Temperature measurements made with a combined Rayleigh-Mie and Raman lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5987-5995

  Gross, Michael R ^a   McGee, Thomas J ^b   Ferrare, Richard A ^c   Singh, Upendra N ^d   Kimvilakani, Patrick ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c HUGHES STX CORPORATION   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lidar; Mesospheric temperature profiles; Mie; Raman backscatter; Rayleigh; Tropospheric

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; MESOSPHERE; RAMAN LIDAR; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0031580329     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005987     Document Type: Article

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