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Matthew Lebsock

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 233-300

Pasadena, CA 91109

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818.354.4137

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818.354.3223

Curriculum Vitae:

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Aerosols And Clouds

Education

  • Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado (2009)
  • M.S. Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado (2005)
  • B.A. Physics (Major), Mathematics (Minor), The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado (2002)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
    • CloudSat Deputy Principal Investigator (2015-Present)
    • Scientist, Aerosol and Clouds group (2015-Present)
    • Scientist, Climate Physics Group (2011-2015)
  • Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles CA
    • Assistant Researcher (2013-Present)
  • Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
    • Research Scientist (2009-2011)
    • Graduate Research Assistant (2003-2009)
    • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Atmospheric Radiation (Spring 2007, Spring 2009)

Research Interests

  • Remote sensing of clouds, precipitation, water vapor and aerosol
  • Evaluation of climate and weather model physics
  • Global climate and energetics

Selected Awards

  • JPL Voyager Award (2019)
  • CSU Atmospheric Science Alumni Award: For outstanding research by a senior PhD student (2009)
  • Outstanding Student Paper Award (AGU Fall Meeting) (2008)
  • NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF) (2007-2009)
  • Ball Aerospace Fellow, Colorado State University (2003-2005)

Selected Publications

  1. Richardson, M. T., Thompson, D. R., Kurowski, M. J., and Lebsock, M. D.: New sampling strategy mitigates a solar-geometry-induced bias in sub-kilometre vapour scaling statistics derived from imaging spectroscopy, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 117–129, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-117-2022, 2022.
  2. R. J. Roy et al., "First Airborne Measurements With a G-Band Differential Absorption Radar," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-15, 2022, Art no. 5108115, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3134670.
  3. Diamond MS, Gettelman A, Lebsock MD, McComiskey A, Russell LM, Wood R, Feingold G. Opinion: To assess marine cloud brightening's technical feasibility, we need to know what to study-and when to stop. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Jan 25;119(4):e2118379119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2118379119.
  4. Cooper K. B. et al., "G-Band Radar for Humidity and Cloud Remote Sensing," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1106-1117, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2995325.
  5. Takahashi, H., Lebsock, M., Luo, Z. J., Masunaga, H., & Wang, C. (2021). Detection and Tracking of Tropical Convective Storms Based on Globally Gridded Precipitation Measurements: Algorithm and Survey over the Tropics, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 60(3), 403-421.
  6. Thompson, D. R., Kahn, B. H., Brodrick, P. G., Lebsock, M. D., Richardson, M., and Green, R. O.: Spectroscopic imaging of sub kilometer spatial structure in lower-tropospheric water vapor, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2827–2840, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2827-2021, 2021.
  7. Richardson, M. T., Thompson, D. R., Kurowski, M. J., and Lebsock, M. D.: Boundary layer water vapour statistics from high-spatial-resolution spaceborne imaging spectroscopy, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 5555–5576, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-5555-2021, 2021.
  8. Roy, R. J., Lebsock, M., and Kurowski, M. J.: Spaceborne differential absorption radar water vapor retrieval capabilities in tropical and subtropical boundary layer cloud regimes, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 6443–6468, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6443-2021, 2021.
  9. R. J. Roy et al., "First Airborne Measurements With a G-Band Differential Absorption Radar," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-15, 2022, Art no. 5108115, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3134670.
  10. Battaglia, A. et al. (2020). Spaceborne cloud and precipitation radars: Status, challenges, and ways forward. Reviews of Geophysics, 58, e2019RG000686. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000686
  11. Millán, L., Roy, R., and Lebsock, M.: Assessment of global total column water vapor sounding using a spaceborne differential absorption radar, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 5193–5205, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5193-2020, 2020.
  12. Cooper K. B. et al., "G-Band Radar for Humidity and Cloud Remote Sensing," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1106-1117, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.2995325.
  13. Suselj, K., Posselt, D., Smalley, M., Lebsock, M. D., & Teixeira, J. (2020). A New Methodology for Observation-Based Parameterization Development, Monthly Weather Review, 148(10), 4159-4184
  14. Richardson, M., Lebsock, M. D., McDuffie, J., and Stephens, G. L.: A new Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 cloud flagging method and rapid retrieval of marine boundary layer cloud properties, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 4947–4961,https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4947-2020, 2020.
  15. Roy, R. J., Lebsock, M., Millán, L., & Cooper, K. B. (2020). Validation of a G-Band Differential Absorption Cloud Radar for Humidity Remote Sensing, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 37(6), 1085-1102.
  16. Hotta, H., Suzuki, K., Goto, D., & Lebsock, M. (2020). Climate Impact of Cloud Water Inhomogeneity through Microphysical Processes in a Global Climate Model, Journal of Climate, 33(12), 5195-5212
  17. Takahashi, H., Lebsock, M. D., Richardson, M., Marchand, R., & Kay, J. E. ( 2019). When will spaceborne cloud radar detect upward shifts in cloud heights? Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 7270– 7285. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD030242.
  18. Stephens, GL, Christensen, M, Andrews, T, et al. Cloud physics from space. Q J R Meteorol Soc. 2019; 1– 22. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3589.
  19. Smalley, M., K. Sušelj, M. Lebsock, and J. Teixeira, 2019: A Novel Framework for Evaluating and Improving Parameterized Subtropical Marine Boundary Layer Cloudiness. Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 3241–3260, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-18-0394.1
  20. Richardson, M., Leinonen, J., Cronk, H. Q., McDuffie, J., Lebsock, M. D., and Stephens, G. L.: Marine liquid cloud geometric thickness retrieved from OCO-2's oxygen A-band spectrometer, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12, 1717-1737, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1717-2019, 2019.
  21. Stephens, G. L., Smalley, M. A., Lebsock, M. D. (2019). The cloudy nature of tropical rains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 171– 188. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029394.
  22. Millán, L. F., Lebsock, M. D., and Teixeira, J.: Variability of bulk water vapor content in the marine cloudy boundary layers from microwave and near-infrared imagery, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 8491–8502, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8491-2019, 2019.
  23. Jiang, J. H., Yue, Q., Su, H., Kangaslahti, P., Lebsock, M., Reising, S., et al. (2019). Simulation of remote sensing of clouds and humidity from space using a combined platform of radar and multifrequency microwave radiometers. Earth and Space Science, 6, 1234– 1243. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000580
  24. Eastman, R., M. Lebsock, and R. Wood, 2019: Warm Rain Rates from AMSR-E 89-GHz Brightness Temperatures Trained Using CloudSat Rain-Rate Observations. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 36, 1033–1051, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0185.1
  25. Stephens, G. L., Hakuba, M. Z., Webb, M. J., Lebsock, M., Yue, Q., Kahn, B. H., et al. (2018). Regional intensification of the tropical hydrological cycle during ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 4361–4370. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL077598
  26. Roy, R. J., Lebsock, M., Millán, L., Dengler, R., Rodriguez Monje, R., Siles, J. V., and Cooper, K. B.: Boundary-layer water vapor profiling using differential absorption radar, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 6511-6523, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-6511-2018, 2018.
  27. Leinonen, J., Lebsock, M. D., Tanelli, S., Sy, O. O., Dolan, B., Chase, R. J., Finlon, J. A., von Lerber, A., and Moisseev, D.: Retrieval of snowflake microphysical properties from multifrequency radar observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 5471-5488, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-5471-2018, 2018.
  28. Greenwald, T. J., Bennartz, R., Lebsock, M., & Teixeira, J. (2018). An Uncertainty Data Set for Passive Microwave Satellite Observations of Warm Cloud Liquid Water Path. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 3668–3687. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027638
  29. Naud, C.M., J.F. Booth, M. Lebsock, and M. Grecu, 2018: Observational Constraint for Precipitation in Extratropical Cyclones: Sensitivity to Data Sources. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 57, 991–1009, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0289.1
  30. Stephens, G., D. Winker, J. Pelon, C. Trepte, D. Vane, C. Yuhas, T. L’Ecuyer, and M. Lebsock, 2018: CloudSat and CALIPSO within the A-Train: Ten Years of Actively Observing the Earth System. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99, 569–581, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0324.1
  31. Cooper, K.B.  et al., "Atmospheric Humidity Sounding Using Differential Absorption Radar Near 183 GHz," in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 163-167, Feb. 2018. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2017.2776078
  32. Elsaesser, G.S., C.W. O’Dell, M.D. Lebsock, R. Bennartz, T.J. Greenwald, and F.J. Wentz, 2017: The Multisensor Advanced Climatology of Liquid Water Path (MAC-LWP). J. Climate, 30, 10193–10210, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0902.1
  33. Lebsock, M.D., L’Ecuyer, T.S. & Pincus, R. Surv Geophys (2017): An Observational View of Relationships Between Moisture Aggregation, Cloud, and Radiative Heating Profiles, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9443-1
  34. Nehrir, A.R., Kiemle, C., Lebsock, M.D. et al. Surv Geophys (2017) Emerging Technologies and Synergies for Airborne and Space-Based Measurements of Water Vapor Profiles, 38: 1445. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-017-9448-9.
  35. Kahn, B. H., Matheou, G., Yue, Q., Fauchez, T., Fetzer, E. J., Lebsock, M., Martins, J., Schreier, M. M., Suzuki, K., and Teixeira, J.: An A-train and MERRA view of cloud, thermodynamic, and dynamic variability within the subtropical marine boundary layer, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 9451-9468, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9451-2017, 2017.
  36. Takahashi, H., M. Lebsock, K. Suzuki, G. Stephens, and M. Wang (2017), An investigation of microphysics and subgrid-scale variability in warm-rain clouds using the A-Train observations and a multiscale modeling framework, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 7493–7504, doi:10.1002/2016JD026404.
  37. Kalmus, P. and M. Lebsock (2017), Correcting Biased Evaporation in CloudSat Warm Rain. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. PP. 1-11. 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2722469.
  38. Lebsock M.D. and Kentaroh Suzuki, 2016: Uncertainty Characteristics of Total Water Path Retrievals in Shallow Cumulus Derived from Spaceborne Radar/Radiometer Integral Constraints. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. 33, 1597–1609, doi: 10.1175/JTECH-D-16-0023.1.
  39. Leinonen, J., M. D. Lebsock, L. Oreopoulos, and N. Cho (2016), Interregional differences in MODIS-derived cloud regimes, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 11,648–11,665, doi:10.1002/2016JD025193.
  40. Leinonen, J., M. Lebsock, G. Stephens, and K. Suzuki, 2016: Improved Retrieval of Cloud Liquid Water from CloudSat and MODIS. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 55, 1831–1844, doi: 10.1175/JAMC-D-16-0077.1.
  41. Christensen, M., A. Behrangi, T. L’ecuyer, N. Wood, M. Lebsock, and G. Stephens, 2016: Arctic Observation and Reanalysis Integrated System: A New Data Product for Validation and Climate Study. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 97, 907–915, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-14-00273.1
  42. Lebsock, M. D., Suzuki, K., Millán, L. F., and Kalmus, P. M. (2015), The feasibility of water vapor sounding of the cloudy boundary layer using a differential absorption radar technique, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 3631-3645, doi:10.5194/amt-8-3631-2015.
  43. Lebsock, M. and H. Su (2014), Application of Active Spaceborne Remote Sensing for Understanding Biases Between Passive Cloud Water Path Retrievals. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 119, 8962-8979, DOI: 10.1002/2014JD021568.
  44. Lebsock, M., H. Morrison, and A. Gettelman (2013), Microphysical implications of cloud-precipitation covariance derived from satellite remote sensing, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50347.
  45. Lebsock, M.D., and T.S. L'Ecuyer (2011), The retrieval of warm rain from CloudSat, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D20209, doi:10.1029/2011JD016076
  46. Lebsock, M.D., T.S. L'Ecuyer, and G.L. Stephens (2011), Detecting the ratio of rain and cloud water in low-latitude shallow marine clouds, J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 50, 419-432, doi:10.1175/2010JAMC2494.1
  47. Lebsock, M.D., C. Kummerow, G.L. Stephens (2010), An Observed Tropical Oceanic Radiative-Convective Cloud Feedback, J. Climate, 23, 2065-2078, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI3091.1.
  48. Lebsock, M.D., G.L. Stephens, and C. Kummerow (2008), Multisensor satellite observations of aerosol effects on warm clouds, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15205, doi:10.1029/2008JD009876.
  49. Lebsock, M.D., T.S. L'Ecuyer, and G.L. Stephens (2007), Information content of near-infrared spaceborne multiangular polarization measurements for aerosol retrievals, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D14206, doi:10.1029/2007JD008535.

Projects

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