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Kathleen A Powell

NASA Langley Research Centr
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[HTML][HTML] Overview of the CALIPSO mission and CALIOP data processing algorithms

…, A Omar, Y Hu, KA Powell… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is a two-wavelength polarization
lidar that performs global profiling of aerosols and clouds in the troposphere and lower …

[HTML][HTML] Fully automated detection of cloud and aerosol layers in the CALIPSO lidar measurements

MA Vaughan, KA Powell, DM Winker… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Powell K. , Winker D. , and Hu Y. , … Powell, KA, 2005: Development of the CALIPSO
lidar simulator. MS thesis, Dept. of Applied Science, College of William and Mary, 228 pp …

[HTML][HTML] CALIPSO lidar description and performance assessment

…, DM Winker, MA Vaughan, KA Powell… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
CALIOP block diagram, showing simplified optical signal paths to the detectors for all three
channels and signal processing electronics for one channel. Electronics for the other two …

[HTML][HTML] The CALIPSO lidar cloud and aerosol discrimination: Version 2 algorithm and initial assessment of performance

…, R Kuehn, A Omar, K Powell… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Cattrall, C., Reagan J., Thome K., and Dubovik O., 2005: Variability of aerosol and spectral
lidar and backscatter and extinction ratios of key aerosol types derived from selected Aerosol …

Fully automated analysis of space-based lidar data: An overview of the CALIPSO retrieval algorithms and data products

…, SA Young, DM Winker, KA Powell… - … radar techniques for …, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite
will be launched in April of 2005, and will make continuous measurements of the Earth's …

CALIPSO lidar observations of the optical properties of Saharan dust: A case study of long‐range transport

…, J Hair, C Kittaka, Y Hu, K Powell… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
An extensive dust storm originating on 17 August 2006 in North Africa was observed and
tracked by the Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) …

[HTML][HTML] Extinction and optical depth retrievals for CALIPSO's Version 4 data release

…, JL Tackett, JD Lambeth, KA Powell - Atmospheric …, 2018 - amt.copernicus.org
The Cloud–Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) on board the Cloud–Aerosol
Lidar Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) satellite has been making near-…

[HTML][HTML] CALIPSO lidar calibration algorithms. Part I: Nighttime 532-nm parallel channel and 532-nm perpendicular channel

KA Powell, CA Hostetler, MA Vaughan… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) mission
was launched in April 2006 and has continuously acquired collocated multisensor …

Estimating random errors due to shot noise in backscatter lidar observations

…, M Vaughan, C Hostetler, M McGill, K Powell… - Applied …, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We discuss the estimation of random errors due to shot noise in backscatter lidar observations
that use either photomultiplier tube (PMT) or avalanche photodiode (APD) detectors. The …

Assessment of the CALIPSO Lidar 532 nm attenuated backscatter calibration using the NASA LaRC airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar

…, DB Harper, AL Cook, KA Powell… - Atmospheric …, 2011 - acp.copernicus.org
The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) instrument on the Cloud-Aerosol
Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) spacecraft has …