Kyle Hilburn

Kyle A. Hilburn Scientist Remote Sensing Systems 438 First Street, Suite 200 Santa Rosa, CA, 95401 Tel: (707) 545-2904 x13 fax: (707) 545-2906 hilburn@remss.com

Research

Mr. Hilburn has a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of North Dakota (2000) and M.S. in Meteorology from The Florida State University (2002). At UND, Kyle worked with Michael Poellot analyzing cirrus cloud microphysical data from the Cessna Citation II for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (AMR) program. This was in addition to a brief stint as the on-air weather anchor and weather team member for the television program Studio One. At FSU, Kyle worked with Jim O’Brien and Mark Bourassa developing and validating a variational approach to derive surface pressure fields from scatterometer wind data. Kyle began working at Remote Sensing Systems in 2002. Initially, his work focused on studying the effects of rain on scatterometer measurements using the SeaWinds/AMSR combination on Midori-II. This project led Kyle to work on improving the passive microwave rain retrieval algorithm at Remote Sensing Systems. This work brought consistency to rain retrievals from SSM/I, TMI, and AMSR; and culminated in the major reprocessing of Remote Sensing Systems data in September 2006. Currently, Kyle’s work involves using a constellation of satellites to estimate evaporation, precipitation, and water vapor transport over the oceans in order to provide a complete picture of the water cycle. Kyle is involved with the Ocean Vector Wind Science Team (OVWST), NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS), and the NASA Precipitation Measurement Missions (PMM) Science Team. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

Publications

Last updated: February 22, 2008