Atmospheric temperature profiling in the presence of clouds with a pure rotational Raman lidar by use of an interference-filter-based polychromator

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1372-1378

  Behrendt, Andreas ^a   Reichardt, Jens ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

POLYCHROMATORS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0000623280     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001372     Document Type: Article

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