, 2009, Global precipitation, in State of the Climate in 2008. Peterson, TC, MO Baringer eds., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 90, S24-S28. |
Hilburn, KA, 2009, The Passive Microwave Water Cycle Product, report number 072409, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, 30 pp. |
Hilburn, KA, 2009, Including Temperature Effects in the F15 RADCAL Correction, report number 051209, Remote Sensing Systems, 11 pp. |
Hilburn, KA, FJ Wentz, 2008, Mitigating the impact of RADCAL beacon contamination on F15 SSM/I ocean retrievals, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L18806, doi:10.1029/2008GL034914. |
Hilburn, KA, FJ Wentz, 2008, Intercalibrated passive microwave rain products from the unified microwave ocean retrieval algorithm (UMORA), Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 778-794. |
Wentz, FJ, L Ricciardulli, KA Hilburn and others, 2007, How much more rain will global warming bring?, Science, 317, 233-235. |
Hilburn, KA, FJ Wentz, DK Smith and others, 2006, Correcting active scatterometer data for the effects of rain using passive microwave data, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45, 382-398. |
Hilburn, KA, MA Bourassa, JJ O'Brien, 2003, Development of scatterometer-derived surface pressures for the Southern Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108, 3244, doi:10.1029/2003JC001772. |
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