Ronald W. Lindsay

Meteorologist

Education

1976                M.S. (Atmospheric Sciences), University of Washington.

1971                University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dept. of Meteorology

1968                B.S. (Major in Physics), University of California at Davis.

Field Programs

1997-98           SHEBA, Beaufort Sea

1986                Arctic Mass Balance Buoy, Beaufort Sea.

1985                Arctic Internal Waves Experiment, Beaufort Sea.

1983-1984       Marginal Ice Zone Experiment, East Greenland Sea.

1980                Storm Transfer and Response Experiment, Gulf of Alaska.

1979,81,83       Bering Sea Ice Edge Experiments

1980                Puget Sound and Pacific Coast Wind Study

1980                Cook Inlet Wind Study.

1978                SEASAT Gulf of Alaska Experiment.

1977                Very Stable Nocturnal Surface Layers, Moses Lake, WA

1976-1978       Alternate Methods of Avalanche Control, CO and WA

1973-1979       Blue Glacier Research Station Mass Balance Studies.

1975                Arctic Ice Dynamics Main Experiment, Beaufort Sea.

1974                Arctic Leads Experiment, Point Barrow, Alaska.

Major Projects

2001-2003       Principal Investigator, 3-year NASA project

                        Lagrangian Assimilation of Satellite Data for Climate Studies in the Arctic

                       

2000-2002       Co-investigator, 3-year NASA project.

                       Role of Polar Oceans in Contemporary Climate Change (ROLOPOLO)

2000                Principal Investigator,   1-month National Forest Service Feasibility Study project

                        Precipitation Probabilities from Remotely Sensed Data for Burn Management       

2000-2002       Co-investigator, 3-year NASA project

                        Ice Kinematics and Thickness from RGPS: Observations and Theory

1997-2000       Principal Investigator,  NSF project, $275k

                        Ice Thickness Distributions for SHEBA         

1998-2000       Principal Investigator, 3-year NASA project, $366k

                        Validation of Radarsat Geophysical Processor System Products  

1996-2000       Principal Investigator, 4-year NASA project, $246k

                        Estimating Albedo and Summer Ice Melt with RGPS Products

1989-1996       Research associate, ONR project

                        Leads Remote Sensing      

Publications

Lindsay, R. W. and H. Stern, 2002: The RadarSat Geophysical Processor System:  Quality of Sea Ice Trajectory and Deformation Estimates, J. Atmos. and Ocean Tech.,  accepted.

Lindsay, R.W., J. Zhang, and D.A. Rothrock: Sea ice deformation rates from measurements and in a model, Atmosphere-Oceans, accepted, 2002.

Zhang, J., D. Thomas, D. A. Rothrock, R. W. Lindsay, Y. Yu, and R. Kwok, 2002: Assimilation of ice motion obser­vations and comparisons with submarine ice thickness data. J. Geophys. Res, submitted.

Yu, Y and R. W. Lindsay, 2002:  Comparisons of thin ice fractions estimated from RGPS and AVHRR.  J. Geophys. Res., submitted.

Lindsay, R. W., 2002: Changes in the modeled ice thickness distributions near the SHEBA drifting ice camp. J. Geophys. Res., submitted

Lindsay, R. W., 2002: Ice deformation near SHEBA. J. Geophys. Res., submitted.

Lindsay, R., 2001:  Arctic sea ice albedo derived from RGPS-based ice thickness estimates, Ann. Glac., 31, 225-229.

Lindsay, R. W., 2001: Assimilation of ice thickness information into a sea ice model. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 15-20 Janu­ary 1999, San Diego CA, 219-222.

Schweiger, A. J., R. W. Lindsay, J. R. Key, and J. A. Francis, 1999: Arctic clouds in multiyear satellite data sets, Geophys. Res. Let., 26, 1845-1848.

Perovich, D. K.  and many others including Lindsay,  1999: Year on ice gives climate insights.  EOS, 80, 481-486.

Lindsay, R. W. and H. L. Stern, 1999: Aircraft-based estimates of thin-ice fraction near SHEBA. Pro­ceedings of the Fifth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 15-20 January 1999, Dallas TX, 118-123.

Catherine A. Russell, C. W. Fairall, O. P. G. Persson, E. A. Andreas, P. S. Guest, R. Lindsay, H. Eide, and T. Horst, 1999:  Intercomparison of downward longwave flux measurements during the first two months of SHEBA.  Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanogra­phy, Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 15-20 January 1999, Dallas TX, 314-318.

Lindsay, R. W., 1998: Temporal variability of the energy balance of thick Arctic pack ice.  J. Climate, 11, 313-331.

Lindsay,  R. W. , J. A. Francis, P. O. G. Persson,  D. A. Rothrock, and A. J. Schweiger, 1996, Surface Turbulent Fluxes Over Pack Ice Inferred from TOVS Observations, Annals of Glaciology, 25, 393-399.

Lindsay, R. W., D. B. Percival, and D. A. Rothrock, 1996: The Discrete Wavelet Transform and the Scale Analysis of the Surface Properties of Sea Ice, IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 34, 771-787.

Lindsay,  R. W. , J. A. Francis, P. O. G. Persson,  D. A. Rothrock, and A. J. Schweiger, 1996, Surface Turbulent Fluxes Over Pack Ice Inferred from TOVS Observations, Annals of Glaciology, in press.

Lindsay, R. W. and D. A. Rothrock, 1995: Arctic sea ice leads from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer images,  J. Geophys. Res., 100(C3), 4533-4544.

Yu, Y., D.A. Rothrock, and R.W. Lindsay, 1995:  Accuracy of sea ice temperature derived from the advanced very high resolution radiometer. J. Geophys. Res., 100(C3), 4525-4532.

Lindsay, R.W., A.T. Jessup, J.A. Francis, 1995:  Surface temperature and lead heat fluxes from aircraft surveys during LEADEX,  Proc. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 4th Conf. on Polar Meteorology and Ocean­ography, January 1995, Dallas, TX, in press.

Lindsay, R.W., and D.A. Rothrock, 1994:  Arctic sea ice albedo from AVHRR, J. Climate, 7, 1737-1749.

Lindsay, R.W., and D.A. Rothrock, 1994:  Arctic sea ice surface temperature from AVHRR, J. Climate, 7, 174-183.

Lindsay, R.W., 1994:  Heat flux from leads in pack ice from a Landsat TM image. OCEANS 94 color:black'>, Brest, France, September 1994, Proc. IEEE Conf., 3, 606-611.

Lindsay, R.W. and D.A. Rothrock, 1993:  The calculation of surface temperature and albedo of arctic pack ice, Annals of Glaciology, 17, 391-397.

Lindsay, R. and D. Rothrock, 1992:  The spatial structure of the surface temperature field of arctic pack ice determined from AVHRR,  Proc. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 3rd Conf. on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography,  Portland, OR,76-79.

Lindsay, R.W., J.L. Richardson, W.L. Chameides, 1989:  Ozone trends in Atlanta, Georgia:  Have emis­sion controls been effective?  J. Air Poll. Cntrl., 39, 40-43.

Chameides, W.L., R.W. Lindsay, J. Richardson, C.S. Kiang, 1988:  The role of biogenic hydrocarbons in urban smog:  Atlanta as a case study,  Science, 241 (no. 4872), 1473-1475.

Lindsay, R.W. and W.C. Chameides, 1987:  High ozone events in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983 and 1984,  Env. Sci. Tech., 22, 426-431.

Andreas, E.L., C.A. Paulson, R.M. Williams, R.W. Lindsay and J.A. Businger, 1979:  Turbulent heat fluxes from arctic leads,  Boundary Layer Met., 17, pp. 57-91.

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