Christopher Yost
Senior Research Scientist, Contractor, CERES Cloud Working Group, Climate Science Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center
Christopher Yost received a B.S. degree in meteorology and a M.S. degree in atmospheric sciences from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist with Analytical Mechanics Associates, in Hampton, VA, where he supports weather and climate studies at the National Aeronautical and Space Administration Langley Research Center. He supports the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Cloud Retrieval Working Group in the development and validation of algorithms which estimate cloud physical and microphysical properties from multispectral satellite measurements. He also provided on-site support for the NASA High Ice Water Content field campaigns and developed algorithms which use multispectral satellite imagery to identify conditions which potentially pose an icing threat to aircraft.