Jeffrey A Miller
(SR. PROGR/ANALYST)
| Email: | jeffrey.a.miller@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6611 |
| Org Code: | 618 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 618 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: | SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC |
Brief Bio
Research Interests
Sea ice melt and freeze detection
Earth Science: Sea Ice With Dr. Thorsten Markus, I developed an algorithm to determine when sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere first begins to melt in each calendar year, and when it first begins to freeze up again. I am working to refine and improve the algorithm.
This work is important in tracking the length of the melt season in the Arctic as a metric for climate change.
Cryosphere data products
Earth Science: Cryosphere / Earth's Ice CoverWorking with various Cryosphere missions (Terra / Aqua MODIS, SSM/I, AMSR-E, Landsat 2) to improve data products.
Positions/Employment
Senior Scientific Programmer
KBRWyle - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
July 2004 - Present
In this position, I support the Cryospheric Sciences Lab at GSFC. This includes algorithm development and testing, data product processing / vetting / improvement, and tracking instrument calibration and health. I interface directly with mission PIs with whatever scientific programming tasks they need both on a day to day and routine basis.
Senior Calibration and Validation Analyst
Science Systems Applications Inc. - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
March 1998 - July 2004
In this position, I supported the Landsat Project Science office here at GSFC. I created software tools to characterize and refine the instrument calibration, as well as to monitor and report on instrument health. I reported directly to the Project Scientists on a day to day basis, and delivered talks as semiannual science team meetings.
Education
PhD postgraduate work, University of Maryland, College Park
Publications
Refereed
2024. "Landsat 9 Transfer to Orbit of Pre-Launch Absolute Calibration of Operational Land Imager (OLI)." Remote Sensing 16 (8): 1360 [10.3390/rs16081360] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Greenland coastal air temperatures linked to Baffin Bay and Greenland Sea ice conditions during autumn through regional blocking patterns." Climate Dynamics 1--18 [10.1007/s00382-017-3583-3] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Skillful spring forecasts of September Arctic sea ice extent using passive microwave sea ice observations." Earth's Future 5 254–263 [10.1002/2016EF000495] [Journal Article/Letter]
2017. "Comparison of Passive Microwave-Derived Early Melt Onset Records on Arctic Sea Ice." Remote Sensing 9 (3): 199 [10.3390/rs9030199] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "Uncertainties of temperature measurements on snow-covered land and sea ice from in situ and MODIS data during BROMEX." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 54 (5): 966-978 [Full Text] [10.1175/JAMC-D-114-01751.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Using Air Temperature to Quantitatively Predict the MODIS Fractional Snow Cover Retrieval Errors over the Continental United States." J. Hydrometeor. 15 (2): 551-562 [10.1175/JHM-D-13-060.1] [Journal Article/Letter]
2014. "Changes in Arctic melt season and implications for sea ice loss." Geophys. Res. Lett. 41 (4): 1216-1225 [10.1002/2013GL058951] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "Thermal Infrared Radiometric Calibration of the Entire Landsat 4, 5, and 7 Archive (1982-2010)." Remote Sensing of Environment [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "A Comparison of Snow Depth on Sea Ice Retrievals Using Airborne Altimeters and an AMSR-E Simulator." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 50 (8): 3027-3040 [10.1109/TGRS.2011.2180535] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "Recent changes in Arctic sea ice melt onset, freezeup, and melt season length." J. Geophys. Res. 114 (C12): C12024 [10.1029/2009JC005436] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "Comparison of ICESat Data With Airborne Laser Altimeter Measurements Over Arctic Sea Ice." IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing 46 (7): 1913-1924 [10.1109/TGRS.2008.916639] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "Recent changes in the Arctic melt season." Annals of Glaciology 44 (1): 367-374 [10.3189/172756406781811583] [Journal Article/Letter]
1997. "Variability of boreal forest reflectances as measured from a helicopter platform." Journal of Geophysical Research 102 29495-29503 [Journal Article/Letter]
Non-Refereed
2022. "Landsat 9 Operational Land Imager2 (OLI2) on-orbit results of new special characterizations." Earth Observing Systems XXVII [10.1117/12.2633665] [Proceedings]
2020. "Landsat 9 Mission update and status." Earth Observing Systems XXV 11501 (O): 1-8 [10.1117/12.2569748] [Proceedings]