Dr. Thomas Meissner
Scientist, Remote Sensing Systems
444 Tenth Street, Suite 200
Santa Rosa, CA, 95401
voice: (707) 545-2904x22
fax: (707) 545-2906
meissner@remss.com

B.S., Physics, from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 1983.

M.S., Physics, from the University of Bonn, Germany, 1987.

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), magna cum laude, Theoretical Physics, from the University of Bochum, Germany, 1991.

    Dissertation: Effective Chiral Quark Model of the Nucleon.

    Thesis Advisor: Prof. Dr. Klaus Goeke.

1998 - present: Scientist, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, California.

1992 - 1998: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Washington, University of South Carolina and Carnegie Mellon University.

1985 - 1992: Research Associate at the Nuclear Research Center (KFA) in Jülich, Germany and the University of Bochum, Germany.

Feodor-Lynen Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at the Institute for Nuclear Theory of the University of Washington.

Scholarship Awards from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Scholarship Foundation) for undergraduate and graduate studies.

Scholarship Award from the Secretary of Higher Education of the State of Bavaria, Germany, for exceptionally gifted underground students.

Calibration and validation of space born passive microwave radiometers (WindSat, GMI, SSM/I, SSMIS, TMI, AMSR, WindSat, Aquarius, CMIS).

Development of radiative transfer models for passive microwave radiation.

Development and validation of algorithm for ocean and atmospheric products (sea surface temperature, sea surface wind vector, precipitable water, cloud water) from space born passive microwave radiometers (AMSR, WindSat, CMIS).

Theory of strong interaction and quark models of elementary particles.

Serving as peer referee for several professional journals (IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Radio Science, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Monthly Weather Review, Physical Review, Physical Review Letter, Physics Letters).

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.

American Physical Society (APS).

Meissner, T. and F. Wentz, Ocean Retrievals for WindSat: Radiative Transfer Model, Algorithm, Validation. CD with Proceedings of the 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 28 February - 03 March 2006, IEEE Catalog no. 06EX1174C, 2006.

Meissner, T. and F. Wentz,, Polarization Rotation and the Third Stokes Parameter: The Effects of Spacecraft Attitude and Faraday Rotation, IEEE TGARS, 44(3), pp 506, 2006.

Meissner, T. and F. Wentz, The Complex Dielectric Constant of Pure and Sea Water from Microwave Satellite Observations, IEEE TGARS, 42(9), pp 1836, 2004.

Meissner, T. and F. Wentz, A Radiative Transfer Model Function for 85.5 GHz SSM/I Ocean Brightness Temperatures, Radio Science, 38(4), pp 8066, 2003.

Meissner, T. and F. Wentz, An Updated analysis of the Ocean Surface Wind Direction Signal in Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures, IEEE TGARS, 40(6), pp 1230, 2002.

Meissner, T., D. Smith, and F. Wentz, A 10-year intercomparison between collocated SSM/I oceanic surface wind speed retrievals and global analyses, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106 (C6), 11731-11742, 2001.

Smith, C., F. Wentz, and T. Meissner, CMIS Ocean EDR, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), January 2001.

Wentz, F. and T. Meissner, AMSR Ocean Algorithm (Version 2), Remote Sensing Systems (http://www.remss.com), Santa Rosa, CA, Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD), December 1999.

Meissner, T. and L. Kisslinger, Mesons as q-qbar bound states from Euclidean 2-point correlators in the Bethe-Salpeter approach, Phys. Rev. C, 59, pp 986, 1999.

Meissner, T., The mixed quark-gluon condensate from an effective quark-quark interaction, Phys. Lett. B, 405, pp 8, 1997.

Meissner, T., F Myhrer and K. Kubodera, Radiative Muon Capture by a Proton in Chiral Perturbation Theory, Phys. Lett. B 416, pp 36, 1998.

Meissner, T., F. Grümmer and K. Goeke, Solitons in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model, Phys. Lett. B 227, pp 296, 1989.