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Tiziano Maestri

Associate Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi"

Academic discipline: PHYS-05/B Physics of the Earth System, Planets, Space and Climate

Research

Keywords: remote sensing radiative transfer in multiple scattering environment clouds and aerosols cloud identification and classification retrievals for atmospheric variables

All sky atmsopheric radiative tansfer and high spectral resolution forward models;

Fast radiative transfer solutions (scaling methods); 

Single scattering properties of ice crystals and aerosols and characterization of cloud optical properties;

Satellite data analysis and machine learning techniques for the identification and classification of the scenes (clear, cloudy, aerosol) and surfaces from infrared high resolution observations;

Retrieval techniques fot optical physical and microphysical properties of clouds;

Radiative energetic balance in the presence of clouds;

Parametrization of cloud properties

Statistical analysis of backscatter profiles of thin cirrus clouds from satellite lidar measurements;

Water vapour absorption continuum parameterization and validation of cloud optical properties in the far infrared part of the spectrum;

Evaluation of Climate Model perfomances in reproducing cloud cover and comparison with satellite measurements;

Methane emission sources identification and flux estimation;