1996 - Ph.D. - Atmospheric Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
1994 - M.S. - Atmospheric Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
1991 - B.S. - Physics, Alma College, Alma, MI.
Matthew J McGill
(SUPV AST, EARTH SCIENCES REMOTE SENS)
| Email: | matthew.j.mcgill@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6281 |
| Org Code: | 407 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 610 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | REI SYSTEMS INC |
Missions & Projects
Brief Bio
Research Interests
Remote Sensing/Instrument Development
Earth Science: Remote SensingLidar remote sensing, Doppler lidar, radiative transfer, atmospheric physics, atmospheric dynamics, interferometry, instrument development.
Positions/Employment
Deputy Division Director
Earth Sciences Division - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
April 2019 - Present
Earth Sciences Division Chief Technologist
Earth Sciences Division - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
April 2012 - Present
Physical Scientist
Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch, Laboratory for Atmospheres - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
April 1997 - April 2019
Research Associate
University of Michigan (assigned to NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center), Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
April 1996 - April 1997
Research Assistant
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
August 1991 - April 1996
Education
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
1996 - Present
Professional Service
serves as Earth Sciences Division Chief Technologist (2012-present)
Publications
Refereed
2021. "First retrieval of absorbing aerosol height over dark target using TROPOMI oxygen B band: Algorithm development and application for surface particulate matter estimates." Remote Sensing of Environment 265 112674 [10.1016/j.rse.2021.112674] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "A Classification of Ice Crystal Habits Using Combined Lidar and Scanning Polarimeter Observations during the SEAC4RS Campaign." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 37 (12): 2185-2196 [10.1175/jtech-d-20-0037.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Models transport Saharan dust too low in the atmosphere: a comparison of the MetUM and CAMS forecasts with observations." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 (21): 12955-12982 [10.5194/acp-20-12955-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "The Aerosol Characterization from Polarimeter and Lidar (ACEPOL) airborne field campaign." Earth System Science Data 12 (3): 2183-2208 [Full Text] [10.5194/essd-12-2183-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Sensitivities in Satellite Lidar‐Derived Estimates of Daytime Top‐of‐the‐Atmosphere Optically Thin Cirrus Cloud Radiative Forcing: A Case Study." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (17): [10.1029/2020gl088871] [Journal Article/Letter]
2020. "Observation and quantification of aerosol outflow from southern Africa using spaceborne lidar." South African Journal of Science 116 [10.17159/sajs.2020/6398] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Cloud Aerosol Transport System (CATS) 1064 nm calibration and validation." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12 6241–6258 [10.5194/amt-12-6241-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]
2019. "Radiative Forcing and Stratospheric Warming of Pyrocumulonimbus Smoke Aerosols: First Modeling Results With Multisensor (EPIC, CALIPSO, and CATS) Views from Space." Geophysical Research Letters 46 (16): 10061-10071 [10.1029/2019gl082360] [Journal Article/Letter]
2018. "Dust Impacts on the 2012 Hurricane Nadine Track during the NASA HS3 Field Campaign." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences JAS-D-17-0237.1 [10.1175/jas-d-17-0237.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Remote Sensing of Multiple Cloud Layer Heights using Multi-Angular Measurements." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions 1-23 [10.5194/amt-10-2361-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Using CATS Near-Realtime Lidar Observations to Monitor and Constrain Volcanic Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Forecasts." Geophysical Research Letters [10.1002/2016gl070119] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "Polarized view of supercooled liquid water clouds." Remote Sensing of Environment 181 96-110 [10.1016/j.rse.2016.04.002] [Journal Article/Letter]
2016. "An overview of the CATS level 1 processing algorithms and data products." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (9): 4632-4639 [10.1002/2016gl068006] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Liquid water cloud properties during the Polarimeter Definition Experiment (PODEX)." Remote Sens. Environ. 169 20-36 [doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.07.029] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "The Airborne Cloud-Aerosol Transport System: Overview and Description of the Instrument and Retrieval Algorithms." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 31 2482-2497 [10.1175/JTECH-D-14-00044.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2013. "Ice nucleation and dehydration in the Tropical Tropopause Layer." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (6): 2041-2046 [10.1073/pnas.1217104110] [Proceedings]
2013. "The Multiple Altimeter Beam Experimental Lidar (MABEL): An Airborne Simulator for the ICESat-2 Mission." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 30 (2): 345-352 [10.1175/JTECH-D-12-00076.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Airborne validation of cirrus cloud properties derived from CALIPSO lidar measurements: Optical properties." Journal of Geophysical Research 116 D19207 [10.1029/2011JD015942] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Simulations of Infrared Radiances over a Deep Convective Cloud System Observed during TC4: Potential for Enhancing Nocturnal Ice Cloud Retrievals." Remote Sensing 4 (10): 3022-3054 [10.3390/rs4103022] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "The fate of Saharan dust across the Atlantic and implications for a Central American dust barrier." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (16): 8415-8431 [10.5194/acp-11-8415-2011] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Statistics of Cloud Optical Properties from Airborne Lidar Measurements." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 28 (7): 869-883 [10.1175/2011JTECHA1507.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Airborne validation of cirrus cloud properties derived from CALIPSO lidar measurements: Spatial properties." J. Geophys. Res. 116 (D19): D19207 [10.1029/2011JD015942] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Comparison of GOES-retrieved and in situ measurements of deep convective anvil cloud microphysical properties during the Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment (TC⁴ )." J Geophys Res 115 (D10): D00J06 [10.1029/2009JD013313] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "On the spectral dependence of backscatter from cirrus clouds: Assessing CALIOP's 1064 nm calibration assumptions using cloud physics lidar measurements." J. Geophys. Res. 115 (D14): D14206 [10.1029/2009JD013086] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Directly measured heating rates of a tropical subvisible cirrus cloud." J Geophys Res 115 (D10): D00J09 [10.1029/2009JD013128] [Journal Article/Letter]
2010. "Convective distribution of tropospheric ozone and tracers in the Central American ITCZ region: Evidence from observations during TC⁴." J Geophys Res 115 (D10): D00J21 [10.1029/2009JD013450] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Fully Automated Detection of Cloud and Aerosol Layers in the CALIPSO Lidar Measurements." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 26 (10): 2034-2050 [10.1175/2009JTECHA1228.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Radiative effects of African dust and smoke observed from Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) and Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) data." J. Geophys. Res. 114 D00H04 [10.1029/2009JD012000] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "On the importance of small ice crystals in tropical anvil cirrus." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 9 (15): 5519-5537 [10.5194/acp-9-5519-2009] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Vertical cloud climatology during TC4 derived from high-altitude aircraft merged lidar and radar profiles." J Geophys Res [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Cloud Detection with MODIS. Part II: Validation." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 25 (7): 1073-1086 [10.1175/2007JTECHA1053.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Airborne validation of spatial properties measured by the CALIPSO lidar." J. Geophys. Res. 112 (D20): D20201 [10.1029/2007JD008768] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Extinction coefficients retrieved in deep tropical ice clouds from lidar observations using a CALIPSO-like algorithm compared to in-situ measurements from the cloud integrating nephelometer during CRYSTAL-FACE." Atmos Chem Phys 7 1415-1422 [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Evaluating lidar-radar microphysics retrieval using in situ measurements." J. Geophys. Res. 112 (D9): D09213 [10.1029/2006JD007202] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Lidar Remote Sensing." Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering [10.1081/E-EOE-120009862] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Comparison of CALIPSO-Like, LaRC, and MODIS Retrievals of Ice-Cloud Properties over SIRTA in France and Florida during CRYSTAL-FACE." J Appl Meteor Clim 46 (3): 249-272 [10.1175/JAM2435.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2007. "Initial performance assessment of CALIOP." Geophys Res Lett 34 (19): L19808 [10.1029/2007GL030135] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "An improvement to the high spectral resolution CO2 slicing cloud top altitude retrieval." J Atmos Ocean Tech 23 (5): 653-670 [10.1175/JTECH1877.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Effective radius of ice cloud particle populations derived from aircraft probes." J Atmos Sci 23 (3): 361-380 [10.1175/JTECH1857.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Estimating random errors in backscatter lidar observations." Appl Opt 45 (18): 4437-4447 [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Information content of data measured with a multiple-field-of-view lidar." Applied Optics 45 (26): 6839 [10.1364/AO.45.006839] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Information content of data measured with a multiple-field-of-view lidar." Appl Opt 45 (26): 6839-6848 [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "A simple relation between lidar multiple scattering and depolarization for water clouds." Optics Lett 31 (12): 1809-1811 [10.1364/OL.31.001809] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "THOR—Cloud Thickness from Offbeam Lidar Returns." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 22 (6): 605-627 [10.1175/JTECH1740.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Cirrus cloud optical, microphysical, and radiative properties observed during the CRYSTAL-FACE experiment: A lidar-radar retrieval system." J. Geophys. Res. 110 (D9): D09208 [10.1029/2004JD005605] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Particle habit in tropical ice clouds during CRYSTAL-FACE: Comparison of two remote sensing techniques with in situ observations." J Geophys Res 110 (D16204): [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Formation of a tropopause cirrus layer observed over Florida during CRYSTAL-FACE." J Geophys Res 110 (D03208): [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Thermodynamic and cloud parameter retrieval using infrared spectral data." Geophys Res Lett 32 (L15805): [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "Aerosol and cloud optical depth from GLAS: Results and verification for an October 2003 California fire smoke case." Geophysical Research Letters 32 (22): L22S07 [10.1029/2005GL023413] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Classification of particle shapes from lidar depolarization ratio in convective ice clouds compared to in situ observations during CRYSTAL-FACE." J Geophys Res 109 D24213 [10.1029/2004JD004883] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Deep convective cloud-top heights and their thermodynamic control during CRYSTAL-FACE." J Geophys Res Atmos 109 D20119 [10.1029/2004JD004811] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Underestimation of deep convective cloud tops by thermal imagery." Geophys Res Lett 31 (11): Art. No. L11102 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Use of probability distribution functions for discriminating between cloud and aerosol in lidar backscatter data." J Geophys Res Atmos 109 (D15): Art. No. D15202 [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Convective generation of cirrus near the tropopause." J. Geophys. Res. 109 (D21): [10.1029/2004JD004952] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Validating Lidar Depolarization Calibration Using Solar Radiation Scattered by Ice Clouds." IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Lett. 1 (3): 157-161 [10.1109/LGRS.2004.829613] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Combined lidar-radar remote sensing: Initial results from CRYSTAL-FACE." J. Geophys. Res. 109 (D7): [10.1029/2003JD004030] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Florida thunderstorms: A faucet of reactive nitrogen to the upper troposphere." J. Geophys. Res. 109 (D17): DI7305 [10.1029/2004JD004769] [Journal Article/Letter]
2004. "Classification of particle shapes from lidar depolarization ratio in convective ice clouds compared to in situ observations during CRYSTAL-FACE." J. Geophys. Res. 109 (D24): D24213 [10.1029/2004JD004883] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Coordinated airborne, spaceborne, and ground-based measurements of massive thick aerosol layers during the dry season in southern Africa." J. Geophys. Res. 108 (D13): 8496 [10.1029/2002JD002297] [Journal Article/Letter]
2003. "Airborne lidar measurements of aerosol optical properties during SAFARI-2000." J. Geophys. Res. 108 (D13): [10.1029/2002JD002370] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Cloud Physics Lidar: Instrument description and initial measurement results." Appl Opt 41 (18): 3725-3734 [10.1364/AO.41.003725] [Journal Article/Letter]
2002. "Off-beam Lidar senses cloud thickness and density." Laser Focus World October Issue 38 [101-103] [Journal Article/Letter]
1999. "Off-beam lidar: An emerging technique in cloud remote sensing based on radiative Green-function theory in the diffusion domain." Phys Chem Earth - B 24 177-185 [10.1016/S1464-1909(99)00077-5] [Journal Article/Letter]
1999. "Modeling the Performance of Direct-Detection Doppler Lidar Systems Including Cloud and Solar Background Variability." Appl Optics 38 6388-6397 [Journal Article/Letter]
1998. "Comparison of two direct-detection Doppler lidar techniques." Opt Engin 37 (10): 2675-2686 [10.1117/1.601804] [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2005. "Development of an autonomous lidar instrument for use on a UAV platform in support of Homeland Security." Research and Development for Partnering in Homeland Security Conference [Other]
2001. "Global Lidar Measurements of Clouds and Aerosols from Space Using the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)." 2001 AGU Fall Meeting [Other]
2001. "Cloud Physics Lidar Measurements during the SAFARI-2000 Field Campaign." 2001 AGU Fall Meeting [Other]
2001. "Holographic optics convert rings to points for detection." Laser Focus World 37 131-136 [Other]
1998. "Spaceborne Simulation of Two Direct-Detection Doppler Lidar Techniques." 19th Intl Laser Radar Conference [Other]
1998. "Atmospheric Depolarization Lidar Experimental Receiver: A Space Shuttle Hitchhiker Payload." 19th Intl Laser Radar Conference 2 875-877 [Other]
1998. "Comparison of Spaceborne Direct-Detection Doppler Lidar Methods." 1998 OSA Annual Meeting [Other]
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Invited
One lidar scientist’s career pathway and vision for the future
February 13, 2020
Invited presentation at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS): Atmospheric remote sensing from the ISS
May 6, 2016
Invited presentation at the DLR Conference on Climate Change
ICESat-2 and the importance of space-based laser altimetry measurements
June 1, 2011
Invited tutorial presenation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO)
Airborne validation of CALIPSO data products
June 25, 2009
Invited presentation at the American Geophysical Union joint assembly.
Development of an autonomous lidar instrument for use on a UAV platform (invited)
October 27, 2005
Invited presentation at the Infotech@Aerospace conference