Mircea Grecu, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Cloud Modeling and Analysis

GSFC Code:

613.1

Mailing Address:

Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch
NASA GSFC, Code 613.1
Building 33, Rm C418
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6322

Fax:

(301) 286-5492

Email:

Mircea.Grecu-1@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

Remote sensing of precipitation; assimilation of radar data in cloud models; short term rain forecasting.

Biography:

Dr. Mircea Grecu received a B.S. degree from the Technical University of Civil Engineering in 1993, and a M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Iowa in 1996, followed by a Ph.D. from the same university in 1999. After a Postdoctoral association with the University of Connecticut, he joined GEST in 2002. His research interests include: rainfall estimation from space and ground observations, assimilation of satellite observations in atmospheric and hydrologic models and short term atmospheric and hydrologic forecasting. Dr. Grecu is currently involved in the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) project in progress at the Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch of NASA GSFC. His work is focused on the refinement and extension of algorithms for rain estimation from TRMM observations. Specifically, he investigates the combined use of active and passive microwave observations for rainfall estimation by employing radar and radiative transfer models in a variational estimation framework.