Dr. Breno Imbiriba Reseach Associate JCET-UMBC

Greetings.

I am a research associate at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (a collaboration of UMBC and NASA) working mainly on the field of atmospheric (trace) gases retrieval using hyperspectral thermal IR remote sensing, specially the AIRS instrument.

At UMBC I am working in conjuction with Dr. L. Strow, member of the AIRS Sciente Team, and his group. My primary research interest is on the precise retrieval of atmospheric carbon dioxide over the Globe using the AIRS instrument and derive its concentration growth at an altitude of approximately 4 Km. Given that the AIRS sensitivity may be of the order of a few ppm, we are looking into pinpointing sources and sinks of CO2, which is still a scientific open question.

Below are my research interests, and at the left some useful links.

Research Interests Greenhouse gases retrieval (Global Warming). Develop inversion methods to retrieve CO2 variations over sea and land. On the right an example of a rertieval over land in the Summer of 2004 (night time). Atmospheric State Retrieval. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing. Numerical PDE integration. (and the last but not the least) General Relativity.