Extinction-to-backscatter ratio of asian dust observed with high-spectral-resolution lidar and Raman lidar

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2760-2767

  Liu, Zhaoyan ^a,b   Sugimoto, Nobuo ^a   Murayama, Toshiyuki ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Hampton University   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BACKSCATTERING; DUST; LIGHT EXTINCTION; RAMAN SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EXTINCTION-TO-BACKSCATTER RATIOS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037140594     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002760     Document Type: Article

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