Stephen P. Palm

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

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Stephen P. Palm is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen P. Palm has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 49 papers in Atmospheric Science and 13 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephen P. Palm's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (49 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (35 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers). Stephen P. Palm is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (49 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (35 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (21 papers). Stephen P. Palm collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and United Kingdom. Stephen P. Palm's co-authors include James D. Spinhirne, S. H. Melfi, Yuekui Yang, William D. Hart, David J. Harding, W. Abdalati, B. E. Schutz, H. Jay Zwally, D. W. Hancock and Alexander Marshak and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Stephen P. Palm

75 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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
Stephen P. Palm United States	23	2.2k	1.7k	677	306	231	79	3.0k
James D. Spinhirne United States	41	5.2k 2.4×	5.2k 3.0×	848 1.3×	414 1.4×	213 0.9×	152	6.6k
T. Markus United States	44	5.5k 2.5×	1.2k 0.7×	648 1.0×	510 1.7×	714 3.1×	122	6.2k
B. M. Csathó United States	29	2.5k 1.1×	442 0.3×	449 0.7×	347 1.1×	316 1.4×	93	3.2k
Anita C. Brenner United States	20	2.2k 1.0×	747 0.4×	689 1.0×	376 1.2×	642 2.8×	51	3.3k
Kelly M. Brunt United States	27	1.8k 0.8×	334 0.2×	447 0.7×	299 1.0×	225 1.0×	58	2.4k
Mark R. Drinkwater United States	34	3.9k 1.8×	659 0.4×	1.9k 2.8×	180 0.6×	1.0k 4.4×	126	4.9k
Paola Rizzoli Germany	22	1.3k 0.6×	332 0.2×	715 1.1×	295 1.0×	560 2.4×	123	2.6k
Lori A. Magruder United States	18	431 0.2×	409 0.2×	1.0k 1.5×	432 1.4×	313 1.4×	59	1.6k
Rafael Rosolem United Kingdom	25	935 0.4×	760 0.4×	1.5k 2.2×	121 0.4×	78 0.3×	71	2.4k
Yuekui Yang United States	22	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	173 0.3×	130 0.4×	155 0.7×	69	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen P. Palm

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Palm, Stephen P., et al.. (2025). Evaluation of ICESat-2 ATL09 Atmospheric Products Using CALIOP and MODIS Space-Based Observations. Remote Sensing. 17(3). 482–482. 1 indexed citations

Robinson, Joseph A., Lyatt Jaeglé, Stephen P. Palm, et al.. (2025). ICESat‐2 Observations of Blowing Snow Over Arctic Sea Ice During the 2019–2020 MOSAiC Expedition. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(16).

Yang, Yuekui, et al.. (2023). Diagnosis of Antarctic Blowing Snow Properties Using MERRA-2 Reanalysis with a Machine Learning Model. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. 62(8). 1055–1068. 5 indexed citations

Yang, Yuekui, et al.. (2022). Impact of Clouds and Blowing Snow on Surface and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Properties Over Dome C, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(21). e2022JD036801–e2022JD036801. 10 indexed citations

Herzfeld, U. C., et al.. (2021). Detection and Height Measurement of Tenuous Clouds and Blowing Snow in ICESat‐2 ATLAS Data. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(17). 18 indexed citations

Lu, Xiaomei, Yongxiang Hu, Yuekui Yang, et al.. (2021). Enabling Value Added Scientific Applications of ICESat‐2 Data With Effective Removal of Afterpulses. Earth and Space Science. 8(6). e2021EA001729–e2021EA001729. 26 indexed citations

Palm, Stephen P., Yuekui Yang, U. C. Herzfeld, et al.. (2021). ICESat‐2 Atmospheric Channel Description, Data Processing and First Results. Earth and Space Science. 8(8). 26 indexed citations

Yang, Yuekui, et al.. (2020). Study of Antarctic Blowing Snow Storms Using MODIS and CALIOP Observations With a Machine Learning Model. Earth and Space Science. 8(1). 5 indexed citations

McGarry, Jan F., et al.. (2020). ICESat‐2/ATLAS Onboard Flight Science Receiver Algorithms: Purpose, Process, and Performance. Earth and Space Science. 8(4). e2020EA001235–e2020EA001235. 10 indexed citations

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Choi, Sungyeon, Nicolas Theys, R. J. Salawitch, et al.. (2018). Link Between Arctic Tropospheric BrO Explosion Observed From Space and Sea‐Salt Aerosols From Blowing Snow Investigated Using Ozone Monitoring Instrument BrO Data and GEOS‐5 Data Assimilation System. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(13). 6954–6983. 21 indexed citations

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Palm, Stephen P., Vinay Kayetha, & Yuekui Yang. (2018). Toward a Satellite‐Derived Climatology of Blowing Snow Over Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 123(18). 26 indexed citations

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Palm, Stephen P., et al.. (2017). Blowing snow sublimation and transport over Antarctica from 11 years of CALIPSO observations. The cryosphere. 11(6). 2555–2569. 56 indexed citations

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Yorks, John E., Matthew J. McGill, Stephen P. Palm, et al.. (2015). The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS): Demonstrating New Techniques for Cloud and Aerosol Measurements. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2015. 1 indexed citations

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Yorks, John E., Matthew J. McGill, Dennis L. Hlavka, et al.. (2013). New capabilities for space-based cloud and aerosols measurements: The Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS). AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2013. 2 indexed citations

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Marquis, Melinda, Anita C. Brenner, D. W. Hancock, et al.. (2001). Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) Data Products from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Mission. AGUFM. 2001. 2 indexed citations

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