Name: Kamal Aryal
Major/University: Atmospheric Physics, UMBC
Research Title/Project: “Development of an efficient and accurate atmospheric correction algorithm for hyperspectral radiometer based on co-located multiangle polarimeter measurements”
Research Mentors: Pengwang Zhai (UMBC Advisor) and Susanne Craig (616/UMBC/GESTAR II)
What attracted you to this fellowship opportunity?
What attracted me to this fellowship is that it gives me the chance to work with my advisor Dr. Pengwang Zhai and GESTAR II scientist Dr. Susanne Craig on an innovative project. Additionally, this fellowship offers me an unique opportunity to share my research with a large group of people working with GESTAR II, which I hope will be extremely important for networking as I am nearing completion of my PhD studies. With this fellowship, I proposed to develop an integrated algorithm to be used to process data from NASA’s recently launched PACE mission. The proposed algorithm can take advantage of complementary measurements from all three instruments in the PACE mission (UMBC HARP2, SPEXone and OCI). Once developed, I am hopeful the algorithm will prove to be a robust platform to study the atmosphere and ocean. This is what I am excited about.