Ozone and water-vapor measurements by Raman lidar in the planetary boundary layer: Error sources and field measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 2985-2997

  Lazzarotto, Benoît ^a   Frioud, Max ^b   Larchevêque, Gilles ^a   Mitev, Valentin ^b   Quaglia, Philippe ^a   Simeonov, Valentin ^a   Thompson, Anne ^c   Van Den Bergh, Hubert ^a   Calpini, Bertrand ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Observatory of Neuchatel   (Switzerland)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OZONE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RAMAN SCATTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; VAPORS;

OPTICAL EFFECTS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037824719     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002985     Document Type: Article

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