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Istvan Laszlo is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the environmental sciences and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on atmospheric aerosols and clouds as well as related atmospheric chemistry and gas dynamics topics.

Laszlo's work spans several interconnected scientific fields and subfields, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Their research topics cover a range of atmospheric and environmental phenomena, highlighting:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models

Istvan Laszlo has frequently published in a number of notable scientific venues, including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing

Their recent papers demonstrate work on aerosol optical depth retrievals, satellite monitoring, and radiative transfer simulations. Notable recent publications include:

  • Improving GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals using an empirical bias correction algorithm, 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Refining aerosol optical depth retrievals over land by constructing the relationship of spectral surface reflectances through deep learning: Application to Himawari-8, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Monitoring multiple satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) products within the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) data assimilation system, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Tracking Smoke from a Prescribed Fire and Its Impacts on Local Air Quality Using Temporally Resolved GOES-16 ABI Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), 2021, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Polarized Radiative Transfer Simulations: A Tutorial Review and Upgrades of the Vector Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer Computational Tool, 2022, Frontiers in Remote Sensing

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Shobha Kondragunta
  • Hongqing Liu
  • R. T. Pinker
  • Yingtao Ma
  • Hye-Yun Kim

Best Publications

  • Modeling Surface Solar Irradiance for Satellite Applications on a Global Scale

    R. T. Pinker;I. Laszlo

  • Multiangle implementation of atmospheric correction (MAIAC): 2. Aerosol algorithm

    A. Lyapustin;A. Lyapustin;Y. Wang;Y. Wang;I. Laszlo;R. Kahn

  • Multiangle implementation of atmospheric correction (MAIAC): 1. Radiative transfer basis and look-up tables

    Alexei Lyapustin;Alexei Lyapustin;John Martonchik;Yujie Wang;Yujie Wang;Istvan Laszlo

  • Uncertainties in satellite remote sensing of aerosols and impact on monitoring its long-term trend: a review and perspective

    Z. Li;Z. Li;X. Zhao;R. Kahn;M. Mishchenko

  • Suomi‐NPP VIIRS aerosol algorithms and data products

    John M. Jackson;Hongqing Liu;Hongqing Liu;Istvan Laszlo;Istvan Laszlo;Shobha Kondragunta

  • Multi-angle implementation of atmospheric correction for MODIS (MAIAC): 3. Atmospheric correction

    Alexei I. Lyapustin;Yujie Wang;Yujie Wang;Istvan Laszlo;Thomas Hilker

  • Surface radiation budgets in support of the GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP) and the GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP), including the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project

    Rachel T. Pinker;J. Dan Tarpley;Istvan Laszlo;Kenneth E. Mitchell

  • Modeling of the scattering and radiative properties of nonspherical dust-like aerosols

    Ping Yang;Qian Feng;Gang Hong;George W. Kattawar

  • First global WCRP shortwave surface radiation budget dataset

    C. H. Whitlock;T. P. Charlock;W. F. Staylor;R. T. Pinker

  • Single-scattering properties of tri-axial ellipsoidal mineral dust aerosols: A database for application to radiative transfer calculations

    Zhaokai Meng;Ping Yang;George W. Kattawar;Lei Bi

  • Intercomparison of models representing direct shortwave radiative forcing by sulfate aerosols

    O. Boucher;S. E. Schwartz;T. P. Ackerman;T. L. Anderson

  • Global distribution of photosynthetically active radiation as observed from satellites

    R. T. Pinker;I. Laszlo

  • Preliminary evaluation of S-NPP VIIRS aerosol optical thickness

    Hongqing Liu;Hongqing Liu;Lorraine A. Remer;Jingfeng Huang;Jingfeng Huang;Ho Chun Huang;Ho Chun Huang

  • Development of the HIRS Outgoing Longwave Radiation Climate Dataset

    Hai-Tien Lee;Arnold Gruber;Robert G. Ellingson;Istvan Laszlo

  • General Purpose Fortran Program for Discrete-Ordinate-Method Radiative Transfer in Scattering and Emitting Layered Media: An Update of DISORT

    Si-Chee Tsay;Knut Stamnes;Warren Wiscombe;Istvan Laszlo

  • Intercomparison of shortwave radiative transfer codes and measurements

    Rangasayi N. Halthore;David Crisp;Stephen E. Schwartz;Gail Anderson

  • Study of long‐term trend in aerosol optical thickness observed from operational AVHRR satellite instrument

    Tom X.-P. Zhao;Tom X.-P. Zhao;Istvan Laszlo;Wei Guo;Andrew Heidinger

  • Angular anisotropy of satellite observations of land surface temperature

    Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;Yunyue Yu;Mitchell D. Goldberg;Dan Tarpley

  • Validation and expected error estimation of Suomi-NPP VIIRS aerosol optical thickness and Ångström exponent with AERONET

    Jingfeng Huang;Jingfeng Huang;Shobha Kondragunta;Istvan Laszlo;Istvan Laszlo;Hongqing Liu;Hongqing Liu

  • Equator crossing times for NOAA, ERS and EOS sun-synchronous satellites

    A. Ignatov;I. Laszlo;E. D. Harrod;K. B. Kidwell

  • Surface radiation budgets in support of the GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project (GCIP) and the GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP), including the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) project : GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project, Part 3 (GCIP3)

    Rachel T. Pinker;J. Dan Tarpley;Istvan Laszlo;Kenneth E. Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel T. Pinker
Rachel T. Pinker University of Maryland, College Park
Shobha Kondragunta
Shobha Kondragunta National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Alexei Lyapustin
Alexei Lyapustin Goddard Space Flight Center
Lorraine A. Remer
Lorraine A. Remer University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Yujie Wang
Yujie Wang University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Yuhang Wang
Yuhang Wang Georgia Institute of Technology
Ping Yang
Ping Yang Texas A&M University
Norman G. Loeb
Norman G. Loeb Langley Research Center
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center
Andrew K. Heidinger
Andrew K. Heidinger National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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