Multiwavelength lidar observations of the decay phase of the stratospheric aerosol layer produced by the eruption of mount pinatubo in june 1991

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3861-3872

  Kent, Geoffrey S ^a   Hansen, Gary M ^a  

^a SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0001655118     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.003861     Document Type: Article

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