Inversion with regularization for the retrieval of tropospheric aerosol parameters from multiwavelength lidar sounding

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3685-3699

  Veselovskii, Igor ^a   Kolgotin, Alexei ^a   Griaznov, Vadim ^a   Müller, Detlef ^b   Wandinger, Ulla ^b   Whiteman, David N ^c  

^a PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LASERS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RAMAN SCATTERING; TROPOSPHERE;

RAMAN SHIFTERS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037141899     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.003685     Document Type: Article

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