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Kerry Meyer is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the study of atmospheric aerosols and clouds, encompassing a range of topics within environmental and earth sciences. Meyer's research spans fields such as Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Engineering, and Geophysics.

The research topics addressed by Meyer center on atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, calibration and measurement techniques, solar radiation and photovoltaics, as well as maritime transport emissions and efficiency.

Meyer has published extensively, collaborating frequently with other scholars in the field. Their notable coauthors include Steven Platnick, Robert Wood, Tianle Yuan, Lazaros Oreopoulos, and Chenxi Wang.

The venues where Meyer has most frequently published include Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Remote Sensing, and Science Advances.

Selected recent publications by Kerry Meyer include:

  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • 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, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Above-cloud aerosol optical depth from airborne observations in the southeast Atlantic, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Modeled and observed properties related to the direct aerosol radiative effect of biomass burning aerosol over the southeastern Atlantic, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • A machine-learning-based cloud detection and thermodynamic-phase classification algorithm using passive spectral observations, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Best Publications

  • The MODIS Cloud Optical and Microphysical Products: Collection 6 Updates and Examples From Terra and Aqua

    Steven Platnick;Kerry G. Meyer;Michael D. King;Galina Wind

  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin

    Jens Redemann;Robert Wood;Paquita Zuidema;Sarah J. Doherty

  • Earth Observations from DSCOVR/EPIC Instrument.

    Alexander Marshak;Jay Herman;Szabo Adam;Blank Karin

  • Biomass smoke from southern Africa can significantly enhance the brightness of stratocumulus over the southeastern Atlantic Ocean

    Zheng Lu;Xiaohong Liu;Zhibo Zhang;Chun Zhao

  • Simultaneously inferring above‐cloud absorbing aerosol optical thickness and underlying liquid phase cloud optical and microphysical properties using MODIS

    Kerry Meyer;Kerry Meyer;Steven Platnick;Zhibo Zhang

  • Estimating the direct radiative effect of absorbing aerosols overlying marine boundary layer clouds in the southeast Atlantic using MODIS and CALIOP

    Kerry Meyer;Kerry Meyer;Steven Platnick;Lazaros Oreopoulos;Dongmin Lee;Dongmin Lee

  • Frequency and causes of failed MODIS cloud property retrievals for liquid phase clouds over global oceans.

    Hyoun Myoung Cho;Zhibo Zhang;Kerry Meyer;Kerry Meyer;Matthew Lebsock

  • 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

    Marc Mallet;Fabien Solmon;Pierre Nabat;Nellie Elguindi

  • Resolving ice cloud optical thickness biases between CALIOP and MODIS using infrared retrievals

    Robert E. Holz;Steven Platnick;Kerry Meyer;Mark Vaughan

  • MODIS Collection 6 shortwave-derived cloud phase classification algorithm and comparisons with CALIOP

    Benjamin Marchant;Benjamin Marchant;Steven Platnick;Kerry Meyer;Kerry Meyer;G. Thomas Arnold

  • Shortwave direct radiative effects of above-cloud aerosols over global oceans derived from 8 years of CALIOP and MODIS observations

    Zhibo Zhang;Kerry Meyer;Kerry Meyer;Hongbin Yu;Hongbin Yu;Steven Platnick

  • Positive Low Cloud and Dust Feedbacks Amplify Tropical North Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.

    Tianle Yuan;Tianle Yuan;Lazaros Oreopoulos;Mark Zelinka;Hongbin Yu;Hongbin Yu

  • Modeled and observed properties related to the direct aerosol radiative effect of biomass burning aerosol over the southeastern Atlantic

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  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the Southeast Atlantic basin

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  • A machine-learning-based cloud detection and thermodynamic-phase classification algorithm using passive spectral observations

    Chenxi Wang;Chenxi Wang;Steven Platnick;Kerry Meyer;Zhibo Zhang

  • 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

    Z. Zhang;F. Werner;H. M. Cho;H. M. Cho;G. Wind

  • Optical thickness of tropical cirrus clouds derived from the MODIS 0.66and 1.375-/spl mu/m channels

    K. Meyer;Ping Yang;Bo-Cai Gao

  • Seasonally transported aerosol layers over southeast Atlantic are closer to underlying clouds than previously reported

    Chamara Rajapakshe;Zhibo Zhang;John E. Yorks;Hongbin Yu

  • The coupling between tropical meteorology, aerosol lifecycle, convection, and radiation, during the Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex)

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  • Retrieval of Ice Cloud Properties Using an Optimal Estimation Algorithm and MODIS Infrared Observations. Part I: Forward Model, Error Analysis, and Information Content

    Chenxi Wang;Steven Platnick;Zhibo Zhang;Kerry Meyer;Kerry Meyer

  • Above-cloud aerosol optical depth from airborne observations in the southeast Atlantic

    Samuel E. LeBlanc;Jens Redemann;Connor Flynn;Kristina Pistone

  • The NASA MODIS-VIIRS Continuity Cloud Optical Properties Products

    Steven Platnick;Kerry Meyer;Galina Wind;Robert E. Holz

  • Shortwave Direct Radiative Effects of Above Cloud Aerosols Over Global Oceans Derived From Eight Years of CALIOP and MODIS Observations

    Zhibo Zhang;Kerry Meyer;Hongbin Yu;Steven Platnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven Platnick
Steven Platnick Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert E. Holz
Robert E. Holz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ping Yang
Ping Yang Texas A&M University
Jens Redemann
Jens Redemann University of Oklahoma
Lazaros Oreopoulos
Lazaros Oreopoulos Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael D. King
Michael D. King University of Colorado Boulder
Yohei Shinozuka
Yohei Shinozuka Bay Area Environmental Research Institute
Sharon Burton
Sharon Burton Langley Research Center
Steven A. Ackerman
Steven A. Ackerman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hongbin Yu
Hongbin Yu Goddard Space Flight Center

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