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MOUSTAFA T. CHAHINE
MOUSTAFA T. CHAHINE
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His studies centered largely on fluid physics. It was while in graduate school in 1957 that Mous saw a photograph of JPL Director William Pickering with Wernher von Braun and James Van Allen, holding aloft a model of the just-launched Explorer 1 satellite, the story of which stirred his interest sufficiently that he resolved that he too would work in the space program.
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Later, in the 1970s, Mous formulated a multispectral approach to remote sensing in the presence of clouds, incorporating both infrared and microwave data. In 1980, Mous and others used his equations to generate the first satellite-based global distribution of Earth's surface temperature, using data from the High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder and the Microwave Sounding Unit.
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The administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher, said the following about the impact of the AIRS data: "The AIRS instrument has provided the most significant increase in forecast improvement in this time range of any other single instrument." The AIRS data have also been of practical value to the aviation field, by monitoring volcanic emissions. One of the major research advances made with AIRS data was Mous's derivation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)
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Goddard Award from the International Society for Optics and Photonics in 2010. The latter award was given specifically for Mous's "exceptional achievement in optical science and instrumentation for aerospace and atmospheric research." Mous was a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Meteorological Society, the British Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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The purpose of the meeting was to address important issues surrounding hydrology, the environment, and sustainable development. Moustafa Chahine was a uniquely tolerant, understanding, and generous person who had numerous lasting impacts on a personal level as well as through his many research accomplishments, the latter well documented in his dozens of peer-reviewed research publications.
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