Research Interests

• Atmospheric/Space Research
  • Ionospheric resonse to aurol particle precipitation and solar EUV radiation
  • Ionospheric thermal structure and composition
  • Plasma heating
  • Electron transport and thermalization
  • Optical auroras
  • Neutral atmospheric heating
  • Kinetic theory of planetary atmospheres
• Radiation transport in planetary media including the coupled atmosphere-snow/ice-ocean system
• Atmospheric radiative energy balance and climate
• Tropospheric, stratospheric heating and cooling by solar and terrestrial radiation,
• Atmospheric photodissociation rates and their impact on composition
• Satellite remote sensing of the environment
• Numerical modeling of geophysical phenomena and comparison with measurements
• Radiation transport in turbid such as biological tissue
• Aerosol-cloud-radiation-climate interactions and feedbacks.

Courses Taught

• PEP 555 Statistical Mechanics
• PEP 667 Adv. Statistical Mechanics
• PEP 575 Fund. of Atmospheric Radiation and Climate

Recent Publications

Books

1. Smith, W. L., and K. Stamnes (Editors), IRS'96: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, A. Deepak Publishing, 1997.
2. Thomas, G. E., and K. Stamnes, Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Articles

1. Slusser, J., X. Liu, K. Stamnes, G. Shaw, R. Smith, R. Storvold, F. Murcray, A. Lee, and P. Good, High-latitude stratospheric NO2 and HNO3 over Fairbanks (65oN) 1992-94, J. Geophys. Res., 1549-1554, 1998.
2. Barker, H. W., T. J. Curtis, E. Leontieva, and K. Stamnes, Optical depth of overcast cloud across Canada: Estimates based on Pyranometer and Satellite Measurements, J. Climate, 11, 2980-2994, 1998.
3. Chen, B., J. J. Stamnes, and K. Stamnes, Reconstruction algorithm for diffraction tomography of diffuse photon density waves in a random medium, Pure and Applied Optics, , 7, 1161-1180, 1998.
4. Chen, B., J. J. Stamnes, A. J. Devaney, H. M. Pedersen, and K. Stamnes, Two-dimensional optical diffraction tomography for objects embedded in a random medium, Pure and Applied Optics, 7, 1181-1199, 1998.
5. Schulz, F. M., K. Stamnes, and J. J. Stamnes, Scattering of electromagnetic waves by spheroidal particles: A novel approach exploiting the T-matrix computed in spheroidal coordinates, Applied Optics, 37, 7875-7896, 1998.
6. Schulz, F. M., K. Stamnes, and J. J. Stamnes, Modeling the radiative transfer properties of media containing particles of moderately and extremely elongated shape, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 4481-4484, 1998.
7. Frette, O., J. J. Stamnes, and K. Stamnes, Optical remote sensing of marine constituents in coastal waters: A feasibility study, Applied Optics, 37, 8218-8326, 1998.
8. Zhang, T., and K. Stamnes, Impact of climatic factors on the active layer and permafrost at Barrow, Alaska, Permafrost Periglac. Process., 9, 229-246, 1998.
9. Schulz, F. M., K. Stamnes, and F. Weng, VDISORT: An improved and generalized discrete ordinate radiative transfer model for polarized (vector) radiative transfer computations, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 61, 105-122, 1999.
10. Stamnes, K., R. G., Ellingson, J. A. Curry, J. E. Walsh, and B. D. Zak, Review of science issues and deployment strategies for the North Slope of Alaska/Adjacent Arctic Ocean (NSA/AAO) ARM site. J. Climate, 12, 46-63, 1999.
11. Han, W., K. Stamnes, and D. Lubin, Remote sensing of surface and cloud properties in the Arctic from NOAA AVHRR measurements, J. Appl. Meteor., 38, 989-1012, 1999.
12. Schulz, F. M., K. Stamnes, and J. J. Stamnes, Shape-dependence of the optical properties in size-shape distributions of randomly oriented prolate spheroids, including highly elongated shapes, J. Gephys. Res., 104, 9413-9421, 1999.
13. Schulz, F. M., and K. Stamnes, Angular distribution of the Stokes vector in a plane parallel, vertically inhomogeneous medium in the vector discrete ordinate radiative transfer (VDISORT) model, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, in press, 1999.
14. Schulz, F. M., K. Stamnes, and J. J. Stamnes, Point group symmetries in electromagnetic scattering, J. Opt. Soc Amer. A, 16, 853-865, 1999.
15. Eide, H. A., J. J. Stamnes, K. Stamnes, and F. M. Schulz, New Method for Computing Expansion Coefficients for Spheroidal Functions, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 63, 191-203, 1999.
16. Hu, Y.-X., and K. Stamnes, Climate sensitivity to cloud optical properties, Tellus, in press, 1999.
17. Hu. Y.-X., B. Wielicki, B. Lin, G. Gibson, S.-C. Tsay, K. Stamnes, and T. Wong, A fast and accurate treatment of particle scattering phase functions with weighted singular-value decomposition least squares fitting, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, in press, 1999.
18. Chen, B., K. Stamnes, B. Yan, O.Frette, and J. J. Stamnes, Water-leaving radiance in the NIR spectral region and its effects on atmospheric correction of ocean color imagery, J. Adv. Mar. Sci. & Tech. Soc., in press, 1999.

Other Items of Interest

My teaching experience before Stevens includes undergraduate level courses in elctromagnetric theory and optics, thermodynamics and statistical physics, and numerical methods as well as graduate level courses in atmospheric radiation, radative transfer, and statistical mechanics. Here at Stevens I taught PEP 555 Statistical Physics in Fall 1999, and I am scheduled to teach PEP 667 Statistical Mechanics, and PEP 575 Fundamentals of Atmospheric Radiation and Climate (new course) in Spring 2000. I have successfully mentored many graduate students (including 9 Ph. D. graduates). I am interested in taking on new graduate students at Stevens.