Experimental determination of the lidar overlap profile with raman lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 511-514

  Wandinger, Ulla ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

RAMAN LIDAR;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037137789     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000511     Document Type: Article

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