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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the theory of light scattering and radiative transfer and its applications in remote sensing.
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Michael I. Mishchenko is affiliated with the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to atmospheric aerosols and clouds, electromagnetic scattering and analysis, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, random lasers and scattering media, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, and radiative heat transfer studies.

The scientist has contributed significantly to the fields of engineering, environmental science, and physics and astronomy. Their published work often explores subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, atomic and molecular physics and optics, computational mechanics, and civil and structural engineering.

Among their frequently published venues are:

  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Physics Open
  • System Technologies
  • Optics Express
  • International Scientific and Technical Conference Information Technologies in Metallurgy and Machine Building

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Michael I. Mishchenko include:

  • Spectrally dependent linear depolarization and lidar ratios for nonspherical smoke aerosols, 2020, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Electromagnetic scattering by discrete random media illuminated by a Gaussian beam II: Solution of the radiative transfer equation, 2020, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • An overview of the null-field method. II: Convergence and numerical stability, 2020, Physics Open
  • An overview of the null-field method. I: Formulation and basic results, 2020, Physics Open
  • Spectral spherical harmonics discrete ordinate method, 2020, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Adrian Doicu
  • Thomas Trautmann
  • Li Liu
  • Dmitry Efremenko
  • Jiachen Ding

Michael I. Mishchenko has been recognized by professional societies with awards such as:

  • OSA Fellow, 2004, for contributions to the theory of light scattering and radiative transfer and its applications in remote sensing
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2003

Best Publications

  • Scattering, Absorption, and Emission of Light by Small Particles

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Andrew A. Lacis;Larry D. Travis

  • Application of spheroid models to account for aerosol particle nonsphericity in remote sensing of desert dust

    Oleg Dubovik;Oleg Dubovik;Alexander Sinyuk;Tatyana Lapyonok;Brent N. Holben

  • Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles: Theory, Measurements, and Applications

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Joop W. Hovenier;Larry D. Travis

  • T-Matrix Computations of Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles: A Review

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Larry D. Travis;Daniel W. Mackowski

  • Calculation of radiative fluxes from the surface to top of atmosphere based on ISCCP and other global data sets: Refinements of the radiative transfer model and the input data

    Yuanchong Zhang;William B. Rossow;Andrew A. Lacis;Valdar Oinas

  • Capabilities and limitations of a current FORTRAN implementation of the T-matrix method for randomly oriented, rotationally symmetric scatterers

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Larry D. Travis

  • Calculation of the T matrix and the scattering matrix for ensembles of spheres

    Daniel W. Mackowski;Michael I. Mishchenko

  • Multiple Scattering of Light by Particles: Radiative Transfer and Coherent Backscattering

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Larry D. Travis;Andrew A. Lacis

  • Modeling phase functions for dustlike tropospheric aerosols using a shape mixture of randomly oriented polydisperse spheroids

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Larry D. Travis;Ralph A. Kahn;Robert A. West

  • Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Larry D. Travis;Joop W. Hovenier

  • Light scattering by randomly oriented axially symmetric particles

    M. I. Mishchenko

  • Satellite retrieval of aerosol properties over the ocean using polarization as well as intensity of reflected sunlight

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Larry D. Travis

  • Spectrally Consistent Scattering, Absorption, and Polarization Properties of Atmospheric Ice Crystals at Wavelengths from 0.2 to 100 um

    Ping Yang;Lei Bi;Bryan A. Baum;Kuo-Nan Liou

  • Non‐spherical aerosol retrieval method employing light scattering by spheroids

    O. Dubovik;O. Dubovik;B. N. Holben;T. Lapyonok;A. Sinyuk;A. Sinyuk

  • Bidirectional Reflectance of Flat, Optically Thick Particulate Layers: An Efficient Radiative Transfer Solution and Applications to Snow and Soil Surfaces

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Janna M. Dlugach;Edgard G. Yanovitskij;Nadia T. Zakharova

  • A multiple sphere T-matrix Fortran code for use on parallel computer clusters

    D.W. Mackowski;M.I. Mishchenko

  • Depolarization of light backscattered by randomly oriented nonspherical particles

    M I Mishchenko;J W Hovenier

  • Scattering and absorption property database for nonspherical ice particles in the near- through far-infrared spectral region.

    Ping Yang;Heli Wei;Hung-Lung Huang;Bryan A. Baum

  • Calculation of the amplitude matrix for a nonspherical particle in a fixed orientation.

    Michael I. Mishchenko

  • T-matrix computations of light scattering by large spheroidal particles

    Michael I. Mishchenko;Larry D. Travis

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Cairns
Brian Cairns Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Ping Yang
Ping Yang Texas A&M University
Andrew A. Lacis
Andrew A. Lacis Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Oleg Dubovik
Oleg Dubovik University of Lille
Ralph A. Kahn
Ralph A. Kahn Goddard Space Flight Center
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center
William B. Rossow
William B. Rossow City College of New York
Bryan A. Baum
Bryan A. Baum University of Wisconsin–Madison
James Hansen
James Hansen Columbia University
Omar Torres
Omar Torres Goddard Space Flight Center

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