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John N.. Porter Faculty

John N. Porter
Associate Researcher

Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1993

Home Page: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/porter
Email: jporter@soest.hawaii.edu
Office: HIG 313
Phone Number: (808) 956-6483
Fax Number: (808) 956-3188

University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Hawai`i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
2525 Correa Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA


Research Interests:
Aerosol optics, Remote sensing, Aerosol instrumentation, Solar radiation

Current Projects:
Dr. Porter's current research projects include:

-NASA EOS-CAL/VAL program (John Porter PI)(airciraft measurements of aerosol optical and micro-physical properties over the HOT/MOBY sites)

-NASA SIMBIOS program (John Porter PI)(ship based aerosol optical and chemical measurements for ocean color validation at the HOT site)

-ONR program (Shiv Sharma PI)(lidar studies of marine aerosol)

-NASA PDC program (Steve Businger PI)(satellite monitoring of Kilauea volcano plume)

-NASA InterDisp program (Pete Mouginis-Mark PI)(climate effects of volcanic aerosol)

Relevant Links:

Publications (partial listing):

Sharma S.K., Porter J.N., Misra A.K., Hubble H.W., and Menon P. (2003) Portable stand-off Raman and Mie-Rayleigh Lidar or Cloud, Aerosols, and Chemical Monitoring. in press .

Porter J.N., Horton K.A., Mouginis-Mark P.J., Lienert B., Sharma S.K., and Lau E. (2002) Sun photometer and lidar measurements of the plume form the Hawaii Kilauea Volcano Pu'u O'o vent: Aerosol flux and SO2 lifetime. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29, No. 16, 10.1029/2002GL014744.

Sharma S.K., Lienert B.R., and Porter J.N. (2002) Multi-wavelength scanning lidar measurements of the effect of wind speed on marine aerosol fields generated by breaking waves. SPIE Remote Sens.

Porter J.N., Miller M., Pietras C., and Motel C. (2001) Ship-based sun photometers. Amer. Meteorit. Soc., 765-774.

Lienert B.R., Porter J.N. and Sharma S.K. (2001) Repetitive genetic inversion of optical extinction data. Applied Optics.

Sharma S.K., Lienert B.R., and Porter J.N. (2000) Scanning lidar measurements of marine aerosol fields at a coastal site in Hawaii. Conference Proceeding for the Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

Sharma S.K., Porter J.N., and Lienert B.R. (1999) Investigation of the marine environment with a multi-wavelength scanning lidar. in the AMOS Conference Proceedings.

Porter J.N. and Clarke A.D. (1996) Aerosol size distribution models based on in situ measurements. J. Geophys. Res.


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