Dr. Louie Grasso - CIRA - Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

Dr. Louie Grasso

Research Scientist II, RAMMB

Office: CIRA, Rm 08, Fort Collins
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Dr. Louie Grasso
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
Colorado State University
1375 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1375

Biography

Louie Grasso received his BS in Meteorology from Lyndon State College in 1985. Both his MS (1993) and PhD (1996) in Atmospheric Science were obtained from Colorado State University. His areas of interest include numerical modeling, satellite meteorology, and severe thunderstorms. Since 1997 he has work at CIRA where his initial focus was on the numerical modeling of severe storms (Grasso 2000a) and soil moisture impacts on dryline development (Grasso 2000b). His dryline work led to a contribution in the Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (Grasso 2003). His interests moved into the area of producing synthetic satellite imagery from numerical model output (Grasso and Greenwald, 2004). For the past few years, he has been focused primarily on generating synthetic NPOESS VIIRS and GOES-R ABI imagery for a variety of weather and environmental events: Severe storms, lake effect snow, hurricanes, and wild fires (Lindsey et al. 2006, Grasso et al. 2008).

Recent Work

Above: Selected synthetic imagery from three different weather events. The top row shows synthetic 4 km GOES-12 at 10.7 µm, 2 km GOES-R at 10.35 µm, and 400 m NPOESS VIIRS at 11.02 µm for hurricane Lili. Similar synthetic scenes are displayed for a lake effect snow event, shown in the middle row, and a severe thunderstorm case, shown in the bottom row.

Selected Publications

Grasso, L. D., M. Sengupta, J. F. Dostalek, R. Brummer, and M. DeMaria, 2008: Synthetic satellite imagery for current and future environmental satellites. Int. J. of Remote Sensing. In Press.

Lindsey, D. T., D. W. Hillger, L. Grasso, J. A. Knaff, and J. F. Dostalek, 2006: GOES climatology

and analysis of thunderstorms with enhanced 3.9 µm reflectivity. Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 139, No. 9, 2342-2353.

Grasso, L. D., and T. Greenwald, 2004: Analysis of 10.7 µm brightness temperatures of a simulated thunderstorm with two-moment microphysics. Mon. Wea. Rev., 132, 815-825.

Grasso, L. D., 2003: Dry Line. Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences. James Holton, Editor.

Grasso, L. D., 2000b: A numerical simulation of dryline sensitivity to soil moisture. Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 128, 2816-2832.

Grasso, L. D., 2000a: The dissipation of a left moving cell in a severe storm environment. Mon. Wea. Rev., Vol. 128, 2797-2815.

General Themes