Steve Massie

General Information

ACD - TIIMES
Scientist III
UTLS

Contact Information:
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office: FL0-2158
Telephone: 303-497-1404
Email: massie@ucar.edu
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Research Focus FY08:

Satellite Data Analyis (SDA) Group

The Satellite Data Analysis Group in ACD focuses on studies of global scale chemical behavior using satellite measurements, meteorological data sets and model simulations.   Recent work has focused on understanding the chemical and dynamical behavior of the tropopause region, and its long-term variability, to help quantify processes which contribute to coupling in the upper troposphere lower stratosphere (UTLS).

 

High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS)

The High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) is a 21 channel infrared limb scanning radiometer, jointly developed by ACD, the University of Colorado, and the Physics Department of Oxford University. It is designed to make observations of temperature, ozone, water vapor, and 8 other trace species, as well as PSC's, aerosols and cirrus clouds, from the upper troposphere to the mesosphere, with higher vertical resolution than has previously been available from space observations. HIRDLS was launched on the Aura spacecraft in July 2004. Despite an obstruction that limited the view to the atmosphere to a small fraction of the width of the optical beam, HIRDLS scientists demonstrated that there is recoverable atmospheric information in the signals, and worked hard to develop algorithms to correct for the effects of the obstruction...more

Community Service FY08:

• Chair: AURA Cloud Working Group (NASA)

Scientific Talks FY08:

• Aerosol indirect effects as a function of cloud top pressure (Lille, FRA, 10/2007)
• PACDEX from a satellite perspective (San Francisco, CA USA, 12/2007)
• HIRDLS observations of subvisible cirrus (Pasadena, CA USA, 12/2007)
• Cirrus clouds near the mid-latitude tropopause (Boulder, CO USA, 01/2008)
• A-train observations of cloud structures (Ft. Lauderdale, FL USA, 05/2008)
• HIRDLS observations of cirrus near the tropopause (Ft. Lauderdale, FL USA, 05/2008)
• Cloud and aerosol detection (Oxford, GBR, 06/2008)

Publications FY08:

Jiang, J. H., H. Su, M. R. Schoeberl, S. T. Massie, P. Colarco, S. Platnick, N. J. Livesey, 2008: Clean and polluted clouds: Relationships among pollution, ice clouds, and precipitation in South America. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L14804, doi: 10.1029/2008GL034631.

Kinnison, D. E., J. Gille, J. Barnett, C. Randall, V. L. Harvey, A. Lambert, R. Khosravi, M. J. Alexander, P. F. Bernath, C. D. Boone, C. Cavanaugh, M. Coffey, C. Craig, V. Dean, T. Eden, D. Ellis, D. W. Fahey, G. L. Francis, C. Halvorson, J. W. Hannigan, C. S. Hartsough, C. Hepplewhite, C. Krinsky, H. Lee, B. Mankin, T. P. Marcy, S. T. Massie, B. Nardi, D. Packman, P. J. Popp, M. L. Santee, V. Yudin, K. A. Walker, 2008: Global observations of HNO3 from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS): First results. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 113, D16S44, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008814.

Gille, J., J. Barnett, P. Arter, M. Barker, P. Bernath, C. Boone, C. Cavanaugh, J. Chow, M. Coffey, J. Craft, C. Craig, M. Dials, V. Dean, T. Eden, D. P. Edwards, G. L. Francis, C. Halvorson, l. Harvey, C. Hepplewhite, R. Khosravi, D. E. Kinnison, C. Krinsky, A. Lambert, H. Lee, L. Lyjak, W. Mankin, S. T. Massie, J. McInerney, J. Moorhouse, B. Nardi, D. Packman, C. Randall, J. Reburn, W. Rudolf, M. Schwartz, J. Serafin, K. Stone, B. Torpy, K. Walker, A. Waterfall, R. Watkins, J. Whitney, D. Woodard, G. Young, 2008: High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder: Experiment overview, recovery, and validation of initial temperature data. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 113, D16S43, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008824.

Nardi, B., J. Gille, J. J. Barnett, C. E. Randall, V. Lynn Harvey, A. Waterfall, W. J. Reburn, T. Leblanc, T. J. McGee, L. W. Twigg, A. M. Thompson, S. Godin-Beekmann, P. F. Bernath, B. R. Bojkov, C. D. Boone, C. Cavanaugh, M. Coffey, J. Craft, C. Craig, V. Dean, T. Eden, G. L. Francis, L. Froidevaux, C. Halvorson, J. W. Hannigan, C. L. Hepplewhite, D. E. Kinnison, R. Khosravi, C. Krinsky, A. Lambert, H. Lee, J. Loh, S. T. Massie, I. S. McDermid, D. Packman, B. Torpy, J. Valverde-Canossa, K. A. Walker, D. N. Whiteman, J. C. Witte, G. Young, 2008: Initial validation of ozone measurements from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 113, D16S36, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008837.

Alexander, M. J., J. Gille, C. Cavanaugh, M. Coffey, C. Craig, T. Eden, G. L. Francis, C. Halvorson, J. W. Hannigan, R. Khosravi, D. E. Kinnison, H. Lee, S. T. Massie, B. Nardi, J. Barnett, C. Hepplewhite, A. Lambert, V. Dean, 2008: Global estimates of gravity wave momentum flux from High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations. J. Geophys. Res. - Atmos., 113, D15S18, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008807.

Jacquinet-Husson, N., N. A. Scott, A. Chedin, L. Crepeau, R. Armante, V. Capelle, J. Orphal, A. Coustenis, C. Boonne, N. Poulet-Crovisier, A. Barbe, M. Birk, L. R. Brown, C. Camy-Peyret, C. Claveau, K. Chance, N. Christidis, C. Clerbaux, P. F. Coheur, V. Dana, L. Daumont, M. R. De Backer-Barilly, G. Di Lonardo, J. M. Flaud, A. Goldman, A. Hamdouni, M. Hess, M. D. Hurley, D. Jacquemart, I. Kleiner, P. Kopke, J. Y. Mandin, S. Massie, S. Mikhailenko, V. Nemtchinov, A. Nikitin, D. Newnham, A. Perrin, V. I. Perevalov, S. Pinnock, L. Regalia-Jarlot, C. P. Rinsland, A. Rublev, F. Schreier, L. Schult, K. M. Smith, S. A. Tashkun, J. L. Teffo, R. A. Toth, Vl. G. Tyuterev, J. Vander Auwera, P. Varanasi, G. Wagner, 2008: The GEISA spectroscopic database: Current and future archive for Earth and Planetary atmosphere studies. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 109, 1043-1059, doi: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.12.015.

Fromm, M., E. P. Shettle, K. H. Fricke, C. Ritter, T. Trickl, H. Giehl, M. Gerding, J. E. Barnes, M. O'Neill, S. T. Massie, U. Blum, I. S. McDermid, T. Leblanc, T. Deshler, 2008: Stratospheric impact of the Chisholm pyrocumulonimbus eruption: 2. Vertical profile perspective. J. Geophys. Res., AGU, 113, D08203, doi: 10.1029/2007JD009147.

Clerbaux, C., D. Edwards, L. Emmons, M. Deeter, J.-F. Lamarque, S. T. Massie, J. Gille, X. X. Tie, 2008: Carbon monoxide pollution from cities and urban areas observed by the Terra/MOPITT mission. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03817.

Massie, S., J. Gille, R. Khosravi, H. Lee, D. Kinnison, G. Francis, B. Nardi, T. Eden, C. Craig, C. Halvorson, M. Coffey, D. Packman, C. Cavanaugh, J. Craft, V. Dean, D. Ellis, J. Barnett, C. Hepplewhite, A. Lambert, G. Manney, A. Strawa, M. Legg, 2007: High resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder observations of polar stratospheric clouds and subvisible cirrus. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S31, doi: 10.1029/2007JD008788.