Detection of Tenuous Atmospheric Layers - Cirrus, Smoke Plumes, Asian and Saharan Dust, Blowing Snow and Diamond Dust - in ICESat-2 and CALIPSO Satellite Lidar Data: Ideas and Results of the Density Dimension Algorithm for Atmospheric Lidar Data

Ute C Herzfeld, University Colorado Boulder, Geomathematics, Remote Sensing and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory; Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, United States, Adam Hayes, Geomathematics, Remote Sensing and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Computer Science, Boulder, United States, Stephen P Palm, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Mark Vaughan, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, David Hancock, SSAI, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kristine A Barbieri, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA/GSFC, Lanham, United States and Huilin Han, University of Colorado Boulder, Geomathematics, Remote Sensing and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory; Department of Computer Sciences, Boulder, United States