James D. Spinhirne

8.9k citations
152 papers · 6.6k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 41
Topics
Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (126 papers)Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (77 papers)Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (70 papers)

In The Last Decade

James D. Spinhirne

147 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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James D. Spinhirne
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  • Atmospheric Science 5.2k
  • Global and Planetary Change 5.2k
  • Environmental Engineering 848
  • Ecology 414
  • Aerospace Engineering 386
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All Works

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GLAS Spaceborne Lidar Observations of Clouds and Aerosols
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Lidar aerosol retrievals from ICESat using a model-based constrained ratio approach
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The NASA Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET): an overview and recent results
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Spatiotemporal Path-Matching for Comparisons Between Ground- Based and Satellite Lidar Measurements
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Global and Polar Cloud Cover from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, Observations and Implications
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The Glas Polar Orbiting LIDAR Experiment: First Year Results and Available Data
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Cloud and aerosol lidar channel design and performance of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System on the ICESat mission
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Calibration of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (glas) Atmospheric Channels
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Autonomous, Full-Time Cloud Profiling at Arm Sites with Micro Pulse Lidar
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The detection of clouds, aerosols and marine atmospheric boundary layer characteristics from simulated GLAS data
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Results of the Compensated Earth-Moon-Earth Retroreflector Laser Link (CEMERLL) Experiment
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Monitering of tropospheric aerosol optical properties by laser radar
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About James D. Spinhirne

James D. Spinhirne is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Instrumentation, having authored 152 papers that have together received 6.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (126 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (77 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (70 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (5.2k citations), Global and Planetary Change (5.2k citations) and Instrumentation (232 citations). James D. Spinhirne has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Tunisia and France. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Proceedings of the IEEE and Journal of Climate.

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