People
RSMAS/MPO
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Tel: 305.421.4104
pminnett@rsmas.miami.edu
Dr Minnett's research interests include infrared remote
sensing from satellites, atmospheric effects and derivation
of accurate sea-surface temperatures; ship-board infrared
interferometric measurements of oceanic and atmospheric
properties; studies of near-surface temperature structure
in the ocean and atmosphere, and their influence on air-sea
exchanges; oceanographic applications of satellite remote
sensing; measurements of surface radiation and the influence
of clouds; the role of the polar regions in the climate
system.
2008
Nalli, N.R., P.J. Minnett, E. Maddy, W. W. McMillan, C.D. Barnet and M. Goldberg, Emissivity and reflection model for calculating water surface leaving radiance in the infrared. 2: Field measurements. Applied Optics. 47, 4649-4671. doi:10.1364/AO.47.004649
Vincent, R. F., R. F. Marsden, P. J. Minnett, and J. R. Buckley, Arctic Waters and Marginal Ice Zones: Part 2 - An Investigation of Arctic Atmospheric Infrared Absorption for AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature Estimates. Journal of Geophysical Research. 113, C08044. doi:10.1029/2007JC004354
Gentemann, C. L., and P. J. Minnett. Radiometric measurements of ocean surface thermal variability. Journal of Geophysical Research. 113, C08017. doi:10.1029/2007JC004540
Nalli, N.R., P. J. Minnett and P. van Delst, Emissivity and reflection model for calculating unpolarized isotropic water surface-leaving radiance in the infrared. 1: Theoretical development and calculations. Applied Optics, 47, 3701-3721. doi:10.1364/AO.47.003701
Branch, R., A. T. Jessup, P. J. Minnett, and E. L. Key, Comparisons of Shipboard Infrared Sea Surface Skin Temperature Measurements from the CIRIMS and the M-AERI. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25, 598-606. doi: 10.1175/2007JTECHO480.1
Vincent, R. F., R. F. Marsden, P. J. Minnett, K. A. M. Creber, and J. R. Buckley, Arctic waters and marginal ice zones: A composite Arctic sea surface temperature algorithm using satellite thermal data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, C04021, doi: 10.1029/2007JC004353.
2007
Donlon, C., I. Robinson, K. S. Casey, J. Vazquez-Cuervo, E. Armstrong, O. Arino, C. Gentemann, D. May, P. LeBorgne, J. Piollé, I. Barton, H. Beggs, D. J. S. Poulter, C. J. Merchant, A. Bingham, S. Heinz, A. Harris, G. Wick, B. Emery, P. Minnett, R. Evans, D. Llewellyn-Jones, C. Mutlow, R. W. Reynolds, H. Kawamura, and N. Rayner, The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment High-resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88, 1197-1213. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-88-8-1197
Szczodrak, M., P. J. Minnett, N. R. Nalli, and W. F. Feltz, Profiling the Lower Troposphere Over the Ocean With Infrared Hyperspectral Measurements of the Marine-Atmosphere Emitted Radiance Interferometer. Journal of Oceanic and Atmospheric Technology, 24, 390-402. doi: 10.1175/JTECH1961.1
2006
Key, E.L. and P.J. Minnett., Implications of shortwave cloud forcing and feedbacks in the Southern Ocean. Annals of Glaciology. 44,15-22
Morris, V., P. Clemente-Col—n, N. R. Nalli, E. Joseph, R. A. Armstrong, Y. Detrés, M. D. Goldberg, P. J. Minnett, and R. Lumpkin, Measuring Trans-Atlantic Aerosol Transport From Africa. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 87, 565,571.
Noyes, E. J., P. J. Minnett, J. J. Remedios, G. K. Corlett, S. A. Good, and D. T. Llewellyn-Jones, The Accuracy of the AATSR Sea Surface Temperatures in the Caribbean. Remote Sensing of Environment, 101, 38-51.
Corlett, G. K., I. J. Barton, C. J. Donlon, M. C. Edwards, S. A. Good, L. A. Horrocks, D. T. Llewellyn-Jones, C. J. Merchant, P. J. Minnett, and T. J. Nightingale, The accuracy of SST retrievals from AATSR: An initial assessment through geophysical validation against in situ radiometers, buoys and other SST data sets. Advances in Space Research, 37, 764-769.
Nalli, N. R., P. Clemente-Col—n, P. J. Minnett, M. Szczodrak, A. Jessup, R. Branch, V. Morris, M. D. Goldberg, C. Barnet, W. W. Wolf, E. Joseph, R. O. Knuteson, and W. F. Feltz, Ship-based measurements for infrared sensor validation during AEROSE 2004. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D09S04. doi:10.1029/2005JD006385.
DeSouza-Machado, S.G., D. A. Chou, Nalli, N.R., Strow, L.L., Hannon, S.E., Motteler, H.E., Minnett, P.J., Estimation of Dust Loading and Height using MODIS, AIRS and MAERI data. Remote Sensing of Aerosol and Chemical Gases, Model Simulation/Assimilation, and Applications to Air Quality. Proceedings of SPIE, 6299, doi:10.1117/12.682589
2005
Minnett, P. J., K. A. Maillet, J. A. Hanafin and B. J. Osborne. Infrared interferometric measurements of the near surface air temperature over the oceans. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 22, 7, 1016-1029.
Nalli, N. R., P. Clemente-Col—n, V. Morris, E. Joseph, M. Szczodrak, P. J. Minnett, J. Shannahoff, M. D. Goldberg, C. Barnet, W. Wolf, R. O. Knuteson and W. F. Feltz. Profile observations of the Saharan Air Layer during AEROSE 2004. Geophysical Research Letters, 32.doi:10.1029/2004GL022028
Hanafin, J. A. and P. J. Minnett, Infrared-emissivity measurements of a wind-roughened sea surface. Applied Optics., 44, 398-411.
2004
Marsden, R.F., J. Serdula, E.L. Key and P.J. Minnett, Are Polynyas Self-Sustaining? Atmosphere-Ocean 42 (4), 251—265.
K6">Key, E.L., P. J. Minnett and R. A. Jones. Cloud distributions over the coastal Arctic Ocean: surface-based and satellite observations. Atmospheric Research, 72, 57—88.
Key, E.L. and P. J. Minnett, Estimating Polynya Cloudiness. Gayana, 68, 311-316.
Rice, J.P., J. J. Butler, B. C. Johnson, P. J. Minnett, K. A. Maillet, T. J. Nightingale, S. J. Hook, A. Abtahi, C. J. Donlon and I. J. Barton, 2004. The Miami2001 Infrared Radiometer Calibration and Intercomparison: 1. Laboratory Characterization of Blackbody Targets. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21, 258—267.
Barton, I. J., P. J. Minnett, C. J. Donlon, S. J. Hook, A. T. Jessup, K. A. Maillet and T. J. Nightingale, 2004. The Miami2001 infrared radiometer calibration and inter-comparison: II Ship comparisons. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21, 268—283
Ward, B., R. Wanninkhof, P. J. Minnett and M. J. Head., 2004. SkinDeEP: A Profiling Instrument for Upper Decameter Sea Surface Measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 21, 207-222.
2003
Minnett, P. J., 2003. Radiometric measurements of the sea-surface skin temperature - the competing roles of the diurnal thermocline and the cool skin. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24(24): 5033-5047
Vogelmann, A. M., P. J. Flatau, M. Szczodrak, K. Markowicz and P. J. Minnett, 2003. Observations of Large Aerosol Infrared Forcing at the Surface. Geophys. Res. Let. 30(12) 10.1029/2002GL016829. 1655.
Fetzer, E., McMillin, L. M. Tobin, D. Aumann, H. H. Gunson, M. R., McMillan, W. W., Hagan, D. E., Hofstadter, M. D., Yoe, J., Whiteman, D. N., Barnes, J. E., Bennartz, R., Vomel, H., Walden, V., Newchurch, M., Minnett, P. J., Atlas, R., Schmidlin, F., Olsen, E. T., Goldberg, M. D., Sisong Zhou, Han Jung Ding, Smith, W. L., Revercomb, H., 2003. AIRS/AMSU/HSB validation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 41, 418- 431.
Hagan, D.E. and P.J. Minnett, 2003. AIRS radiance validation over ocean from sea surface temperature measurements, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 41, 432- 441.
Kumar, A., P. J. Minnett, G. Podestˆ and R. H. Evans, 2003. Error characteristics of the atmospheric correction algorithms used in retrieval of sea surface temperatures from infrared satellite measurements: global and regional aspects. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60, 575-585.
2002
Donlon, C. J., P. J. Minnett, C. Gentemann, T. J Nightingale, I. J. Barton, B. Ward and J. Murray, 2002. Towards improved validation of satellite sea surface skin temperature measurements for climate research. J. Climate. 15, 353-369
2001
Barber, D.G., R. Marsden, P. J. Minnett, G. Ingram and L. Fortier, 2001. Physical processes within the North Water (NOW) Polynya. Atmosphere-Ocean. 39, 163-166.
Hanafin J. A. and P. J. Minnett, 2001. Cloud forcing of surface radiation in the North Water Polynya. Atmosphere-Ocean. 39, 239-255.
Hanesiak, J. M., D. G. Barber, T. N., Papakyriakou, and P. J. Minnett, 2001. Parameterization schemes of incident radiation in the North Water. Atmosphere-Ocean. 39, 233-238.
Minnett, P. J., R. O. Knuteson, F.A. Best, B.J. Osborne, J. A. Hanafin and O. B. Brown, 2001. The Marine-Atmosphere Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M-AERI), a high-accuracy, sea-going infrared spectroradiometer. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 18, 994-1013.
2000
Kearns, E. J., J. A. Hanafin, R. H. Evans, P. J. Minnett and O. B. Brown, 2000. An independent assessment of Pathfinder AVHRR sea surface temperature accuracy using the Marine-Atmosphere Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M-AERI). Bull. Am. Met. Soc. 81, 1525-1536.
Kumar, A., P. J. Minnett, G. Podesta, R. H. Evans and K. Kilpatrick, 2000. Analysis of Pathfinder SST algorithm for global and regional conditions. Special Issue on the International JGOFS Symposium on 'Biogeochemistry of the Arabian Sea' Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences: Earth and Planetary Sciences,109, 395-405.
1999
Minnett, P. J., 1999. The influence of solar zenith angle and cloud type on cloud radiative forcing at the surface in the Arctic. J. Climate, 12, 147-158.
1998
Esaias, W. E., M. R. Abbott, I. Barton, O. B. Brown, J. W. Campbell, K. L. Carder, D. K. Clark, R. H. Evans, F. E. Hoge, H. R. Gordon, W. M. Balch, R. Letelier, and P. J. Minnett. 1998. An Overview of MODIS Capabilities for Ocean Science Observations. IEEE, Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 36 (4), 1250-1265.
1997
Minnett, P. J., F. Bignami, E. Böhm, G. Budéus, P. S. Galbraith, P. Gudmandsen, T. S. Hopkins, R. G. Ingram, M. A. Johnson, H. J. Niebauer and R. O. Ramseier, 1997. A Summary of the formation and seasonal progression of the Northeast Water Polynya. J. Marine Systems. 10, 79-85.
Böhm, E., T. S. Hopkins and P. J. Minnett 1997. Passive microwave observations of the interannual variability of ice cover in the Northeast Water Polynya. J. Marine Systems. 10, 87-98.
Post, M. J., C. W. Fairall, A. B. White, Y. Han, W. L. Ecklund, K. M. Weickmann, D. I. Cooper, P. J. Minnett, P. K. Quinn, S. M. Sekelsky, R. E. McIntosh, and R. O. Knuteson. 1997. The Combined Sensor Program: An air-sea science mission in the central and western Pacific Ocean. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 78, 2797-2815.
1996
Smith, W. L., R. O. Knuteson, H. E. Revercombe, W. Feltz, H. B. Howell, W. P. Menzel, N. Nalli, O. Brown, J. Brown, P. J. Minnett and W. McKeown, 1996. Observations of the infrared radiative properties of the ocean - implications for the measurement of sea-surface temperature via satellite remote sensing. Bull. Am. Met. Soc. 77 (1), 41-51.
1995
Minnett, P. J., 1995. Measurements of the summer surface heat budget of the Northeast Water Polynya in 1992. J. geophys Res., 100, 4309-4322.
Wallace, D. W. R., P. J. Minnett and T. S. Hopkins, 1995. Nutrients, oxygen and inferred new production in the Northeast Water Polynya, 1992. J. geophys Res., 100, 4323-4340.
Yager, P. L., D. W. R. Wallace, K. M. Johnson, W. O. Smith, P. J. Minnett and J. Deming, 1995. The Northeast Water Polynya as an atmospheric CO2 sink: a seasonal rectification hypothesis. J. geophys Res., 100, 4389-4398.
Watts, P. D., I. J. Barton, P. J. Minnett, A. M. Závody, C. T. Mutlow and D. T. Llewellyn-Jones, 1995. Comments on "Effects of surface wind speed and sensor view zenith angle dependence of emissivity on SST retrieval from thermal infrared data: ATSR" by S. Singh. Int. J. remote Sens. 16 (11), 2099-2103.
Gudmandsen, P., B. B. Thomsen, L. T. Pedersen, H. Skriver and P. J. Minnett, 1995. Satellite observation of the Northeast Water Polynya - Summer 1992 and 1993. Int. J. remote Sens. 17, 3307-3324.
1994
Rudman, S., R .W. Saunders, C. J. Kilsby and P .J. Minnett, 1994. Water vapour continuum absorption in mid-latitudes: aircraft measurements and model comparisons. Q. J. R. Met. Soc. 120, 795-807.
Stephens G. L., A. Slingo, M. J. Webb, P. J. Minnett, P. H. Daum, L. Kleinman, I. Wittmeyer and D.A. Randall, 1994. Observations of the Earth's radiation budget in relation to atmospheric hydrology. Part IV: Atmospheric column radiative cooling over the world's oceans. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 18,585-18,604.
1993
NEWATER Steering Committee and Principal Investigators, 1993. Collaborative Research on the Northeast Water Polynya: Initial results from the 1992 Polar Sea Cruise. EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union. 74, pp 185 and 195-196.
Minnett, P. J., 1993. Comment on "Sea Surface Temperature Variability of the Iceland-Faeroe Front" by Pearn P. Niiler, Steve Piacsek, Lucas Neuberg, and Alex Warn-Varnas. J. Geophys. Res. 98,12,601-12,603
1991
Minnett, P. J., 1991. Consequences of sea surface temperature variability on the validation and applications of satellite measurements. J. geophys. Res., 96, 18,475-18,489.
1990
Manzella, G.M.R., T.S. Hopkins, P.J. Minnett, and E. Nacini, 1990. The north Atlantic water in the Strait of Sicily. J. geophys. Res., 95, 1569-1575.
Minnett, P.J., 1990. The regional optimization of infrared measurements of sea-surface temperature from space. J. geophys. Res., 95, 13,497-13,510.
1987
Minnett, P.J., J.R. Eyre, and R.W. Pescod, 1987. The variability of the north Atlantic marine atmosphere and its relevance to remote sensing. Int. J. remote Sens., 8, 871-880.
1986
Minnett, P.J., 1986. A numerical study of the effects of anomalous North Atlantic atmospheric conditions on the infrared measurement of sea-surface temperature from space. J. geophys. Res., 91, 8509-8521.
Minnett, P.J., 1986. On the use of synthetic 12mm data in a split-window retrieval of sea-surface temperature from AVHRR measurements. Int. J. remote Sens., 7, 1887-1891.
1985
Leach, H., P.J. Minnett, and J.D. Woods, 1985. The GATE Lagrangian Batfish Experiment. Deep-Sea Research, 32, 575-597.
Thomas, I.L. and P.J. Minnett, 1985. Measuring the surface wind vector over the ocean with a satellite radar scatterometer - an introduction. Int. J. remote Sens., 7, 309-323.
1984
Llewellyn-Jones, D.T., P.J. Minnett, R.W. Saunders, and A.M. Zavody, 1984. Satellite multichannel infrared measurements of sea-surface temperature of the N.E. Atlantic Ocean using AVHRR/2. Q. J. R. Met. Soc., 110, 613-631.
Minnett, P.J., 1984. Climate research. Phys. Bull., 36, 236-238.
1983
Minnett, P.J., R.T. Pollard, D.S. Collins, A. Horch, and M. Knoll, 1983. The structure of a weak thermohaline front. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A308, 359-375.
Harries, J.E., D.T. Llewellyn-Jones, P.J. Minnett, R.W. Saunders, and A.M. Zavody, 1983. Observations of sea-surface temperature for climate research. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., A309, 381-395.
1982
Minnett, P.J., R.W. Saunders, A.M. Zavody, and D.T. Llewellyn-Jones, 1982. Performance of the "split window" at 11 and 12μm wavelength for accurate determination of sea-surface temperature. Annalen der Meteorologie, 18, 58-60.
1979
Woods, J.D. and P.J. Minnett, 1979. Analysis of mesoscale thermoclinicity with an example from the tropical Atlantic during GATE. Deep-Sea Research, 26A, 85-96.
