First time observation of sodium layer over Wuhan, China by sodium fluorescence lidar

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1228-1232

  Gong, Shunsheng ^a   Zeng, Xizhi ^a   Xue, Xinjian ^a   Zheng, Wengang ^a   Hu, Zhilin ^a   Jia, Hanchun ^a   Zhang, Haizhi ^a   Liu, Yiping ^a  

^a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

Author keywords

Lidar; Resonance fluorescence; Sodium layer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346720447     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931843     Document Type: Article

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