Ring effect studies: Rayleigh scattering, including molecular parameters for rotational Raman scattering, and the Fraunhofer spectrum

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 5224-5230

  Chance, Kelly V ^a   Spurr, Robert J D ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; FRAUNHOFER SPECTRUM; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; RING EFFECT;

EID: 0031420311     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005224     Document Type: Article

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