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Remote Sensing, Arctic Climatology, Systems Management
Dr. Schweiger's research focuses on understanding the role of clouds in the climate of the polar regions. He is studying the interaction of clouds and sea ice and has worked to impove estimates of the surface radiation balance in the Arctic. To this end he has been developing and evaluating satellite-based algorithms. He has been assembling the TOVS Polar Pathfinder data set, a 20-year data set of polar temperature, humidity profiles, and cloud information. He is currently working on applications of this data set to derive radiative fluxes and investigating their role in climate variability through sea ice model experiments.
Previous research includes work on microwave-based sea ice concentration algorithms and the application of artificial intelligence methods to remote sensing problems. Dr. Schweiger has been with the APL-UW Polar Science Center since 1992.
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