Aerosol observations by lidar in the nocturnal boundary layer

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 4585-4595

  Di Girolamo, Paolo ^a,b   Ambrico, Paolo Francesco ^a,c   Amodeo, Aldo ^a,c   Boselli, Antonella ^a,c   Pappalardo, Gelsomina ^a,c   Spinelli, Nicola ^a,d  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ELASTIC SIGNALS; NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYERS (NBL);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0032622024     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.004585     Document Type: Article

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