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Overview

Bryan Stiles is a researcher affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Lab in the United States. Their work primarily spans the Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry. Their contributions cover a range of topics that intersect meteorology, planetary studies, and remote sensing technologies.

Their research topics include:

  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Stiles are:

  • Svetla Hristova-Veleva
  • Ziad S. Haddad
  • F. Joseph Turk
  • B. Knosp
  • Quoc Vu

Stiles has published in multiple academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Icarus
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Significant recent publications include:

  • "Titan's impact crater population after Cassini" (2020) in Icarus
  • "A Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Concept Using P-Band Signals of Opportunity" (2021) in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • "Impact of Microphysical Parameterizations on Simulated Hurricanes-Using Multi-Parameter Satellite Data to Determine the Particle Size Distributions that Produce Most Realistic Storms" (2021) in Atmosphere
  • "An Eye on the Storm: Integrating a Wealth of Data for Quickly Advancing the Physical Understanding and Forecasting of Tropical Cyclones" (2020) in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Measuring Significant Wave Height Fields in Two Dimensions at Kilometric Scales With SWOT" (2025) in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • The lakes of Titan

    Ellen R. Stofan;Charles Elachi;Jonathan I. Lunine;Ralf D. Lorenz

  • The sand seas of Titan: Cassini RADAR observations of longitudinal dunes.

    R. D. Lorenz;S. Wall;J. Radebaugh;G. Boubin

  • Cassini radar views the surface of Titan

    C. Elachi;S. Wall;M. Allison;Y. Anderson

  • Titan's inventory of organic surface materials

    Ralph D. Lorenz;Karl L. Mitchell;Randolph L. Kirk;Alexander G. Hayes

  • Cryovolcanic features on Titan's surface as revealed by the Cassini Titan Radar Mapper

    Rosaly M.C. Lopes;K. L. Mitchell;Ellen R. Stofan;Jonathan I. Lunine;Jonathan I. Lunine

  • Titan's rotation reveals an internal ocean and changing zonal winds.

    Ralph D. Lorenz;Bryan W. Stiles;Randolph L. Kirk;Michael D. Allison

  • Combined Active/Passive Retrievals of Ocean Vector Wind and Sea Surface Salinity With SMAP

    Alexander G. Fore;Simon H. Yueh;Wenqing Tang;Bryan W. Stiles

  • Fluvial channels on Titan: Initial Cassini RADAR observations

    Ralph D. Lorenz;Rosaly M. Lopes;Flora Paganelli;Jonathan I. Lunine

  • Impact of rain on spaceborne Ku-band wind scatterometer data

    B.W. Stiles;S.H. Yueh

  • Distribution and interplay of geologic processes on Titan from Cassini radar data

    R.M.C. Lopes;E. R. Stofan;R. Peckyno;J. Radebaugh

  • Titan's surface at 2.2-cm wavelength imaged by the Cassini RADAR radiometer: Calibration and first results

    M.A. Janssen;R.D. Lorenz;R. West;F. Paganelli

  • Determining Titan surface topography from Cassini SAR data

    Bryan W. Stiles;Scott Hensley;Yonggyu Gim;David M. Bates

  • Titan Radar Mapper observations from Cassini's T3 fly-by.

    C. Elachi;S. Wall;M. Janssen;E. Stofan

  • Determining Titan's Spin State from Cassini RADAR Images

    Bryan W. Stiles;Randolph L. Kirk;Ralph D. Lorenz;Scott Hensley

  • Size and Shape of Saturn's Moon Titan

    Howard A. Zebker;Bryan Stiles;Scott Hensley;Ralph Lorenz

  • Evaluation of high-resolution ocean surface vector winds measured by QuikSCAT scatterometer in coastal regions

    Wenqing Tang;W.T. Liu;B.W. Stiles

  • Estimating Ocean Vector Winds and Currents Using a Ka-Band Pencil-Beam Doppler Scatterometer

    Ernesto Rodríguez;Alexander Wineteer;Dragana Perkovic-Martin;Tamás Gál

  • Remotely Sensed Winds and Wind Stresses for Marine Forecasting and Ocean Modeling

    Mark A. Bourassa;Thomas Meissner;Ivana Cerovecki;Paul Chang

  • Direction interval retrieval with thresholded nudging: a method for improving the accuracy of QuikSCAT winds

    B.W. Stiles;B.D. Pollard;R.S. Dunbar

  • Point-Wise Wind Retrieval and Ambiguity Removal Improvements for the QuikSCAT Climatological Data Set

    Alexander G. Fore;Bryan W. Stiles;Alexandra H. Chau;Brent A. Williams

  • Remotely Sensed Winds and Wind Stresses for Marine Forecasting and Ocean Modeling

    Mark A. Bourassa

  • The Lakes of Titan

    J. Lunine;E. Stofan;C. Elachi;R. Lorenz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan I. Lunine
Jonathan I. Lunine Jet Propulsion Lab
Ralph D. Lorenz
Ralph D. Lorenz Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Howard A. Zebker
Howard A. Zebker Stanford University
Ellen R. Stofan
Ellen R. Stofan Smithsonian Institution
Rosaly M. C. Lopes
Rosaly M. C. Lopes California Institute of Technology
Jani Radebaugh
Jani Radebaugh Brigham Young University
Randolph L. Kirk
Randolph L. Kirk United States Geological Survey
Steven J. Ostro
Steven J. Ostro Jet Propulsion Lab
Karl L. Mitchell
Karl L. Mitchell California Institute of Technology
Alexander G. Hayes
Alexander G. Hayes Cornell University

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