Aerosol-profile measurements in the lower troposphere with four-wavelength bistatic argon–ion lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 1995, Pages 4416-4425

  Devara, P C S ^a   Raj, P Ernest ^a   Pandithurai, G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol scattering; Lidar; Multiwavelength probing; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ARGON; LASER THEORY; OPTICAL RADAR; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AEROSOL SCATTERING; AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS; LIGHT-INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; MULTI-WAVELENGTH LASERS; MULTIWAVELENGTH; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 0000608303     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.34.004416     Document Type: Article

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