Frank Wentz

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Frank Wentz is the director and founder of Remote Sensing Systems a company specializing in research in satellite microwave remote sensing in 1974. With Carl Mears he is best known for developing a satellite temperature record from MSU and AMSU. Intercomparison of this record with the earlier UAH satellite temperature record, developed by John Christy and Roy Spencer, revealed deficiencies in the earlier work; specifically, the warming trend in the RSS version is larger than the UAH one. From 1978 to 1982 he was a member of NASA's SeaSat Experiment Team involved in the development of physically based retrieval methods for microwave scatterometers and radiometers. He has also investigated the effect of warmer temperatures on the amount of evaporation, precipitation and surface winds, with his findings being different to most other climate change models.^[1]

Education

B.S. (1969) and M.S. (1971) in physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Service

Member of various NASA panels
National Research Council's Earth Studies Board
National Research Council's Panel on Reconciling Temperature Observations
A lead author for CCSP Synthesis and Assessment Product on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere

References

↑ Warmer world gets wetter

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