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Overview

Anthony B. Davis is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Aerospace Engineering. Additional areas of study include Astronomy and Astrophysics as well as Political Science and International Relations.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics including Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Planetary Science and Exploration, and Urban Heat Island Mitigation.

Key frequent coauthors contributing to their research include Linda Forster, Aviad Levis, Jesse Loveridge, Changrak Choi, and Alexander Marshak.

Anthony B. Davis has published extensively in several venues. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • MDPI (MDPI AG)
  • ASCEND 2020
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Davis illustrate the scope of their research interests and include:

  • "Multi-View Polarimetric Scattering Cloud Tomography and Retrieval of Droplet Size" (2020), MDPI (MDPI AG)
  • "Retrieving 3D distributions of atmospheric particles using Atmospheric Tomography with 3D Radiative Transfer - Part 1: Model description and Jacobian calculation" (2023), Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • "Multi-Agent Motion Planning using Deep Learning for Space Applications" (2020), ASCEND 2020
  • "Toward Cloud Tomography from Space using MISR and MODIS: The Physics of Image Formation for Opaque Convective Clouds" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Limitations of Bin and Bulk Microphysics in Reproducing the Observed Spatial Structure of Light Precipitation" (2021), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Best Publications

  • Photon propagation in heterogeneous optical media with spatial correlations: enhanced mean-free-paths and wider-than-exponential free-path distributions

    Anthony B. Davis;Alexander Marshak

  • Hyperspectral remote sensing of foliar nitrogen content.

    Yuri Knyazikhin;Mitchell A. Schull;Pauline Stenberg;Matti Mõttus

  • Multifractal characterizations of nonstationarity and intermittency in geophysical fields: Observed, retrieved, or simulated

    Anthony Davis;Alexander Marshak;Warren Wiscombe;Robert Cahalan

  • 3D Radiative Transfer in Cloudy Atmospheres

    Alexander Marshak;Anthony Davis

  • Radiative smoothing in fractal clouds

    Alexander Marshak;Anthony Davis;Warren Wiscombe;Robert Cahalan

  • The Landsat Scale Break in Stratocumulus as a Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Effect: Implications for Cloud Remote Sensing

    Anthony Davis;Alexander Marshak;Robert Cahalan;Warren Wiscombe

  • Scale Invariance of Liquid Water Distributions in Marine Stratocumulus. Part I: Spectral Properties and Stationarity Issues

    Anthony Davis;Alexander Marshak;Warren Wiscombe;Robert Cahalan

  • Bounded cascade models as nonstationary multifractals

    A. Marshak;A. Davis;R. Cahalan;W. Wiscombe

  • The I3RC - Bringing Together the Most Advanced Radiative Transfer Tools for Cloudy Atmospheres

    Robert F. Cahalan;Lazaros Oreopoulos;Lazaros Oreopoulos;Alexander Marshak;Alexander Marshak;K. Franklin Evans

  • The Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (AirMSPI): a new tool for aerosol and cloud remote sensing

    D. J. Diner;F. Xu;F. Xu;M. J. Garay;J. V. Martonchik

  • Atmospheric Correction of Satellite Ocean-Color Imagery During the PACE Era.

    Robert J. Frouin;Bryan A. Franz;Amir Ibrahim;Kirk Knobelspiesse

  • Cloud‐vegetation interaction: Use of normalized difference cloud index for estimation of cloud optical thickness

    A. Marshak;A. Marshak;Y. Knyazikhin;A. B. Davis;W. J. Wiscombe

  • Long‐term memory for unfamiliar voices

    George Papcun;Jody Kreiman;Anthony Davis

  • Horizontal structure of marine boundary layer clouds from centimeter to kilometer scales

    Anthony B. Davis;Alexander Marshak;H. Gerber;Warren J. Wiscombe

  • Algorithm for model validation: Theory and applications

    D. Sornette;A. B. Davis;K. Ide;K. R. Vixie

  • WAVELET BASED MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS OF ROUGH SURFACES : APPLICATION TO CLOUD MODELS AND SATELLITE DATA

    J. Arrault;A. Arnéodo;A. Davis;A. Marshak

  • Joint retrieval of aerosol and water-leaving radiance frommultispectral, multiangular and polarimetric measurements over ocean

    Feng Xu;Oleg Dubovik;Peng-Wang Zhai;David J. Diner

  • Solar radiation transport in the cloudy atmosphere: a 3D perspective on observations and climate impacts

    Anthony B Davis;Alexander Marshak

  • Space-Based Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols: The Multi-Angle Spectro-Polarimetric Frontier

    A.A. Kokhanovsky;A.B. Davis;B. Cairns;O. Dubovik

  • Nonlocal independent pixel approximation: direct and inverse problems

    A. Marshak;A. Davis;R.F. Cahalan;W. Wiscombe

  • Wavelet-Based Multifractal Analysis of Non-Stationary and/or Intermittent Geophysical Signals

    Anthony Davis;Alexander Marshak;Warren Wiscombe

  • Biases in Shortwave Column Absorption in the Presence of Fractal Clouds

    Alexander Marshak;Anthony Davis;Warren Wiscombe;William Ridgway

  • Airborne Three-Dimensional Cloud Tomography

    Aviad Levis;Yoav Y. Schechner;Amit Aides;Anthony B. Davis

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Marshak
Alexander Marshak Goddard Space Flight Center
David J. Diner
David J. Diner Jet Propulsion Lab
Robert F. Cahalan
Robert F. Cahalan Goddard Space Flight Center
Michel M. Verstraete
Michel M. Verstraete University of the Witwatersrand
John V. Martonchik
John V. Martonchik Jet Propulsion Lab
Yuri Knyazikhin
Yuri Knyazikhin Boston University
Guillaume Bal
Guillaume Bal University of Chicago
Nadine Gobron
Nadine Gobron European Commission Joint Research Centre
Yoav Y. Schechner
Yoav Y. Schechner Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

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