Rapid optical method for logging dust concentration versus depth in glacial ice

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 2515-2521

  Miocinovic, Predrag ^a   Price, P Buford ^a   Bay, Ryan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; LASER PULSES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS;

GLACIAL ICE;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 0008451831     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002515     Document Type: Article

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