Implications of optical properties of ocean, lake, and ice for ultrahigh-energy neutrino detection

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1965-1975

  Price, P Buford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001409461     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.001965     Document Type: Article

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