Alex Matus

Alex Matus

Weather Analyst / ML Researcher
I am an Atmospheric Scientist and Machine Learning Researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMBC. My work focuses on pushing the limits of weather, climate, and environmental predictability by combining massive multi-sensor satellite observations, high-performance computing (HPC), and advanced machine learning architectures.
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The Role of Precipitation Variability in Closing the Global Atmospheric Energy Budget

By evaluating three generations of GPCP data alongside CERES observations, this study reveals that while GPCP v3.3 reconciles the global atmospheric energy budget within 98%, this …

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Enhancing Surface PM2.5 Air Quality Estimates in GEOS Using CATS Lidar Data

This study introduces a 1-D ensemble-based variational technique (1-D EnsVar) to fuse 1064-nm backscatter lidar data from NASA's CATS with GEOS model priors, significantly …

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⚡️ Turn Jupyter Notebooks into Blog Posts

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🎉 Easily create your own simple yet highly customizable blog

Take full control of your personal brand and privacy by migrating away from the big tech platforms!

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🧠 Sharpen your thinking with a second brain

Create a personal knowledge base and share your knowledge with your peers.

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📈 Communicate your results effectively with the best data visualizations

Use popular tools such as HuggingFace, Plotly, Mermaid, and data frames.

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👩🏼‍🏫 Teach academic courses

Embed videos, podcasts, code, LaTeX math, and even test students!

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✅ Manage your projects

Easily manage your projects - create ideation mind maps, Gantt charts, todo lists, and more!

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Observation-Based Radiative Kernels From CloudSat/CALIPSO

This study introduces the first observation-based climate radiative kernels derived directly from vertical active sensor tracks (CloudSat/CALIPSO), bypassing traditional GCM …

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The role of cloud phase in Earth's radiation budget

Utilizing 5 years of spaceborne active sensor data from CloudSat and CALIPSO, this study quantifies the individual global radiative contributions of liquid, ice, and mixed-phase …

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