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F. Javier Martin-Torres

F. Javier Martin-Torres received his PhD in Applied Physics in 1999 from the University of Granada, Spain. Since then he has been working in the modeling and analysis of remote sensing measurements and, in particular, in atmospheric radiative transfer modeling under non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium conditions. He is the author of the line-by-line radiative transfer code FUTBOLIN (FUll Transfer By Optimized LINe-by-line) and his research interests also include spectroscopy, retrieval theory, atmospheric energetic balance, Earth-Sun interactions and comparative planetology and characterization of extra-solar planets. He was part of the Space Shuttle Columbia Investigation Team and, from 2006, he is the convener of the session on “Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres” at the European Geosciences Union Annual Meeting. He has been Invited Editor at the 2008 Special Issue of the J. of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer on Planetary Atmospheres. Currently he is also a Visiting Assistant Researcher at the Joint Institute for Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE) at UCLA.
Education
  • Ph.D. (“Sobresaliente Cum Laude” – Honors), Applied Physics, University of Granada (1999)
Research Interests
  • Spectroscopy and radiative transfer
  • Remote sensing
  • Retrieval theory
  • Atmospheric energetic balance
  • Sun-Earth connections
  • Airglow, non-local thermodynamic equilibrium emissions in planetary atmospheres
  • Comparative planetology and characterization of extra-solar planets
Projects

OCO - Orbiting Carbon Observatory Icon OCO - Orbiting Carbon Observatory
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) is a mission designed to make precise, time-dependent global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from an Earth orbiting satellite.

JIFRESSE Icon JIFRESSE
JIFRESSE is a scientific collaboration between UCLA and JPL to improve understanding and to develop future projections about global climate change for the Southwest US, particularly California.

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2008-present)
  • Consultant to JPL (2005-2008)
  • AS&M, Inc at NASA/Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA (2002-2008)
    • Senior Research Scientist
    • Member of the SABER Retrieval Algorithm Team
    • Member of the SABER Science Team
  • Institut fuer Meteorologie und Klimaforschung and Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (2000-2002)
    • European Space Agency External Research Fellow for Earth Sciences
  • Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA), Granada, Spain (1995-2000)
    • Spanish Government Research Fellow
    • IAA Research Contract
Selected Awards
  • NASA Achievement Award as part of the Space Shuttle Columbia Investigation Team, Hampton, VA (2004)
  • NASA/Langley Group Achievement award as part of the SABER experiment Team, Hampton, VA (2003)
  • NASA/Langley Award for "Outstanding contributions to Space Shuttle Columbia Investigation Team", Hampton, VA, (2003)
  • Special Achievement Award for "authoring or co-authoring over 25 articles and/or presentations during 2002. His technical contributions are helping to shape the direction of NASA's research in atmospheric modelling in the Far-Infrared region", Hampton, VA (2002)
  • European Space Agency External Research Fellow (2000-2001)
  • European Community Award, European Research Course on “Atmospheric Effects of aircraft emissions in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere”, Bergen, Norway (1999)
  • Spanish Government Research Fellow (1996-1999)
Selected Publications
  1. Smith, A. K., D. R. Marsh, J. M. Russell, III, M. G. Mlynczak, F. J. Martin-Torres, and E. Kyrölä (2008), Satellite observations of high nighttime ozone at the equatorial mesopause, J Geophys. Res., 113, 2008
  2. Siskind, D., Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., Marsh, D., Russell III, J. M. Dehydration of the polar mesospheric regions, Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 13, 2008
  3. Remsberg, E., Marshall, B. T., Garcia-Comas, M., Kreuger, D., Lingenfelser, G. S., Martin-Torres, F. J., Smith, A. K., Zhao, Y., Russell III, J. M., Mlynczak, M. G., Brown, C., Gordley, L. L., Thompson, R. E., Lopez-Puertas, M., She, C. Y., and Taylor, M. J., “Assesment of the quality of the retrieved temperature versus pressure profiles in the middle atmosphere from TIMED/SABER”, J. of Geophys. Research (in press)
  4. Martin-Torres, F. J., Segura, A., Vazquez, R., and Perez, E. “Fundamentos de Astrobiologia”, Universidad Autonoma de Mejico (UNAM), (in press)
  5. Rothman, L., Martin-Torres, F. J., and Flaud, J. M, “Special issue on planetary atmospheres”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, v. 109, iss. 6, p. 881, 2008.
  6. Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., Mertens, C. J., Marshall, B. T., Thompson, R. E., Kozyra, J. U., Remsberg, E. E., Gordley, L. L., Russell III, J. M., and Woods, T., “Solar-terrestrial coupling evidenced by periodic behavior in geomagnetic indexes and the infrared energy budget of the thermosphere”, Geophys. Res. Letters, 35, L05808, 2008 (Included in GRL Editor's Highlights).
  7. Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F.J., Marshall, B. T., Thompson, R. E., Williams, J., Turpin, T., Kratz, D. P., Russell, J. M., Woods, T., Gordley, L. L., “Evidence for a solar cycle influence on the infrared energy budget and radiative cooling of the thermosphere”, 112, A12, A12302, 2007
  8. Mlynczak, M. G., Marshall, T., Martin-Torres, F. J., Rermsberg, E. E., Gordley, L. L., Thompson, R. E., and J. M. Russell III,, "Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry observations of daytime mesospheric O2(1?) 1.27 ?m emission and derivation of ozone, atomic oxygen, and solar and chemical energy deposition rates”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, D15, D15306, 2007
  9. Gardner, J. L., Lopez-Puertas, M., Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., Rusell III, J. M., Miller, S. M., Sharma, R. D., and Winick, J. R.,“Comparison of nighttime NO 5.3-?m in the thermosphere measured by MIPAS and SABER”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, A10, A10301, 2007
  10. Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., and Russell III, J. M., “Correction to “Energy transport in the thermosphere during the solar storms on April 2002”, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue A2, 2007
  11. Martin-Torres, F. J. and Crisp. D., “Analysis of the Near-infrared Emissions of CO2 in the Atmosphere of Venus"”, American Astronomical Society, #38, #19.01, 2006.
  12. Martin-Torres, F. J., “Lower limit for the detection of the 3.3-micron emissions of methane in the atmosphere of Mars”, Astrobiology, 6(1): 260, 2006. Co-author in book as part of the Venus Entry Probe Team, Venus Entry Probe Workshop, Note du Pole de Planetologie, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace des Sciences de l’Environnement Global, ISSN 1768-0042, 2006. (Book).
  13. Martin-Torres, F. J. and M. G. Mlynczak,"Application of FUTBOLIN (FUll Transfer By Ordinary Line-by-Line) to the analysis of the solar system and extrasolar planetary atmospheres", Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1566, 2005.
  14. Martin-Torres, F. J. and M. G. Mlynczak, "Modeling of the 3.3 micron emissions of Methane in the Atmosphere of Mars." Bull. Am. Astron. Soc. , 37(3): 697, 2005. Mlynczak M. G., Martin-Torres F. J., Crowley G., et al., Energy transport in the thermosphere during the solar storms of April 2002, J. of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 110(A12): Art. No. A12S25, 15 Dec 2005.
  15. Ortiz, J. L., Aceituno, F. J., Quesada, J.A., Martin-Torres, F. J., Palle, E. and Montañes-Rodriguez, P., “Detection of sporadic impact flashes on the moon. Implications for the luminous efficiency of hypervelocity impacts and derived terrestrial impact rates”, Icarus, Volume 184, Issue 2, p. 319-326, 2006.
  16. Montañes-Rodriguez, P., Palle, E., Martin-Torres, F. J. and P. Goode, “Vegetation signature in the observed globally-integrated spectrum of Earth: Modeling the red edge strength using simultaneous cloud data and application for extrasolar planets”, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 651, Issue 1, pp. 544-552, 2006.
  17. Martin-Torres, F. J., Mlynczak, M. G., Russell III, J. M., et al., Atomic Hydrogen in the Mesopause Region Derived From the SABER Instrument, Eos Trans. AGU. 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract SA33A-02.
  18. Martin-Torres, F. J. and M. G. Mlynczak, Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium and Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres”, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract U53A-03.
  19. Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., Thompson, R. E., et al., Evidence for solar cycle influence on the radiative transfer cooling of the thermosphere, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract SA33B-05
  20. Martin-Torres, F. J. and D. P. Kratz, “Modeling the Far-Infrared of the Earth and Mars”, European Geophysical Union, Vienna, Austria.
  21. Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., Crowley, G., Kratz, D. P., Funke, B., Lopez-Puertas, M., Russel III. J . M., Kozyra, J., Mertens, C., Sharma, R., Gordley, L. L., Picard. R., Winick, J., and L. Paxton, “Energy Transport in the Thermosphere during the Solar Storms of April 2002”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, A12, 2005.
  22. Kratz, D. P., M. G. Mlynczak, C. J .Mertens, H. Brindley, L. L. Gordley, Martin-Torres, F. J., Miskolczi, F. M., and D. D. Turner, “An Inter-comparison of Far-infrared Line-by-line Radiative Transfer Models", J. of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 90, 323-341, 2005.
  23. Slanger, T. G., Cosby, P. C., Huestis, D. L., Saiz-Lopez, A., Murray, B. J., O’Sullivan, D. A., Plane, J. M. C., Allende-Prieto, C., Martin-Torres, F. J., and P. Jenniskens,“Variability of the mesospheric nightglow sodium D2/D1 ratio”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, Issue D23, 2005.
  24. Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., Johnson, D. G., Kratz, D. P., Traub, W. A., and K. Jucks, “Observations of the O(3P) fine structure line at 63 ?m in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere”, Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 109, Issue A12, 2004.
  25. Winick, J. R., M. G. Mlynczak, P. P. Wintersteiner, F. J. Martin-Torres, R. H. Picard, L. J. Paxton, M. Lopez-Puertas, J.M. Russell III, A. B. Christensen, and L. L. Gordley, “ Thermospheric infrared radiance response to the April 2002 geomagnetic storm from SABER infrared and GUVI ultraviolet limb data”, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere VIII. Edited by Schaefer, Klaus; Comeron, Adolfo; Carleer, Michel R.; Picard, Richard H. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5235, pp. 250-263 2004.
  26. Winick, J. R.., M. G. Mlynczak, P. P. Wintersteiner, F. J. Martin-Torres, R. H. Picard, M. Lopez-Puertas, J. M. Russell III, and L. L. Gordley, “Thermospheric Infrared Emission Response to Major Geomagnetic Disturbances From SABER Data: High Latitude Aurora and X-ray Flares”, American Geophysical Union, SH53A-16, May 2004.
  27. Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., Russell, J. M., Mertens, C. J., Rermsberg, E. E., Gordley, L. L., Lingenfelser, G. S., Marsh, D., and A. K. Smith, “Observations of ozone and odd-oxygen in the mesosphere by the SABER instrument on the TIMED satellite”, American Geophysical Union, SA33B-03, 2004.
  28. Morgan, M. E., Yee, J. H., Talaat, E., Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J., Skinner, W. R., and J. M. Russell, “Morphological Studies of Mesospheric Chemical Heating Rates Using HRDI/UARS and SABER/TIMED Measurements”, American Geophysical Union, SA41A-1056, 2004.
  29. von Clarmann, T., U. Grabowski, A. Linden, F.J. Martin-Torres, S. Ceccherinhi, A. Doico, S. Hilgers, F. Schreier, G. Schwarz, A. Dudhia, V. Payne, B. Funke, M. Lopez-Puertas, V. Jay, J. Reburn, R. Siddans, M. Ridolfi, and T. Steck, “A blind test retrieval experiment for limb emission spectrometry”, vol. 198, D23, 4746, 2003.
  30. Mlynczak, M. G., F. J. Martin-Torres, J. Russell, K. Beaumont, S. Jacobson, M. Lopez-Puertas, B. Funke, C. J. Mertens, L. Gordley, R. Picard, J. Winick, P. Wintersteiner, L. Paxton, and J. Kozyra, “The Natural Thermostat of Nitric Oxide Emission at 5.3 microns in the Thermosphere observed During the Solar Storms of April, 2002”, Geophys. Research Letter, vol. 30, No 21, 2100, 2003.
  31. Kaufmann, M., Gusev, O. A., Grossmann, K. U., Martín-Torres, F. J. Marsh, D. R., and A. A. Kutepov, “Satellite Observations of Day- and Nighttime Ozone in the Mesosphere and Lower thermosphere”, J. Geophys. Res, Vol. 108 No. D9, 2003.
  32. Winick, J. R., M. G., Mlynczak, P. P. Wintersteiner, F. J. Martin-Torres, R. H. Picard, L. Paxton, M. Lopez-Puertas, J. M. Russell III, A. Christensen, and L. L. Gordley, “Analysis of the energy input and loss in the thermosphere during the April 2002 geomagnetic storm using SABER infrared limb emission and GUVI limb emission.”, Geophysical Research Abstracts 5, EAE03-A-07476, 2003
  33. Martin-Torres, F. J., A. Kutepov, O. Gusev, A. Dudhia, L. M. Lara, A. G. Feofilov, M. Lopez-Puertas, and F. W. Taylor, “A Non-LTE model for the atmosphere of Titan and implications for the Cassini CIRS experiment”, Geophysical Research Abstracts 5, EAE03-A-07023, 2003
  34. Martin-Torres, F. J., A. Kutepov, A. Dudhia, O. Gusev, O., and A. G. Feofilov,“Accurate and fast computation of the radiative transfer absorption rates for the infrared bands in the atmosphere of Titan” , Geophysical Research Abstracts 5, EAE03-A-07735, 2003 Mlynczak, M. G., L. Paxton, J. Kozyra, T. Woods, T. Zurbuchen, G. Lu, M. Lopez-Puertas,
  35. F. J. Martin-Torres, J. M. Russell, G. Crowley, and R. Picard,"Energy Balance in the Sun-Earth System During the Solar Storm Events of April 2002", Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract SA11B-05, 2002
  36. Martin-Torres et al., "Derivation of Mesospheric Ozone From SABER/TIMED Measurements of the O2 Infrared Atmospheric Band Emission in the Dayglow", Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., SA61A-02, 2002
  37. Lopez-Puertas, M.; B. Funke, M. A. Lopez-Valverde, F. J. Martin-Torres, T. von Clarmann, G. P. Stiller, H. Oelhaf, H. Fischer, and J. M. Flaud, “Non-LTE studies for the analysis of MIPAS/ENVISAT data”, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4539, p. 381-395, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere VI, 2002
  38. Funke, B., M. Lopez-Puertas, G. P. Stiller, T. von Clarmann, and F. J. Martin-Torres, “New non-LTE retrieval method from atmospheric parameters from MIPAS/ENVISAT emission spectra at 5.3 microns”, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4539, p. 396-405, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere VI, 2002
  39. Lopez-Puertas, M., F. J. Martin-Torres, B. Funke, M. Garcia-Comas, and M. A. Lopez-Valverde, "Advanced MIPAS Level 2 Data Analysis (AMIL2DA): Report on the Climatology of Vibrational Temperatures", ESA Publication, Project EVG1-CT-1999-00015, Oct. 2002
  40. Mlynczak, M. G., Martin-Torres, F. J. et al.,, "Energy Balance in the Sun-Earth System During the Solar Storm Events of April 2002", Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract SA11B-05, 2002.
  41. Martin-Torres, F. J. et al., "Derivation of Mesospheric Ozone From SABER/TIMED Measurements of the O2 Infrared Atmospheric Band Emission in the Dayglow”, Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., SA61A-02, 2002.
  42. Lopez-Puertas, M., F. J. Martin-Torres, B. Funke, M. Garcia-Comas, and M. A. Lopez-Valverde, "Advanced MIPAS Level 2 Data Analysis (AMIL2DA): Report on the Climatology of Vibrational Temperatures", Reference: Project EVG1-CT-1999-00015, Oct. 2002
  43. von Clarmann, T., H. Fischer, B. Funke, N. Glatthor, U. Grabowski, M. Höpfner, M. Kiefer, F. J. Martín-Torres, M. Milz, G. Stiller, "MIPAS interactive semi-operational level-2 data processing", in IRS 2000: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, W. L. Smith and Yu. M. Timofeyev (Eds.). A. Deepak Publishing, Hampton, Virginia. pp. 785-788, 2001.
  44. Echle, G., T. von Clarmann, A. Dudhia, J. M. Flaud, B. Funke, N. Glatthor, B. Kerridge, M. López-Puertas, F. J. Martín-Torres, and G. P. Stiller, "Optimized Spectral Microwindows for data analysis at the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding at the Environmental Satellite", Appl. Opt., 39, 5531-5540, 2000.
  45. Koutoulaki, K., B. J. Kerridge, F.W. Taylor, and F. J. Martin-Torres, “Non-LTE cooling rates in the mesosphere”, Proceedings of the 22nd General Assembly of IUGG and 30th General Assembly of IASPEI Birmingham, UK, 18-30 July 1999.
  46. Martin-Torres, F. J., M. López-Puertas, T. von Clarmann, B. Funke, and M. Hoepfner, "Retrievability of ozone concentration profiles and critical parameters in non-LTE models from MIPAS/ENVISAT limb spectra", Proceedings of the European Symposium on Atmospheric Measurements from Space, ESTEC, Nordwijk, The Netherlands, WP-161-1999.
  47. López-Puertas, M., M. A. López-Valverde, F. J. Martín-Torres, G. Zaragoza, A. Dudhia, T. von Clarmann, B. Kerridge, K. Koutoulaki, K., and J. M. Flaud, "Non-LTE studies for the MIPAS instrument", Proceedings of the European Symposium on Atmospheric Measurements from Space, ESTEC, Nordwijk, The Netherlands, WP-161, 1999.
  48. Echle, G., T. von Clarmann, A. Dudhia, M. López-Puertas, F. J. Martín-Torres, B. J. Kerridge, and J. M, Flaud, "Spectral microwindows for MIPAS/ENVISAT analysis", Proceedings of the European Symposium on Atmospheric Measurements from Space, ESTEC, Nordwijk, The Netherlands, WP-161, 1999.
  49. Martín-Torres, F. J. and M. López-Puertas, "Modelling the atmospheric non-LTE emissions of Ozone for the MIPAS/ENVISAT instrument", Proceedings of the XXV Annual European Meeting on Atmospheric Studies by Optical Methods, Granada, Spain, 1998.
  50. Martín-Torres, F. J. , López-Valverde, M. A., and M. López-Puertas, "Modelling the atmospheric non-LTE emissions of nitric acid and methane", Journal of Atmospheric Solar and Terrestrial Physics, 60, 1631-1647, 1998.
  51. López-Puertas, M., G. Zaragoza, M. A. López-Valverde, F. J. Martín-Torres, G. M. Shved, R. O. Manuilova, A. A. Kutepov, O. Gusev, T. von Clarmann, A. Linden, G. P. Stiller, A. Wegner, H. Oelhaf, D. P. Edwards, and J. M. Flaud, "Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium limb radiances for the MIPAS instrument in Envisat-1", Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 59(3), 405-422, 1998.
  52. Manuilova, R.O., O. Gusev, A. A. Kutepov, T. von Clarmann, H. Oelhaf, G. P. Stiller, A. Wegner, M. López-Puertas, F. J. Martín-Torres, G. Zaragoza, and J. M. Flaud, "Modelling of non-LTE limb radiance spectra of IR ozone bands for the MIPAS space experiment", Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 59(3), 405-422, 1998.
  53. von Clarmann, T., A. Dudhia, G. Echle, J. M. Flaud, C. Harrold, B. J. Kerridge, K. Koutoulaki, A. Linden, M. López-Puertas, M. A. López-Valverde, F. J. Martín-Torres, J. Reburn, J. Remedios, C. D. Rodgers, R. Siddans, R. J. Wells, and G. Zaragoza, “Study on the simulation of atmospheric infrared spectra”, Final Report, ESA Contract 12054/96/NL/CN, 324 pp., 1998. (Book).
  54. López-Puertas, M., G. Zaragoza, M.A. López-Valverde, F. J. Martín-Torres, G. M. Shved, R. O. Manuilova, A. A. Kutepov, O. Gusev, T. von Clarmann, A. Linden, G. P. Stiller, A. Wegner, H. Oelhaf, and J. M. Flaud, “Evaluation of non-LTE effects in MIPAS pressure, temperature and volume mixing ratio retrievals (Non-LTE Study)”, ESTEC Purchase Order. 151625/1995, 237 pp., 1996. (Book).
  55. López-Puertas, M., G. Zaragoza, M. A. López-Valverde, F. J. Martín-Torres, T. von Clarmann, A. Linden, G. P. Stiller, G.P., and A. Wegner, "An improved non-LTE quantifier for MIPAS", Addendum to ESA Purchase Order 151625/1995 Report, 1996. (Book).

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