Retrievals of profiles of fine and coarse aerosols using lidar and radiometer space measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1743-1754

  Kaufman, Yoram J ^a   Tanré, Didier ^b   Léon, Jean François ^b   Pelon, Jacques ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^c INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Lidar; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; CALIBRATION; CLOUDS; DUST; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MIE THEORY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER; RAMAN LIDAR; SAHARAN DUST EXPERIMENT; SPACEBORNE LIDAR;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0141787894     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.814138     Document Type: Article

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