# Lorraine Remer

Lorraine Remer is research professor at University of Maryland, Baltimore County known for her work on developing algorithms to study aerosol particles using satellites with a particular focus on how aerosols impact climate processes.

## Education and career

Remer has a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California Davis (1980), an M.S. in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (1983), and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from University of California Davis (1991).
Starting in 1991, she worked for Science Systems and Applications, Inc. as a support scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA). From 1998 to 2012, she worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. In 2012, she moved to the University of Maryland, Baltimore Country where she became a research professor in the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology.
She co-founded AirPhoton, a company whose work includes measuring particles in the atmosphere, and she currently serves as the company's Chief Science Officer. AirPhoton's work includes characterizing the particles found in pollution from a space-based platform.

## Research

As a child, Remer was interested in the sea and maritime studies, and as she grew older she sought out "environmental science that was hard science" which led her to atmospheric sciences.
Remer's research involves tracking dust in the air using space-based platforms and quantifies how aerosols alter climate conditions. While at NASA, Remer worked on the algorithms needed to understand aerosol particles using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors that are part of the payload on the Terra and Aqua satellites. Remer's research includes work on smoke, dust, aerosol particles over Atlantic Ocean and smoke and clouds in the Amazon River area. Remer has also been involved in research quantifying the balance of pollution from US-based sites relative to other geographical regions.

### Selected publications

* Remer, L. A.; Kaufman, Y. J.; Tanré, D.; Mattoo, S.; Chu, D. A.; Martins, J. V.; Li, R.-R.; Ichoku, C.; Levy, R. C.; Kleidman, R. G.; Eck, T. F. (2005-04-01). "The MODIS Aerosol Algorithm, Products, and Validation". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 62 (4): 947–973. Bibcode:2005JAtS...62..947R. doi:10.1175/JAS3385.1. hdl:2060/20030102194. ISSN 0022-4928. S2CID 10155517.
* Remer, Lorraine A.; Kleidman, Richard G.; Levy, Robert C.; Kaufman, Yoram J.; Tanré, Didier; Mattoo, Shana; Martins, J. Vanderlei; Ichoku, Charles; Koren, Ilan; Yu, Hongbin; Holben, Brent N. (2008). "Global aerosol climatology from the MODIS satellite sensors". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 113 (D14). Bibcode:2008JGRD..11314S07R. doi:10.1029/2007JD009661. ISSN 2156-2202.
* Remer, L. A.; Tanré, D.; Kaufman, Y. J.; Ichoku, C.; Mattoo, S.; Levy, R.; Chu, D. A.; Holben, B.; Dubovik, O.; Smirnov, A.; Martins, J. V. (2002). "Validation of MODIS aerosol retrieval over ocean". Geophysical Research Letters. 29 (12): MOD3–1–MOD3-4. Bibcode:2002GeoRL..29.8008R. doi:10.1029/2001GL013204. hdl:2060/20020008210. ISSN 1944-8007.

## Awards and honors

* June Bacon-Bercey Scholarship for Women in Atmospheric Sciences (1986)
* Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list (2014)
* Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2015)
* Faculty Excellence Award, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2019)

## Reference section

* 1 2 Staff, UMBC News (2015-08-04). "Lorraine Remer, JCET, Honored as American Geophysical Union Fellow". UMBC NEWS. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
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* ↑ Remer, Lorraine Ann (1983). A radiative-convective model for use in the study of the Earth's climate (M.S. thesis). University of California, San Diego.
* ↑ Remer, Lorraine Ann. (1991). Cloud-radiative feedbacks in tropical convection (Ph. D. thesis). [Davis, Calif.]: University of California, Davis.
* 1 2 "About AirPhoton". AirPhoton. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
* 1 2 staff, Stephen Babcock / (2019-01-08). "AirPhoton's sampling stations will help NASA investigate air pollution". Technical.ly Baltimore. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
* 1 2 3 Ruediger, Nicole (2015-04-20). "Discovery – Spring 2015". UMBC Magazine. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
* ↑ Salazar, Jorge (2009-10-26). "Following space dust | Earth | EarthSky". earthsky.org. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
* ↑ Remer, Lorraine A. (2014). "Just add aerosols: Data from clean regions of the atmosphere show how little aerosol is needed to change clouds". Science. 344 (6188): 1089. doi:10.1126/science.1255398. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 24743961. PMID 24904141. S2CID 5978565.
* ↑ Ball, Philip (2007-04-24). "Every cloud has an invisible halo". Nature. doi:10.1038/news070423-6. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 140162888.
* ↑ Remer, L. A.; Kaufman, Y. J.; Tanré, D.; Mattoo, S.; Chu, D. A.; Martins, J. V.; Li, R.-R.; Ichoku, C.; Levy, R. C.; Kleidman, R. G.; Eck, T. F. (2005-04-01). "The MODIS Aerosol Algorithm, Products, and Validation". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 62 (4): 947–973. Bibcode:2005JAtS...62..947R. doi:10.1175/JAS3385.1. hdl:2060/20030102194. ISSN 1520-0469. S2CID 10155517.
* ↑ Levy, Robert C.; Remer, Lorraine A.; Mattoo, Shana; Vermote, Eric F.; Kaufman, Yoram J. (2007-07-16). "Second-generation operational algorithm: Retrieval of aerosol properties over land from inversion of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer spectral reflectance". Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 112 (D13): 2006JD007811. Bibcode:2007JGRD..11213211L. doi:10.1029/2006JD007811. ISSN 0148-0227. S2CID 5909957.
* ↑ Kaufman, Yoram J.; Koren, Ilan; Remer, Lorraine A.; Rosenfeld, Daniel; Rudich, Yinon; Ramanathan, Veerabhadran (2005). "The Effect of Smoke, Dust, and Pollution Aerosol on Shallow Cloud Development over the Atlantic Ocean". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102 (32): 11207–11212. Bibcode:2005PNAS..10211207K. doi:10.1073/pnas.0505191102. ISSN 0027-8424. JSTOR 3376246. PMC 1182178. PMID 16076949.
* ↑ Koren, Ilan; Martins, J. Vanderlei; Remer, Lorraine A.; Afargan, Hila (2008). "Smoke Invigoration versus Inhibition of Clouds over the Amazon". Science. 321 (5891): 946–949. Bibcode:2008Sci...321..946K. doi:10.1126/science.1159185. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 20144602. PMID 18703738. S2CID 206513427.
* ↑ Yu, Hongbin; Remer, Lorraine A.; Chin, Mian; Bian, Huisheng; Tan, Qian; Yuan, Tianle; Zhang, Yan (2012). "Aerosols from Overseas Rival Domestic Emissions over North America". Science. 337 (6094): 566–569. Bibcode:2012Sci...337..566Y. doi:10.1126/science.1217576. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 23267654. PMID 22859485. S2CID 40210585.
* ↑ "Half of the particulate pollution in North America comes from other continents". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
* ↑ Katzoff, Judith A. (1986). "Bacon-Bercey Award to Remer". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 67 (48): 1364. Bibcode:1986EOSTr..67.1364K. doi:10.1029/EO067i048p01364. ISSN 2324-9250.
* ↑ "Lorraine Remer recognized as Highly Cited Researcher". Research at UMBC. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
* ↑ "2019 UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award". Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards. Retrieved 2021-06-12.