Antonio Viudez‑Mora adapts CAM6 to assimilate MODIS and VIIRS aerosols for CERES

Antonio Viudez‑Mora is a contractor with the Surface and Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) CERES working group, where he is adapting the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM6) to assimilate and nudge MODIS and VIIRS aerosol retrievals for CERES Edition‑5.

Viudez‑Mora earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the Universitat de Valencia and completed postgraduate studies, then worked as a physicist in the Dynamic Pollutions department at the Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM) evaluating and monitoring tropospheric ozone for the regional government of Valencia. He completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Girona supported by a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology, during which he worked at the Physikalisch‑Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World Radiation Center and collaborated with the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

After his PhD he joined the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Science Directorate of NASA Langley Research Center, where he assessed cloud effects on the radiative budgets of two CERES datasets (GEWEX‑SRB and CloudSat‑CALIPSO‑CERES‑MODIS). His current work on CAM6 for CERES Edition‑5 is ongoing; the source does not specify timelines or further next steps.

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