Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Kerry G Meyer

(RSCH AST, CLIMATE AND RADIATION STD)

Kerry G Meyer's Contact Card & Information.
Email: kerry.meyer@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.6186
Org Code: 613
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 613
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer:
NASA

Brief Bio


Kerry Meyer's research interests include satellite and aircraft remote sensing of clouds and aerosols. He is a member of the MODIS, S-NPP, and DSCOVR science teams, working on the operational cloud optical and microphysical property products as well as EOS-SNPP climate data record continuity. He has also been involved with remote sensing field campaigns using the MODIS Airborne Simulator flown on the NASA ER-2.

Meyer joined the Climate and Radiation Branch of the Laboratory for Atmospheres in 2007 as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the NASA Postdoctoral Program. He was an Assistant Research Scientist with Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland – Baltimore County, from 2010 to 2011, and from 2011 through 2016 was a Research Scientist with Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Universities Space Research Association. In January 2017, he became a civil servant in the Climate and Radiation Branch.

Current Projects


NASA MODIS Cloud Products (MOD06)

Remote Sensing


NASA MODIS-VIIRS Continuity Cloud Products (MODAWG)

Remote Sensing


NASA EPIC Cloud Products

Remote Sensing


ORACLES

Aerosols


PACE Science & Applications Team

Remote Sensing

Positions/Employment


Research Physical Scientist

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, Maryland

January 2017 - January Present


Research Scientist

Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Universities Space Research Association - Columbia, Maryland

May 2011 - January 2017


Assistant Research Scientist

Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Maryland – Baltimore County - Baltimore, Maryland

September 2010 - May 2011



Postdoctoral Fellow

NASA Postdoctoral Program - NASA GSFC

September 2007 - August 2010


Education


2007 Ph.D. Texas A&M University, College Station, in Atmospheric Sciences
2004 M.S. Texas A&M University, College Station, in Atmospheric Sciences
2001 B.S. Texas A&M University, College Station, in Meteorology

Professional Service


2016-present: Associate Editor for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Other Professional Information


ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-8095-2016

Publications


Refereed

2023. "Calibration of the SNPP and NOAA 20 VIIRS sensors for continuity of the MODIS climate data records." Remote Sensing of Environment 295 113717 [10.1016/j.rse.2023.113717] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Updated observations of clouds by MODIS for global model assessment." Earth System Science Data [https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2483-2023] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "A SmallSat Concept to Resolve Diurnal and Vertical Variations of Aerosols, Clouds, and Boundary Layer Height." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (4): E815–E836 [10.1175/bams-d-21-0179.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Observational evidence of strong forcing from aerosol effect on low cloud coverage." Science Advances 9 (45): eadh7716 [10.1126/sciadv.adh7716] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Global reduction in ship-tracks from sulfur regulations for shipping fuel." Science Advances 8 (29): [10.1126/sciadv.abn7988] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Effect of Spectral Variability of Aerosol Optical Properties on Direct Aerosol Radiative Effect." Frontiers in Remote Sensing 3 [10.3389/frsen.2022.904505] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Evaluating the consistency and continuity of pixel-scale cloud property data records from Aqua and SNPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 15 (7): 2099-2123 [10.5194/amt-15-2099-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Analysis of the MODIS above-cloud aerosol retrieval algorithm using MCARS." Geoscientific Model Development 15 (1): 1-14 [10.5194/gmd-15-1-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the Southeast Atlantic basin." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics [10.5194/acp-21-1507-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "The NASA MODIS-VIIRS Continuity Cloud Optical Properties Products." Remote Sensing 13 (1): 2 [10.3390/rs13010002] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Applying deep learning to NASA MODIS data to create a community record of marine low-cloud mesoscale morphology." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 13 (12): 6989-6997 [10.5194/amt-13-6989-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Sensitivity of Multispectral Imager Liquid Water Cloud Microphysical Retrievals to the Index of Refraction." Remote Sensing 12 (24): 4165 [10.3390/rs12244165] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Derivation of Shortwave Radiometric Adjustments for SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS for the NASA MODIS-VIIRS Continuity Cloud Products." Remote Sensing 12 (24): 4096 [10.3390/rs12244096] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Direct and semi-direct radiative forcing of biomass-burning aerosols over the southeast Atlantic (SEA) and its sensitivity to absorbing properties: a regional climate modeling study." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 (21): 13191-13216 [10.5194/acp-20-13191-2020] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Evaluation of the Aqua MODIS Collection 6.1 multilayer cloud detection algorithm through comparisons with CloudSat CPR and CALIPSO CALIOP products." AMT [10.5194/amt-2019-448] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Above-cloud aerosol radiative effects based on ORACLES 2016 and ORACLES 2017 aircraft experiments." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12 (12): 6505-6528 [10.5194/amt-12-6505-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "A Fast Vector Radiative Transfer Model for the Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled System." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 239 106667 [10.1016/j.jqsrt.2019.106667] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Observation of absorbing aerosols above clouds over the south-east Atlantic Ocean from the geostationary satellite SEVIRI – Part 1: Method description and sensitivity." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 (14): 9595-9611 [10.5194/acp-19-9595-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Automatically Finding Ship-tracks to Enable Large-scale Analysis of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions." Geophysical Research Letters [10.1029/2019gl083441] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Simulation of the transport, vertical distribution, optical properties and radiative impact of smoke aerosols with the ALADIN regional climate model during the ORACLES-2016 and LASIC experiments." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 19 (7): 4963-4990 [10.5194/acp-19-4963-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Cloud products from the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC): algorithms and initial evaluation." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12 (3): 2019-2031 [10.5194/amt-12-2019-2019] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "An Assessment of the Impacts of Cloud Vertical Heterogeneity on Global Ice Cloud Data Records From Passive Satellite Retrievals." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres [10.1029/2018jd029681] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Exploring aerosols near clouds with high-spatial-resolution aircraft remote sensing during SEAC4RS." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres [10.1029/2018jd028989] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "MODIS Retrievals of Cloud Effective Radius in Marine Stratocumulus Exhibit No Significant Bias." Geophysical Research Letters 45 (19): 10,656-10,664 [10.1029/2018gl079325] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Earth Observations from DSCOVR/EPIC Instrument." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society BAMS-D-17-0223.1 [10.1175/bams-d-17-0223.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Scale dependence of cirrus heterogeneity effects. Part II: MODIS NIR and SWIR channels." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 (16): 12105-12121 [10.5194/acp-18-12105-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Observations of Local Positive Low Cloud Feedback Patterns and Their Role in Internal Variability and Climate Sensitivity." Geophysical Research Letters 45 (9): 4438-4445 [10.1029/2018gl077904] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Scale dependence of cirrus horizontal heterogeneity effects on TOA measurements – Part I: MODIS brightness temperatures in the thermal infrared." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17 (13): 8489-8508 [10.5194/acp-17-8489-2017] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Seasonally transported aerosol layers over southeast Atlantic are closer to underlying clouds than previously reported." Geophysical Research Letters [10.1002/2017gl073559] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Validation of quasi-invariant ice cloud radiative quantities with MODIS satellite-based cloud property retrievals." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 194 47-57 [10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.03.025] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. " Cirrus heterogeneity effects on cloud optical properties retrieved with an optimal estimation method from MODIS VIS to TIR channels." AIP Conference Proceedings 1810 (1): [10.1063/1.4975504] [Proceedings]

2017. "On the response of MODIS cloud coverage to global mean surface air temperature." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122 966-979 [10.1002/2016jd025174] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "The MODIS cloud optical and microphysical products: Collection 6 updates and examples from Terra and Aqua." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. 55 (1): 502–525 [10.1109/TGRS.2016.2610522] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Marine boundary layer cloud property retrievals from high-resolution ASTER observations: case studies and comparison with Terra MODIS." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 9 (12): 5869-5894 [10.5194/amt-9-5869-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Measuring cloud thermodynamic phase with shortwave infrared imaging spectroscopy." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121 (15): 9174-9190 [10.1002/2016jd024999] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "A framework based on 2-D Taylor expansion for quantifying the impacts of subpixel reflectance variance and covariance on cloud optical thickness and effective radius retrievals based on the bispectral method." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121 (12): 7007-7025 [10.1002/2016jd024837] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Degree of ice particle surface roughness inferred from polarimetric observations." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 16 (12): 7545-7558 [10.5194/acp-16-7545-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Retrieval of ice cloud properties using an optimal estimation algorithm and MODIS infrared observations: 1. Forward model, error analysis, and information content." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 121 (10): 5809-5826 [10.1002/2015jd024526] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Uncertainties in cloud phase and optical thickness retrievals from the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC)." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 9 (4): 1785-1797 [10.5194/amt-9-1785-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Resolving ice cloud optical thickness biases between CALIOP and MODIS using infrared retrievals." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 16 (8): 5075-5090 [10.5194/acp-16-5075-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Retrieval of ice cloud properties using an optimal estimation algorithm and MODIS infrared observations: 2. Retrieval evaluation." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 121 [10.1002/2015jd024528] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Cirrus cloud optical and microphysical property retrievals from eMAS during SEAC4RS using bi-spectral reflectance measurements within the 1.88  µm water vapor absorption band." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 9 (4): 1743-1753 [10.5194/amt-9-1743-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "MODIS Collection 6 shortwave-derived cloud phase classification algorithm and comparisons with CALIOP." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 9 (4): 1587-1599 [10.5194/amt-9-1587-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Shortwave direct radiative effects of above-cloud aerosols over global oceans derived from 8 years of CALIOP and MODIS observations." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 16 (5): 2877-2900 [10.5194/acp-16-2877-2016] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Positive low cloud and dust feedbacks amplify tropical North Atlantic multidecadal oscillation." Geophysical Research Letters 43 (3): 1349–1356 [10.1002/2016gl067679] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "Ice cloud backscatter study and comparison with CALIPSO and MODIS satellite data." Optics Express 24 (1): 620 [10.1364/oe.24.000620] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Simultaneously inferring above-cloud absorbing aerosol optical thickness and underlying liquid phase cloud optical and microphysical properties using MODIS." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos 120 (11): 5524–5547 [10.1002/2015JD023128] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Frequency and causes of failed MODIS cloud property retrievals for liquid phase clouds over global oceans." J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos 120 (9): 4132-4154 [10.1002/2015JD023161] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "Impacts of cloud heterogeneities on cirrus optical properties retrieved from space-based thermal infrared radiometry." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 8 (2): 633-647 [10.5194/amt-8-633-2015] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "A fast Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite simulator for cloudy atmospheres." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120 (1): 240-255 [10.1002/2014jd022443] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "A novel method for estimating shortwave direct radiative effect of above-cloud aerosols using CALIOP and MODIS data." Atmos. Meas. Tech. 7 (6): 1777-1789 [10.5194/amt-7-1777-2014] [Journal Article/Letter]

2013. "Estimating the direct radiative effect of absorbing aerosols overlying marine boundary layer clouds in the southeast Atlantic using MODIS and CALIOP." J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 118 (10): 4801-4815 [10.1002/jgrd.50449] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Utilizing the MODIS 1.38 μ m channel for cirrus cloud optical thickness retrievals: Algorithm and retrieval uncertainties." J. Geophys. Res. 115 (D24): D24209 [10.1029/2010JD014872] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Tropical ice cloud optical depth, ice water path, and frequency fields inferred from the MODIS level-3 data." Atmospheric Research 85 171-182 [10.1016/j.atmosres.2006.09.009] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Ice Cloud Optical Depth From MODIS Cirrus Reflectance." IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS 4 (3): 471-474 [10.1109/LGRS.2007.897428] [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "A New Concept on Remote Sensing of Cirrus Optical Depth and Effective Ice Particle Size Using Strong Water Vapor Absorption Channels Near 1.38 and 1.88 µm." IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING 42 (9): 1891-1899 [10.1109/TGRS.2004.833778] [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Optical Thickness of Tropical Cirrus Clouds Derived From the MODIS 0.66- and 1.375-µm Channels." IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING 42 (4): 833-841 [10.1109/TGRS.2003.818939] [Journal Article/Letter]