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Overview

Kristopher M. Bedka is affiliated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work covers various topics including:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics

Bedka has contributed to numerous scientific papers, some of which are:

  • Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Airborne lidar observations of wind, water vapor, and aerosol profiles during the NASA Aeolus calibration and validation (Cal/Val) test flight campaign, 2021, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Assimilation of GOES-16 Radiances and Retrievals into the Warn-on-Forecast System, 2020, Monthly Weather Review
  • Severe thunderstorms with large hail across Germany in June 2019, 2020, Weather
  • Recent Advances in Detection of Overshooting Cloud Tops From Longwave Infrared Satellite Imagery, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Frequent co-authors of Bedka include:

  • Cameron R. Homeyer
  • Konstantin Khlopenkov
  • Kyle F. Itterly
  • John W. Cooney
  • Christopher J. Schultz

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Monthly Weather Review
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Best Publications

  • Forecasting Convective Initiation by Monitoring the Evolution of Moving Cumulus in Daytime GOES Imagery

    John R. Mecikalski;Kristopher M. Bedka

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Objective Satellite-Based Detection of Overshooting Tops Using Infrared Window Channel Brightness Temperature Gradients

    Kristopher Bedka;Jason Brunner;Richard Dworak;Wayne Feltz

  • Increase in upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric aerosol levels and its potential connection with Asian pollution.

    J. P. Vernier;T. D. Fairlie;M. Natarajan;F. G. Wienhold

  • Overshooting cloud top detections using MSG SEVIRI Infrared brightness temperatures and their relationship to severe weather over Europe

    Kristopher M. Bedka

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Application of Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors for Estimating Mesoscale Flows

    Kristopher M. Bedka;John R. Mecikalski

  • BATAL: The Balloon measurement campaigns of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer

    J.-P. Vernier;T. D. Fairlie;T. Deshler;M. Venkat Ratnam

  • Hazardous thunderstorm intensification over Lake Victoria

    Wim Thiery;Wim Thiery;Edouard Léopold Davin;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Kristopher Bedka

  • Comparison between GOES-12 Overshooting-Top Detections, WSR-88D Radar Reflectivity, and Severe Storm Reports

    Richard Dworak;Kristopher Bedka;Jason Brunner;Wayne Feltz

  • Nowcasting Convective Storm Initiation Using Satellite-Based Box-Averaged Cloud-Top Cooling and Cloud-Type Trends

    Justin M. Sieglaff;Lee M. Cronce;Wayne F. Feltz;Kristopher M. Bedka

  • A new physically based stochastic event catalog for hail in Europe

    H. J. Punge;K. M. Bedka;M. Kunz;A. Werner

  • A Statistical Evaluation of GOES Cloud-Top Properties for Nowcasting Convective Initiation

    John R. Mecikalski;Kristopher M. Bedka;Simon J. Paech;Leslie A. Litten

  • In situ and space-based observations of the Kelud volcanic plume: The persistence of ash in the lower stratosphere.

    Jean-Paul Vernier;T. Duncan Fairlie;Terry Deshler;Murali Natarajan

  • Identifying the Uncertainty in Determining Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vector Height Attribution

    Christopher S. Velden;Kristopher M. Bedka

  • Global Cloud Detection for CERES Edition 4 Using Terra and Aqua MODIS Data

    Qing Z. Trepte;Kristopher M. Bedka;Thad L. Chee;Patrick Minnis

  • A Probabilistic Multispectral Pattern Recognition Method for Detection of Overshooting Cloud Tops Using Passive Satellite Imager Observations

    Kristopher M. Bedka;Konstantin Khlopenkov

  • Hail frequency estimation across Europe based on a combination of overshooting top detections and the ERA-INTERIM reanalysis

    H.J. Punge;K.M. Bedka;M. Kunz;A. Reinbold

  • Convective cloud identification and classification in daytime satellite imagery using standard deviation limited adaptive clustering

    Todd A. Berendes;John R. Mecikalski;Wayne M. MacKenzie;Kristopher M. Bedka

  • A Case Study of Convectively Sourced Water Vapor Observed in the Overworld Stratosphere over the United States

    Jessica B. Smith;David M. Wilmouth;Kristopher M. Bedka;Kenneth P. Bowman

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

  • NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE Application of Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors for Estimating Mesoscale Flows

    Kristopher M. Bedka;John R. Mecikalski

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Minnis
Patrick Minnis Langley Research Center
William L. Smith
William L. Smith Langley Research Center
Wayne F. Feltz
Wayne F. Feltz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wim Thiery
Wim Thiery Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Steven A. Ackerman
Steven A. Ackerman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Melody A. Avery
Melody A. Avery Langley Research Center

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