Repetitive genetic inversion of optical extinction data

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3476-3482

  Lienert, Barry R ^a   Porter, John N ^a   Sharma, Shiv K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL EXTINCTION DATA;

LIGHT EXTINCTION;

EID: 0000820604     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003476     Document Type: Article

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