Performance modeling of an airborne raman water-vapor lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 375-390

  Whiteman, David N ^a   Schwemmer, Geary ^a   Berkoff, Timothy ^a   Plotkin, Henry ^a   Ramos Izquierdo, Luis ^b,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; VAPORS;

RAMAN WATER-VAPOR LIDAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0000260980     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000375     Document Type: Article

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