Effects of refractive turbulence on ground-based verification of coherent doppler lidar performance

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 4237-4246

  Frehlich, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; TURBULENCE;

REFRACTIVE TURBULENCE;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0000060732     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004237     Document Type: Article

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