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Overview

Mark A. Vaughan is affiliated with the Langley Research Center in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, mainly Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on specific subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Aerospace Engineering.

The primary topics covered in their work include:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Mark A. Vaughan has contributed to various research articles published in notable venues. Frequent venues of publication include:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Optics Express
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The following recent papers illustrate their research scope and publication record:

  • Airborne HSRL-2 measurements of elevated aerosol depolarization associated with non-spherical sea salt, 2023, Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • New Ocean Subsurface Optical Properties From Space Lidars: CALIOP/CALIPSO and ATLAS/ICESat-2, 2021, Earth and Space Science
  • CALIOP V4 cloud thermodynamic phase assignment and the impact of near-nadir viewing angles, 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Enabling Value Added Scientific Applications of ICESat-2 Data With Effective Removal of Afterpulses, 2021, Earth and Space Science
  • Detection and Height Measurement of Tenuous Clouds and Blowing Snow in ICESat-2 ATLAS Data, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Among frequent collaborators, Mark A. Vaughan has worked with:

  • Brian Getzewich
  • David M. Winker
  • Yongxiang Hu
  • Sharon Rodier
  • Ali Omar

Best Publications

  • Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms

    David M. Winker;Mark A. Vaughan;Ali Omar;Yongxiang Hu

  • The CALIPSO Automated Aerosol Classification and Lidar Ratio Selection Algorithm

    Ali H. Omar;David M. Winker;Mark A. Vaughan;Yongxiang Hu

  • THE CALIPSO MISSION: A Global 3D View of Aerosols and Clouds

    D. M. Winker;Jacques Pelon;J. A. Coakley;S. A. Ackerman

  • Fully Automated Detection of Cloud and Aerosol Layers in the CALIPSO Lidar Measurements

    Mark A. Vaughan;Kathleen A. Powell;Ralph E. Kuehn;Stuart A. Young

  • CALIPSO Lidar Description and Performance Assessment

    William H. Hunt;David M. Winker;Mark A. Vaughan;Kathleen A. Powell

  • The CALIPSO Lidar Cloud and Aerosol Discrimination: Version 2 Algorithm and Initial Assessment of Performance

    Zhaoyan Liu;Mark Vaughan;David Winker;Chieko Kittaka

  • The CALIPSO Version 4 Automated Aerosol Classification and Lidar Ratio Selection Algorithm

    Man-Hae Kim;Ali H. Omar;Jason L. Tackett;Mark A. Vaughan

  • The global 3-D distribution of tropospheric aerosols as characterized by CALIOP

    D. M. Winker;J. L. Tackett;B. J. Getzewich;Z. Liu

  • A description of hydrometeor layer occurrence statistics derived from the first year of merged Cloudsat and CALIPSO data

    Gerald G. Mace;Qiuqing Zhang;Mark Vaughan;Roger Marchand

  • The Retrieval of Profiles of Particulate Extinction from Cloud-Aerosol Lidar Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) Data: Algorithm Description

    Stuart A. Young;Mark A. Vaughan

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

    Mark A. Vaughan;Stuart A. Young;David M. Winker;Kathleen A. Powell

  • CALIPSO/CALIOP Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm

    Yongxiang Hu;David Winker;Mark Vaughan;Bing Lin

  • Airborne dust distributions over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas derived from the first year of CALIPSO lidar observations

    Zhaoyan Liu;Dong Liu;Jianping Huang;M. Vaughan

  • Global Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) cloud detection and height evaluation using CALIOP

    R. E. Holz;S. A. Ackerman;F. W. Nagle;R. Frey

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

    Zhaoyan Liu;Ali Omar;Mark Vaughan;Johnathan Hair

  • Comparison of CALIPSO aerosol optical depth retrievals to AERONET measurements, and a climatology for the lidar ratio of dust

    G. L. Schuster;M. Vaughan;D. MacDonnell;W. Su

  • Aerosol classification from airborne HSRL and comparisons with the CALIPSO vertical feature mask

    S. P. Burton;R. A. Ferrare;M. A. Vaughan;A. H. Omar

  • The depolarization - attenuated backscatter relation: CALIPSO lidar measurements vs. theory

    Yongxiang Hu;Mark Vaughan;Zhaoyan Liu;Bing Lin

  • Airborne validation of spatial properties measured by the CALIPSO lidar

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

  • Extinction and optical depth retrievals for CALIPSO's Version 4 data release

    Stuart A. Young;Mark A. Vaughan;Anne Garnier;Jason L. Tackett

  • The Retrieval of Profiles of Particulate Extinction fromCloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations(CALIPSO) Data: Uncertainty and Error Sensitivity Analyses

    Stuart A. Young;Mark A. Vaughan;Ralph E. Kuehn;David M. Winker

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Winker
David M. Winker Langley Research Center
Ali Omar
Ali Omar Langley Research Center
Zhaoyan Liu
Zhaoyan Liu Langley Research Center
Yongxiang Hu
Yongxiang Hu Langley Research Center
Chris A. Hostetler
Chris A. Hostetler Langley Research Center
Jacques Pelon
Jacques Pelon Université Paris Cité
Charles R. Trepte
Charles R. Trepte Langley Research Center
Melody A. Avery
Melody A. Avery Langley Research Center
Ping Yang
Ping Yang Texas A&M University
James R. Campbell
James R. Campbell United States Naval Research Laboratory

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