Konoshonkin Alexander

RESEARCH INTEREST:

Physical optics, Geometrical optics, Light scattering, Theoretical model for interpretation of lidar sounding of cirrus clouds, Radiative transfer.

CAREER HISTORY:

01/06/2021–Present:

Director of Electromagnetic Scattering Research Center; V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS.

Professor; National Research Tomsk State University

08/01/2018–01/07/2021:

 Director of Atmospheric Radiation Research Center; V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS.

01/12/2014–08/01/2018:

Associate professor; Department of Optoelectronic Systems and Remote Sensing; Tomsk State University.

Senior Researcher; Department of Light scattering V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS.

15/06/2010–01/12/2014:

Researcher; Department of Light scattering V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS.

Total number of publications for last 5 years:

92 (published in Russian and English), 71 (published only in English)

h-index

17 (Web of Science, Scopus)

The most significant honors and rewords:

1) Visiting Scientist under the CAS President’s international Fellowship institutive (PIFI) for 2021.

2) Winner of «High Level Foreign Talents», Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2020.

3) Medal of the Federation of Cosmonautics of Russia by S.P. Korolev, 2019.

4) The Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for young scientists, 2018.

The most significant publications:

1.    Kustova, N., Konoshonkin, A., Kokhanenko, G., Wang, Z., Shishko, V., Timofeev, D.,  Borovoi, A. Lidar backscatter simulation for angular scanning of cirrus clouds with quasi-horizontally oriented ice crystals // Optics Letters 2022. V. 47, No 15, p. 3648

2.    Timofeev, D., Kustova, N., Shishko, V., Konoshonkin, A. Light-Scattering Properties for Aggregates of Atmospheric Ice Crystals within the Physical Optics Approximation // Atmosphere. 2023. V. 14, No. 6, p. 933

3.    Skorokhodov, A., Konoshonkin, A. Analysis of the Observation Results for Preferentially Oriented Particles in High-Level Clouds According to the EARLINET Lidar Network and MODIS Data // Atmosphere. 2023. V. 14, No. 6, p. 1018.

4.    Kustova, N., Konoshonkin, A., Shishko, V., Timofeev, D., Tkachev, I., Wang, Z., Borovoi, A. Depolarization Ratio for Randomly Oriented Ice Crystals of Cirrus Clouds // Atmosphere. 2022. V. 13, No, 10, p. 1551.

5.    Wang, Z., Shishko, V., Kustova, N., Konoshonkin, A., Timofeev, D., Xie, C., Liu, D., Borovoi, A. Radar-lidar ratio for ice crystals of cirrus clouds // Opt. Express. 2021. V. 29, No. 3, p. 4464-4474.

6.    Okamoto, H., Sato, K., Borovoi, A., Ishimoto, H., Masuda, K., Konoshonkin, A., Kustova, N. Wavelength dependence of ice cloud backscatter properties for space-borne polarization lidar applications // Opt. Express. 2020. V. 28, No. 20, p. 29178-29191.

7.    Okamoto, H., Sato, K., Borovoi, A., Ishimoto, H., Masuda, K., Konoshonkin, A., Kustova, N. Interpretation of lidar ratio and depolarization ratio of ice clouds using spaceborne high-spectral-resolution polarization lidar // Optics Express, 2019, V.27, p. 36587-36600.

8.    Shishko, V., Konoshonkin, A., Kustova, N., Timofeev, D., Borovoi, A. Coherent and incoherent backscattering by a single large particle of irregular shape // Optics Express 2019, V. 27, p. 32984-32993.

9.    Wang, Z., Borovoi, A., Konoshonkin, A., Kustova, N., Liu, D., Xie, C. Extinction matrix for cirrus clouds in the visible and infrared regions // Optics Letters 2018, V. 43, p. 3578-3581.

10.    Borovoi, A.G., Konoshonkin, A.V., Kustova, N.V., Veselovskii, I.A.  Contribution of corner reflections from oriented ice crystals to backscattering and depolarization characteristics for off-zenith lidar profiling // Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 2018, V. 212, p 88-96.

11.    Konoshonkin, A., Borovoi, A., Kustova, N., Reichardt, J. Power laws for backscattering by ice crystals of cirrus clouds // Optics Express. 2017. V. 25, No. 19, p. 22341-22346.

12.    Konoshonkin, A., Borovoi, A., Kustova, N., Okamoto, H., Ishimoto, H., Grynko, Y., Förstner, J. Light scattering by ice crystals of cirrus clouds: From exact numerical methods to physical-optics approximation // J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer. 2017. V. 195, p. 132-140.

13.    Konoshonkin, A., Wang, Z., Borovoi, A., Kustova, N., Liu, D., Xie, C. Backscatter by azimuthally oriented ice crystals of cirrus clouds // Optics Express. 2016. V. 24, No. 18, p. A1257-A1268.

14.    Konoshonkin, A.V., Kustova, N.V., Borovoi, A.G., Grynko, Y., Förstner, J. Light scattering by ice crystals of cirrus clouds: Comparison of the physical optics methods // J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer. 2016. V. 182, p. 12-23.

15.    Borovoi A., Kustova N., Konoshonkin A. Interference phenomena at backscattering by ice crystals of cirrus clouds // Optics Express 2015. V. 23, No. 19. p. 24557-24571.

16.    Konoshonkin A.V., Kustova N.V., Borovoi A.G. Beam-splitting code for light scattering by ice crystal particles within geometric-optics approximation // J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer. 2015. V. 164. p. 175-183.

17.    Borovoi A., Konoshonkin A., Kustova N. Backscatter ratios for arbitrary oriented hexagonal ice crystals of cirrus clouds // Optics Letters 2014. V. 39, No. 19. p. 5788-5791.

18.    Borovoi A., Balin Y., Kokhanenko G.,Penner I., Konoshonkin A., and Kustova N. Layers of quasi-horizontally oriented ice crystals in cirrus clouds observed by a two-wavelength polarization lidar // Optics Express 2014. V. 22, No. 20. p. 24566-24573.

19.    Borovoi A., Konoshonkin A., Kustova N. The physical-optics approximation and its application to light backscattering by hexagonal ice crystals// J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer. 2014. V.146. p. 181-189.

20.    Borovoi A., Konoshonkin A., Kustova N. Backscattering reciprocity for large particles // Optics Letters. 2013. V. 38, No. 9. P. 1485-1487.