Kelley, Michael Charles
James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineeringresearch
research and scholarship focus
- Measure wind and wave patterns from thirty to several hundred kilometers above the surface of the earth
- Use of satellites and rockets to carry Cornell instrumentation directly into the space environment
- Merge knowledge of rockets with the expertise of the Cornell radar community and mount an intensive study of the equatorial upper atmosphere
primary investigator of
- AN AMISR AFFILIATION AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY: INCOHERENT AND COHERENT SCATTER APPLICATIONS OF THE SYSTEM | Research Grant
- A PROPOSAL TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNICATION/NAVIGATION OUTAGE FORECAST SYSTEM AND OTHER AIR FORCE MISSIONS WITH AIRGLOW OBSERVATIONS | Research Grant
- COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CEDAR-C/NOFS CORNELL AND CLEMSON UNIVERSITY INVESTIGATION OF MID-LATITUDE AND EQUATORIAL ELECTRODYNAMICS AND SEVERE SPACE WEATHER DURING THE C/NOFS ERA | Research Grant
- COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GENERATION OF GLOBAL FORECASTS OF MIDDLE AND UPPER ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVE ACTIVITY AS APPLIED TO THE PRODICTION OF EQUATORIAL SPREAD F (ESF) | Research Grant
- PREDICTION OF EQUATORIAL SPREAD F BASED ON ASSIMILATION OF DAYTIME GPS DATA | Research Grant
- WIND AND WAVE PATTERNS IN THE EARTH'S IONOSPHERE | Research Grant
co investigator of
research areas
- astrophysics and plasma physics | research concentration area (AEP)
domestic geographic focus
- Puerto Rico | commonwealth
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Applied Physics | graduate field
- Astronomy and Space Sciences | graduate field
- Atmospheric Science | graduate field
- Electrical and Computer Engineering | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Laboratory of Plasma Studies (LPS) | research lab
teaching
teaches
- EAS 5850 - Upper Atmospheric and Ionospheric Physics I (MWF 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2009 class
- ECE 3910 - Junior Electrical and Computer Engineering Independent Project (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ECE 4910 - Senior Electrical and Computer Independent Engineering Project (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ECE 5850 - Upper Atmospheric and Ionospheric Physics I (MWF 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2009 class
- ECE 6930 - Master of Engineering Design I (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ECE 6970 - Master of Engineering Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ECE 7910 - Thesis Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ENGRG 1050 - Engineering Seminar (W 11:15:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2009 class
- ECE 3920 - Junior Electrical & Computer Engineering Independent Project (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- ECE 4920 - Senior Electrical and Computer Independent Engineering Project (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- ECE 6931 - Master of Engineering Design II (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- ECE 6980 - Master of Engineering Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- ECE 7920 - Thesis Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
service
current professional activities
- Chair, NSF Global Change Program's Upper Atmosphere Component, CEDAR
- Special Advisor for atmospheric science, Arecibo Observatory
- Member, National Academy of Science's Committee on Solar and Space Plasmas; the Management Working Group on Solar Space Plasmas of the Office of Space Science, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on the Atmosphereic Research Program
background
educational background
- B.S., Kent State, 1964
- Ph.D., California at Berkeley, 1970
professional background
After receiving the doctoral degree, Kelley was a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley, held a joint appointment as a Von Humboldt fellow with Gerhard Haerendel at the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany, and then came to Cornell in 1975.
awards and distinctions
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- James B. Macelwane Award, 1979
- Tau Beta Pi-Cornell Society of Engineers award, outstanding teacher in the Cornell College of Engineering, 1981
featured in
- A mystery solved: Space shuttle shows 1908 Tunguska explosion was caused by comet | Cornell Chronicle feature
publications
selected publications (listing in progress)
- Kelley, M. C. 1989. The Earth's ionosphere: Plasma physics and electrodynamics. International Geophysics Series, vol 43. San Diego: Academic Press.
- Cho, J. Y. N., and M. C. Kelley. 1993. Polar mesosphere summer radar echoes: Observations and current theories Review of Geophysics 31(3): 243-65.
- Huang, C. S., and M. C. Kelley. 1996. Nonlinear evolution of equatorial spread F: 1-4. Journal of Geophysical Research lOl(A1):283-313; 101(A11):24,521-32.
- Beach, T. L., M. C. Kelley, P. M. Kintner, and C. A. Miller. 1997. Total electron content variations due to nonclassical traveling ionospheric distrubances: Theory and Global Positioning System observations. Journal of Geophysical Research (Special section: Aeronomy of the solstice thermosphere/ionosphere system, Part I )102(A4):7279-92.
- Gu, Y. Y., C. S. Gardner, P. A. Castleberg, G. C. Papen, and M. C. Kelley. 1997. Validation of the Lidar in-space technology experiment: Stratospheric temperature and aerosol measurements. Applied Optics 36(21):5148-57.
- Kelley, M. C., S. D. Baker, R. H. Holzworth, P. Argo, and S. A. Cummer. 1997. LF and MF observations of the lightning electromagnetic pulse at ionospheric altitudes. Geophysical Research Letters 24(9):1111-14.
- Kelley, M. C., and C. A. Miller. 1997. The electrodynamics of midlatitude spread F. 3. Electrohydrodynamic waves? A new look at the role of electric fields in thermospheric wave dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(A6):11,539-47.
- Zhou, Q., and M. C. Kelley. 1997. Meteor observations by the Arecibo 430 MHz incoherent scatter radar. II. Results from time-resolved observations. Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics 59(7):739-52.
- Zhou, Q. H., M. P. Sulzer, C. A. Tepley, C. G. Fesen, R. G. Roble, and M. C. Kelley. 1997. Neutral winds and temperature in the tropical mesosphere and lower thermosphere during January 1993: Observation and comparison with TIME-GCM results. Journal of Geophysical Research in press.