Comparison of lidar and transmissometer measurements

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 131-138

  Bissonnette, Luc R ^a,d,e   Kunz, Gerard ^b,f   Weiss Wrana, Karin ^c,g,h  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c Forschunginstitut für Optik FfO   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^g RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^h Forschungsgesellschaft F Angew N   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosol lidar; Cloud transmittance; Laser transmissometer; Lidar inversion; Multiple aerosol scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012782476     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601149     Document Type: Review

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