Michael Paul Sullivan (born August 5, 1970 in

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, Maryland) was the third son of John F. Sullivan, Jr (1929-2004). After serving in the

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, he went on to become a

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for

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. Sullivan is credited with the ECLIPS Experimental Cloud Lidar Pilot Study, which was initiated to obtain statistics on cloud-base height, extinction, optical depth, cloud brokenness, and surface fluxes.

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The Experimental Cloud Lidar Pilot Study (ECLIPS) for cloud-radiation research
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