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2023-03-25 15:55 34.1 23.9 0.9 21.1 293 27.3 287 24.662 233.4 0.00
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2023-03-25 15:25 34.5 24.9 2.2 20.9 290 27.2 278 24.648 217.6 0.00
2023-03-25 15:20 35.1 25.1 2.8 19.2 298 27.0 284 24.647 295.5 0.00
2023-03-25 15:15 35.0 27.1 4.5 16.6 285 22.7 271 24.645 364.3 0.00
2023-03-25 15:10 34.7 23.5 1.1 20.1 291 24.6 269 24.644 346.9 0.00
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2023-03-25 15:00 34.9 23.2 0.9 22.7 295 29.1 286 24.640 217.2 0.00
2023-03-25 14:55 35.7 25.8 3.9 23.0 288 29.9 286 24.639 308.7 0.00
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2023-03-25 14:40 36.2 23.9 2.7 19.5 264 24.7 271 24.637 607.5 0.00
2023-03-25 14:35 35.9 21.6 0.3 21.5 270 26.9 273 24.638 600.5 0.00
2023-03-25 14:30 35.8 23.8 2.3 23.2 273 30.2 268 24.636 608.1 0.00
2023-03-25 14:25 35.9 22.5 1.2 16.3 275 24.4 278 24.635 489.1 0.00
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2023-03-25 14:15 35.6 23.4 1.8 19.2 296 24.8 280 24.633 387.3 0.00
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2023-03-25 13:50 36.2 23.2 2.1 20.2 263 29.3 287 24.630 640.8 0.00
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2023-03-25 13:35 36.1 26.1 4.6 20.8 249 26.9 278 24.629 682.4 0.00
2023-03-25 13:30 36.8 29.4 7.8 16.5 266 24.9 260 24.632 743.4 0.00
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2023-03-25 15:55 1.1 23.9 -17.3 9.4 293 12.2 287 835.14 233.4 0.00
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2023-03-25 15:40 1.1 26.4 -16.1 9.1 300 11.5 290 834.93 177.1 0.00
2023-03-25 15:35 1.1 25.7 -16.4 8.3 286 10.6 287 834.87 174.3 0.00
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2023-03-25 15:20 1.7 25.1 -16.2 8.6 298 12.1 284 834.63 295.5 0.00
2023-03-25 15:15 1.7 27.1 -15.3 7.4 285 10.1 271 834.58 364.3 0.00
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2023-03-25 14:50 2.3 24.3 -16.0 9.0 287 13.0 280 834.32 484.9 0.00
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2023-03-25 14:10 1.9 27.0 -15.1 7.2 253 11.1 272 834.15 464.3 0.00
2023-03-25 14:05 2.1 23.8 -16.5 9.4 286 13.6 273 834.09 484.5 0.00
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2023-03-25 13:50 2.4 23.2 -16.6 9.0 263 13.1 287 834.06 640.8 0.00
2023-03-25 13:45 2.4 25.0 -15.7 9.1 283 12.5 295 834.04 711.9 0.00
2023-03-25 13:40 2.2 24.2 -16.2 9.6 267 12.3 289 834.02 720.9 0.00
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CIRA

Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

Andrew Jones

Dr. Andrew S. Jones

CIRA Fellow

Job Title:

Senior Research Scientist/Scholar

Email Address:

Phone Number:


970-491-8628

Mailing Addresss:


Dr. Andrew S. Jones
Senior Research Scientist
CIRA Fellow and CSU One Health Institute Fellow
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
Colorado State University
1375 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1375

Office Location:


ACRC 02

About Me:


Andrew Jones received the B.S. in Physics (minor in Mathematics), summa cum laude with University Honors, at Eastern Illinois Univ.; and M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, at Colorado State University. In the past, he has received 6 academic merit scholarships/fellowships from various organizations including the State of Illinois and the State of Colorado. He has more than 585 publications, reports, and presentations in the areas of:

  • satellite data assimilation
  • multisensor satellite data merger techniques
  • satellite spatial filters
  • 1DVAR soil moisture and water vapor profile retrievals
  • measurement of microwave surface emissivity for determining surface wetness and radiometric boundary conditions
  • microwave detection of cloud liquid water and surface properties over land
  • satellite limb radiance
  • radar and satellite intercomparison studies

Food security and Big Data Analytics are important areas of interest, especially in scaling research capabilities to make an impact globally.

He works closely with many CSU colleges and departments in transdisciplinary activities related to one health and food security.

He serves as a Senior Editor of the APS Phytobiome Journal and is a former Editor of the AMS Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. He is a member of the Science Coordination Group of the International Phytobiome Initiative. Dr. Jones works closely with the DoD, USDA, and NOAA as a subject matter expert in remote sensing, satellite data assimilation, operational transitions, and large-scale satellite data architecture and infrastructure studies involving big-data.

Research Interests:

Coordinating, communicating, and implementing new technologies using innovative remote sensing and data assimilation methodologies, focusing on application areas of high impact to our sponsors. This includes cross-sensor remote sensing techniques, satellite/model data assimilation for analysis of hydrological processes, microwave emissivity analysis, land surface characterization, remote sensing of soil moisture, inversion theory, error propagation analysis, spatial filter analysis, and cross-sensor data fusion techniques. Aerosols, clouds, coupling of land/atmospheric processes, and atmospheric profile estimates are also broad scientific interests.

Current Research Projects:

One Health Institute, onehealth.colostate.edu

Ogallala Water Coordinated Agriculture Project (OWCAP), www.ogallalawater.org

NESDIS Blended Total Precipitable Water and Blended Rainfall Rate project, cat.cira.colostate.edu

NSF Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation projects, cdat.cira.colostate.edu

Catalyst for Innovative Partnerships: Rural Wealth Creation, foodsystems.colostate.edu

Catalyst for Innovative Partnerships: Terraforma

Army Soil Moisture and Soil Strength projects

Past Work

Data Processing Error Analysis System (DPEAS)

Monday, December 22, 2014

The Data Processing Error Analysis System (DPEAS) was created by Dr. Jones for transdisciplinary multisatellite/model data analysis. DPEAS runs operationally at the NOAA satellite operations facility at  NESDIS/OSPO at Suitland, MD and at CSU, Fort Collins, CO. Currently two NOAA operational satellite products are supported: 1) Blended Total Precipitable Water (BTPW) and 2) Blended Rainfall Rate (BRR). The CSU operations support numerous CSU research projects and processing for Rocky Mountain Consoritum for Global Development (RMCGD) users and collaborators around the world.

DPEAS-Programmers-Guide

DPEAS User’s Guide

Rocky Mountain Consortium for Global Development (RMCGD)

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Dr. Jones leads the CSU data component of the Rocky Mountain Consoritum for Global Development (RMCGD), providing critical satellite remote sensing data products for transdisciplinary activities (i.e., multi-college collaborations) impacting Food Security and Water Resources in water limited environments, including important linkages back to the Public Health sector. This CSU information is provided in near real-time. Our goal is to provide location-specific information to impact the global development agriculture and public health value chain. Our key partners include Global Development Analytics (GDA) and aWhere, Inc. A CSU Today article summarizes our initial steps: http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=9387 and new updates on RMCGD activities can be found at:  http://www.aWhere.com.

DoD Soil Moisture Working Group (SMWG)

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Dr. Jones is a co-founding member of the DoD’s Soil Moisture Working Group (SMWG). The group is a set of DoD Laboratory partnerships with CSU. Laboratories represented include the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Navy Research Laboratory (NRL), and several U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) laboratories. We collaborate with operational weather facilities such as the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) and conduct research toward improved soil moisture application performance. Current activities are focused on the use of WindSat satellite sensor data for soil moisture applications, including preparations for use of the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) sensor capabilities.