Rotational vibrational-rotational Raman differential absorption lidar for atmospheric ozone measurements: Methodology and experiment

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 33, 2000, Pages 6072-6079

  Reichardt, Jens ^a,b   Bisson, Scott E ^c   Reichardt, Susanne ^d   Weitkamp, Claus ^a   Neidhart, Bernd ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b NASA Goddard Space Flight Center   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OZONE; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

ROTATIONAL VIBRATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0001010713     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.006072     Document Type: Article

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