Optical properties of tropospheric aerosols determined by lidar and spectrophotometric measurements (photochemical activity and solar ultraviolet radiation campaign)

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 27, 1997, Pages 6875-6886

  Marenco, Franco ^a,b   Santacesaria, Vincenzo ^a,c   Bais, Alkiviadis F ^a   Balis, Dimitris ^a   Di Sarra, Alcide ^d,e   Papayannis, Alexandros ^a,f   Zerefos, Christos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l Energia e l Ambiente   (Italy)

^f NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Backscatter to extinction ratio; Lidar signal inversion; Optical depth; ngstr m coefficient

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BACKSCATTER; LIDAR; OPTICAL DEPTH; TROPOSPHERE;

GREECE;

EID: 0031580566     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006875     Document Type: Article

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