Multiple-scattering lidar retrieval method: Tests on Monte Carlo simulations and comparisons with in situ measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 30, 2002, Pages 6307-6324

  Bissonnette, Luc R ^a   Roy, Gilles ^a   Poutier, Laurent ^b   Cober, Stewart G ^c   Isaac, George A ^c  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

LIQUID-WATER CONTENTS (LWC);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037145477     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.006307     Document Type: Article

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