Airborne lidar LEANDRE II for water-vapor profiling in the troposphere. I. System description

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3450-3461

  Bruneau, Didier ^a   Quaglia, Philippe ^a   Flamant, Cyrille ^a   Meissonnier, Mireille ^a   Pelon, Jacques ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

AIRBORNE LIDAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0011502213     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003450     Document Type: Article

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