Aerosol properties from spectral extinction and backscatter estimated by an inverse Monte Carlo method

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 4402-4410

  Ligon, David A ^a   Gillespie, James B ^a   Pellegrino, Paul ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

SPECTRAL EXTINCTION;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0000159487     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004402     Document Type: Article

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