Airborne scanning lidar observations of aircraft contrails and cirrus clouds during SUCCESS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1339-1342

  Uthe, Edward E ^a   Nielsen, Norman B ^a   Osberg, Terje E ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH AIRCRAFT;

AIRCRAFT CONTRAILS; CIRRUS CLOUDS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION;

CIRRUS; CONTRAIL; LIDAR;

EID: 0032075884     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03612     Document Type: Article

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