Microphysical particle parameters from extinction and backscatter lidar data by inversion with regularization: Theory

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2346-2357

  Müller, Detlef ^a   Wandinger, Ulla ^a   Ansmann, Albert ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

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EID: 0043044720     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002346     Document Type: Article

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