Cloud physics lidar: Instrument description and initial measurement results

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3725-3734

  Mc Gill, Matthew ^a   Hlavka, Dennis ^b   Hart, William ^b   Scott, V Stanley ^a   Spinhirne, James ^a   Schmid, Beat ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Science Systems and Applications Incorporated   (Japan)

^c Bay Area Environmental Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIRCRAFT; CLOUDS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTODETECTORS;

CLOUD PHYSICS LIDAR (CPL);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037141891     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.003725     Document Type: Article

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