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Overview

Dennis L. Hlavka is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science.

The topics addressed in their work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Among their recent scientific contributions is the paper titled ICESat-2 Atmospheric Channel Description, Data Processing and First Results, published in 2021 in the journal Earth and Space Science.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Stephen P. Palm
  • Yuekui Yang
  • U. C. Herzfeld
  • D. W. Hancock
  • Adam N Hayes

Most of their publications have appeared in the journal Earth and Space Science.

Best Publications

  • Full-Time, Eye-Safe Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Observation at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Sites: Instruments and Data Analysis

    James R. Campbell;Dennis L. Hlavka;Ellsworth J. Welton;Connor J. Flynn

  • Full-Time, Eye-Safe Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Observation at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Sites: Instruments and Data Processing

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  • The Cloud Physics Lidar: Instrument Description and Initial Measurement Results

    Matthew McGill;Dennis Hlavka;William Hart;V. Stanley Scott

  • Airborne validation of spatial properties measured by the CALIPSO lidar

    Matthew J. McGill;Mark A. Vaughan;Charles R. Trepte;William D. Hart

  • Cloud and aerosol measurements from GLAS: Overview and initial results

    James D. Spinhirne;Stephen P. Palm;William D. Hart;Dennis L. Hlavka

  • Use of probability distribution functions for discriminating between cloud and aerosol in lidar backscatter data

    Zhaoyan Liu;Mark A. Vaughan;David M. Winker;Chris A. Hostetler

  • On the importance of small ice crystals in tropical anvil cirrus

    E. J. Jensen;P. Lawson;B. Baker;B. Pilson

  • Ice nucleation and dehydration in the Tropical Tropopause Layer

    Eric J. Jensen;Glenn Diskin;R. Paul Lawson;Sara Lance

  • An Overview of the CATS Level 1 Processing Algorithms and Data Products

    J. E. Yorks;M. J. McGill;S. P. Palm;D. L. Hlavka

  • Coordinated airborne, spaceborne, and ground‐based measurements of massive thick aerosol layers during the dry season in southern Africa

    B. Schmid;J. Redemann;P. B. Russell;P. V. Hobbs

  • THE NASA AIRBORNE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE EXPERIMENT: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific

    Eric J. Jensen;Leonhard Pfister;David E. Jordan;Thaopaul V. Bui

  • Airborne Lidar Measurements of Aerosol Optical Properties During Safari-2000

    Matthew J. McGill;Dennis L. Hlavka;William D. Hart;Ellsworth J. Welton

  • Cirrus infrared parameters and shortwave reflectance relations from observations

    James D. Spinhirne;William D. Hart;Dennis L. Hlavka

  • ARM Southern Great Plains Site Observations of the Smoke Pall Associated with the 1998 Central American Fires

    Randy A. Peppler;C. P. Bahrmann;J. C. Barnard;J. R. Campbell

  • Combined lidar-radar remote sensing: Initial results from CRYSTAL-FACE

    M. J. McGill;L. Li;W. D. Hart;G. M. Heymsfield

  • In Situ and Lidar Observations of Tropopause Subvisible Cirrus Clouds During TC4

    Sean Davis;Sean Davis;Dennis Hlavka;Eric Jensen;Karen Rosenlof

  • An Improvement to the High-Spectral-Resolution CO2-Slicing Cloud-Top Altitude Retrieval

    Robert E. Holz;Steve Ackerman;Paolo Antonelli;Fred Nagle

  • Statistics of Cloud Optical Properties from Airborne Lidar Measurements

    John E. Yorks;Dennis L. Hlavka;William D. Hart;Matthew J. McGill

  • Ubiquitous influence of waves on tropical high cirrus clouds

    Ji-Eun Kim;Ji-Eun Kim;M. Joan Alexander;T. Paul Bui;Jonathan M. Dean-Day

  • Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) 1064 nm calibration and validation

    Rebecca M. Pauly;John E. Yorks;Dennis L. Hlavka;Matthew J. McGill

  • Airborne lidar measurements of aerosol optical properties during SAFARI-2000 : SAFARI 2000-Southern African Regional Science Initiative

    Matthew J. Mcgill;Dennis L. Hlavka;William D. Hart;Ellsworth J. Welton

  • Cloud and aerosol measurements from GLAS : Overview and initial results : Results from ice, cloud, and land elevation satellite (ICESat) mission

    James D. Spinhime;Stephen P. Palm;William D. Hart;Dennis L. Hlavka

  • Combined Lidar-Radar Remote Sensing: Initial Results from CRYSTAL-FACE and Implications for Future Spaceflight Missions

    Matthew J. McGill;Li-Hua Li;William D. Hart;Gerald M. Heymsfield

  • SAFARI 2000-Southern African Regional Science Initiative : Coordinated airborne, spaceborne, and ground-based measurements of massive thick aerosol layers during the dry season in southern Africa

    B. Schmid;J. Redemann;P. B. Russell;P. V. Hobbs

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Spinhirne
James D. Spinhirne University of Arizona
Ellsworth J. Welton
Ellsworth J. Welton Goddard Space Flight Center
Mark A. Vaughan
Mark A. Vaughan Langley Research Center
James R. Campbell
James R. Campbell United States Naval Research Laboratory
Peter R. Colarco
Peter R. Colarco Goddard Space Flight Center
Steven Platnick
Steven Platnick Goddard Space Flight Center
Gerald M. Heymsfield
Gerald M. Heymsfield Goddard Space Flight Center
Eric J. Jensen
Eric J. Jensen Ames Research Center
Jens Redemann
Jens Redemann University of Oklahoma
Beat Schmid
Beat Schmid Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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