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Michael King Senior Scientist Emeritus, Code 610 michael.king@lasp.colorado.edu (303) 492-8099 Curriculum Vitae |
Education
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Research Interests
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Professional Activities and Experience
• Senior Research Associate, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado (2008-)
• EOS Senior Project Scientist (1992-2008)
• Head of the MODIS-Atmosphere Discipline Group (1989-present)
• Principal Investigator and developer of the Cloud Absorption Radiometer
• Principal Investigator of the MODIS Airborne Simulator
• ERBE Project Scientist (1983-1992)
• Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Senior Professional (2006)
• Space Systems Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2006)
• Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2006)
• Elected Member, US National Academy of Engineering (2003)
• William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences, Goddard Space Flight Center (2001)
• NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (2001)
• Verner E. Suomi Award, American Meteorological Society (2000)
• Elected Goddard Senior Fellow (1997)
• Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, Colorado College (1995)
• NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1992)
• Elected Fellow, American Meteorological Society (1990)
• NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1985)
Background
Dr. Michael King is Senior Research Associate in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado. He served as Senior Project Scientist of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) from 1992 to 2008. He joined Goddard Space Flight Center in January 1978 as a physical scientist, and previously served as Project Scientist of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) from 1983-1992. His research experience includes conceiving, developing, and operating multispectral scanning radiometers from a number of aircraft platforms in field experiments ranging from arctic stratus clouds to smoke from the Kuwait oil fires and biomass burning in Brazil and southern Africa. He has lectured on global change on all seven continents. Earlier, he developed the Cloud Absorption Radiometer for studying the absorption properties of optically thick clouds as well as the bidirectional reflectance properties of many natural surfaces, and is principal investigator of the MODIS Airborne Simulator, an imaging spectrometer that flies onboard the NASA ER-2 aircraft. This instrument has aided immeasurably in the development of atmospheric and land remote sensing algorithms for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument.
Dr. King is Head of the Atmosphere Discipline Group of the MODIS science team on Terra and Aqua. As a team member, he is responsible for 5 science algorithms being run routinely to process MODIS data: (i) cloud optical properties component of the MODIS cloud product, a level-2 algorithm for determining cloud optical thickness and effective particle radius of both liquid water and ice clouds, and level-3 combined atmosphere products at 1° x 1° latitude/longitude resolution, averaged over (ii) a day, (iii) eight days (half of the orbital repeat cycle of MODIS), and (iv) a month, and (v) a joint atmosphere level-2 product with the most important atmosphere properties sampled every 5-10 km to reduce the size of this data product for ease of use globally.
He has authored over 80 papers published in refereed scientific journals, in addition to editing 1 Book (Our Changing Planet: The View from Space), 4 Scientific Documents (EOS Science Plan; EOS Science Plan Executive Summary, EOS Reference Handbook, EOS Data Products Handbook, Volume 1) and many book chapters and technical reports. Of his over 4,600 citations to date, one paper, which has received over 280 citations since it was published in 1978, is a classic in the determination of aerosol size distribution by inversion of spectral aerosol optical thickness measurements. 16 of his papers have received over 100 citations and another 7 over 50, with 6 having received over 200 citations.
Latest Publications
Moody, E. G., M. D. King, C. B. Schaaf, and S. Platnick, 2008: MODIS-derived spatially complete surface albedo products: Spatial and temporal pixel distribution and zonal averages. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. (In press) [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Georgiev, G. T., C. K. Gatebe, J. J. Butler, and M. D. King, 2008: Laboratory and airborne BRDF analysis of vegetation leaves and soil samples. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. (In press) [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
King, M. D., 2008: The Earth’s changing environment as seen from the vantage point of space. The Planetary Report, 28, 6-11. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Moody, E. G., M. D. King, C. B. Schaaf, D. K. Hall, and S. Platnick, 2007: Northern Hemisphere five-year average (2000-2004) spectral albedos of surfaces in the presence of snow: Statistics computed from Terra MODIS land products. Remote Sens. Environ., 111, 337-345. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Hong, G., P. Yang, B. C. Gao, B. A. Baum, Y. X. Hu, M. D. King, and S. Platnick, 2007: High cloud properties from three years of MODIS Terra and Aqua collection-4 data over the tropics. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 46, 1840-1856. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Yang, P., L. Zhang, G. Hong, S. L. Nasiri, B. A. Baum, H. L. Huang, M. D. King, and S. Platnick, 2007: Differences between collection 4 and 5 MODIS ice cloud optical/microphysical products and their impact on radiative forcing simulations. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens, 45, 2886-2899. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
King, M. D., C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, and R. G. Williams, 2007: Our Changing Planet: The View from Space. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN 978-0-521-82870-3, 390 pp.
Gatebe, C. K., J. J. Butler, J. W. Cooper, M. Kowalewski, and M. D. King, 2007: Characterization of errors in the use of integrating-sphere systems in the calibration of scanning radiometers. Appl. Opt., 46, 7640-7651. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
King, M. D., 2007: Cloud optical and microphysical properties. In Our Changing Planet: The View from Space, M. D. King, C. L. Parkinson, K. C. Partington, and R. G. Williams, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 15-20.
Abdou, W. A., S. H. Pilorz, M. C. Helmlinger, J. E. Conel, D. J. Diner, C. J. Bruegge, J. V. Martonchik, C. K. Gatebe, M. D. King, and , 2006: Sua pan surface bidirectional reflectance: A case study to evaluate the effect of atmospheric correction on the surface products of the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) during SAFARI 2000. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 44, 1699-1706. [Abstract] [Full Text (PDF)]
Latest Images of the Week
Spectral Albedo of Snow-covered Surfaces (Nov 18, 2007)
Cloud Property Retrievals in TC4 (Jul 29, 2007)
Cloud Fraction for Liquid Water and Ice Clouds (Nov 12, 2006)
In Memory of Yoram J. Kaufman (1948-2006) (Jun 4, 2006)
Bulk Single Scattering Albedo of Ice Clouds (Dec 18, 2005)
Cloud Optical Thickness & Effective Radius for Greenland (Aug 21, 2005)
Tracking the Movements and Evolution of Dust Plumes over Land from MODIS (May 22, 2005)
Global Spectral Surface Albedo with Snow Cover (May 8, 2005)
Bidirectional Reflectance Functions for Various Types of Surfaces (May 1, 2005)
Global Spectral Surface Albedo (Dec 12, 2004)