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Susan Kulawik

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Susan Kulawik
Science Team
Level 2 Algorithm Lead

Education
  • B.S. in Physics, Ohio State University (1991)
  • M.S. in Physics, University of Michigan (1995)
  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of Michigan (1999)
Research Interests
  • Constraint and spectral window selection for optimal retrievals of atmospheric parameters from radiance data
  • Error analysis for retrievals of atmospheric parameters from radiance data
Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1999-Present)
    • Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) project (1999-Present)
    • Senior Member of the Technical Staff (2002-Present)
  • Raytheon ITSS, Senior Physics Engineer (1999-2003)
Selected Awards
  • NASA Board Award for NTR no. 35212: "TES Level 2 Subsystem Software" (2006)
  • Raytheon Team Award (2001)
Selected Publications
  1. Kulawik, S. S., K. W. Bowman, M. Luo, C. D. Rodgers, and L. Jourdain, Impact of nonlinearity on changing the a priori of trace gas profile estimates from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 3081–3092, June 20, 2008.
  2. Osterman, G., S.S. Kulawik, H.M. Worden, N.A.D. Richards, B.M. Fisher, A. Eldering, M.W. Shephard, L. Froidevaux, G. Labow, M. Luo, R.L. Herman, K.W. Bowman, and A. M. Thompson, Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Measurements of the Total, Stratospheric and Tropospheric Column Abundance of Ozone, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15S16, doi:10.1029/2007JD008801, May 7, 2008.
  3. Beer, R., M. W. Shephard, S. S. Kulawik, S. A. Clough, A. Eldering, K. W. Bowman, S. P. Sander, B. M. Fisher, V. H. Payne, M. Luo, G. B. Osterman and J. R. Worden, First satellite observations of lower tropospheric ammonia & methanol, Geophys. Res. Lett, 35, L09801, doi:10.1029/2008GL033642, May 1, 2008.
  4. Bowman, K. W., D. Jones, J. Logan, H. Worden, F. Boersma, R. Chang, S. Kulawik, G. Osterman, and J. Worden, Impact of surface emissions to the zonal variability of tropical tropospheric ozone and carbon monoxide for November 2004, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 8, 1505-1548, 2008.
  5. Eldering, A., S. S. Kulawik, J. Worden, K. Bowman, and G. Osterman, Implementation of cloud retrievals for TES atmospheric retrievals: 2. Characterization of cloud top pressure and effective optical depth retrievals, J. Geophys. Res.,, 2008, in press.
  6. Luo, M., C. P. Rinsland, C. D. Rodgers, J. A. Logan, H. Worden, S. Kulawik, A. Eldering, A. Goldman, M. W. Shephard, M. Gunson, and M. Lampel, Comparison of carbon monoxide measurements by TES and MOPITT: the influence of a priori data and instrument characteristics on nadir atmospheric species retrievals, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D09303, doi:101029/2006JD007663, May 3, 2007.
  7. Jourdain, L., H. M. Worden, J. R. Worden, K. Bowman, Q. Li, A. Eldering, S. S. Kulawik, G. Osterman, K. F. Boersma, B. Fisher, C. P. Rinsland, R. Beer, M. Gunson, Tropospheric vertical distribution of tropical Atlantic ozone observed by TES during the Northern African biomass burning season, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04810, doi:10.1029/2006GL028284, February 23, 2007.
  8. Shim, C., Q. Li, M. Luo, S. Kulawik, H. Worden, J. Worden, A. Eldering, G. Diskin, G. Sachse, A. Weinheimer, D. Knapp, D. Montzca, and T. Campos, Characterizing mega-city pollution with TES O3 and CO measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 7, 15189-15212, Discussion paper, 2007.
  9. Kulawik, S. S., J. Worden, A. Eldering, K. Bowman, M. Gunson, G. B. Osterman, L. Zhang, S. Clough, M. W. Shephard, R. Beer, Implementation of cloud retrievals for Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) atmospheric retrievals: part 1. Description and characterization of errors on trace gas retrievals, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D24204, doi:10.1029/2005JD006733, December 22, 2006.
  10. Bowman, K.W.; Rodgers, C.D.; Kulawik, S.S.; Worden, J.; Sarkissian, E.; Osterman, G.; Steck, T.; Lou, M.; Eldering, A.; Shephard, M.; Worden, H.; Lampel, M.; Clough, S.; Brown, P.; Rinsland, C.; Gunson, M.; Beer, R., Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer: Retrieval Method and Error Analysis, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 44, 1297- 1307, May 2006.
  11. Kulawik, S.S.; Osterman, G.; Jones, D.B.A.; Bowman, K.W., Calculation of Altitude-Dependent Tikhonov Constraints for TES Nadir Retrievals, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 44, 1334- 1342, May 2006.
  12. Kulawik, S.S., H. Worden, G. Osterman, M. Luo, R. Beer, D.E. Kinnison, K.W. Bowman, J. Worden, A. Eldering, M. Lampel, T. Steck, and C.D. Rodgers (2006), TES atmospheric profile retrieval characterization: An orbit of simulated observations, Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44 (5), 1324-1333.
  13. Kulawik, S.S., J. Worden, A. Eldering, K.W. Bowman, M. Gunson, G. Osterman, L. Zhang, S.A. Clough, M. Shephard, R. Beer, "Implementation of Cloud Retrievals for Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Atmospheric Retrievals - part I description and characterization of errors on trace gas retrievals," Accepted to J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres, 2006.
  14. Worden, John; Kulawik, Susan S.; Shephard, Mark W.; Clough, Shepard A.; Worden, Helen; Bowman, Kevin; Goldman, Aaron, Predicted errors of tropospheric emission spectrometer nadir retrievals from spectral window selection, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 109(D9), 15 May 2004
  15. S. E. Sund and D. Axelrod. 2000. Actin Dynamics at the Living Cell Submembrane Imaged by Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Photobleaching. Biophysical Journal, 79: 1655-1669 (2000)
  16. S. E. Sund, J. A. Swanson, and D. Axelrod. 1999. Cell membrane orientation visualized by polarized total internal reflection fluorescence. Biophysical Journal, 77: 2266-2283 (1999)