Global aerosol distribution from the GLAS polar orbiting lidar instrument

2005 IEEE Workshop on Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2-8

  Spinhirne, J D ^a   Palm, S P ^b   Hlavka, D L ^b   Hart, W D ^b   Welton, E J ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SSAI ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DATA HANDLING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL LAYERS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL SCATTERING; BOUNDARY DETECTION; DATA PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; EXTINCTION CROSS SECTION; GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEMS; POLAR-ORBITING;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 84930027774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERSOL.2005.1494140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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3. Spinhirne, J. D., S. P. Palm, W. D. Hart, D. L. Hlavka and E. J. Welton, "Cloud and Aerosol Measurements from the GLAS Space Borne Lidar: Initial Results", Geophys. Res. Let., in submission, 2005.
4. Spinhirne, J. D., S. P. Palm, W. D. Hart and D. L. Hlavka, "Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, Atmospheric Data Products" NASA internal document, at http://www.csr.utexas.edu/glas/.
5. Hart, W. D., J. D. Spinhirne, S. P. Palm, and D. Hlavka, "Height Distribution Between Cloud And Aerosol Layers From the GLAS Space Borne Lidar in the Indian Ocean Region", Geophys. Res. Let., in submission, 2005.
6. Mahesh A., M. A. Gray, S. P. Palm, W. D. Hart and J. D. Spinhirne, "Passive and active detection of clouds: Comparisons between MODIS and GLAS observations", Geophys. Res. Let, 31, 4108-4113, 2004.
7. Duda, D. P. J. D. Spinhirne, E. W. Eloranta, "Atmospheric multiple scattering effects on GLAS altimetry - Part I: Calculations of single pulse bias", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 39, p. 92-101, 2001.
8. Hlavka, D. L., S. P. Palm, W. D. Hart, J. D. Spinhirne, M. J. McGill and E. J. Welton, "Aerosol and Cloud Optical depth Retrievals from GLAS satellite lidar: Verification for October 2003 Case including California fire smoke", Geophys. Res. Let., in submission, 2005.
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