Short-term Prediction Research
and Transition Center

Will McCarty

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Will McCarty NASA / GHCC 320 Sparkman Drive Huntsville, AL 35805 256-961-7974 Will.McCarty@nasa.gov
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Atmospheric Science (2005-) University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science Department, Dissertation: Assimilation of AIRS Cloud-free Radiances for Improved Short-Term Weather Forecasts, Advisors: Dr. Gary Jedlovec and Dr. Ronald Welch, Expected Graduation Date: May 2008.
Master of Science in Atmospheric Science (2003-2005) University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science Department, Master's Thesis: Cloud Top Pressure from AIRS, Advisor: Dr. Gary Jedlovec.
Bachelor of Science in Meteorology (1999-2003) Valparaiso University, Minors: Mathematics and Geography.

Mr. McCarty has been in Huntsville since 2003, achieving his M.S. and working towards his Ph.D. He has spent much of this time working with the Infrared Group working on sounder products, and currently maintains the operational GOES imager and sounder products. As an extension of his thesis work, he updated the cloud top pressure algorithm to include the CO2 slicing method, and provides multiple products as a result, including the resultant effective cloud fraction calculations. The bulk of his work, however, has focused on the utilization of hyperspectral measurements. He has, in collaboration with the SPoRT group, implemented near-real time products from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), including cloud top pressure and effective cloud fraction retrievals, as well as a diagnostic for the CO2 sorting technique, which is used to determine cloud contamination of individual bands within an instantaneous field of view. He is also working towards the assimilation of AIRS radiances within a regional framework for improved short-term numerical weather prediction.

Mr. McCarty is a member of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union.