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Dr. Marios N. Anagnostou has been awarded the “Supporting Postdoctoral Researchers in Greece” and the prestigious "Marie Curie IEF" fellowships. He is currently a research associate at the National Observatory of Athens and a research consultant for the ITC (Innovation Technological Center) in Greece. He has been Post-Doctoral research associate at the University of Connecticut where he also received his Ph.D. in Radar Hydrometeorology in December 2006. He started doing research in the Master of Engineering (M.Eng) degree program of York University, England in the field of Avionics. In that work his research interest was to investigate a conceptual design of an airborne Ultrawide-band data link system. This research advanced him to study more atmospheric physics and microphysics, and aspects of precipitation remote sensing on the basis of new radar remote sensing systems such as X-band dual-polarization (polarimetric) radar observations. He focused on the design and implementation of fourth generation rainfall microphysical algorithms for the collection, processing and attenuation correction of precipitation measurements, detection and correction of measurements due to the natural mechanism that strengthen the reflectivity energy generated at an altitude of zero temperature, and then the quantitative estimation of precipitation measurements from dual-polarization weather radars. He has acquired extensive experience and expertise in scattering and radiative transfer modelling, which is crucial in relating precipitation and microphysical properties to radar parameters. The experience that he has in retrievals and data analysis/assimilation as well as his strong background in the fundamentals of atmospheric physics is valuable in the implementation of a framework that incorporates many different subcomponents of his work. This is extremely important since ground-based measurements are the most significant remote sensing tools to support flood/flash flood and weather forecasting, more accurate validation of cloud resolved models and satellite retrievals, and the development of water management systems. He has also unique experience in organizing and conducting field experiments, which is fundamental requirement on any project he proposes. Another area of his experimental research is the use of underwater acoustic systems for measuring spatially averaged environmental parameters at sea surface.

Areas of Research Interest
• Advancing estimation of rainfall microphysics (e.g. drop size distribution, hydrometeor classification, etc.) from remote sensing observations (X- and C-band dual-polarization weather radars and satellite sensors).
• Investigate the precipitation uncertainty from either Numerical Weather Prediction and/or nowcasting models and provide high-resolution precipitation estimates using remote sensing observations to ingest rainfall-flood/flash-flood forecasting models, in order to decrease the uncertainty and increase the probability of detection on real-time flash-flood/flood warning systems
• Investigation techniques for estimation of environmental (rain, wind, fluxes) parameters at sea from underwater acoustic measurements.

Activities

Employment (1)

Ionian University: Corfu, GR

2020-10-01 to present | Senior Research Fellow/Professor (Information Technology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of Connecticut: Storrs, CT, US

2000-08 to 2006-12 | Civil Engineering/Doctor of Philosphy (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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University of York: York, Yorkshire, GB

1996-09 to 2000-07 | Avionics/Master of Engineering (Electronic Engineering)
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Marios Anagnostou

Peer review (17 reviews for 5 publications/grants)

Review activity for Acta Geophysica. (1)
Review activity for Atmosphere. (3)
Review activity for Hydrology. (1)
Review activity for Remote sensing. (10)
Review activity for Water. (2)