Optimizing a pulsed Doppler lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 29, Issue 28, 1990, Pages 4145-4158

  Post, Madison J ^a   Cupp, Richard E ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000464246     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.29.004145     Document Type: Article

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