As a retired 21-year Air Force meteorologist/ weather officer, his research, teaching, and advising have focused on atmospheric effects on military systems such as high energy lasers and weapons of mass destruction, and the impacts of those effects on remote sensing instruments and algorithms. Dr. Fiorino is the scientific developer of the Laser Environmental Effects Definition and Reference (LEEDR) software package and the atmospheric data used in the High Energy Laser End-to-End Operational Simulation (HELEEOS) model.