Development of a broadband lidar system for remote determination of aerosol size distributions

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 383-390

  Gillespie, James B ^a   Ligon, David A ^a   Pellegrino, Paul M ^a   Nicholas Jr , F Fell ^a   Wood, Nicholas J ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Broadband; Idler; Inversion; Lidar; Monte Carlo; OPO; Optical parametric oscillator; Size distribution

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; BANDWIDTH; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BROADBAND LIDAR SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

AEROSOL; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036501713     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/13/3/321     Document Type: Article

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