James D. Spinhirne

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

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James D. Spinhirne is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, James D. Spinhirne has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 98 papers in Atmospheric Science and 17 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in James D. Spinhirne's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (126 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (77 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (70 papers). James D. Spinhirne is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (126 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (77 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (70 papers). James D. Spinhirne collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Tunisia. James D. Spinhirne's co-authors include Stephen P. Palm, William D. Hart, V. Stanley Scott, Ellsworth J. Welton, James R. Campbell, Dennis L. Hlavka, Andrew J. Heymsfield, Michael D. King, John A. Reagan and W. Abdalati and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Proceedings of the IEEE and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

James D. Spinhirne

147 papers receiving 6.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

ICESat's laser measurements of polar ice, atmosphere, ocean, and land

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James D. Spinhirne United States	41	5.2k	5.2k	848	414	386	152	6.6k
Stephen P. Palm United States	23	2.2k 0.4×	1.7k 0.3×	677 0.8×	306 0.7×	161 0.4×	79	3.0k
E. P. Shettle United States	38	4.9k 0.9×	4.7k 0.9×	506 0.6×	445 1.1×	547 1.4×	100	6.6k
Kenneth Sassen United States	46	8.4k 1.6×	8.6k 1.7×	262 0.3×	242 0.6×	579 1.5×	151	9.4k
Mark Vaughan United States	53	11.4k 2.2×	12.2k 2.3×	495 0.6×	335 0.8×	253 0.7×	167	12.8k
Jacques Pelon France	44	6.1k 1.2×	6.2k 1.2×	542 0.6×	138 0.3×	295 0.8×	194	6.9k
W. Abdalati United States	36	5.2k 1.0×	955 0.2×	756 0.9×	412 1.0×	284 0.7×	77	6.3k
T. Neumann United States	38	3.3k 0.6×	638 0.1×	758 0.9×	447 1.1×	233 0.6×	109	4.2k
Ewan O’Connor Finland	34	4.4k 0.8×	4.3k 0.8×	643 0.8×	100 0.2×	260 0.7×	103	4.9k
T. Markus United States	44	5.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.2×	648 0.8×	510 1.2×	134 0.3×	122	6.2k
John A. Reagan United States	27	7.3k 1.4×	7.8k 1.5×	593 0.7×	479 1.2×	776 2.0×	91	8.6k

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Hart, William D., James D. Spinhirne, Stephen P. Palm, & Dennis L. Hlavka. (2006). GLAS Spaceborne Lidar Observations of Clouds and Aerosols. Optica Pura y Aplicada. 39(1). 117–123. 1 indexed citations

Welton, Ellsworth J., James R. Campbell, Timothy A. Berkoff, et al.. (2006). The NASA Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET): an overview and recent results. Optica Pura y Aplicada. 39(1). 67–72. 5 indexed citations

Reagan, John A., Xiaozhen Wang, Steve Palm, & James D. Spinhirne. (2006). Lidar aerosol retrievals from ICESat using a model-based constrained ratio approach. 7 indexed citations

Shiobara, Masataka, Masanori Yabuki, Roland Neuber, et al.. (2006). Arctic experiment for ICESat/GLAS ground validation with a Micro-Pulse Lidar at Ny-Alesund, Svalbard. Institutional Repository National Institute of Polar Research (National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)). 20(20). 28–39. 8 indexed citations

Berkoff, Timothy A., Sandra Valencia, Ellsworth J. Welton, & James D. Spinhirne. (2005). Spatiotemporal Path-Matching for Comparisons Between Ground- Based and Satellite Lidar Measurements. Optica Pura y Aplicada. 39(1). 109–116. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Xiaoli, James B. Abshire, Michael A. Krainak, et al.. (2004). Cloud and aerosol lidar channel design and performance of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System on the ICESat mission. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 2. 4 indexed citations

Spinhirne, James D., Ellsworth J. Welton, Stephen P. Palm, et al.. (2004). The Glas Polar Orbiting LIDAR Experiment: First Year Results and Available Data. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 561. 949. 1 indexed citations

Spinhirne, James D., Stephen P. Palm, Dennis L. Hlavka, William D. Hart, & Ashwin Mahesh. (2004). Global and Polar Cloud Cover from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, Observations and Implications. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 2 indexed citations

Palm, Stephen P., Dennis L. Hlavka, William D. Hart, James D. Spinhirne, & Matthew J. McGill. (2003). Calibration of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (glas) Atmospheric Channels. 561. 1003. 2 indexed citations

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Mahesh, Ashwin, et al.. (2003). Observations of blowing snow at the South Pole. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 108(D22). 59 indexed citations

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Welton, Ellsworth J., James R. Campbell, James D. Spinhirne, & V. Stanley Scott. (2001). Global monitoring of clouds and aerosols using a network of micropulse lidar systems. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4153. 151–151. 250 indexed citations

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Spinhirne, James D., James R. Campbell, Dennis L. Hlavka, V. Stanley Scott, & Connor Flynn. (2000). Autonomous, Full-Time Cloud Profiling at Arm Sites with Micro Pulse Lidar. 2 indexed citations

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Palm, Stephen P. & James D. Spinhirne. (1998). The detection of clouds, aerosols and marine atmospheric boundary layer characteristics from simulated GLAS data. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 3 indexed citations

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Spinhirne, James D., et al.. (1998). Preliminary spaceflight results from the uncooled infrared spectral imaging radiometer (ISIR) on shuttle mission STS-85. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3379. 14–14. 8 indexed citations

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Duda, David P., James D. Spinhirne, & William D. Hart. (1998). Retrieval of contrail microphysical properties during SUCCESS by the split‐window method. Geophysical Research Letters. 25(8). 1149–1152. 15 indexed citations

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Wilson, Keith E., et al.. (1997). Results of the Compensated Earth-Moon-Earth Retroreflector Laser Link (CEMERLL) Experiment. Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report. 131. 1–13. 6 indexed citations

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Spinhirne, James D., et al.. (1997). Advances in Photon Efficient Lidar and Analysis of a Multi Year Continuous Data Record. OMC.2–OMC.2. 1 indexed citations

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Duda, David P. & James D. Spinhirne. (1996). Split‐window retrieval of particle size and optical depth in contrails located above horizontally inhomogeneous ice clouds. Geophysical Research Letters. 23(25). 3711–3714. 12 indexed citations

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Spinhirne, James D.. (1977). Monitering of tropospheric aerosol optical properties by laser radar. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 3 indexed citations

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Reagan, John A., et al.. (1976). Digital detector for monitoring lidar output energy. Review of Scientific Instruments. 47(12). 1527–1530. 5 indexed citations

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