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Norman G. Loeb (NASA)

Title: Senior Technologist for Radiation Sciences
Technical Focus Area: Climate Science
Mission/Project: CERES
Study Topics: Earth Radiation Budget, Climate Variability, Clouds, Climate Model Evaluation, Aerosol Radiative Forcing

About:

Dr. Norman Loeb is the NASA Senior Technologist for Radiation Sciences. He also serves as the NASA Principal Investigator for Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) and is a Commissioner of the International Radiation Commission (Co-Leader of the Earth Radiation Budget Working Group). He is a panel member on the World Climate Research Programme CLIVAR (CLImate and ocean – VARiability, predicability, and change) research focus team on Planetary heat balance & ocean heat storage. Dr. Loeb is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society.

Publication Bibliography:

Select Publications:

  • Loeb, N. G., D. R. Doelling, 2020: CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) from Afternoon-Only Satellite Orbits. Remote Sensing, 12(8), 1280. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12081280.
  • Loeb, N. G., F. G. Rose, S. Kato, D. A. Rutan, W. Su, H. Wang, D. R. Doelling, W. L. Smith, A. Gettelman, 2020: Toward a Consistent Definition between Satellite and Model Clear-Sky Radiative Fluxes. J. Climate, 33(1), 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0381.1.
  • Loeb, N. G., H. Wang, R. P. Allan, T. Andrews, K. Armour, J. N. S. Cole, J. Dufresne, P. Forster, A. Gettelman, H. Guo, T. Mauritsen, Y. Ming, D. Paynter, C. Proistosescu, M. F. Stuecker, U. Willén, K. Wyser, 2020: New Generation of Climate Models Track Recent Unprecedented Changes in Earth’s Radiation Budget Observed by CERES. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(5), e2019GL086705. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086705.
  • Loeb, N. G., H. Wang, F. G. Rose, S. Kato, W. L. Smith, S. Sun-Mack, 2019: Decomposing Shortwave Top-of-Atmosphere and Surface Radiative Flux Variations in Terms of Surface and Atmospheric Contributions. J. Climate, 32(16), 5003–501. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0826.1.
  • Loeb, N. G., D. R. Doelling, H. Wang, W. Su, C. Nguyen, J. G. Corbett, L. Liang, C. Mitrescu, F. G. Rose, S. Kato, 2018: Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) Edition 4.0 Data Product. J. Climate, 31(2), 895–918. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0208.1.
  • Loeb, N. G., T. J. Thorsen, J. R. Norris, H. Wang, W. Su, 2018: Changes in Earth’s Energy Budget during and after the “Pause” in Global Warming: An Observational Perspective. Climate, 6(3), 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/cli6030062.
  • Loeb, N. G., P. Yang, F. G. Rose, G. Hong, S. Sun-Mack, P. Minnis, S. Kato, S. Ham, W. L. Smith, S. Hioki, G. Tang, 2018: Impact of Ice Cloud Microphysics on Satellite Cloud Retrievals and Broadband Flux Radiative Transfer Model Calculations. J. Climate, 31(5), 1851–1864. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0426.1.
  • Loeb, N. G., H. Wang, L. Liang, S. Kato, F. G. Rose, 2017: Surface energy budget changes over Central Australia during the early 21st century drought. International Journal of Climatology, 37(1), 159–168. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.4694.
  • Loeb, N. G., N. Manalo-Smith, W. Su, M. Shankar, S. Thomas, 2016: CERES Top-of-Atmosphere Earth Radiation Budget Climate Data Record: Accounting for in-Orbit Changes in Instrument Calibration. Remote Sensing, 8(3), 182. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8030182.
  • Loeb, N. G., H. Wang, A. Cheng, S. Kato, J. T. Fasullo, K. Xu, R. P. Allan, 2016: Observational constraints on atmospheric and oceanic cross-equatorial heat transports: revisiting the precipitation asymmetry problem in climate models. Climate Dynamics, 46(9-10), 3239-3257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2766-z

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Awards:

  • 2020 NASA Langley Science Directorate Lawrence Award
  • 2016 American Meteorological Society Fellow
  • 2013 NASA Distinguished Service Medal
  • 2012 NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal
  • 2011 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
  • 2009 William T. Pecora Award (Group Award)
  • 2007 Editor’s Award, American Meteorlogical Society

Professional Memberships:

  • American Meteorological Society
  • American Geophysical Union

Education:

  • B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Atmospheric Sciences, McGill University
  • M.Sc. degree in Atmospheric Sciences, York University

National/International Leadership:

Commissioner of the International Radiation Commission (Co-Leader of the Earth Radiation Budget Working Group)