John Rausch

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Bldg. 490D, Room 2-4
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-7237
(920) 203-2671
jrausch@bnl.gov

Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Publications

Expertise

Cloud Physics

Satellite Remote Sensing

Instrumentation

Software Development

Research Activities

2023 - Present, Application Developer, Brookhaven National Labroatory, Upton, NY
2017 – 2023, Senior Staff Scientist, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
2015 - 2017, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Education

University of Wisconsin – Madison, Ph.D., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Dissertation: Investigating the Application of a Spectrally Consistent Adiabatic Cloud Retrieval Method to MODIS

University of Wisconsin – Madison, M.S., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Thesis: Global Assessment of the Microphysical Properties of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Using a Long-Term Satellite Climatology

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, B.S., Major: Physics, Minor: Mathematics
 

Professional Appointments

• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society
• European Geosciences Union

Selected Publications

• Fauria KE, Jutzeler M, Mittal T, et al (2023) Simultaneous creation of a large vapor plume and pumice raft by the 2021 Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba shallow submarine eruption. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 609:118076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118076
• Merrick T, Bennartz R, Jorge MLSP, et al (2022) Evaluation of Plant Stress Monitoring Capabilities Using a Portable Spectrometer and Blue-Red Grow Light. Sensors 22:3411. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22093411
• Merrick T, Jorge MLSP, Silva TSF, et al (2020) Characterization of chlorophyll fluorescence, absorbed photosynthetically active radiation, and reflectance-based vegetation index spectroradiometer measurements. International Journal of Remote Sensing 41:6755–6782. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2020.1750731
• Grosvenor DP, Sourdeval O, Zuidema P, et al (2018) Remote Sensing of Droplet Number Concentration in Warm Clouds: A Review of the Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives. Reviews of Geophysics 56:409–453. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017rg000593
• Giordano MR, Kalnajs LE, Avery A, et al (2017) A missing source of aerosols in Antarctica – beyond long-range transport, phytoplankton, and photochemistry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17:1–20. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-1-2017
• Rausch J, Meyer K, Bennartz R, Platnick S (2017) Differences in liquid cloud droplet effective radius and number concentration estimates between MODIS collections 5.1 and 6 over global oceans. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 10:2105–2116. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-2105-2017
• He J, Zhang Y, Glotfelty T, et al (2015) Decadal simulation and comprehensive evaluation of CESM/CAM5.1 with advanced chemistry, aerosol microphysics, and aerosol-cloud interactions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 7:110–141. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014ms000360
• Bennartz R, Fan J, Rausch J, et al (2011) Pollution from China increases cloud droplet number, suppresses rain over the East China Sea. Geophysical Research Letters 38:. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011gl047235
• Rausch J, Heidinger A, Bennartz R (2010) Regional assessment of microphysical properties of marine boundary layer cloud using the PATMOS-x dataset. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 115:. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010jd014468