Michael Mishchenko
Senior Scientist
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
Phone: (212) 678-5590
Fax: (212) 678-5552
E-mail:
mmishchenko@giss.nasa.gov
Education
- Ph.D. in Physics (with honors), Ukrainian National Academy of
Sciences, Kiev, 1987
- MS in Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1983
Research Interests
- Electromagnetic scattering
- Radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres and particulate surfaces
- Terrestrial and planetary remote sensing
- Cloud and aerosol physics
- Direct and indirect aerosol forcing of climate
Editorial and Professional Activities
- Member, AGU Fellows Committee, Atmospheric Sciences Section (2007-present)
- Editor-in-Chief,
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
(2006-present)
- Editorial Board Member,
Waves in Random and Complex Media (2004-present)
- Editorial Board Member,
Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies (2003-present)
- Topical Editor on scattering theory and meteorological optics,
Applied Optics (2000-2006)
- Associate Editor,
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (1999-2004)
- Associate Editor,
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
(1995-2005)
- Editorial Board Member,
Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (1991-1992)
- Co-Editor,
Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing
(Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2004)
- Editor,
Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles: Theory, Measurements,
and Applications (Academic Press, San Diego, 2000)
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on 50 Years of JQSRT,
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 111, 1455-1876 (2008).
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on X Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Non-spherical
particles, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 109, 1335-1548 (2008).
- Guest Co-Editor,
Special Issue
on "Light in Planetary Atmospheres and Other Particulate Media: A Tribute to Professor Joop W. Hovenier,"
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer
101, 381-556 (2006).
- Guest Editor,
Special Issue
on "Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing," J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer
88, 1-406 (2004).
- Guest Co-Editor,
Special issue
on "Electromagnetic and Light Scattering
by Non-Spherical Particles,"
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 79-80, 491-1198 (2003)
- Guest Editor,
Special issue
on "Global Aerosol Climatology Project," J. Atmos. Sci.
59, 249-783 (2002).
- Guest Editor,
Special issue
on "Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles '98",
J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 63, 127-737 (1999)
- Coordinator, Special section on "Electromagnetic
Scattering by Nonspherical Particles,"
J. Geophys. Res. 104, 31,6 71-31,808 (1999)
Projects
Professional Honors and Awards
- JQSRT Milestone Paper Award of Elsevier (2010)
- Asteroid 22686 (1998 QL53) was named "Mishchenko" (2009)
- Habilitation Doctoral Degree in Physics and Mathematics, The Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (2008)
- NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2008)
- NASA Quality Increase Award (2008)
- NASA Ten Year Service Award (2007)
- NASA Performance Award (2007)
- NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2007)
- Arthur S. Flemming Award, George Washington University (2006)
- Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (since 2006)
- NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2006)
- Fellow of The Institute of Physics (since 2004)
- NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2004)
- Fellow of the Optical Society of America (since 2003)
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (since 2003)
(NASA
Press Release)
- NASA Quality Increase Award (2003)
- NASA GISS Peer Award (2001)
- NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2001)
- NASA GSFC Job Performance Award (2000)
- Henry G. Houghton Award of the American Meteorological Society (1999)
- NASA GSFC Job Performance Award (1997)
- N. P. Barabashov Award of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (1993)
Research Activities
- Provided the first complete derivation of the radiative
transfer equation for discrete random media from the Maxwell
equations.
- Developed an analytical theory of multiple scattering of polarized light in
clouds composed of oriented nonspherical particles and several robust
numerical techniques for computing the transfer of polarized radiation in
the atmosphere.
- Developed an efficient technique for computing the bidirectional
reflection function for flat snow and soil surfaces based on numerically
solving the radiative transfer equation.
- Developed an efficient T-matrix method for computing scattering and
absorption characteristics of randomly and axially oriented, polydisperse
nonspherical particles with large size parameters.
- Performed a detailed study of the effect of nonsphericity on radiative,
polarization, and depolarization properties of aerosols, clouds, and
precipitation and parameterized the effect of particle nonsphericity on
cirrus cloud and aerosol retrievals.
- Developed a vector theory of coherent backscattering of light and radar
signals by particulate surfaces and interpreted quantitatively the
photometric and polarization opposition effects exhibited by Saturn's rings
and outer-planet satellites and peculiar radar returns caused by
ice-covered surfaces.
- Developed an electromagnetic scattering software package, which is
publicly available on the World Wide Web
(http://www.giss.nasa.gov/~crmim).
- Performed a detailed sensitivity analysis of various algorithms for
retrieving aerosol properties from space using radiance and polarization
data.
- Developed algorithms for retrieving aerosol optical thickness and size
from multichannel AVHRR data and created a long-term global satellite
climatology of aerosol properties.
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