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David M. Tratt
Researcher at The Aerospace Corporation
Publications - 104
Citations - 2148
David M. Tratt is an academic researcher from The Aerospace Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Lidar & Laser. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 102 publications receiving 2000 citations. Previous affiliations of David M. Tratt include Goddard Space Flight Center & Heriot-Watt University.
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Asian Dust Events of April 1998
Rudolf B. Husar,David M. Tratt,Bret A. Schichtel,Stefan Falke,F. Li,Daniel A. Jaffe,Santiago Gassó,Thomas E. Gill,Nels S. Laulainen,F. Lu,Marith C. Reheis,Y. Chun,Douglas L. Westphal,Brent N. Holben,Christian A. Gueymard,Ian G. McKendry,Norman Kuring,Gene C. Feldman,Charles R. McClain,Robert Frouin,John T. Merrill,David Dubois,Franck Vignola,Toshiyuki Murayama,Slobodan Nickovic,William E. Wilson,Kenneth Sassen,Nobuo Sugimoto,William C. Malm +28 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two intense dust storms were generated over the Gobi desert by springtime low-pressure systems descending from the northwest, and the windblown dust was detected and its evolution followed by its yellow color on SeaWiFS satellite images, routine surface-based monitoring and through serendipitous observations.
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Electric and magnetic signatures of dust devils from the 2000–2001 MATADOR desert tests
William M. Farrell,Peter H. Smith,Gregory T. Delory,G. B. Hillard,John Marshall,David C. Catling,Michael H. Hecht,David M. Tratt,Nilton O. Renno,Michael D. Desch,Steven A. Cummer,J. G. Houser,B. Johnson +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a number of interesting examples of the electromagnetic nature of the dust devil and how similar devil-and storm-related forces on Mars might affect any human occupation.
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Differential laser absorption spectrometry for global profiling of tropospheric carbon dioxide: selection of optimum sounding frequencies for high-precision measurements.
Robert T. Menzies,David M. Tratt +1 more
TL;DR: The spectroscopic requirements for a laser absorption spectrometer (LAS) approach to high-precision carbon dioxide measurements in the troposphere are discussed and differential absorption sounding characteristics for selected LAS transmitter laser wavelengths are presented.
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April 1998 Asian dust event: A southern California perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the extreme Asian dust episode reached the U.S. western seaboard was given using lidar vertical backscatter profilometry, concurrent Sun photometer opacity data, and transport modeling.
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In situ measurement of dust devil dynamics: Toward a strategy for Mars
David M. Tratt,David M. Tratt,Michael H. Hecht,David C. Catling,Eric C. Samulon,Peter H. Smith +5 more
TL;DR: An intensive 3-day dust devil investigation was conducted near Eloy, Arizona, during June of 2001 as mentioned in this paper, where the goal was to evaluate strategies for observing dust devils on Mars by studying the physics of terrestrial dust devils.