Field test of a lidar wind profiler

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3074-3083

  Kunz, Gerard J ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anemometry; Atmospheric structure; Backscatter lidar; Wind lidar

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040551650     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601045     Document Type: Article

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