Accuracy limitations on brillouin lidar measurements of temperature and sound speed in the ocean

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 27, 1997, Pages 6887-6894

  Fry, Edward S ^a   Emery, Yves ^a   Quan, Xiaohong ^a   Katz, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brillouin; Lidar; Refractive index; Salinity; Sound speed; Temperature

Indexed keywords

LIDAR; OCEAN; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY; SOUND SPEED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031580556     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006887     Document Type: Article

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