Ground-based lidar measurements of aerosols during ACE-2: Instrument description, results, and comparisons with other ground-based and airborne measurements

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 636-651

  Welton, Ellsworth J ^a,c   Voss, Kenneth J ^a   Gordon, Howard R ^a   Maring, Hal ^b   Smirnov, Alexander ^c   Holben, Brent ^c   Schmid, Beat ^d   Livingston, John M ^d   Russell, Philip B ^d   Durkee, Philip A ^e   Formenti, Paola ^f   Andreae, Meinrat O ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACE 2; AEROSOL PROPERTY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR;

CANARY ISLANDS; TENERIFE;

EID: 0034076207     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v52i2.17124     Document Type: Article

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