Measurement of stratospheric chromatic scintillation with the AMON-RA balloonborne spectrometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 4254-4260

  Renard, Jean Baptiste ^a   Dalaudier, Francis ^b   Hauchecorne, Alain ^b   Robert, Claude ^a   Lemaire, Thierry ^a   Pirre, Michel ^a,c   Bertaux, Jean Loup ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CORRELATION; OZONE; SAMPLING; SCINTILLATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHROMATIC SCINTILLATION;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0012563969     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.004254     Document Type: Article

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