Knut Stamnes (kstamnes)

Knut Stamnes

Professor

Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science

Department of Physics

Burchard 627
(201) 216-5638

Research

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.

General Information

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.

Institutional Service

  • Physics department graduate student evaluation committee Member
  • Physics department P&T committee Member
  • Physics department graduate student evaluation committee Member
  • FY19 SES Honors & Awards Committee Member
  • SES HPC Committee Member

Professional Service

  • Scientific advisor of Balter Medical AS
  • Several agencies and profesional journals Associate Editor
  • Several agencies and profesional journals Associate Editor

Honors and Awards

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

Professional Societies

  • IEEE – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Member
  • NTVA – Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences Fellow
  • OSA – Optica (formerly Optical Society of America) Fellow
  • Oceanography Society Member
  • AMS – American Meteorological Society Member
  • AGU – American Geophysical Union Member
  • NTVA – Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences Fellow
  • OSA – Optical Society of America Fellow
  • 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

Selected Publications

Ssenyonga, T., Ø. Frette, B. Hamre, K. Stamnes, D. Muyimbwa, N. Ssebiyonga, and J. J. Stamnes, A New Algorithm for Simultaneous Retrieval of Aerosols and Marine Parameters, Algorithms, 15, https://doi.org/10.3390/a15010004, 2022.
Hu, Y., X. Lu, X. Zeng, S. A. Stamnes, T. A. Neuman, N. T. Kurtz, P. Zhai, M. Gao, W. Sun, K. Xu, Z. Liu, A. H. Omar, R. R. Baize, L. J. Rogers, B. O. Mitchell, K. Stamnes, Y. Huang, N. Chen, C. Weimer, J. Lee, and Z. Fair, Deriving Snow Depth From ICESat-2 Lidar Multiple Scattering Measurements. Front. Remote Sens. 3:855159. doi: 10.3389/frsen.2022.855159, 2022.
Lu X., Hu Y., Zeng X., Stamnes S. A., Neuman T. A., Kurtz N. T., Yang Y., Zhai P. W., Gao M., Sun W., Xu K., Liu Z., Omar A. H., Baize R. R., Rogers L. J., Mitchell B. O., Stamnes K., Huang Y., Chen N., Weimer C., Lee J. and Fair Z., Deriving Snow Depth From ICESat-2 Lidar Multiple Scattering Measurements: Uncertainty Analyses. Front. Remote Sens. 3:891481. doi: 10.3389/frsen.2022.891481, 2022.
Lin, Z., S. Stamnes, W. Li, Y. Hu, I. Laszlo, S. C. Tsay, A. Berk, J. van den Bosch, and K. Stamnes, Polarized radiative transfer simulations: A tutorial review and upgrades of the VDISORT computational tool, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 3:880768, 2022.
Stamnes, K., W. Li, S. Stamnes, Y. Hu, Y. Zhou, N. Chen, Y. Fan, B. Hamre, X. Lu, Y. Huang, C. Weimer, J. Lee, X. Zeng and J. J. Stamnes, A novel approach to solve forward/inverse problems in remote sensing applications, Front. Remote Sens., 3:10225447, Doi: 10.3389/frsen.2022.10225447, 2022.
Zhou, Y., W. Li, N. Chen, Y. Fan, and K. Stamnes, A sensor-agnostic albedo retrieval method for realistic sea ice surfaces - Model and validation, The Cryosphere, 17, 1053-1087, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1053-2023
Stamnes, K., W. Li, S. Stamnes, Y. Hu, Y. Zhou, N. Chen, Y. Fan, B. Hamre, X. Lu, Y. Huang, C. Weimer, J. Lee, X. Zeng, and J. J. Stamnes, Laser light propagation in a turbid medium: Solution including multiple scattering effects, Eur. Phys. J. D, 77, 110, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00694-6
Stamnes, S., M. Jones, J. Allen, E. Chemyakin, A. Bell, J. Chowdhary, X. Liu, S. P. Burton, B. van Diedenhoven, O. Hasekamp, J. Hair, Y. Hu, C. Hostetler, R. Ferrare, K. Stamnes, B. Cairns, The PACE-MAPP algorithm: Simultaneous aerosol and ocean polarimeter products using coupled atmosphere-ocean vector radiative transfer, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 4, 34, 2023.
Pachniak, E., Y. Fan, W. Li, and K. Stamnes, Quantifying uncertainties in OC-SMART ocean color retrievals using Bayesian Inversion, Algorithms, 16, 301, 2023.