Sciences and Exploration Directorate

David Matthew Giles

(SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST)

 david.m.giles@nasa.gov

 301.614.6596

Org Code: 619

NASA/GSFC
Mail Code: 619
Greenbelt, MD 20771

Employer: SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC

Current Projects


Atmosphere Observing System (AOS)

Earth's Atmosphere


Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET)

Aerosols

AERONET


AERONET Ocean Color

Surface Properties

AERONET Ocean Color

Education


Ph. D, 2012: Atmospheric and Ocean Science, University of Maryland – College Park; Advisers – Russell Dickerson and Anne Thompson; Dissertation: A Study of Remotely Sensed Aerosol Properties from Ground-based- Sun and Sky Scanning Radiometers

M.S., 2006: Atmospheric and Ocean Science, University of Maryland – College Park; Advisers – Russell Dickerson and Anne Thompson; Scholarly Paper: Utilizing a New Aerosol Data Display and Dissemination Tool to Analyze Aerosols over the Northern Indian Subcontinent Region

B.S., 1997: Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University – University Park

Professional Societies


American Geophyscial Union (AGU)

Member

2001 - Present


American Meteorological Society (AMS)

Member

1997 - Present

Awards


NASA Group Achievement Award–FIREX-AQ Team, 2020.

NASA Group Achievement Award–ORACLES Team, 2019.

NASA GSFC Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics Peer Award–AERONET Team, 2018.

NASA Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Annual Award, 2015: “For exceptional technical and scientific

support in the growth and development of the AERONET program.”

NASA Langley Peer Award–DISCOVER-AQ Team, 2013: “For your willingness to reach out to the next

generation as tour hosts while on the busy DISCOVER-AQ Houston deployment.”

SSAI Publication Award, June 2009: “Aerosol Optical Properties Measured on the Mesoscale During the TIGERZ Campaign in the Indo-Gangetic Plain Region of Kanpur, India”–AGU Fall 2008 Poster.

Smithsonian Folklife Festival Certificate of Appreciation, July 2008.

SSAI Achievement Award, June 2005–BAMGOMAS Project.

NASA GSFC Group Achievement Award, March 2005–AERONET Project Team.

Morehouse College Certificate of Appreciation, August 2004–Strategic Preparedness Advancing Careers in

Engineering (SPACE) Program at NASA GSFC.

Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services Team Achievement Award, April 2000.

Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services Peer Award, March 1999. 

Publications


Refereed

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, et al. A. Sinyuk, D. M. Giles, A. Arola, I. Slutsker, J. S. Schafer, M. G. Sorokin, A. Smirnov, A. D. LaRosa, J. Kraft, E. A. Reid, N. T. O'Neill, E. Welton, and A. R. Menendez. 2023. The extreme forest fires in California/Oregon in 2020: Aerosol optical and physical properties and comparisons of aged versus fresh smoke Atmospheric Environment 119798 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.119798]

O'Neill, N. T., K. Ranjbar, L. Ivănescu, et al. T. F. Eck, J. S. Reid, D. M. Giles, D. Pérez-Ramírez, and J. P. Chaubey. 2023. Relationship between the sub-micron fraction (SMF) and fine-mode fraction (FMF) in the context of AERONET retrievals Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 16 (4): 1103-1120 [10.5194/amt-16-1103-2023]

Warneke, C., J. P. Schwarz, J. Dibb, et al. O. Kalashnikova, G. Frost, J. Al‐Saad, S. S. Brown, W. A. Brewer, A. Soja, F. C. Seidel, R. A. Washenfelder, E. B. Wiggins, R. H. Moore, B. E. Anderson, C. Jordan, T. I. Yacovitch, S. C. Herndon, S. Liu, T. Kuwayama, D. Jaffe, N. Johnston, V. Selimovic, R. Yokelson, D. M. Giles, B. N. Holben, P. Goloub, I. Popovici, M. Trainer, A. Kumar, R. B. Pierce, D. Fahey, J. Roberts, E. M. Gargulinski, D. A. Peterson, X. Ye, L. H. Thapa, P. E. Saide, C. H. Fite, C. D. Holmes, S. Wang, M. M. Coggon, Z. C. Decker, C. E. Stockwell, L. Xu, G. Gkatzelis, K. Aikin, B. Lefer, J. Kaspari, D. Griffin, L. Zeng, R. Weber, M. Hastings, J. Chai, G. M. Wolfe, T. F. Hanisco, J. Liao, P. Campuzano Jost, H. Guo, J. L. Jimenez, J. Crawford, and T. F. Hanisco. 2023. Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX‐AQ) Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 128 (2): [10.1029/2022jd037758]

Montes, M., N. Pahlevan, D. M. Giles, et al. J.-C. Roger, P.-W. Zhai, B. Smith, R. Levy, P. J. Werdell, and A. Smirnov. 2022. Augmenting Heritage Ocean-Color Aerosol Models for Enhanced Remote Sensing of Inland and Nearshore Coastal Waters Frontiers in Remote Sensing 3 [10.3389/frsen.2022.860816]

Zhou, M., J. Wang, X. Chen, et al. X. Xu, P. R. Colarco, S. D. Miller, J. S. Reid, S. Kondragunta, D. M. Giles, and B. Holben. 2021. Nighttime smoke aerosol optical depth over U.S. rural areas: First retrieval from VIIRS moonlight observations Remote Sensing of Environment 267 112717 [10.1016/j.rse.2021.112717]

Junghenn Noyes, K. T., R. A. Kahn, J. A. Limbacher, et al. Z. Li, M. A. Fenn, D. M. Giles, J. W. Hair, J. M. Katich, R. H. Moore, C. E. Robinson, K. J. Sanchez, T. J. Shingler, K. L. Thornhill, E. B. Wiggins, and E. L. Winstead. 2020. Wildfire Smoke Particle Properties and Evolution, From Space-Based Multi-Angle Imaging II: The Williams Flats Fire during the FIREX-AQ Campaign Remote Sensing 12 (22): 3823 [10.3390/rs12223823]

Eck, T., B. Holben, J. Kim, et al. A. Beyersdorf, M. Choi, S. Lee, J.-H. Koo, D. Giles, J. Schafer, A. Sinyuk, D. Peterson, J. Reid, A. Arola, I. Slutsker, A. Smirnov, M. Sorokin, J. Kraft, J. Crawford, B. Anderson, K. Thornhill, G. Diskin, S.-W. Kim, and S. Park. 2020. Influence of cloud, fog, and high relative humidity during pollution transport events in South Korea: Aerosol properties and PM2.5 variability Atmospheric Environment 232 117530 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117530]

Sinyuk, A., B. N. Holben, T. F. Eck, et al. D. M. Giles, I. Slutsker, S. Korkin, J. S. Schafer, A. Smirnov, M. Sorokin, and A. Lyapustin. 2020. The AERONET Version 3 aerosol retrieval algorithm, associated uncertainties and comparisons to Version 2 Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 13 (6): 3375-3411 [10.5194/amt-13-3375-2020]

Jeong, U., S.-C. Tsay, D. M. Giles, et al. B. N. Holben, R. J. Swap, N. Abuhassan, and J. R. Herman. 2020. The SMART‐s Trace Gas and Aerosol Inversions: I. Algorithm Theoretical Basis for Column Property Retrievals Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125 (7): [10.1029/2019jd032088]

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, D. M. Giles, et al. I. Slutsker, A. Sinyuk, J. S. Schafer, A. Smirnov, M. Sorokin, J. S. Reid, A. M. Sayer, N. C. Hsu, Y. R. Shi, R. C. Levy, A. Lyapustin, M. A. Rahman, S. Liew, S. V. Salinas Cortijo, T. Li, D. Kalbermatter, K. L. Keong, M. E. Yuggotomo, F. Aditya, M. Mohamad, M. Mahmud, T. K. Chong, H. Lim, Y. E. Choon, G. Deranadyan, S. D. Kusumaningtyas, and E. Aldrian. 2019. AERONET Remotely Sensed Measurements and Retrievals of Biomass Burning Aerosol Optical Properties During the 2015 Indonesian Burning Season Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 124 (8): 4722-4740 [10.1029/2018jd030182]

Giles, D. M., A. Sinyuk, M. G. Sorokin, et al. J. S. Schafer, A. Smirnov, I. Slutsker, T. F. Eck, B. N. Holben, J. R. Lewis, J. R. Campbell, E. J. Welton, S. V. Korkin, and A. I. Lyapustin. 2019. Advancements in the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Version 3 database – automated near-real-time quality control algorithm with improved cloud screening for Sun photometer aerosol optical depth (AOD) measurements Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 12 (1): 169-209 [10.5194/amt-12-169-2019]

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, et al. P. Xian, D. M. Giles, A. Sinyuk, A. Smirnov, J. S. Schafer, I. Slutsker, J. Kim, J.-H. Koo, M. Choi, K. C. Kim, I. Sano, A. Arola, A. M. Sayer, R. C. Levy, L. A. Munchak, N. T. O’Neill, A. Lyapustin, N. C. Hsu, C. A. Randles, A. M. Da Silva, V. Buchard, R. C. Govindaraju, E. Hyer, J. H. Crawford, P. Wang, and X. Xia. 2018. Observations of the Interaction and Transport of Fine Mode Aerosols with Cloud and/or Fog in Northeast Asia from Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) and Satellite Remote Sensing Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres [10.1029/2018JD028313]

Holben, B. N., J. Kim, I. Sano, et al. S. Mukai, T. F. Eck, D. M. Giles, J. S. Schafer, A. Sinyuk, I. Slutsker, A. Smirnov, M. Sorokin, B. E. Anderson, H. Che, M. Choi, J. H. Crawford, R. A. Ferrare, M. J. Garay, U. Jeong, M. Kim, W. Kim, N. Knox, Z. Li, H. S. Lim, Y. Liu, H. Maring, M. Nakata, K. E. Pickering, S. Piketh, J. Redemann, J. S. Reid, S. Salinas, S. Seo, F. Tan, S. N. Tripathi, O. B. Toon, and Q. Xiao. 2018. An overview of mesoscale aerosol processes, comparisons, and validation studies from DRAGON networks Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 (2): 655-671 [10.5194/acp-18-655-2018]

Wang, S.-H., E. J. Welton, B. N. Holben, et al. S.-C. Tsay, N.-H. Lin, D. M. Giles, S. A. Stewart, S. Janjai, X. A. Nguyen, T.-C. Hsiao, W.-N. Chen, T.-H. Lin, S. Buntoung, S. Chantara, and W. Wiriya. 2015. Vertical Distribution and Columnar Optical Properties of Springtime Biomass-Burning Aerosols over Northern Indochina during 2014 7-SEAS Campaign Aerosol and Air Quality Research 15 2037-2050 [10.4209/aaqr.2015.05.0310]

Schafer, J. S., T. F. Eck, B. N. Holben, et al. K. L. Thornhill, B. E. Anderson, A. Sinyuk, D. M. Giles, E. L. Winstead, L. D. Ziemba, A. J. Beyersdorf, P. R. Kenny, A. Smirnov, and I. Slutsker. 2014. Intercomparison of aerosol single-scattering albedo derived from AERONET surface radiometers and LARGE in situ aircraft profiles during the 2011 DRAGON-MD and DISCOVER-AQ experiments J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (12): 7439–7452 [10.1002/2013JD021166]

Dumka, U. C., S. N. Tripathi, A. Misra, et al. D. M. Giles, T. F. Eck, R. Sagar, and B. N. Holben. 2014. Latitudinal variation of aerosol properties from Indo-Gangetic Plain to central Himalayan foothills during TIGERZ campaign J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119 (8): 4750–4769 [10.1002/2013JD021040]

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, et al. A. Arola, R. A. Ferrare, C. A. Hostetler, S. N. Crumeyrolle, T. A. Berkoff, E. J. Welton, S. Lolli, A. I. Lyapustin, Y. Wang, J. S. Schafer, D. M. Giles, B. E. Anderson, K. L. Thornhill, P. Minnis, K. E. Pickering, C. P. Loughner, A. Smirnov, and A. Siniuk. 2014. Observations of rapid aerosol optical depth enhancements in the vicinity of polluted cumulus clouds Atmos. Chem. Phys. 14 11633-11656 [10.5194/acp-14-11633-2014]

Matsui, T., C. M. Ichoku, C. A. Randles, et al. T. L. Yuan, A. M. Da Silva, P. R. Colarco, D. Kim, R. C. Levy, A. M. Sayer, M. Chin, D. Giles, B. N. Holben, E. J. Welton, T. F. Eck, and L. A. Remer. 2014. Current and Future Perspectives of Aerosol Research at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society early view [10.1175/ BAMS-D-13-00153.1]

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, et al. M. M. Mukelabai, S. J. Piketh, O. Torres, H. T. Jethva, E. J. Hyer, D. E. Ward, O. Dubovik, A. Sinyuk, J. Schafer, D. M. Giles, M. G. Sorokin, A. Smirnov, and I. Slutsker. 2013. A seasonal trend of single scattering albedo in southern African biomass-burning particles: Implications for satellite products and estimates of emissions for the world's largest biomass-burning source J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 118 (12): 6414-6432 [10.1002/jgrd.50500]

Giles, D. M., B. N. Holben, T. F. Eck, et al. A. Sinyuk, A. Smirnov, I. Slutsker, R. R. Dickerson, A. M. Thompson, and J. S. Schafer. 2012. Analysis of AERONET aerosol absorption properties and characteristics from representative aerosol source locations J. Geophys. Res. 117 17203 [doi: 10.1029/ 2010JD018127]

Sinyuk, A., B. N. Holben, A. Smirnov, et al. T. F. Eck, I. Slutsker, J. S. Schafer, D. M. Giles, and M. Sorokin. 2012. Assessment of error in aerosol optical depth measured by AERONET due to aerosol forward scattering Geophysical Research Letters 39 (23): L23806 [10.1029/2012GL053894]

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. S. Reid, et al. D. M. Giles, M. A. Rivas, R. P. Singh, S. N. Tripathi, C. J. Bruegge, S. E. Platnick, G. T. Arnold, N. A. Krotkov, S. A. Carn, A. Siniuk, O. Dubovik, A. Arola, J. S. Schafer, P. Artaxo, A. Smirnov, H. Chen, and P. Goloub. 2012. Fog- and cloud-induced aerosol modification observed by the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) J Geophys Res 117 (D7): D07206 [10.1029/2011JD016839]

Chiu, J., A. Marshak, C. Huang, et al. T. Varnai, R. Hogan, D. Giles, B. Holben, E. OConnor, Y. Knyazikhin, and W. Wiscombe. 2012. Cloud droplet size and liquid water path retrievals from zenith radiance measurements: examples from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program and the Aerosol Robotic Network Atmos. Chem. Phys. 12 (21): 10313-10329 [10.5194/acp-12-10313-2012]

Smirnov, A., B. Holben, D. Giles, et al. I. Stutsker, N. O'Neill, T. Eck, A. Macke, P. Croot, Y. Courcoux, S. Sakerin, T. Smyth, T. Zielinski, G. Zibordi, J. Goes, M. Harvey, P. Quinn, N. Nelson, V. Radionov, C. Duarte, R. Losno, J. Sciare, K. Voss, S. Kinne, N. Nalli, E. Joseph, K. Moorthy, D. Covert, S. Guley, J. Milinevski, P. Larouche, S. Belander, E. Horne, M. Chin, L. Remer, R. Kahn, J. Reid, M. Schulz, C. Heald, J. Zhang, K. Lapina, R. Kleidman, J. Griesfeller, B. Gaitley, Q. Tan, and T. Diehl. 2011. Maritime aerosol network as a component of AERONET – first results and comparison with global aerosol models and satellite retrievals Atmos Meas Tech 4 (3): 583-597 [10.5194/amt-4-583-2011]

Wang, S.-H., N.-H. Lin, M.-D. Chou, et al. S.-C. Tsay, E. J. Welton, N.-Y. C. Hsu, D. M. Giles, G.-R. Liu, and B. N. Holben. 2010. Profiling transboundary aerosols over Taiwan and assessing their radiative effects J. Geophys. Res. 115 (D7): D00K31 [10.1029/2009JD013798]

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, A. Sinyuk, et al. R. Pinker, P. Goloub, H. Chen, B. Chatenet, Z. Li, R. Singh, S. Tripathi, J. Reid, D. M. Giles, O. Dubovik, N. O'Neill, A. Smirnov, P. Wang, and X. Xia. 2010. Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse mode aerosol mixtures J. Geophys. Res. 115 (D19): D19205 [10.1029/2010JD014002]

McPherson, C., J. Reagan, J. S. Schafer, et al. D. M. Giles, R. Ferrare, J. Hair, and C. Hostetler. 2010. AERONET, airborne HSRL, and CALIPSO aerosol retrievals compared and combined: A case study J Geophys Res 115 (D4): D00H21 [10.1029/2009JD012389]

Zibordi, G., B. N. Holben, I. Slutsker, et al. D. M. Giles, D. D'Alimonte, F. Melin, J. Berthon, D. Vandermark, H. Feng, G. Schuster, B. Fabbri, S. Kaitala, and J. Seppala. 2009. AERONET-OC: A Network for the Validation of Ocean Color Primary Products J Atmos Ocean Technol 26 (8): 1634-1651 [10.1175/2009JTECHO654.1]

Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, I. Slutsker, et al. D. M. Giles, C. R. McClain, T. F. Eck, S. Sakerin, A. Macke, P. Croot, G. Zibordi, P. Quinn, J. Sciare, S. Kinne, M. Harvey, T. Smyth, S. Piketh, T. Zielinski, A. Proshutinsky, J. Goes, N. Nelson, P. Larouche, V. Radionov, P. Goloub, K. Moorthy, R. Matarrese, E. Robertson, and F. Jourdin. 2009. Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of Aerosol Robotic Network J. Geophys. Res. 114 (D6): D06204 [10.1029/2008JD011257]

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. Reid, et al. A. Siniuk, E. Hyer, N. O'Neil, G. Shaw, J. R. Vande Castle, F. Chapin, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, E. F. Vermote, J. S. Schafer, D. M. Giles, I. Slutsker, M. Sorokin, and W. Newcomb. 2009. Optical properties of boreal region biomass burning aerosols in central Alaska and seasonal variation of aerosol optical depth at an Arctic coastal site J. Geophys. Res. 114 (D11): D11201 [10.1029/2008JD010870]

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, J. Reid, et al. A. Siniuk, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, D. M. Giles, N. O'Neill, S.-C. Tsay, Q. Ji, A. Mandoos, M. Kahn, E. Reid, J. S. Schafer, M. G. Sorokin, W. Newcomb, and I. Slutsker. 2008. Spatial and temporal variability of column-integrated aerosol optical properties in the southern Arabian Gulf and United Arab Emirates in summer J. Geophys. Res. 113 (D1): D01204 [10.1029/2007JD008944]

Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, S. M. Sakerin, et al. D. M. Kabanov, I. Slutsker, M. Chin, T. L. Diehl, L. A. Remer, R. Kahn, A. Ignatov, L. Liu, M. I. Mishchenko, T. F. Eck, T. L. Kucsera, D. Giles, and O. V. Kopelevich. 2006. Ship-based aerosol optical depth measurements in the Atlantic Ocean: Comparison with satellite retrievals and GOCART model Geophys Res Lett 33 (14): L14817 [10.1029/2006GL026051]

Zibordi, G., B. N. Holben, S. B. Hooker, et al. F. Mélin, J. Berthon, I. Slutsker, D. M. Giles, D. Vandermark, H. Feng, K. Rutledge, G. Schuster, and A. Mandoos. 2006. A network for standardized ocean color validation measurements Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 87 (30): 293–297 [10.1029/2006EO300001]

Sakerin, S. M., D. M. Kabanov, A. Smirnov, et al. B. N. Holben, I. Slutsker, D. M. Giles, and O. V. Kopelevich. 2006. Variability of aerosol optical layer of the atmosphere in South Atlantic, Basic Researches of Oceans and Seas Book 1

Hao, W. M., D. E. Ward, R. A. Susott, et al. R. E. Babbitt, B. L. Nordgren, Y. J. Kaufman, B. N. Holben, and D. M. Giles. 2005. Comparison of aerosol optical thickness measurements by MODIS, AERONET sun photometers, and Forest Service handheld sun photometers in southern Africa during the SAFARI 2000 campaign Int J Remote Sens 26 (19): 4169-4183 [10.1080/01431160500113104]

Hao, W., D. Ward, R. Susott, et al. R. Babbitt, B. Nordgren, Y. Kaufman, B. Holben, and D. Giles. 2005. Comparison of aerosol optical thickness measurements by MODIS AERONET sun photometers and Forest Service handheld sun photometers in southern Africa during the SAFARI 2000 campaign Inter J Rem Sens 26 (19): 4169-4183

Eck, T. F., B. N. Holben, O. Dubovik, et al. A. Smirnov, P. Goloub, H. B. Chen, B. Chatenet, L. Gomes, X.-Y. Zhang, S.-C. Tsay, Q. Ji, D. M. Giles, and I. Slutsker. 2005. Columnar aerosol optical properties at AERONET sites in central eastern Asia and aerosol transport to the tropical mid-Pacific J. Geophys. Res. 110 (D6): D06202 [10.1029/2004JD005274]

Smirnov, A., S. Sakerin, B. N. Holben, et al. D. Kabanov, I. Slutsker, D. M. Giles, and O. Kopelevich. 2005. Ship-based aerosol optical depth measurements in the Atlantic Ocean Geophys Res Abstracts 7 2 pp

Non-Refereed

Holben, B. N., T. F. Eck, I. Slutsker, et al. A. Smirnov, A. Sinyuk, J. S. Schafer, D. M. Giles, and O. Dubovik. 2006. Aeronet's Version 2.0 quality assurance criteria Proc .SPIE 6408, Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds 6408Q [10.1117/12.706524]