Development of a multiwavelength aerosol and water-vapor lidar at the jungfraujoch alpine station (3580 m above sea level) in Switzerland

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2781-2790

  Larchevque, Gilles ^a   Balin, Ioan ^a   Nessler, Remo ^a   Quaglia, Philippe ^a   Simeonov, Valentin ^a   Liu, Zhaoyan ^a   Bergh, Hubert Van Den ^a   Calpini, Bertrand ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RAMAN SCATTERING;

RAMAN SIGNALS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037140592     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002781     Document Type: Article

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