Biographical Sketch
Lee Harrison
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
State University of New York at Albany
Professional Preparation
PhD - 1982
BS - 1973
Engineering, University of Washington
Applied Mathematics and Engineering Sciences,
University of California, San Diego
Commercial & Certified Flight Instructor's Licenses - 1971
USA Certificate # 2010029
Appointments Subsequent to Ph.D.
1989 1983 - 1988
Senior Research Associate ASRC - SUNY-Albany
Senior Research Scientist, Pacific NW National Laboratory
( U.S Department of Energy National Laboratory)
I currently hold a tenured appointment at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center,
State University of New York, Albany, and am an adjunct research professor of both the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the Physics Department.
My research includes efforts to develop instruments to measure radiative transfer within
the atmosphere at wavelengths from the ultraviolet through the near infrared, and efforts
to study radiative effects of clouds and aerosols. I direct the United States Reference
Ultraviolet Radiometry Network (operated as part of the USDA UV/Biosphere Program),
and with my colleague Dr. J. Michalsky, am a principal investigator in the USDOE
Atmospheric Radiation Measurements Program (ARM).
I developed the Multifilter Rotating Shadow\band Radiometer (MFRSR), which is a
widely used commercially available research instrument (used extensively by the DOEARM program, the USDA UVB-climatalogical network, the NASA SIRN network and a
variety of other NASA programs). I also developed the Rotating Shadowband
spectroradiometer (RSS) used by ARM, and the US-Reference Ultraviolet
Spectroradiometers.
Select Publications
Harrison, L., J. Michalsky, and J. Berndt (1994). Automated Multi-Filter Rotating
Shadowband Radiometer: An Instrument for Optical Depth and Radiation Measurements
, Appl. Opt. 33: 5118-5125
Harrison, L. and J. Michalsky (1994). Objective Algorithms for the Retrieval of Optical
Depths from Ground-Based Measurements, Appl. Opt. 33, 5126-5132
Harrison, L., M. Beauharnois, J. Berndt, P. Kiedron, L. Michalsky, J.J. and Q. Min
(1999), The Rotating Shadowband Spectroradiometer (RSS) at SGP, Geophys. Res. Lett.
26, 1715-1718
Harrison, L., J. Berndt, P. Kiedron, and J. Schlemmer (2001) The Solar Spectrum 360 to
1050 nm from Rotating Shadowband Spectroradiometer (RSS) Measurements at the
Southern Great Plains Site, J. Geophys. Rev. in review
Min, Q. and L. Harrison, Joint statistics of photon pathlength and cloud optical depth,
Geophys. Res. Lett. 26: 1425-1428
Synergistic Activity
The instruments I have developed are widely used by many other scientists and field
networks. These instruments are manufactured under license from SUNY-A, and a
considerable support effort on my part is required to sustain these instruments and assist
scientists and institutions that use them. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
Program fields more than 30 MFRSR instruments, the US UVB network uses both
MFRSR and UV-MFRSR instruments. See http://uvb.nrel.colostate.edu/UVB/ for the
latter.
Collaborators
Dr. Sheppard Clough
AER
Dr. Brent Holben
NASA-Langley
Dr. Piotr Kiedron
ASRC-SUNYA
Dr. Joseph Michalsky ASRC-SUNYA
Dr. Qilong Min
ASRC-SUNYA
Dr. Eli Mlawer
AER
Dr. Philip Russell
NASA-Ames
Dr. Beat Schmid
NASA-Ames
Dr. Edward Westwater
NOAA-ARL
Graduate and Postdoctoral Advisors
Dr. Marcia Baker
Dr. Robert Charlson
Dr. Conway Leovy
Dr. Lawrence Radke
Dr. Alan Waggoner
Univ of Washington
Univ of Washington (retired)
Univ of Washington (retired)
NCAR
Boeing
Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate Scholar Sponsor for:
Dr. Sihan Lin received PhD in Physics from SUNYA, 1998
Dr. Qilong Min
postdoctoral appointee, now in tenure-track appointment