Kristopher Bedka

Kristopher Bedka has spent most of his professional career analyzing atmospheric processes and prediction using satellite-, airborne-, and ground-based observations and models. He is a Research Physical Scientist in the Science Directorate at NASA Langley Research Center.

His work has focused on development, validation, and application of automated satellite-based convective initiation nowcasting, atmospheric motion vector retrieval, ice crystal aircraft icing, overshooting convective cloud top detection, and above-anvil plume / enhanced-V signature detection algorithms.

He also develops satellite-based climatologies of hazardous convective storms, retrieves cloud microphysical properties from visible and passive infrared observations, uses airborne lidar wind, aerosol, and water vapor profiling instruments for research and calibration, and studies convectively-induced tropospheric/stratospheric exchange.

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