Ground-based differential absorption lidar system for day or night measurements of ozone throughout the free troposphere

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2568-2585

  Proffitt, Michael H ^a,b   Langford, Andrew O ^a,b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential absorption lidar; Lidar; Ozone; Troposphere

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OZONE; PERFORMANCE; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; TROPOSPHERE;

DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDAR; WAVELENGTH SELECTION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

LIDAR; OZONE MONITORING;

EID: 0031109414     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002568     Document Type: Article

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