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William H. Hunt
Researcher at Langley Research Center
Publications - 27
Citations - 4674
William H. Hunt is an academic researcher from Langley Research Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lidar & Backscatter. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 27 publications receiving 4060 citations. Previous affiliations of William H. Hunt include Wyle Laboratories.
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Overview of the CALIPSO Mission and CALIOP Data Processing Algorithms
David M. Winker,Mark A. Vaughan,Ali Omar,Yongxiang Hu,Kathleen A. Powell,Zhaoyan Liu,William H. Hunt,Stuart A. Young +7 more
TL;DR: 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 stratosphere as discussed by the authors.
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Initial performance assessment of CALIOP
TL;DR: The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is a two-wavelength polarizatio n lidar that has been acquiring global data since June 2006.
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Fully Automated Detection of Cloud and Aerosol Layers in the CALIPSO Lidar Measurements
Mark A. Vaughan,Kathleen A. Powell,Ralph Kuehn,Stuart A. Young,David M. Winker,Chris A. Hostetler,William H. Hunt,Zhaoyan Liu,Matthew J. McGill,Brian Getzewich +9 more
TL;DR: An in-depth overview of the architecture and performance of the SIBYL algorithm is provided, which accomplishes its goals by integrating an adaptive context-sensitive profile scanner into an iterated multiresolution spatial averaging scheme.
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CALIPSO Lidar Description and Performance Assessment
William H. Hunt,David M. Winker,Mark A. Vaughan,Kathleen A. Powell,Patricia L. Lucker,Carl Weimer +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a brief description of the design and performance of CALIOP, a three-channel elastic backscatter lidar on the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite.
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Status and performance of the CALIOP lidar
TL;DR: The Cloud-Aerosol LIdar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) is the primary instrument on the CALIPSO satellite, which is scheduled to launch in 2005 as discussed by the authors.