Staff information

Biography

Through Dr. Flynn's role as instrument mentor for the ARM Program, he has developed expertise in measurement instrumentation--specifically in lidar and FTIR equipment, and with computer data acquisition techniques in general. His expertise ranges from low-level instrument design (specification and fabrication of components and subsystems) to assembly of complete systems, and extends to data synthesis of third-party equipment as well. In his capacity as ARM Translator for the Aerosol Working Group, he has gained expertise with in-situ aerosol instrumentation and with remote sensing instruments, having directed the routine production of advanced aerosol products from several suites of instruments including passive and active remote sensors as well as ground-based and air-borne in-situ sensors.

Complementary to each of these activities is his expertise with computers running essentially every common operating system (DOS, OS/2, Linux, Solaris, and all Windows variants). He is widely recognized for his superior skill with computer system configuration and maintenance. He also has experience with cross-platform development including familiarity with several shell script languages, programming languages, and development environments.

Selected Publications

2009

• McFarlane SA, EI Kassianov, JC Barnard, CJ Flynn, and TP Ackerman. 2009. "Surface shortwave aerosol radiative forcing during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Mobile Facility deployment in Niamey, Niger." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 114:Art. No. D00E06.  doi:10.1029/2008JD010491
• Kassianov EI, M Ovtchinnikov, LK Berg, SA McFarlane, and CJ Flynn. 2009. "Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Depth in Vicinity of Broken Clouds from Reflectance Ratios: Sensitivity Study." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 110(14-16):1677-1689. 
• Long CN, EG Dutton, JA Augustine, WJ Wiscombe, MF Wild, SA McFarlane, and CJ Flynn. 2009. "Significant Decadal Brightening of Downwelling Shortwave in the Continental United States." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 114:Art. No. D00D06.  doi:10.1029/2008JD011263

2008

• Kassianov EI, M Ovtchinnikov, LK Berg, SA McFarlane, and CJ Flynn. 2008. "Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Depth in Vicinity of Broken Clouds from Reflectance Ratios: A Novel Approach." In Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XIII, vol. 7107, p. 71070V.  SPIE , Bellingham, WA.  doi:10.1117/12.801288
• Slingo A, N Bharmal, GJ Robinson, J Settle, RP Allan, HE White, PJ Lamb, M Lele, DD Turner, SA McFarlane, EI Kassianov, JC Barnard, CJ Flynn, and M Miller. 2008. "Overview of observations from the RADAGAST experiment in Niamey, Niger: Meteorology and thermodynamic variables." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 113(D00E01):, doi:10.1029/2008JD009909
• Webley PW, D Atkinson, RL Collins, K Dean, J Fochesatto, K Sassen, CF Cahill, A Prata, CJ Flynn, and K Mizutani. 2008. "Predicting and validating the tracking of a Volcanic Ash Cloud during the 2006 Eruption of Mt. Augustine Volcano." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89(11):1647-1658.  doi:10.1175/2008BAMS2579.1

2007

• Flynn CJ, A Mendoza, Y Zheng, and S Mathur. 2007. "Novel polarization-sensitive micropulse lidar measurement technique." Optics Express 15(6):2785-2790. 
• Alexandrov M, P Kiedron, JJ Michalsky, G Hodges, CJ Flynn, and AA Lacis. 2007. "Optical depth measurements by shadow-band radiometers and their uncertainties." Applied Optics 46(33):8027-8038. 
• Alexandrov M, P Kiedron, JJ Michalsky, G Hodges, CJ Flynn, and AA Lacis. 2007. "Optical depth measurements by shadow-band radiometers and their uncertainties." Applied Optics 46(33):8027-8038. 
• Kassianov EI, CJ Flynn, TP Ackerman, and JC Barnard. 2007. "Aerosol Single-Scattering Albedo and Asymmetry Parameter from MFRSR Observations during the ARM Aerosol IOP 2003." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 7(12):3341-3351. 
• Turner DD, AM Vogelmann, RT Austin, JC Barnard, K Cady-Pereira, C Chiu, SA Clough, CJ Flynn, MM Khaiyer, JC Liljegren, KL Johnson, B Lin, CN Long, A Marshak, SY Matrosov, SA McFarlane, MA Miller, Q Min, P Minnis, W O'Hirok, Z Wang, and WJ Wiscombe. 2007. "Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 88(2):177-190.  doi:10.1175/BAMS-88-2-177

2006

• Ghan SJ, TA Rissman, R Elleman, R Ferrare, DD Turner, CJ Flynn, J Wang, JA Ogren, J Hudson, H Jonsson, T VanReken, RC Flagan, and JH Seinfeld. 2006. "Use of in situ cloud condensation nuclei, extinction, and aerosol size distribution Measurements to test a method for retrieving cloud condensation nuclei profiles from surface measurements." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 111(D05S10):, doi:10.1029/2004JD005752
• Ghan SJ, TA Rissman, R Elleman, R Ferrare, DD Turner, CJ Flynn, J Wang, JA Ogren, J Hudson, H Jonsson, T VanReken, RC Flagan, and JH Seinfeld. 2006. "Use of In Situ Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Extinction, and Aerosol Size Distribution Measurements to Test a Method for Retrieving Cloud Condensation Nuclei Profiles from Surface Measurements." Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 111(D5):D05S10, doi: 10.1029/2004JD005752. 
• Schmid B, R Ferrare, CJ Flynn, R Elleman, D Covert, A Strawa, EJ Welton, DD Turner, H Jonsson, J Redemann, J Eilers, K Ricci, AG Hallar, MB Clayton, JJ Michalsky, A Smirnov, BN Holben, and JC Barnard. 2006. "How Well Do State-of-the-Art Techniques Measuring the Vertical Profile of Tropospheric Aerosol Extinction Compare?" Journal of Geophysical Research. D. (Atmospheres) 111(D5):D05S07, doi: 10.1029/2005JD005837.